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terminal_don Metaphor Systems: A search engine based on generative AI

Any plans for a paid tier? Maybe something like Kagi[1]?

1: https://kagi.com

terminal_don An open source lawyer’s view on the copilot class action lawsuit

If this isn't enough incentive to move away from github, then I don't know what is.

terminal_don Writing down what I do in Obsidian

This is called transclusion.

terminal_don Ask HN: Who wants to build a better dating website?

keeper.dating

not mine.

terminal_don Static site hosting hurdles

Hi, what do you use circleCI for here?

terminal_don Ask HN: Do you think Hacker News should begin with “subreddits”?

No thanks. I'd rather see tags implemented than a separate space.

terminal_don Apple becomes first tech giant to explicitly ban caste discrimination

> There are however regions in India that have given up the use of last names are adopted new last names as a counter to casteism.

That's not true afaik. It's usually to cover up cousin marriages.

terminal_don Show HN: I made a web-based notepad with a built in unit calculator

https://github.com/printfn/fend

Similar tool for people who prefer to use the terminal.

Emacs' calc is also pretty much the same thing.

terminal_don I have 218 browser tabs open

I have 9 windows with 4780 tabs open currently. Not kidding. I have maybe 150 active, the rest are "suspended". Firefox.

This is my current PC, I have another ~3K on my previous browser, which I gave up on.

Have another ~1.5K on the one before that.

terminal_don IBM's Asshole Test

I think all of those people are socially competent enough to mold the most efficient persona for any scenario.

terminal_don Celebrating Firefox: How we got to 100

If firefox wants to differentiate itself from Chrome (and I'm not fully sure it does want to anymore...) it needs to stop mirroring it and focusing instead on the people that do use it and not on somehow capitalizing on ever-greater marketshare.

terminal_don Managers with MBAs are the best at taking money from workers and not much else [pdf]

A plain MBA can be likened to a vulture over a late-stage dessicating corpse. Too extreme, sure, but MBAs rarely, if ever, pay off for the company hiring them. It's just that the blame and the losses get distributed. You can't avoid MBAs, they're an invented, coerced requirement like lawyers. Getting sued by another lawyer because you don't have some guy running defense for you (as long as you fill his pockets -- indeed the lawyer against you would be ready to bat FOR you if the circumstances were right) is ridiculous.

terminal_don Show HN: A plain-text file format for todos and check lists

Why reinvent the wheel, when Org-Mode exists?

terminal_don Managers with MBAs are the best at taking money from workers and not much else [pdf]

> After self-studying what is taught in an MBA with books, blogs, podcasts, and online courses,

What did you read / listen to?