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valleyer··on Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug
That's what zsh's INC_APPEND_HISTORY (mentioned in TFA) avoids. Bash may have an equivalent.
valleyer··on Show HN: Eigendrum - Draw any shape and hear what it sounds like as a drum
If the author is here, do yourself a favor and rewrite the app's labels from Claudese to English.

"what the shape does not decide: Pitch is size and tension; fade is material and air. Neither is in the outline, so both are yours."

valleyer··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
English, motherfucker. Does Claude speak it?
valleyer··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
Incidentally, according to https://gpt-tokenizer.dev, in gpt-5, "literature" is two tokens ("liter" + "ature"), whereas "文学" is one.
valleyer··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
Yeah, "X, and it's Y" is a common trope I see.
valleyer··on GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities
Yeah, I've noticed it recently, too. I'd be interested to know where it started.
valleyer··on Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data
Parent is maintainer of rsync.net, in case that wasn't obvious. (There's no contact information in your profile.)
valleyer··on I requested a copy of my data from McDonald’s loyalty program
Yes. The people that make up that corporation should care about their fellow man (family, friends) and should take pride in making good things (personal fulfillment).

We are allowed to pierce the corporate veil here.

valleyer··on 'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows
They're just being intentionally obtuse.
valleyer··on Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
In a composited window system (i.e., any Mac since Mac OS X and Windows since Vista [I think]), rendering from an SVG would have to occur in a window buffer owned by the application, so it wouldn't save any appreciable amount of memory, assuming the buffer is the size of the window. The days of having an application draw directly into the framebuffer are well in the past.
valleyer··on Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities
Seriously. We already lost "crypto" to such carelessness.
valleyer··on Discovery Loop
The Times article lists several.
valleyer··on We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars
No, you can also take your clothes off and throw them upward with sufficient force.
valleyer··on U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war
The son of the elderly Iranian ruler, aligned politically with his father, took over. The war prompted Iran to operate one of the world's largest economic pressure levers, to great effect. The U.S.'s unilateralism, leadership rhetoric, and war crimes (like bombing a school) have lost it a significant amount of global goodwill.

None of that seems like it jibes with your description.

valleyer··on Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork
Is "cowork" a general industry term now? Here I was just getting used to "coding" replacing "programming".
valleyer··on Google has abandoned Google News?
The exception that proves the rule.
valleyer··on FCC: Ban on Foreign-Made Robots Includes Robot Vacuums
It seems so. But why here? The president has the power to ban imports for security reasons; unlike many of his tariffs, a narrow ban like that would likely hold up in court, as long as it were accompanied by some made-up justification.
valleyer··on Three Virtues by Larry Wall
Maybe Jobs was encouraging Atkinson to proverbially skate to where the puck will be -- to create something that will be good now but great in the future.
valleyer··on FCC: Ban on Foreign-Made Robots Includes Robot Vacuums
Even if you think banning Chinese-made vacuum robots is reasonable, it seems bizarre to do so by withholding FCC approval. The fear isn't that they'd spam our RF spectrum... is it?
valleyer··on Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters
The article mentions that, in Georgia, funding for these came from the state budget and even quotes a state legislator on the committee on the education appropriations committee.

It also mentions that the effort is "spearheaded" (whatever that means) by the state legislature in Florida.

valleyer··on Recursion is lying to you
It's not CS 101 that JavaScript apparently sucks at TCO. That was surprising to me.
valleyer··on Our position on open-weights models
Your use of the term "gain-of-function" here reveals your base level of conspiracy-theory-mindedness.
valleyer··on A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway
Ah yes, the Feynman Algorithm for shell scripting.
valleyer··on I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation
That doesn't mean you can't set up DNS names to point at them.
valleyer··on Kimi Work
Not if the harness applies an OS-level sandbox to the process, as Codex does.

https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/sandboxing?surface=cli

valleyer··on NYC may require landlords and realtors to disclose the use of AI in listings
No, merely analyzing or discussing the law generally does not constitute the practice of law. If it did, plenty of newspaper articles, law review journals (often written by law students), non-attorney legal aid, and legal pamphlets would be prohibited.

If you want something more concrete, I googled it, and in New York, there appears to have been a case New York County Lawyers’ Association v. Dacey, in which Dacey wrote a book "How to Avoid Probate!", and the NYCA accepted a dissent in a lower court, stating in part:

    Does the writing, publication, advertising, sale and distribution of "How To Avoid Probate!" constitute the unauthorized practice of law within the meaning of subdivision B of section 750? It cannot be claimed that the publication of a legal text which purports to say what the law is amounts to legal practice. And the mere fact that the principles or rules stated in the text may be accepted by a particular reader as a solution to his problem does not affect this.
and later humorously quoting:

    "[I]t is a prized American privilege to speak one's mind, although not always with perfect good taste, on all public institutions" (Bridges v. California, 314 U. S. 252, 270)
https://accessiblelaw.org/Disclaimer.html
valleyer··on NYC may require landlords and realtors to disclose the use of AI in listings
The law applies to everyone, so it's reasonable for everyone to try to understand it, not just attorneys.

Similarly, it's fine for people to have opinions on food, dental hygiene, and the tax code without being a chef, a dentist, and an accountant.

valleyer··on Surrender as a non-stupid life strategy
> By contrast, you can, right now, try believing that what’s happening is what’s supposed to be happening, in exactly the right order.

My government is currently killing people for looking Mexican. Any advice for how I should apply this belief there?

valleyer··on Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters
This lawsuit alleges violation of federal, not state, law.
valleyer··on Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark
Arabic or Hebrew would be better tests for that.
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