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This is similar to how Explorer / Finder handle cut: The file isn't moved until paste.

I've found passkeys generally simple and easy to use on MacOS and Android.

On Windows, I hate them. They always push me towards using a PIN instead of my Yubikey or password.

To put it in perspective, people used to consume mercury-based medicine. I'm sure if the glass is thick enough, the risk of a spill (and your health) will be generally managed.

It sounds similar to Y2K which turned into a feeding frenzy for consultants.

But, something to keep in mind: AI caught a lot of us by surprise. I used to pass through circles of AI developers, and I never thought I'd have an AI coding agent 15 years later.

Some things to consider:

1: The quality of code varies widely from model to model. In Visual Studio Copilot, I get so-so code from GPT, great code from Claude 4.x, lousy results from Claude 5.x

2: "Novel work" is harder to get from an LLM than when it's following an example. For example, I can get great Blazor / HTML / css from an LLM (and then spend time iterating making small adjustments,) but if I'm writing a complicated DB query or implementing a novel algorithm, it's best to do by hand.

3: But, in the case of a novel algorithm or query, I get great results saying "please write unit tests for XXX". That alone makes me develop code twice as fast!

Yes, they do.

The first part of "Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith gives many historical examples.

And in Ray Dalio's book, he explains how the US government did it in the past, and will need to do it again in the future.

Ray Dalio explains this history in his books "How Countries Go Broke" and "Big Debt Crises".

His theory is that governments have a debt cycle, and printing money is just one point in that cycle.

What sort of insight am I missing?

The article makes a lot more sense if you've practiced Zen.

Think of it as someone's way of making sense of Zen teachings by related them to something they already understand.

Yes, the article really only makes sense if you're both practiced Zen and done some intense parallel programming.

"Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" makes more sense in a group setting. I read extracts of it with a Zen priest in a meditation group.

Rust is memory safe, but not "manual memory management." IE, the vast, vast majority of Rust doesn't use pointers.

Android Auto only shows who texted, it doesn't show any of the message. (IE, it doesn't even show the first few words.)

It's also a hassle to have it "read" messages, it requires far too much interaction with the screen (and then the phone for permissions) for driving.

In contrast, with my Pixel watch, while driving, I can see enough of the message to get an idea if it's important or not.

I've been tempted to go that route: I used to have a transparent self-winding watch and I miss it.

The thing is, I really like seeing text messages on my watch out of the corner of my eye. I don't read them, but I know that so-and-so texted me, and if it's important I figure out how to read the text safely.

Otherwise, I turn off almost all watch notifications very aggressively.

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I also really enjoy using my watch as an alarm clock and to track sleep, but I could just wear it at night if I wanted to wear a mechanical watch.

We really don't have an easy way in the modern era to share our PC's in such a way that multiple users have their own keyboard/mouse/video combination...

But I guess, if there were a distribution which sets things up so that 4 or more people can use the same PC, it'd get wider adoption...

That makes no sense, for a few reasons:

The shared computer model is generally replaced by RDP (or similar) to a VM running in the cloud.

Vast majority of people use laptops or other portable computers; using networked applications where resource sharing happens "in the cloud": IE, web applications. The portability of laptops trumps stationary computers.

Furthermore, with modern economics, the computing power to do basic computing is so cheap that "dumb terminals" don't make sense anymore: A computer powerful enough to run a web browser costs about the same as what it would take to make a "dumb terminal".

Remember, a typical smart TV is a computer powerful enough to run a web browser or a general office suite.

Of course, I’m pretty sure Go is much better than C at some problems. But there’s no way in hell it supersedes it.

C is great when you need to do manual memory management. Most software written today doesn't need to do manual memory management. (And frankly, for the typical software project, manual memory management is a liability.)

the lightning connector itself is better than the usb-c connect in my opinion. I get that having the pins on the male* plug is a theoretical advantage in durability but that has not been my experience with usb-c connector durability on either end.

I always end up picking a lot of dust out of my usb-c ports on my phones; or otherwise the port wears out and disconnects before charging completes. (Right after my wife entered the hospital in labor, I needed to scrounge around for something to clean out my phone's port because the "go" bag only had a wired charger and my phone wouldn't charge on it.)

