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joeframbach··on REI Labs Reasoning Approach
Looks like the name is actually "Rei Labs" not "REI Labs". HN title needs to be fixed.
joeframbach··on A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months
How does one vacate a sentence that was already served?
joeframbach··on Kill The Cookie Banner
You would presumably be logged in to your favorite store site, and they would be using your identifying session to make recommendations, not anonymous tracking cookies.
joeframbach··on Collection of Digital Clock Designs
It's splitting the digits into four-bits per decimal digit.

       2       3
    0010    0011

    23 -> 2 3 -> 0010 0011 -> 00100011
joeframbach··on I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025)
I think this thread is a good indicator of llm bots vs human accounts on HN. The bots couldn't identify satire.
joeframbach··on In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words
Most mobile keyboards will do autocorrect as you describe it, and show top-N alternatives when you go back and tap on the autocorrected word. I prefer this to it mocking my mistakes and making me pay penance by manually accepting the correction.
joeframbach··on MP3s from Google Drive in Music Assistant on Home Assistant
Are you _trying_ to get your entire Google account and all its linked accounts banned and nuked at Google's whims when they flag one of your mp3s as being pirated?
joeframbach··on Multi-stroke text effect in CSS
When I modified your fiddle to use the Apple logo and colors, the first ring is eating part of the apple. The top of the apple is cut off. Any idea why that is?

      --c: #5EBD3E,#FFB900,#F78200,#E23838,#973999,#009CDF;
      @content: '';
joeframbach··on California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws
Police departments have already moved on from traffic enforcement to civil forfeiture. Like, a decade ago.
joeframbach··on It is incorrect to "normalize" // in HTTP URL paths
The "why would you want to do that?" section ought to be the very first paragraph. I spent half the article thinking, who the hell is collapsing `http://` into `http:/` until I had to deduce from context what this article even was about. The article starts in media res.
joeframbach··on Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider
> Python has multiple package managers at this point (how many now? 8?). All must implement dependency cooldowns.

No, nobody _has to_ implement it, and if only one did, then users who wanted cooldowns can migrate to that package manager.

joeframbach··on Replace axios with a simple custom fetch wrapper
In the case of authentication redirect, any inflight request is going to fail and you're about to navigate in a few milliseconds, so I don't resolve those promises. Return new Promise(() => {}).
joeframbach··on Show HN: Vanilla JavaScript refinery simulator built to explain job to my kids
I figured out why it wouldn't work on my machine:

    @media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
        *, *::before, *::after {
            animation-duration: 0.01ms !important;
            animation-iteration-count: 1 !important;
            transition-duration: 0.01ms !important;
        }
    }
With reduced-motion enabled (which is basically required in Tahoe :eyeroll:), animations complete immediately and there is no chance to click the salt/water.
joeframbach··on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
I've been involved in so many CRs where I've given feedback over 10 revs, then the submitter cancels the CR and files a new one, for the metrics.
joeframbach··on I don't know Apple's endgame for the Fn/Globe key–or if Apple does
The fact that there is an entire _industry_ of tools to patch every little shortcoming speaks volumes of Apple's usability.
joeframbach··on I don't know Apple's endgame for the Fn/Globe key–or if Apple does
Nah, I installed karabiner and set up command+q to require a three-second holddown to activate.
joeframbach··on I don't know Apple's endgame for the Fn/Globe key–or if Apple does
Is this where I can complain about command+q? All day every day I use command+tab/tilde/w/a/s, and smack in the middle of that is command q. It's like if automobile manufacturers decided to put a third pedal between the accelerator and the brake that immediately shuts off your car in the middle of the highway. And you can't disable it, instead you can map it to such helpful things like... invert colors.
joeframbach··on No one wants to admit the real reason corporations are laying off thousands
I'm of the opinion that over-hiring was a strategic move to make hiring more expensive for competitors. Look up those popular profit-per-employee lists that circulate now and then. Spending $1 to make hiring $1 more expensive for your competition makes business sense. And even if Bob and Sue and Jim and Alice have redundant roles in the company, that's three competitors who couldn't fill that role. Does Google _really_ need a South Lake Union office location? Probably not, the entire building is likely redundant. But it siphons talent from the neighbors.
joeframbach··on Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?
See also: Horcrux. https://github.com/jefdaj/horcrux
joeframbach··on A verification layer for browser agents: Amazon case study
You realize you are responding to a brand new account posting an obviously AI-generated response?
joeframbach··on A verification layer for browser agents: Amazon case study
Does the browser expose its accessibility tree instead of the raw dom element tree? The accessibility tree should be enough, I mean, it's all that's needed for vision impaired customers, and technically the ai agent _is_ a vision impaired customer. For a fair usage, try the accessibility tree.
joeframbach··on Bugs Apple loves
esc is the dismiss-the-modal-and-lose-all-your-work key.
joeframbach··on Bugs Apple loves
Yes, every time you send a message from an iPhone you MUST append a trailing space, just to be sure it won't fuck up the last word when it sends.
joeframbach··on Show HN: Subth.ink – write something and see how many others wrote the same
This concept is a duplicate :) we already had r9k
joeframbach··on Show HN: I Ching simulator with accurate Yarrow Stalk probabilities
Please consider improving the color contrast. The text is gray-on-gray and impossible to read.
joeframbach··on macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt
So, the Powerbook Duo Dock?
joeframbach··on Microsoft won't let me pay a $24 bill, blocking thousands in Azure spending
Print out the invoice, write a check, and mail it in?
joeframbach··on Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive
It probably wasn't the rmdir command that deleted the parent folder by itself, but the LLM did the traversal. The LLM probably did this:

    rmdir D:\dir one\dir two\file
Detected that it failed, then the LLM issued the traversal command

    rmdir D:\dir one\dir two
And so on...

    rmdir D:\dir one
And then that failed, so...

    rmdir D:\
joeframbach··on Fluid Glass
I have accidentally swipe-navigated far more times than I have ever purposefully swipe-navigated (zero times), so I am astounded to see someone who hasn't rage-disabled that misfeature upon installation of the OS.
joeframbach··on <template>: The Content Template element
I wonder if the browser would attempt to validate the contents of a script tag with type json, versus treating it as a blob that would only be validated when parsed/used. And any performance overhead at load time for doing so. Not at a machine at the moment so I can't verify.
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