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New comment by nicwolff in "The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy"

nicwolff — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:18:19 +0000

I think they meant "evoked", for which Merriam Webster has

    1: to call forth or up: such as
      a: to bring to mind or recollection
      b: to cite especially with approval or for support

New comment by nicwolff in "Families Can Now Eat Some Fish from Hudson River for First Time in 50 Years"

nicwolff — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:04:41 +0000

Maybe April Fool's Day was the wrong day to release that.

New comment by nicwolff in "Show HN: A context-aware permission guard for Claude Code"

nicwolff — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:39:38 +0000

Yeah, same – mine gives Claude a proxy to the host's Docker socket that disallows mounting anything outside the dev dirs or starting a --privileged container, so it can run tests.

https://github.com/nicwolff/claude-container/

New comment by nicwolff in "Pike: To Exit or Not to Exit"

nicwolff — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:18:13 +0000

Hi, using the app now and it's been great fun. (Now if my wife would actually take an exit so we could eat!)

However, we're on 290 E and it's showing me the exits that are behind us – as if it thinks we're westbound. Is there any way to convince it we're not?

New comment by nicwolff in "Apple releases iOS 15.8.7 to fix Coruna exploit for iPhone 6S from 2015"

nicwolff — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:13:06 +0000

And for my iPod touch! I was prepared to keep using it around the house – it's so much lighter than a phone – but I was worried about leaving it logged into iCloud Keychain if it wasn't going to get this fix.

New comment by nicwolff in "US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says"

nicwolff — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:09:03 +0000

Meanwhile: https://www.marketscreener.com/news/us-private-credit-defaul...

New comment by nicwolff in "BC got rid of Daylight Savings"

nicwolff — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:33:57 +0000

It's "Daylight Saving", not "Savings".

New comment by nicwolff in "Our Agreement with the Department of War"

nicwolff — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:46:20 +0000

The "funniest" thing about this is that in any other context, this administration absolutely insists that everyone should be called only by their legal name, not any other name that they prefer because they think it better suits their identity.

New comment by nicwolff in "Apple Watch or Don't Bother"

nicwolff — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:32:30 +0000

I'm excited for my preorder – but realistic in my expectations: it just won't integrate well with Apple tech.

https://ericmigi.com/blog/apple-restricts-pebble-from-being-...

It'll never be able to react to a notification, or send an iMessage.

New comment by nicwolff in "Something Big Is Happening"

nicwolff — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:06:35 +0000

It's a bit more than zero, because I have substantial tooling around Claude Code – subagents, skills, containerization, &c – that I'd have to (have Opus...) reimplement.

New comment by nicwolff in "The Enchiridion by Epictetus"

nicwolff — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:27:20 +0000

Wow, instant bookmark. Thanks!

New comment by nicwolff in "Bugs Apple loves"

nicwolff — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:22:42 +0000

And they had it solved! 3D Touch worked perfectly – you pushed the screen hard to get a cursor, moved it to the start of the selection, and pushed hard again to drag to the end. They killed it because "not all iPhones had the hardware to support it" or something.

New comment by nicwolff in "Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations"

nicwolff — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 05:54:26 +0000

COPY INTO a temp table and INSERT INTO... SELECT FROM... ON CONFLICT UPDATE...

New comment by nicwolff in "LLM Year in Review"

nicwolff — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 20:20:22 +0000

En dashes!

New comment by nicwolff in "Recovering Anthony Bourdain's Li.st's"

nicwolff — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 05:59:07 +0000

His favorite bar, Siberia, is also back, now at the south end of the Columbus Circle subway station. Same owner, Tracy, and same no-frills atmosphere.

New comment by nicwolff in "Tides are weirder than you think"

nicwolff — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 19:39:16 +0000

The Earth is being pulled away from that water, just as the water on the right is being pulled away from the Earth.

New comment by nicwolff in "Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race"

nicwolff — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 16:58:07 +0000

I think you mean "eminent domain" – the emoluments clause prohibits government officials from accepting gifts, payments, or titles from foreign states.

New comment by nicwolff in "Why do AI models use so many em-dashes?"

nicwolff — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 21:10:48 +0000

He fixed underlines on Medium 11 years ago – and someone un-fixed them since then?

New comment by nicwolff in "America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy"

nicwolff — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 22:01:08 +0000

Mockingbird, by Walter Tevis (who wrote The Hustler and The Color of Money, and Queen's Gambit, and The Man Who Fell To Earth – quite an oeuvre!) has long been one of my favorite books and it's been eerie to see how right he was about how eager mankind is to hand over all intellectual labor to the robots.

(The last level 9 robot that hasn't killed itself is now the Dean of NYU, and in the 25th century it hires the first man who has learned to read in 400 years – to translate the title cards in silent films. Hilarity ensues. Well, no, but there is kind of a happy ending.)

New comment by nicwolff in "Uv overtakes pip in CI"

nicwolff — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 23:55:58 +0000

    ENV UV_SYSTEM_PYTHON=1