<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: cml123</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cml123</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 08:42:42 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=cml123" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cml123 in "Googlebook"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Don't you think that's backwards from how utility usually works? Most effective solutions come from attempting to solve a known problem, not by searching for problems to apply an available solution. Even thinking outside the box is usually in service of a particular problem - just applying creative or unorthodox solutions to that problem.</p>
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<p>fwiw, the opposite view was recently taken for node js. GH hides most of the conversation by default due to size, but the gist is that a new VFS feature is being proposed for node that was largely written using an LLM. I think I've more often seen the view these days that if you used, steered, and likely modified code generated by an AI, you generated the code and hold the copyright.<p><a href="https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61478" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61478</a><p><a href="https://blog.platformatic.dev/why-nodejs-needs-a-virtual-file-system" rel="nofollow">https://blog.platformatic.dev/why-nodejs-needs-a-virtual-fil...</a></p>
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<p>don't think they understood the reference</p>
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<p>this is interesting because of how much it differs from my own hopes. I don't really have any personal need or want for the Linux desktop marketshare to increase. I like computers because I can program them to do something and it will do it. Ideally you have complete control over it.  I've customized my desktop here and there in order to get some result, but while you care most about the _result_, for me the act of _making_ that result happen is as important if not more. I'm not looking to offload it to something else.<p>I don't really see the troubleshooting/customization as annoying. It's not much different than learning to program. At first you don't have any intuition for patterns or ways to solve problems, but given time, you start to identify them and know how to work on it unaided. For many distros or operating systems more broadly, it's the same thing. When in doubt, I head to the Arch wiki or more rarely the forums, then I'm good to go.<p>I'm not really after some integrated LLM or Copilot 365 for Linux experience when it comes to using my computer.</p>
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<p>my employer has told me that it's an expectation for me and that if I don't use it i'll be replaced</p>
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<p>I don't think the evidence is on your side for the outcomes. Kids cannot be assured to make the best choices in their own interest for every scenario. I was on meds for ADHD from ages 4 to 14 before I asked to stop. In elementary school I was among the most talented students in my class, but I was very close to failing to graduate high school. I later failed out of community college. Through great effort I managed to get employed as a software developer, though my original passion and hope was biology. I now take Vyvanse to keep sustained focus in my work.<p>I'm confident if I had stayed on my meds that I would have been far more academically successful in high school and beyond. I pushed to get off Adderall as a kid because I started to feel like a zombie on it, but maybe my parents could have instead helped me to find a treatment that was better suited for me or adjust my dosage.</p>
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<p>I've played Senet regularly for over 15 years. I was working over the holidays on a GNOME Senet game which I hope to put out there soon. I think it strikes a fun balance between chance and strategy. It probably won't appease chess die-hards on the complexity front, but for casual gameplay it's nice.</p>
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<p>I think many people who grew up before cell phones remember phone numbers from the past. I just thought about it and can list the phone numbers of 3 houses that were on my childhood street in the early 2000s + another 5 that were friends in the area. I remember at least a handful of cell phone numbers from the mid to late 2000s as friends started to get those; some of them are still current. On the other hand, I don't know the number of anyone I've met in the last 15 years besides my wife, and haven't tried to.</p>
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<p>Classical Chinese had a much larger phonemic inventory than modern Mandarin, and notably no tones. Below are a collection of Classical Chinese reconstructions in IPA that are all pronounced yì in Mandarin today. (like "ee" for English speakers). The creation of tones and other sound changes were fairly predictable, so as you say, the hints often still help today.<p>- ŋjajs  議; 'discuss'  
- ŋjət  仡; 'powerful'
- ʔjup  邑; 'city'  
- ʔjək  億; '100 million'
- ʔjəks  意; 'thought'  
- ʔjek  益; 'increase'
- ʔjik  抑; 'press down'  
- jak  弈; 'Go'
- ljit  逸; 'flee'  
- ljək  翼; 'wing'
- ljek  易; 'change'  
- ljeks  易; 'easy'
- slek  蜴; 'lizard'</p>
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<p>Incidentally, the largest group of Chinese characters are phono-semantic e.g. encode both meaning and pronunciation. Over half of all Chinese characters are in that bucket. That actually allows speakers to have some ability to guess both pronunciation and meaning of characters they have never seen. There are rules to guide this.[0]<p>0. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C7%92u_bi%C4%81n_d%C3%BA_bi%C4%81n" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C7%92u_bi%C4%81n_d%C3%BA_bi%...</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://irregex.dev" rel="nofollow">https://irregex.dev</a><p>My personal blog that until recently was mostly reviews on lox bagels. I yanked out the bagel reviews for now to focus on programming topics, but need to write up some worthwhile posts.</p>
