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itsdesmond··on Replacing Pull Requests with Delta
Like…?
itsdesmond··on Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep
Or something similar enough to what you wanted that you don’t notice it’s a different thing. That’s awful.
itsdesmond··on Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep
Why even ask the question?
itsdesmond··on Autism is genetic – and why this information matters now
You’re being weird.
itsdesmond··on Houthis used Claude Code to develop missile guidance software: Anthropic
It’s the software. Definitely. We been making bombs for a while now. They used to toss them out the side of biplanes. Oddly, your second paragraph immediately undermines the first.

> Presumably, the world used dumb munitions without any software for a long time.

What do you think “presumably” is accomplishing here? Are you unsure, but willing to assume for purpose of the discussion, that bombs preceded computers?

itsdesmond··on iPhone Duo
New flagship product with lots of features is more expensive than old entry level product purchased used?!
itsdesmond··on Show HN: Keen Bean – Mac meeting notes that draft the spec while you talk
The very first thing on the page is this egregious slop sentence:

> Leave the meeting with a first draft, not a blank page.

I have to imagine the whole thing is this lazy.

itsdesmond··on Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer
You’re responding really inappropriately to someone participating productively in a discussion.
itsdesmond··on SteamdDB Joins Nexus Mods
Y’all cowards always implying. Say the thing you think. Just say it. I’ll start: I think getting upset by a pronouns dropdown is literal homophobia, in that y’all are so scared, worried, and bothered by thinking about gay shit that you’re installing software about it.

It’s weak. Y’all are weak.

itsdesmond··on Show HN: FnScribe – Open-source, offline dictation for macOS
I see that it changes the menu bar icon to indicate status. How is this communicated when windows are full screen and the menu bar isn’t visible?
itsdesmond··on OpenRouter is joining Stripe
> Today, we are excited to announce that we are joining forces with Stripe, to power the next wave of GDP growth globally.

This is some high level meaningless corpo speak.

itsdesmond··on Gemini 3.7 Flash
> And he could be opposing it on principle as well.

I fucking bet.

itsdesmond··on Grok 4.6
No one is saying it is currently happening, you goof. Remigration is an idea proposed by identitarian assholes like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Sellner, author of a book called Remigration, who Musk has promoted in tweets.

It is not currently happening, but the richest man in the world is among those actively working to make it happen.

Again, you types confidently misunderstand a discussion.

itsdesmond··on Grok 4.6
> Remigration is a far-right concept referring to the ethnic cleansing[1] via mass deportation of non-white minority populations, especially immigrants and sometimes including native-born citizens, to their place of racial ancestry.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigration

It’s right there at the top. One google search is all it takes. You didn’t even, for a second, think to familiarize yourself with the remigration concept. You jumped immediately to me being wrong, even though I was discussing something you were ignorant of. That’s embarrassing.

itsdesmond··on Grok 4.6
It’s opinions are actively steered by a man who promotes the great replacement theory, white genocide, and remigration which is the mass forced deportation of non-whites.
itsdesmond··on US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide
It’s wild to, in a thread about an unusual number of suicides among a branch of government doing secret stuff, say that folks talking about that secret stuff would be a good idea.

I am absolutely not saying that is what’s happening here, suicide of folks put in stressful situations is to be taken seriously. But like… c’mon guy, surely this exact premise has been a direct-to-Amazon-Video release.

itsdesmond··on U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio reaches 123%
They uh… they were open. They were open before we started bombing. We bomb because we bombed. As a consequence of us murdering we are murdering.

> "American" is a label for a group of consumers living within a defined border, who want to get their oil and foreign goods shipped to that location.

Holy shit.

itsdesmond··on Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac
The writing is made worse by a specific choice which the commentator identified. That’s actionable feedback.
itsdesmond··on Hanami 3.0: In Full Bloom
This says more bout you than me.
itsdesmond··on Hanami 3.0: In Full Bloom
You could not.
itsdesmond··on Hanami 3.0: In Full Bloom
What Hanami brings is an intentional and well-reasoned architecture that supports building maintainable applications. It has taste.
itsdesmond··on Hanami 3.0: In Full Bloom
Hanami is quite nice. I haven’t had the opportunity to use it in anger but I have had a crush on it for a while now.

I really do hope ROM-rb, the not-orm Hanami uses, gets some development love as a consequence of this more formal merger. It’s a rad tool with enough rough edges that I had to switch away from it when launching a product a few years ago.

itsdesmond··on Show HN: DRM-Free Books
I’m perfectly satisfied with what I wrote.
itsdesmond··on Show HN: DRM-Free Books
DRM-less on Apple is fairly useless in that the file isn’t exportable or readily found in your filesystem.
itsdesmond··on Show HN: DRM-Free Books
By the very definition you can buy them and send them to whoever you want. Just, you know, don’t read it yourself and you’ve done it.
itsdesmond··on Model Training as Code
I speak from ignorance, having not worked on this type of thing: are people NOT doing this? Are folks… what, passing CSVs and clicking GUIs to kick off one-off expensive, long running training runs? That’s absolutely crazy to me.
itsdesmond··on Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models
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itsdesmond··on Show HN: Lowfat – pluggable CLI filter that saved 91.8% of my LLM tokens
Have terms been established to describe these types of tools? How do I refer to small utilities to perform specific transformations to LLM behavior? CLI filter seems pretty good to describe this tool conversationally but not so much when searching, they some low cardinality keywords.
itsdesmond··on It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12
Right, but it wasn’t at all relevant.
itsdesmond··on College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos
Like I wanna stand here and listen to a tech billionaire run through a list of shit he did to my generation.
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