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New comment by joombaga in "Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"

joombaga — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:50:11 +0000

Maybe not exactly an antimeme, but my mind went to biology. Measles can destroy memory B-cells and T-cells, causing immunological amnesia.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1002885

New comment by joombaga in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

joombaga — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:00:42 +0000

Yes! But I only know because someone mentioned it during an interview. It's not something I keep track of on a per-employer basis.

New comment by joombaga in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

joombaga — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 01:53:25 +0000

Software jobs for sure, but I've been applying for jobs with employers that have other types of jobs too (nursing, accounting, industrial engineering, etc.) and the requirement is not solely for their software jobs. Some have fields that pattern match (for these I put something like "https://linkedin.com/I_DO_NOT_USE_LINKEDIN") while others use an integration that actually require you to sign in to Linkedin (some of these I've created accounts for and then deleted them, some I've managed to bypass by hacking on the POST a bit, and others I've decided not to apply for).

New comment by joombaga in "Claude Code runs Git reset –hard origin/main against project repo every 10 mins"

joombaga — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 01:46:09 +0000

I would not have expected the model's baseline training data to presume not to delete files it didn't author. If the project existed before you started using the model then it would not have created any of the files, and denying the ability to delete files at all is quite restrictive. You may consider putting such files in .gitignore, which Cursor ignores by default.

New comment by joombaga in "Buying a retro game console"

joombaga — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:27:10 +0000

> Which is a bit annoying, as I don't really know what to do with AppImages.

They're self-contained. You make them executable and run them. Store them in /use/local/bin or wherever you want.

New comment by joombaga in "Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)"

joombaga — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:12:49 +0000

Yeah but some operating systems have HISTIGNORE in (or sourced from) their skeleton files.

New comment by joombaga in "Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)"

joombaga — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:07:49 +0000

You can use `set vi-ins-mode-string` and `set vi-cmd-mode-string` in .inputrc to get indicators in readline, and you can add them to your prompt with a bit more work: https://superuser.com/questions/1466222/move-vi-mode-string-...

New comment by joombaga in "Claude Code Cheat Sheet"

joombaga — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:36:35 +0000

They mean `/resume`. But the shortcuts are Ctrl+B to toggle branch, Ctrl+V to preview, and Ctrl+R to rename, at least on my machine.

New comment by joombaga in "Is it a pint?"

joombaga — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:03:14 +0000

I'm having trouble understanding these 2 claims from the summary:

> 1 in 2 pints delivered less than 14.4 oz (below 90%)

> 37.9% were significantly short (under 90% of claimed volume)

Aren't those the same claim with different percentages? 1 in 2 is 50%, and 50% is less than 37.9%

New comment by joombaga in "$ teebot.dev – from terminal to tee in 6 seconds"

joombaga — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 04:44:11 +0000

Your site supports Hebrew, but it looks like Printful doesn't for most fonts. They all come back with placeholder characters. The letters do show up with at least some of the fonts if I design directly on Printful.

New comment by joombaga in "Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine"

joombaga — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 04:02:37 +0000

That one has a lower pixel density. 162 ppi for the Yoga vs 219 for the Neo. My MacBook Air M3 is 224 and I can't image going much lower, even for OLED. Maybe if I watched more videos.

New comment by joombaga in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

joombaga — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 13:55:22 +0000

The Telly comes with a second screen for ads that you're not allowed to shut off. https://www.telly.com/

New comment by joombaga in "In praise of –dry-run"

joombaga — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 17:34:45 +0000

Consider using work trees. They have separate reflogs, you'd still get separate directories, but less duplication.

New comment by joombaga in "Neocities Is Blocked by Bing"

joombaga — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 03:08:57 +0000

Did you reach out to popular Bing-powered search engines like DuckDuckGo directly? Or just Microsoft?

New comment by joombaga in "Verizon starts requiring 365 days of paid service before it will unlock phones"

joombaga — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 06:41:50 +0000

What did you expect it to be lite in?

New comment by joombaga in "Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor"

joombaga — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:39:42 +0000

Yep. I have a MacBook air 13 and a Framework, and miss the extra vertical space when I'm on the MacBook.

New comment by joombaga in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

joombaga — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:20:17 +0000

I started to catalogue my tape collection. No JavaScript.

https://tapes.josh.cool/

New comment by joombaga in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

joombaga — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 20:07:35 +0000

Please do! You put an ellipsis where an interesting explanation could go.

New comment by joombaga in "Assorted less(1) tips"

joombaga — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:20:52 +0000

With `tail` you can press enter a few times to put some empty lines after the last line. This is useful e.g. when you trigger a function multiple times and want to easily see line groups from each attempt. It's the only reason I still use `tail` for following when `less` is available.

New comment by joombaga in "I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off Live Plus"

joombaga — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 13:32:44 +0000

I use one of these https://www.tindie.com/products/zitaotech/bb-q10-bleusb-keyb...

The keymap takes some getting used to.