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New comment by blks in "The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars"

blks — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:53:32 +0000

Did he give it away, or did he set up a fund managed by relatives, like Patagonia guy?

New comment by blks in "Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving"

blks — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:54:38 +0000

Modern LLMs are ok with that, but they do make silly mistakes; and a major problem here is that your init.el stops being your own, if it’s written and maintained by an LLM, you will have no idea what’s going on there. And if you would be reviewing every single line of your init file, then what’s the point

New comment by blks in "Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving"

blks — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:50:58 +0000

I used emacs for about 16 years, but never properly gotten into client-daemon setup. What’s your setup? Does the daemon preserve open buffers and stuff, so when you connect you have all your openned stuff? Or each emacs sessions have separate set of buffers and windows?

New comment by blks in "Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible"

blks — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:08:59 +0000

Machines don’t exist by themselves, someone owns them.

New comment by blks in "Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible"

blks — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:06:16 +0000

Can you survive and support your family on just 40% of your current income?

New comment by blks in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"

blks — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:04:31 +0000

Russia’s involvement with foreign assets is pretty well-documented. Maybe not on a hysterical level where someone believes Russian government stole elections in USA, but they definitely meddled and continue to meddle in affairs of neighbouring countries and EU, both through information campaigns and via direct actions and influence.

Talking about stuff from early Middle Ages (князи), it has zero relevance to modern culture. Russia is anything but isolationist as it should be clear since 2014/2022.

New comment by blks in "Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows"

blks — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:39:59 +0000

It’s devices but also parents. If parents don’t read books everyday, kids won’t either.

New comment by blks in "FrontierCode"

blks — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:49:03 +0000

Meaningless comment filled with buzzwords and marketing numbers.

New comment by blks in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

blks — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:31:28 +0000

The only way for this model to work, is for governments to put high pressure on tech giants to put the breaks on the whole surveillance & data selling business. Otherwise they will take your money and sell your data at the same time.

I wonder if fully forbidding personalised ads will actually make gdp of developed nations to shrink.

New comment by blks in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

blks — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:27:42 +0000

I pay for multiple patreons, too. I wish patreon wouldn’t be such a shitty website/app. It’s insane what basic features it’s missing.

New comment by blks in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

blks — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:28:50 +0000

It’s possible conditions weren’t good enough at potential alternatives.

New comment by blks in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

blks — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:27:05 +0000

No sane terrorist will also call about a bomb on board, but those are taken seriously, too.

And as correctly mentioned by others, we shouldn’t be concentrating on an ideal game theory spherical terrorist in a vacuum.

New comment by blks in "The Website Specification"

blks — Sun, 31 May 2026 10:56:52 +0000

IE6 was the most popular browser still during like 2006-2010. There was a point when Opera, Firefox, Chrome were already a thing, and they supported proper standard CSS and HTML, but 90%+ of users still used IE6 and you had to use tricks to support both standard and IE6 fuckery.

I do miss those times.

New comment by blks in "You can just say it"

blks — Sat, 30 May 2026 09:54:04 +0000

Do you really need the agents, skills and them having access to your calendar, plus multiple back and forth, to create an email about scheduling something - and anyway you will have to check it manually?

New comment by blks in "I found a second vote.gov – and it's registered to the White House"

blks — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:03:00 +0000

And yet all these 2nd amendment guys are nowhere to be seen fighting the dictatorship, as they sometimes claim wanting to use their guns for.

New comment by blks in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

blks — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:21:43 +0000

Inflation, plus if you’re not trying to grow your market share, competition will be taking it away from you.

New comment by blks in "The real cost of owning a home"

blks — Tue, 26 May 2026 22:40:13 +0000

HOA fees can get so extremely high I don’t understand what people are paying for - 300, 400, I saw 800$ on some property.

New comment by blks in "The real cost of owning a home"

blks — Tue, 26 May 2026 22:37:50 +0000

I understand benefits of HOA, but I would like to live with one that allows me to just grow middle length grass or local flower and grasses.

New comment by blks in "The real cost of owning a home"

blks — Tue, 26 May 2026 22:34:56 +0000

Then analysis that includes buying a home should as well include investing $rent amount every month in addition to mortgage.

New comment by blks in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

blks — Tue, 26 May 2026 22:29:10 +0000

In the current economic system, if capital is not growing, it’s reducing.