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nicky0··on Why isn't mutable a subtype of immutable, or vice versa?
"Was" like that? .... Some of us still use Objective-C!
nicky0··on My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality
In my experience, Claude adds loads of comments, but Codex (GPT-5.5) never adds any.
nicky0··on Claude Opus 5
It would be "its own" in that it's customized for the specific use case.

Your same argument could just as easily be applied to humans. If you write your own code, is it really your own, or is it just based on your own training and other code you've seen?

nicky0··on New laws to make it easier to cancel subscriptions and get refunds
I consider it a subscription because it is collected directly by the BBC and spent by the BBC.

Taxes, on the other hand, are collected by the government.

nicky0··on Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege
For me it’s groups. Several IRL groups I’m part of (sports/recreation/hobby based) use FB for coordination.
nicky0··on The billionaire developer closing London's pubs
What a strange thing for your friend to say.
nicky0··on Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining
You're being intentionally dense. No, people don't accidentally post pictures but they often do post them with the intention of showing a certain thing, e.g. profile picture, something for sale, something related to hobbies, household repairs, whatever. All of thse are posted with intent to include a certain object but may include background info that the poster did not consider.
nicky0··on MacBook Air M4
As a developer, I say Air all the way.

Never noticed any thermal issues at all. It barely gets warm for me.

Make sure to get at least 16GB RAM.

nicky0··on SQLite-on-the-server is misunderstood: Better at hyper-scale than micro-scale
I think of SQLite on the server as something that you would use when running in a traditional server (VPS or dedicated host) setup rather than an orchestrated, container-based one.
nicky0··on Why writing small docs is a game changer
You say CDN but you're really talking about static web servers in general.
nicky0··on macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)
> [Expose] has completely lost any spatial determinism

Could you elaborate on that?

nicky0··on macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)
https://www.alfredapp.com/help/features/
nicky0··on Starship Flight 7
Test code by running it.

Test a rocket by launching it.

nicky0··on Starship Flight 7
> To date, no Starship has been recovered after flight.

This is irrelevant, as none of the flights included any plans to recover the Starship. The objective for each flight has been to dump the vehicle in the sea at the target zone.

nicky0··on Blue Origin New Glenn Mission NG-1 (video)
Intermittent fasting?
nicky0··on I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled
APIs are not scraped. Web sites are scraped. APIs are simply used.
nicky0··on Ghost artists on Spotify
I hear what you are saying but that's kind of an established-music-industry centric view. There are all kinds of musicians, not just "recording artists" in the 20th century industry mold.
nicky0··on Ghost artists on Spotify
What makes an artist "legitimate"?
nicky0··on Ghost artists on Spotify
I like how you called it ChilledCow to show how OG you are.
nicky0··on This website is hosted on Bluesky
The link in question (linked from the the sumbitted link) is `porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network`. That's hosted by bsky, isn't it?
nicky0··on Bitcoin has made a new all-time high price
Government cannot take money from a crypto wallet because of cryptography. They could only do it if they compelled you to hand over your secret keys against your will. They also may not even know you have a crypto wallet since it is not registered in your name and is very easy to hide.

On the other hand, government can sieze funds from your bank account by seeking a court order or whatever legal instrument is needed in your jurisdiction.

nicky0··on macOS Bartender Auto-Update Signed by Unknown New Owner
If Apple wanted to implement a simlar feature, they would just do it. They wouldn't buy a 3rd party app when they could just do it themselves.

The value proposition of these kind of third party UI apps is that the developer cleverly figured out how to manipulate Apple's APIs to do something Apple didn't really intend. Apple themselves can just write their own private API to do it, they don't need the clever hacks.

nicky0··on Ask HN: How to do simple heartbeat monitoring?
I use Uptime Robot for this: https://uptimerobot.com/

I just configure it to access some endpoint on the API server. It checks it every minute and if it fails (non 200) it pings me.

You can also set it up in more complex ways but this is easy.

nicky0··on A useful front-end confetti animation library
Then you have a fun programming challenge.
nicky0··on C-Macs – a pure C macOS application
GNU/FSF's opinion on informal licenses (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#informal):

Informal license

An “informal license” means a statement such as “do whatever you like with this” or “you can redistribute this code and change it.”

In the United States, these licenses are supposed to be interpreted based on what the author seems to intend. So they probably mean what they appear to mean. That would make them non-copyleft free software licenses and compatible with the GNU GPL. However, an unlucky choice of wording could give it a different meaning.

However, many other countries have a more rigid approach to copyright licenses. There is no telling what courts in those countries might decide an informal statement means. Courts might even decide that it is not a license at all.

If you want your code to be free, don't invite gratuitous trouble for your users. Please choose and apply an established free software license. We offer recommendations that we suggest you follow.

nicky0··on C-Macs – a pure C macOS application
Oh no that won't fly at all. People around here really like "proper" licenses. And they'll tell you about it.
nicky0··on Visual Studio App Center Retirement
What are other people using / moving to for Mac app crash reports?

Auto symbolication was (is, for now) a great feature of HockeyApp / App Center.

nicky0··on Don't fuck with paste
I guess the plucky upstart password manager team has one problem to solve, the entrenched web services team has its own ways.
nicky0··on Blind, Alone, and Confused for 24 Hours Challenge (2020)
It's interesting that there is such a focus on distractions and entertainment. It almost reads like "I attempted to operate my iPhone blindfold for 24 hours". What would a similar experiment be like without a smartphone being involve, I wonder?
nicky0··on Vice website is shutting down
If you don’t already know, you’re the target of it.
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