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New comment by purpleflame1257 in "Show HN: Omacosy – Omarchy-style tiling desktop for macOS, no SIP"

purpleflame1257 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:48:38 +0000

Okay very cool, will try. But please remove the claude-ese from the GitHub repo. It just erodes trust.

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM"

purpleflame1257 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:12:26 +0000

I "downgraded" to Opus 4.6 which is the last one that didn't have these problems.

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "Browser De-Slop"

purpleflame1257 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 13:16:32 +0000

"Allegedly, these policies are also supported on Windows via Group Policy and MacOS using plist files. I wouldn’t know, since I use a real operating system."

Real 2006 Slashdot energy here. Very rare to see in the wild these days.

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "AI Has Plunged the Book Publishing Industry into Utter Chaos"

purpleflame1257 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:48:52 +0000

That's not necessarily true. Patreon, Twitch, and Onlyfans all reproduce the patronage relationship at microscale. Instead of a commissioned sculpture you might get a shout-out on chat, but the cost to you was also much cheaper.

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "AI Has Plunged the Book Publishing Industry into Utter Chaos"

purpleflame1257 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:28:29 +0000

Economic trends meant we were moving towards patronage models anyway, whether singular or distributed. It seems like mass one-shot payment for media is almost dead. The exception might be video games, thanks in part to console lock-in.

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "Show HN: Automatically detect and patch walking-dead states in Sierra games"

purpleflame1257 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:46:33 +0000

I would suggest, without spoilers, that you go play the original Doki Doki literature club right now.

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes"

purpleflame1257 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:39:37 +0000

Interesting how anisotropic it is. Naively I would have assumed it would be roughly symmetrical

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "After Losses, Retail Investors Flock to 3x Leverage as 2x Product Are Restricted"

purpleflame1257 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 03:41:27 +0000

The threshold for greed is higher than the median net worth of an American. We tell people they need "generational" wealth to a make it in this country because housing, education, and healthcare are all so expensive

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]"

purpleflame1257 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:11:11 +0000

The Olympics were canceled(postponed) due to a plague, so that tracks

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "Games at the press of a button: The Rip-O-Bot (1989)"

purpleflame1257 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:49:13 +0000

>just changing animation quality, physics, attack methods, and level design

So...basically everything about the game but the genre?

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04)"

purpleflame1257 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:58:34 +0000

Bradbury actually anticipated this on the Martian side and explicitly calls out frozen dinners.

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]"

purpleflame1257 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:55:15 +0000

It's interesting to look at the short a story and see where we are still behind on home automation. We still don't have robot firefighting or accurate robot cooking, for example.

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9"

purpleflame1257 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:49:01 +0000

So will this run through Classic no problem, yes? I almost want to break my powebook G4 out of mothballs on principle to try this.

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "Yubikey 5.8: Verified Authorization for the New Era of Identity and AI"

purpleflame1257 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:09:42 +0000

They used to be so cheap that WIRED offered them as signup freebies. I wonder what happened.

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "Why do people hate the tech industry? (2023)"

purpleflame1257 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:35:25 +0000

Without the promise of return most promising technology would never have been created.

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works"

purpleflame1257 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:31:07 +0000

I like how "A Wrinkle in Time" starts:"It was a dark and stormy night."

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "What did SFFA vs. Harvard reveal about admissions?"

purpleflame1257 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:29:49 +0000

For the last 50 years you would get in severe trouble for using test scores alone thanks to disparate impact.

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

purpleflame1257 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:44:53 +0000

GOG will let you download the offline installer for every game they sell, IIRC.

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

purpleflame1257 — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:16:07 +0000

Counterpoint: China from Deng and onwards is an autocracy with rapidly improving material conditions

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music"

purpleflame1257 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:28:41 +0000

They were right. I never sold a taped VCR, but my parents used it to time shift Saturday morning cartoons every week.