[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

The first Black Adder.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

Great for giving incantatons for ffmpeg, imagemagick, and other power tools.

"Use ffmpeg to get a thumbnail of the fifth second of a video."

Anything where syntax is complicated, lots of half-baked tutorials exist for the AI to read, and you can immediately confirm if it worked or not. It does hallucinate flags, but fixes if you say "There is no --compress flag" etc.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

HN crowd told me they're porting to swift. When I asked "why not Rust", they said the C++ code was very OOP, so it was easier to port to swift.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

vim vs. emacs

It doesn't matter if you personally like emacs more, far fewer people use it.

https://plenz.com/tmp/vi.html

[-] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Busuu looked promising.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

Fastmail is really, really nice.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago

For my family member who moved out of country, signal's voice quality was not very good. WhatsApp's quality was better than a regular phone call, very impressive.

Also, outside the US WhatsApp is some kind of standard the way rich Americans think iMessage is. Companies will ask her to contact them on WhatsApp, so she'll have to have it regardless of your personal involvement.

There's also jitsi.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Tangentially related: Barber also wrote his Adagio for Strings as an Agnus Dei. It's great.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I vaguely recall there being a stereo record needle explanation for this.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

sudo apt remove ratpoison

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

"Ubuntu" is Zulu for "can't install Debian".

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

I discounted this theory the first time I heard it because it's too cool.

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