It's why I went to a wireless charger for daily use.

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I'm real curious why lightning never became the standard. Was Apple trying to keep it proprietary? Was there a half-hearted attempt to open it up or otherwise convince the Android ecosystem to use it?

You're making a strawman argument: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

We can have timezones where noon is close to true noon. Where I live, the sun is highest either at 11:30 (Standard) or 12:30 (DST.) Most major cities are southwest, so if we stay on permanent standard, everyone's true noon is going to be within 30 minutes of noon on the clock.

Permanent DST screws things up for the cities that are southwest of me, because then their sun is highest in the sky after 1:00 PM. These cities are very far, either requiring a plane ride or a day-long drive, so it's not a big deal for them to switch to a different timezone.

Make sense? You're going off on strawman rants without understanding what I'm advocating for.

How is this different than C#? What new concepts does this bring that C# doesn't?

20 years ago there was some momentum behind Visual Basic .Net; but the language was so similar to C# that it just wasn't worth using. There was a joke that .Net was a "skinnable language."

BTW, there's a whole nitpicky/semantic argument that C# isn't null safe because of the null forgiving operator. That will probably come into play with G# if the null forgiving operator can be used from C# to pass null into G# code that doesn't expect it.

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That's called UTC. Most datetimes are stored that way and converted to local time in the UI.

(To prove it, open finder or explorer and look at a file's modified time. Then change your time zone. You might need to refresh the window. You can even select UTC as your computer's time zone. It's how some cloud servers operate.)

No, you completely misinterpreted me. Just keep true noon within ~30 minutes of noon in population centers, and allow rural areas ~45 minutes. DC and NYC would be in the same time zone.

Right now DC's true noon is more than an hour off. That's too much. (Where I live, my true noon is always ~30 minutes off, both in standard and dst, so I can't complain.)

Am I the only person who thinks its odd that my government (US) thinks its can tell me what time to get up and go to bed?

Before timezones, "noon" was the point where the sun was the highest in the sky.

It seems we should focus on having our timezones be more in line with what "noon" is supposed to be: IE, major population centers should have "noon" close to true noon, with a little more flexibility for rural areas so they can stay on the same time as their closest major population center.

It's great for "mechanical" changes.

For example, yesterday I came across some unit tests that didn't have error messages in their assertions. Normally, it takes me ~10 minutes to fix a handful of tests in this situation. In this case, I gave a 2-3 sentence prompt, went to the bathroom, and reviewed the result after I washed my hands. Saved me a bunch of time!

I encourage you to accept a feeling of "imposter syndrome" when using it, and keep trying new things with it. Don't feel like you have to be hands off, except when you're confident that you can be. (IE, if you think you need to spend 30+ minutes on mindless refactoring, see if you can explain it to an agent and then look at HN while it runs. You might get a good result, otherwise, it probably was time for a break anyway.)

BTW: It's important to try different models. The Claude 5.0 models are slow and give me bad results, so I'm sticking with 4.x for now.

But at least I (and the rest of our group, whom I’ve shared it with) now get the choice about how we access this content.

What I want to know is: How many people actually used the website? How many people prefer the website?

It's easy to forget that many people use their computers (and phones) differently than the typical HNer.

Also: I wonder how easy/hard it is to do this with an LLM / vibecoding? Seems like there could be a Napster moment for bad apps where the LLM installs the app in a sandbox and makes educated guesses about how to turn it into a simple website.

I cranked up the dust and scratches, and literally heard the "POP in my head as the needle hit one.

It's very popular in rural US where running wired broadband is cost prohibitive.

There are many parts of the US that are very spread out, and thus running wires to every home is expensive without subsidies.

The movie Metropolis has a base-10 clock in the background. It's in the scenes with the business owner.

I don't switch browsers just for one site.

Besides, (and I know this is an assumption,) it appears the problem is the API that Refined Hacker News was written to. I suspect Firefox will also end-of-life the API soon.

This broke my heart:

Despite coming from a big, musical family, Tyler and Sullivan never had children.

I absolutely adore children.

I did have a miscarriage when I was 40, I left it too late, you know?

I feel like, if you get into that situation, try to adopt or become a foster parent.