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rplnt··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
Companies, celebrities, media, even state agencies all post (only) on Twitter. At least the last one is a shame, but there's a good excuse about reach.
rplnt··on A week of using Codex more than Claude
It's only helpful to Claude in that it wastes more tokens and costs more.
rplnt··on A week of using Codex more than Claude
> why something is there way it is

It writes out stories describing what isn't there or what used to be there. It's usually not helpful, just noise. It also likes to write it in very verbose AI-styled prose.

rplnt··on How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
And a third one for membership apps.
rplnt··on GIMP Development Update
Market share might be more relevant when we're comparing products with different market sizes.
rplnt··on What Happened to HackerOne?
I reported a security bug, it was all processed very quickly and I got paid. I doubt my situation is unique.

I think it would be the individual companies slowing things down, not the platform.

rplnt··on New cars are getting 1.2cm longer and 0.5cm taller each year
There's little to no incentive to buy human sized cars usually. Parking costs the same, tolls can cost the same, insurance I have no idea but I don't think size matters, and perhaps more. All of these should be more expensive, much more expensive, for bigger and heavier cars.
rplnt··on Superlogical
One of the worst I've seen was title editorialized from original "Someone: something [x.com]" to just "Something [x.com]".
rplnt··on Fable is now included on Max plans (up to 50% of weekly limit)
Not surprised, considering how bad it is. Even the simplest tasks trigger a safety. I couldn't imagine paying for it extra.
rplnt··on Codex Micro
My though process:

1. These abstract product visuals are not helping me understand what this software is

2. Wait, it's all about these renders, it's some kind of a joke

3. I don't understand, this can't be real, I need to check comments

rplnt··on It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership
Just to add, the regulations you mention aren't even about AC, it's about modifying buildings' "looks". You can still install AC if you figure out where to put the outside unit - roof, balcony, inner yard, ...

Not everyone has the ability to install personal unit where they live, that's true, same way they can't install satellite dishes for example.

rplnt··on It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership
Outside air temperature isn't an issue. It's not like people drop dead the moment it hits 40. The problem is that after a few days of that everything is heated up through and you have no place to escape it. That's new and hasn't been happening before.
rplnt··on Organic Maps
My favorite renderer of OSM (and possibly other data) https://mapy.com/en/turisticka?x=-3.1744145&y=55.9517954&z=1...

there's an app too, some features are paid, and there are some long-standing bugs, but is otherwise quite fine. I use it when I want a map, not just uniform gray void with roads that is google maps.

rplnt··on Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix
On React Native support: https://github.com/mui/base-ui/issues/2612
rplnt··on Bring back crappy forums
Discord threads are just an addon on top of a chat. It's not really a real discussion. And the discord discussions (or whatever it is called) are again flat IIRC? Slack threads are flat. Both are chat platforms first and foremost I would say.
rplnt··on Bring back crappy forums
There's another option. Combining both threads and chronological order.
rplnt··on Bring back crappy forums
You can have both threaded discussions and chronological ordering of top level comments. It works really well.
rplnt··on Fable 5 Is Back
These vibes are pretty obvious even with casual use. Weekends are so much better.
rplnt··on OpenTTD 16.0-Beta1
This looks super intriguing but also maybe too much. Love that it exists, not sure if I will try it.
rplnt··on Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days
That's the same in my native language too I guess. It's used in books, sometimes in media, but not really in any casual setting I would say.
rplnt··on Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days
I have mac, typed this --- again --- and nothing? Layout says U.S.

edit: another comment gave a mac shortcut – — - <--- one of these might be it

rplnt··on Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days
I've only ever been using "regular" dash, a minus, for that. How do you even type yours? If I ever needed differently-sized dashes (and I don't know the difference between them) I always used wiki to copy them.

(disclaimer: I feel like this obsession with dashes is special to native English speakers, which I'm obviously not)

rplnt··on OpenTTD 16.0-Beta1
The flip, I think, is realistic enough. It could be just slower and the speed of turnaround reflect whether the loco needs to turn around. But the slow reverse that can be solved with two locos is a nice upgrade too.
rplnt··on OpenTTD 16.0-Beta1
I always know what kind of game I want to play, but it's overwhelming to set up, if even possible. It's tons of packages, forums, idk.. so I just end up playing vanilla, with maybe some rules among the players. But I wish there was a comprehensive interface to allow me to set all the stuff that I want.

From the top of my head (haven't played in over a year) it would be: cargo destination for people, cargo prices reflect proximity of other productiosn, mono/maglev only has passenger cabs, regular rail still gets upgrades, no planes I guess, "automatic" public transport within cities - no need to build stops, just buses driving around (transferring people to train stations). And probably more I can't think of now.

rplnt··on DuckDB Internals Part 1
The article has an explanation for what kind of database it is. After reading that one sentence you wouldn't write the second paragraph.

> it's optimized for the kind of queries that scan millions of rows to filter, aggregate, and join — not the kind that look up a single record by primary key

rplnt··on If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort
If the correctness check was vibecoded there's a good chance it was cheated. So maybe that, on top of the, you know, code review (see the sibling comment).

While PRs may have been used to correct style, that shouldn't have been their only or even main purpose. That's on whoever was using it that way, not on the concept of reviews.

rplnt··on If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort
You cannot deliver feedback on something that doesn't exist. If you mean a review in the style of "all of this is wrong and needs to be rewritten differently" then yes, that's something to be discussed beforehand. But I don't imagine this is what people think of when discussing a review.
rplnt··on MiMo Code is now released and open-source
But what if you have English configured as a preferred language? Isn't that what it's for? Wouldn't it make sense for a website to respect that (when available)? I hate that google.com doesn't and defaults to random languages based on IP.
rplnt··on EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices
Couldn't it also be case where the pesticides are fine to use on potatoes but not on tomatoes, for example?
rplnt··on New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste
Yeah, middle schooler with middle school understanding can design anything. There are plenty of middle school solutions in the comments around. The problem is when they meet real world, beyond their high school level understanding of the issue.
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