Hacker News: lolive

New comment by lolive in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

lolive — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:40:49 +0000

When exactly do you need floating windows?

- a happy ion2/i3 user since forever -

New comment by lolive in "Why are we still using Markdown?"

lolive — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:15:30 +0000

Obsidian has 2 main advantages to me.

First you can switch from WYSIWYG to text editor instantly.

Then you have an outline where you can manipulate your “markdown blocks” [i.e title and its content] by drag n drop. Or extract a “markdown block” as a new note, and leave a reference where it originally was extracted from.

And then [the killing feature], it displays the content of a link, web link or internal link, as a [kind of] iframe, if you prepend a ! to the link.

New comment by lolive in "The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'"

lolive — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:38:37 +0000

Motörhead and Nirvana are probably in the same situation.

New comment by lolive in "More common mistakes to avoid when creating system architecture diagrams"

lolive — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:36:38 +0000

At my company, diagrams are usually generated from data. But when they are not, they are immediately extracted from the diagram authoring database and become data again, that we query for discrete information [much more than scrolling inside wall-size diagrams]

New comment by lolive in "More common mistakes to avoid when creating system architecture diagrams"

lolive — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:33:50 +0000

In my company, we generate diagrams from data coming from external referencials that ARE source of truth, by process. Not the perfect solution, but much better than representations of a reality that has already moved miles ahead.

New comment by lolive in "XML is a cheap DSL"

lolive — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 23:23:05 +0000

« HTML is a poor interchange format. » - quote of the century -

New comment by lolive in "Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage"

lolive — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:46:18 +0000

What’s the price of that beast? #meCryingTearsOfBlood

New comment by lolive in "Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise"

lolive — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:13:55 +0000

What if you define a hard rule from this statistics that « you must fire anyone on error one »? Won’t your company be empty in a rather short timeframe? [or will be composed only of doingNothing people?]

New comment by lolive in "Relax NG is a schema language for XML (2014)"

lolive — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:22:56 +0000

Watch how dict2xml or xml2dict handle JSON to XML automatic mapping. Both format carry 99% of the same structural infos in their respective serialization.

New comment by lolive in "Relax NG is a schema language for XML (2014)"

lolive — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:20:30 +0000

I still cannot tell which one I hate the most: CSV or JSON. These really are hacks that should never have gotten the attention of the world, for data exchange.

New comment by lolive in "Obsidian Sync now has a headless client"

lolive — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:05:20 +0000

Isn't there a script or a plugin to sync your vault to github, already? (may be even to sync several vaults, for example to share vaults between colleagues)

New comment by lolive in "Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension"

lolive — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:06:59 +0000

I have been in a big company for 4 years, and following the zillions of projets going on here and there, how they interact [nicely or not] has become a job in itself.

Very disturbing as I thought my technical skills would help me clarify the global picture. And that is exactly the contrary that is happening.

New comment by lolive in "Show HN: Deff – Side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal"

lolive — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:47:13 +0000

unfortunately for terminal lovers, the best .gitconfig snippet is still this:

  [diff]
    tool = intellij
  [difftool "intellij"]
    cmd = idea diff \"$LOCAL\" \"$REMOTE\"
  [merge]
    tool = intellij
  [mergetool "intellij"]
    cmd = idea merge \"$LOCAL\" \"$REMOTE\" \"$BASE\" \"$MERGED\"
    trustExitCode = true

New comment by lolive in "AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox"

lolive — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 07:10:36 +0000

We made an under-the-radar optimization in a data flow in my company. A given task is now much more freshData-assisted that it used to.

Was a LLM used during that optimization? Yes.

Who will correlate the sudden productivity improvement with our optimization of the data flow with the availability of a LLM to do such optimizations fast enough that no project+consultants+management is needed ?

No one.

Just like no one is evaluating the value of a hammer or a ladder when you build a house.

New comment by lolive in "Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube"

lolive — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 15:39:58 +0000

Didn't rewatch it for decades. But isn't this romance a very background narrative arc until the very latest season?

New comment by lolive in "Inside Epstein’s network: what 1.4M emails reveal"

lolive — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 05:10:01 +0000

Save the Borgias !

New comment by lolive in "Apple's latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags"

lolive — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 07:17:35 +0000

They can buy Open AI.

New comment by lolive in "Apple's latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags"

lolive — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 07:12:35 +0000

Tried an android phone given by my company. Gemini is at your fingertips, with a single button press. That’s INCREDIBLE! [everything Siri never delivered]. Put that into a headphone or headphone-enabled glasses. Plus a ring. And the need for an advanced UI-based phone fades away for many usages.

New comment by lolive in "I miss thinking hard"

lolive — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:21:22 +0000

In my company, [enterprise IT] architects are separated into two kinds. People with a CV longer than my arm who know/anticipate everything that could fail and have reached a level of understandind that I personnally call "wisdom". And theorists, who read books and norms, who focus mostly on the nominal case, and have no idea [and no interest] in how the real world will be a hard brick wall that challenges each and every idea you invent.

Not being hands-on, and more important not LISTENING to the hands-on people and learning from them, is a massive issue in my surroundings.

So thinking hard on something is cool. But making it real is a whole different story.

Note: as Steve used to say, "real artists ship".

New comment by lolive in "After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand"

lolive — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 13:53:37 +0000

May be we will have at last the AI to do literate programming. So it can properly reread and connect big chunks of code it wrote magically in isolation. From that perspective, the AI is following the path of a experienced programmer: specs and docs maintained in parallel of the code will save your .ss in the long run.