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New comment by RUnconcerned in "Just Use HTML"

RUnconcerned — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:15:25 +0000

There's nothing stopping an HTTP API from returning both HTML and JSON from the same endpoint. Just have the client send "text/html" or "application/json" in the Accept header, depending on what it needs.

New comment by RUnconcerned in "Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised"

RUnconcerned — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 12:18:58 +0000

What other language ecosystems have had this happen systematically? This isn't even the first time this month!

New comment by RUnconcerned in "Show HN: Omarchy on CachyOS"

RUnconcerned — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 09:51:04 +0000

DHH switched from Mac to Linux and is in the process of experimenting with his setup, but since he's famous within tech, it's getting a lot of attention. There's really nothing special about it.

New comment by RUnconcerned in "Malleable Software"

RUnconcerned — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 14:11:59 +0000

In my first job I had to work with healthcare software and it horrified me. There is a standard for interop, HL7, but every system implements HL7 in its own special way so there are "integration engines" to massage the data so that they all conform to the same standard.

It's a gigantic grift.

New comment by RUnconcerned in "A vibe-coding tool for serious developers"

RUnconcerned — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 14:03:22 +0000

> has a better understanding of your codebase, with more full-stack functionalities

Can you elaborate on what this means?

New comment by RUnconcerned in "A vibe-coding tool for serious developers"

RUnconcerned — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 14:01:52 +0000

It reads like they asked the AI how it could help and just pasted whatever it said

New comment by RUnconcerned in "Rollercoaster Tycoon (Or, MicroProse's Last Hurrah)"

RUnconcerned — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:13:38 +0000

I'm not sure RCT ever had a modding community, but it's predecessor, Transport Tycoon Deluxe, did. TTDPatch[0] had several gameplay and quality of life improvements, but it was eventually superseded by OpenTTD[1].

[0] https://www.ttdpatch.net/

[1] https://www.openttd.org/

New comment by RUnconcerned in "Anker is no longer selling 3D Printers"

RUnconcerned — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 17:49:44 +0000

As an european, the US doesn't appear to be very friendly to me, or rather, their friendliness is conditional on the EU acting like a vassal state (or vassal federation). The current US administration doesn't even pretend like that's not the case, but past administrations acted like this as well.

China seems very much like a more straightforward and predictable trading partner.

New comment by RUnconcerned in "Anker is no longer selling 3D Printers"

RUnconcerned — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 14:50:09 +0000

Whereas devices made in the west are, of course, entirely trustworthy[0][1].

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/12/glenn-greenwal...

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-...

New comment by RUnconcerned in "Anker is no longer selling 3D Printers"

RUnconcerned — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 14:46:44 +0000

> The one exception I'd say in the UK are MG EVs, which for some unknown reason some of my fellow Brits have some sort of affinity to as a brand.

I have news for you about MG, it's been a Chinese company for almost 20 years now.

New comment by RUnconcerned in "Generative AI. "Slop Generators, are unsuitable for use [ ]""

RUnconcerned — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 11:11:52 +0000

While I agree that the value of LLMs is wildly overstated, I disagree that it is less useful than bitcoin mining, which is entirely useless. At least LLMs can produce usable output.

New comment by RUnconcerned in "Generative AI. "Slop Generators, are unsuitable for use [ ]""

RUnconcerned — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 10:12:08 +0000

> Ironically, the author could well benefit from running this slop through an llm to make it more professional.

Have you considered that it is not the intent of the author to appear professional? That running it through the Slop Generator would obfuscate their intent to be snarky towards those who outsource all their thinking to Slop Generators?

New comment by RUnconcerned in "AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more"

RUnconcerned — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 14:13:53 +0000

Shipping the chips back to Taiwan to be packaged so they can then be shipped back to the United States for sale is a positive? What are you talking about?

New comment by RUnconcerned in "Jujutsu for busy devs"

RUnconcerned — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:01:38 +0000

The majority of people care about the quality of their work when they are starting off. Not caring is a learned behavior. When you repeatedly get reprimanded for it, you learn not to care as a way of protecting your mental health from taking even more damage.

New comment by RUnconcerned in "Active but still gaining weight? Duke scientists reveal why"

RUnconcerned — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 14:33:53 +0000

It's because the caloric intake is greater than the expenditure. You won't lose weight if you're active but eating more calories than those you expend. Is this not common knowledge at this point?

New comment by RUnconcerned in "Jujutsu for busy devs"

RUnconcerned — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 10:29:01 +0000

It's because what you see as the inferior approach involves less effort and friction for the developers.

When you are told to separate general code improvements to another PR, or worse, to not do them, and create a Jira task for them so they can be adequately prioritized, it just saps your will to do so. You just won't do any improvements that fall outside the scope of the feature, because even just thinking about the hoops you have to jump through to get work done is mentally draining.

New comment by RUnconcerned in "X's new "encrypted" XChat feature doesn't seem to be any more secure"

RUnconcerned — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 08:33:31 +0000

Looking into this

New comment by RUnconcerned in "LumoSQL"

RUnconcerned — Tue, 27 May 2025 13:40:33 +0000

Your best answer for "a much more useful world" is... easier development of crypto gambling? That sounds like an actively worse world to live in to me, to be honest.

New comment by RUnconcerned in "At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work"

RUnconcerned — Mon, 26 May 2025 10:42:30 +0000

This reminded me of Asimov's short story "The Feeling of Power" https://hex.ooo/library/power.html

New comment by RUnconcerned in "Display any CSV file as a searchable, filterable, pretty HTML table"

RUnconcerned — Thu, 22 May 2025 13:53:24 +0000

This is neat. I had a recent need to do something similar, but ended up using Grist CSV Viewer[1], which I think is a bit more feature complete. I had ChatGPT create an HTML file that would let me paste the CSV instead of loading a specific file and it worked pretty well while being more convenient than loading the CSV into Google Sheets or whatever.

[1] https://www.getgrist.com/csv-viewer/