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New comment by jcurtis in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"

jcurtis — Sat, 16 May 2026 10:37:43 +0000

You may already be aware, but SE marks all commits making those kinds of changes as '[Editorial]', so it is generally trivial to use their tooling to build your own high-quality ebook without any of the editorial changes.

New comment by jcurtis in "Nvidia-smi hangs indefinitely after ~66 days"

jcurtis — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 10:05:45 +0000

49 days is a bit under 2^32 milliseconds... So unsigned int overflow?

New comment by jcurtis in "Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being 'AI free'"

jcurtis — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 20:25:57 +0000

Mods using AI to clone voice actors' voices without their consent or explicitly against their wishes has certainly been controversial in the Skyrim modding community.

New comment by jcurtis in "Let's Take Esoteric Programming Languages Seriously"

jcurtis — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 11:15:31 +0000

This is the description of the episode, not a transcript. And 'raisin detour' is fairly obviously a joke.

New comment by jcurtis in "Moving PHP open source forward"

jcurtis — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 14:18:24 +0000

Most of the things you listed are plugins which can be disabled in the plugin settings - certainly databases, docker & code-with-me.

New comment by jcurtis in "Apple lacks strategic vision"

jcurtis — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 18:02:55 +0000

Podcasts were arguably mainstream back in 2014 with Serial.

New comment by jcurtis in "Tesla must pay portion of $329M damages after fatal Autopilot crash, jury says"

jcurtis — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 11:20:28 +0000

The tube follows fixed tracks, which is quite different from cars on a road.

New comment by jcurtis in "Britain's Latest True Crime Thriller: Who Killed the Sycamore Tree?"

jcurtis — Sun, 04 May 2025 10:33:27 +0000

I suspect that the user you're replying to was joking

New comment by jcurtis in "Reflections on Distrusting xz"

jcurtis — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 13:46:42 +0000

It's Mr Tulip, of Terry Pratchett's The Truth.

New comment by jcurtis in "Standard Ebooks"

jcurtis — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 11:17:52 +0000

Editorial commits are all marked as such and contain no non-editorial changes. The tools for compiling ebook files are available at https://github.com/standardebooks/tools, so creating your own versions with only the work you're interested in is straightforward (and can be at least partially automated).

New comment by jcurtis in "Lazygit: Simple terminal UI for Git commands"

jcurtis — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 14:48:26 +0000

Unless I'm misunderstanding your comment, this feature is actually included in the latest EAP/beta releases[1]. There is discussion of it at the bottom of the issue you linked.

[1] https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2023/06/intellij-idea-2023-2...