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New comment by andelink in "Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded"

andelink — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:50:34 +0000

I mean, Deng Xiaoping is/was a huge influence in _our_ lifetimes. It was only the 1970s, just fifty years ago, when he was effectively the head of state. That’s like yesterday. I’m not saying Hamilton doesn’t have the influence you’re describing, but it’s not really an equal comparison given the huge difference in timeframes. Late 1700s is a ways away vs the 70s.

New comment by andelink in "Meta Muse Glimmer – open weights 30B local coding model"

andelink — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:13:16 +0000

I only see those type of videos on 小红书

New comment by andelink in "Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted"

andelink — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:43:49 +0000

Yeah, lost some of my first bands music from this. Admittedly our fault for misplacing the masters but hey we were kids

New comment by andelink in "Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted"

andelink — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:42:01 +0000

Loved MySpace. Keep a dumb parody of it for myself: https://myspace.kyle.foo/

New comment by andelink in "TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP"

andelink — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:35:47 +0000

Nice parameter expansion examples in that bash-web-server. It uses the $_ parameter in ways I hadn’t thought to before, often preceded by a single : ${x} line for pre-processing of the variable.

New comment by andelink in "Why Some Men Struggle to Keep Up with Friendships"

andelink — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:31:05 +0000

You don't need to see them to maintain a friendship, no? One of my friends moved a couple hours away and has two kids under the age of four. We still talk regularly, both text and video calls. He comes back to the city a few times a year for work and we grab beers when he does.

We have a free Slack workspace where a few of us keep in touch and share things. It's pretty active.

New comment by andelink in "Why Some Men Struggle to Keep Up with Friendships"

andelink — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:27:27 +0000

I think I agree.

I am lucky not to have friendship struggles; I have a vibrant social circle with close male and female friends. I talk with my male friends more often, but the conversations are not very meaningful. For most of them, it is hard to break through and have talks that require vulnerability. I don't know why.

In contrast, my close female friends are great in this regard. They are open, empathetic, and kind. The conversations I have with them often leave me feeling a stronger connection. They are far more substantive.

And yes, some of my male friends are ignorant and hold (IMO) ugly opinions.

New comment by andelink in "LLM Writing Tropes.md"

andelink — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:06:29 +0000

Great example of parent comments point.

New comment by andelink in "I Just Returned from China. We Are Not Winning"

andelink — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 05:31:04 +0000

What does it mean to “win” in this context? Can’t we both win? But yes, if we want to use this framing, then yeah we are losing. But even if China wasn’t a thing at all, I would still say we’re losing

New comment by andelink in "SpaceX launches Starship megarocket on 11th test flight"

andelink — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 20:14:22 +0000

Relevant primary source: https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-11

New comment by andelink in "The CSS Handbook, 2025 edition"

andelink — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 18:13:57 +0000

Did 28 upvoters really subscribe to this newsletter to read this?

New comment by andelink in "China's 200M gig workers are a warning for the world"

andelink — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 19:13:30 +0000

> https://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news/2024/2024-07-17-w...

It’s clear you didn’t read your links because this one concludes with:

> "Scholars in China and at the UN have analyzed these and other data. Not a single person has 'discovered' such a huge discrepancy." ... "China has had at least three censuses since the start of the millennium, and there has been no evidence that more than 100 million people are overreported in China," Wang said.

New comment by andelink in "We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA"

andelink — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 02:28:41 +0000

Yes, and it boggles the mind as to why they did. Biden was quite the pro-worker president. Biden saved the Teamsters pension fund and then still the Teamsters officially wouldn't endorse him or Harris. To have your retirement rescued so spectacularly while the opposing party was throwing stones at it and then go on to vote for that opposing party who would have stopped that funding if they could... I just don't understand.

New comment by andelink in "Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City"

andelink — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 22:08:42 +0000

What would be the alternative? Just get who was driving your car to pay you back for the fine. If they are not accountable/honorable enough to back you back, then why were you letting them drive your car in the first place?

New comment by andelink in "Sequoia backs Zed"

andelink — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 20:07:16 +0000

Seems like a minor thing to change IDEs over. Would a Zed task that runs the relevant git command work for you? e.g.

    // ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/zed/tasks.json
    [
      {
        "command": "git --paginate log --follow -p -m -1 ${ZED_FILE}",
        "label": "last-file-diff:${ZED_FILE}",
        "shell": { "program": "sh" }
      }
    ]

You can even throw a keybind on it if you'd like:

    // ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/zed/keymap.json
    [
      {
        "context": "Editor && mode == full",
        "bindings": {
          "ctrl-shift-g d": [
            "task::Spawn",
            { "task_name": "last-file-diff:${ZED_FILE}" }
          ]
        }
      }
    ]

I am not familiar with gitlens so not sure how close this gets you but you should be able to replicate the functionality you need from the git CLI and some light scripting. This can be a jumping off point maybe. If you want to view the diff using the zed diff viewer, you can do so using `zed --diff`, as demonstrated in this GitHub discussion: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/33503#disc...

New comment by andelink in "Work Life balance slows careers"

andelink — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 19:10:28 +0000

Short sighted to prioritize career over life. Few people in the US have any self-worth or identity outside their career, at least IME working in tech. It saddens me greatly. “Productivity” is a disease. Some of my closest friends have no idea what to do with themselves outside of work. No one lays on their death bed wishing they worked more.

New comment by andelink in "Show HN: Cobble – A hard daily word game"

andelink — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:01:01 +0000

It says “framer” is not in the word list, but it most certainly is a word, at least according to the New Oxford American Dictionary.

New comment by andelink in "What's happening to reading?"

andelink — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:39:03 +0000

I’m sorry, but you can’t find five minutes (if even) to read an email? No way your day-to-day life is so completely composed of things demanding your full attention that you don’t have a couple minutes to read an email. You typed out this comment, presumably after reading the thread. Surely you have time if someone you know sent you an email. You could read it in the time it takes to brush your teeth.

New comment by andelink in "What's happening to reading?"

andelink — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:28:39 +0000

As a counter point, I’ve read through more than one knowledge base systems I found perfectly sufficient for answering my questions

New comment by andelink in "Literalism plaguing today’s movies"

andelink — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 15:25:27 +0000

> people who have intercourse while staring at their phones

This can’t be real. Surely no one does this. Do people do this?