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<p>I sometimes have this argument with my Product Owner, despite believing we both want what we individually believe is best for our users. I've tried to suggest that the ideal interface for a power user is not the ideal interface for a novice, and that none of our users should be novices for long as an expectation.<p>I work on an internal app for an insurance company that allows viewing and editing insurance product configuration data. Stuff like what coverages we offer, what limits and deductibles apply to those, etc. We have built out a very very detailed data model to spell out the insurance contract fully. It has over 20 distinct top-level components comprising an "insurance product". The data generated is then used to populate quoting apps with applicable selections, tie claims to coverage selections, and more.<p>Ultimately these individual components have a JSON representation, and the "power user" editor within our app is just a guided JSON editor providing intellisense and validation. For less technical users, we have a "visual editor" that is almost fully generated from our schema. I thought perhaps this article referred to something like that. Since our initial release, a handful of new top-level components have been added to the schema to further define the insurance product details. For the most part, these have not required any additionally coding to have a good experience in our "visual editor". The components for our visual editor are more aligned to data types: displaying numbers, enums, arrays, arrays of arrays, etc, which any new schema objects are likely to be built from. That also applies to nested objects i.e. limits are built from primitives, coverages are built from limits. Given user feedback we can make minor changes to the display, but it's been very convenient for us to have it dynamically rendered based of the schema itself.<p>The schema is also versioned and our approach ensures that the data can be viewed and edited regardless of schema version. When a user checks out a coverage to edit it, the associated schema version is retrieved, the subschema for coverages is retrieved, and a schema parser maps properties of the schema to the appropriate React editor components.<p>p.s. These patterns might be commonplace and I'm just ignorant to it. I'm a backend dev who joined a new team that was advertised as a backend gig, but quickly learned that the primary focus would be a React Typescript app, neither of which I had any professional experience with.</p>
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<p>it's interesting how differently people perceive it. Motherfucker is something I'd have called a parent in a card game if they bested me, or an exclamation said aloud from dropping a wallet while walking. Very little significance to it.</p>
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<p>granted it's not up to courtroom standards, this post linked by another commenter in the chain does paint the picture pretty well of an internal struggle between Search and Ads inside Google as a company, where there was a decision to promote user-negative changes to Search as a way to increase the total number of searches performed, thereby increasing the number of ads that can be shown. This happened during 2019.<p><a href="https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/" rel="nofollow">https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/</a></p>
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<p>I don't think searching for answers to simple questions was a problem until Google nerfed their own search engine.</p>
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<p>Since you mention the viola da gamba, I'll mention that in the US, the Viola da Gamba Society of America[0] is keeping the tradition alive. I'm a rusty cellist and learned of the vdgsa a few years ago. They have an annual conclave for players of all levels to learn, play, and have a good time. There was a conclave about 2.5 hrs from my home, and it was advertised as free for beginners, with the option to rent an instrument for the duration of the event across ~ a week. I also play the bass guitar and double bass, which like the gamba family are tuned in fourths vs fifths for the violin family, so I figured I'd show up and try my hand at the instrument.<p>They are a friendly and welcoming community maintaining a rental network in the US for the different types of violas da gamba. They have a strong interest as an organization in funding the continued scholarship, performance, and community for these forgotten instruments. It was very cool. I've since gotten my hands on a rental bass viol, though I haven't had as much time for it as I'd like.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.vdgsa.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.vdgsa.org/</a></p>
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<p>A large insurer with an inexplicable bird mascot</p>
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<p>My employer is currently mandating a 2 day per-week RTO for all employees within 50 miles of a major office, but in my case, even if they wanted to, they'd be unable to force a return to a 5 day arrangement.<p>My commute time has more than doubled since they closed and sold my office for a hefty sum of money. As a result of multiple offices converging to one, there are insufficient seats for the number of employees actually assigned to my office; hence, "hotdesking".<p>I'd wager that maybe a third of the total employees assigned to the office could be present at any one point in time, so unless they purchase some additional properties, we're at a stalemate with the twice a week RTO. Most days over 90% of the desks, sometimes over 99% are taken in the building, requiring reservation weeks in advance through a seat reservation app.<p>I have no direct teammates in the office and no two members of my 10 person team work in the same office (or state).</p>
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<p>Just last week I was fiddling around with a tangentially related idea. I made some modifications locally to my setup so that when browsing a .org file in eww, org-html-export-as-html would render it in the buffer as HTML directly. eww doesn't really support much styling via shr, so I was working on adding some basic css parsing to expand the range of expression for an org-based blog approach.<p>Many people export their org file based blogs to HTML and then publish them, but my thought would be to skip that and instead provide a path for eww to directly render org files, cutting out my html export stopgap.</p>
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<p>Lately I've been seeing a lot of derision from the Emacs community of the consideration for integrating these kinds of tools with Emacs, but I truly think that's much more hurtful than helpful. Although the current development and usage of AI in software development may not closely resemble the techniques used at the time, it seems to me that Emacs' history is inextricably linked to the MIT AI Lab. It feels weird then that people today would shun the inclusion of AI integration into a tool that was produced from such a working group.</p>
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