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do_not_redeemon IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)

> But since there's no remote GUI option

ssh -X and waypipe both work perfectly fine.

And to your point about portability, if you're stuck on an OS other than Linux, VNC/RDP aren't pretty but they'll get the job done.

do_not_redeemon Vibing a non-trivial Ghostty feature

Since we're here, I'm just waiting for them to implement drag-and-drop on KDE. Right now it only works on GNOME, and although Ghostty is great I'm not going to switch to GNOME just for a terminal emulator.

do_not_redeemon [dead]

The README is obviously AI-generated, complete with fake testimonials. The whole project is surely just slop. I would not touch this with a 50-foot pole.

do_not_redeemon Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver

Haskell isn't immune to boilerplate. Luckily if you're stuck using Haskell there's a package to help you deal with it all: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/boilerplate

do_not_redeemon My development team costs $41.73 a month

If the headline is true, this guy values the AI at $41.73, but his own time at $0/hr. If that's how we're measuring things, then my development team costs $0 a month.

do_not_redeemon Zig 0.15.1

Those were all changes in 0.15.0, but we snuck a few bugfix PRs in for a quick patch release before Andrew finished writing the release notes ;)

do_not_redeemon Pixel 10 Phones

> Pro Res Zoom uses Tensor G5 and an all-new generative imaging model to intelligently recover and refine intricate details.

Reminds me of https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/13/23637401/samsung-fake-moo...

I guess we'll never be able to trust any photos taken with a Pixel 10 or above.

do_not_redeemon I Prefer RST to Markdown (2024)

Oh I see, you're talking about this:

  thisis\ **bold**\ text
  thisis\ :strong:`bold`\ text

It's possible, but you're right, definitely more awkward than markdown.

do_not_redeemon I Prefer RST to Markdown (2024)

What do you mean not designed for Korean? It's just unicode. If there's some situation where RST isn't parsing inline markup, you can write the role explicitly like this:

  this is **bold** text
  this is :strong:`bold` text

do_not_redeemon Blue-collar jobs are gaining popularity as AI threatens office work

"And then theres the whole concept of what intelligence actually is."

Thank you, I'm glad someone understood my comment at least.

do_not_redeemon When did AI take over Hacker News?

If you want to build something not related to finance, why do you want to use cryptocurrency tech? There's already plenty of decentralized building blocks, everything from bittorrent to raft, that might be more suitable.

do_not_redeemon When did AI take over Hacker News?

No news is good news. A boring article like "(Visa/USDC) settles trillions of dollars worth of transactions, just like last year" won't get clicks.

do_not_redeemon When did AI take over Hacker News?

The actual data does not support Gruber's perception. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43494735

do_not_redeemon ArchiveTeam has finished archiving all goo.gl short links

Does "all" mean all the URLs publicly known, or did they exhaustively iterate the entire URL namespace?

do_not_redeemon Apple's new Processor Trace instrument is incredible

I've always reached for llvm-mca when I need stuff like that, but again it's all predicted/ideal numbers, not live off the hardware. And you need to start off with another tool first to pinpoint where to look.

I've never come across pmu-tools, thanks for the tip. I'll try it out next time I'm in the trenches.

do_not_redeemon Apple's new Processor Trace instrument is incredible

I've never found cachegrind inaccurate, but maybe I'm not doing hardcore enough performance work. You can also use perf and get you numbers straight from the hardware if that's what you need. Truth be told I mainly use cachegrind because I prefer kcachegrind's UI to hotspot.

(I even prefer cachegrind's approach since the numbers will be less distorted by other random background activity on the machine, but that could just be idealism on my part, who knows.)

If perf or the vendor-specific tools like vtune/uprof aren't sufficient for you then I'm curious what do you use?

do_not_redeemon Apple's new Processor Trace instrument is incredible

If you need data straight from the hardware you can use e.g. perf+hotspot, although I've heard that perf's tracing (not sampling!) supports fewer CPUs (but still more than just 1)

do_not_redeemon Apple's new Processor Trace instrument is incredible

> Instead of statistical sampling like most profilers, you get a complete picture of your app’s execution flow.

Potentially interesting, but it's not really clear whether this is anything new or not. valgrind + kcachegrind does this too.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/analyzing-cp...

These screenshots look a lot like kcachegrind with a slightly reimagined UI. Is there actually anything new here, or is this another case of Apple finally catching up to the open source world?

do_not_redeemon Blue-collar jobs are gaining popularity as AI threatens office work

Ah yes, the same quote often used by cryptocurrency enthusiasts.

"One time a new tech succeeded despite skepticism, therefore all new tech will succeed despite skepticism"

do_not_redeemon A privacy VPN you can verify

> Build the code we published, get the fingerprint it produces, ask a VP.NET server for the fingerprint it reports, and compare the two. If they match, the server is running the exact code you inspected. No trust required.

Okay, maybe I'm being thick, but... when I get a response from your server, how do I know it's actually running inside the enclave, and not an ordinary process sending a hardcoded expected fingerprint?

do_not_redeemon South Park creator’s 2007 digital ad revenue sharing clause

One of the downsides of people knowing you have money is everyone on earth will judge you for what you do with it. I say let them enjoy it. If you must pressure someone to donate, pressure one of the "usual billionaires" who's funding their torment nexus with it.

do_not_redeemon The Kuzma Self-Playing Guitar System

You can fix it with this ublock origin rule:

  core77.com ajax.googleapis.com * block

do_not_redeemon Time travel is self-suppressing

Go backwards in time 15 minutes at a time. At this short distance your calculation error will be small, and you can land your hovercraft back on earth to correct for any drift. Then go backwards another 15 minutes, repeat ad infinitum. Even present day aircraft have autopilot, so surely this can be automated too.

do_not_redeemon We rewrote the Ghostty GTK application

Well... a terminal is a GUI app, so they had to choose some GUI framework. On Linux GTK is as good a choice as any. (Yes I know you can skip the framework and talk to X11/Wayland directly, like xterm/foot do, but that's a pain all of its own.)

do_not_redeemon Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy

Getting 'em started early. You arr a great dad!

do_not_redeemon Blood oxygen monitoring returning to Apple Watch in the US

I skimmed this and it doesn't look like a software patent to me. It's a giant long description of the hardware.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10912502B2/

do_not_redeemon Blood oxygen monitoring returning to Apple Watch in the US

As an employee you shouldn't care, but if you're someone who wants technological progress to continue, you should care whether companies with a slush fund of billions are able to bully those with less money.

do_not_redeemon Jujutsu and Radicle

Some people just enjoy being contrarian.

I always enjoy how on jj articles, 90% of commenters tried it and switched, 10% never bothered to try it, and 0% tried it but decided not to switch.

do_not_redeemon Show HN: Real-time privacy protection for smart glasses

https://imgur.com/a/Y5WjYUH

I can taste the irony.

do_not_redeemon Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol

It looks like this isn't included by default with the base nginx, but requires you to install it as a separate module. Or am I wrong?

https://github.com/nginx/nginx-acme