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New comment by shlewis in "Scrcpy v4.0"

shlewis — Wed, 13 May 2026 01:54:07 +0000

This is something that non-techsavvy users would go nuts over how it seemlessly and easily works.

> A virtual display can now be made flex using --flex-display (or -x), meaning it can be resized dynamically along with the client window.

Amazing.

New comment by shlewis in "Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers"

shlewis — Fri, 08 May 2026 02:14:20 +0000

Genuinely curious what makes you say that. Haven't used Chrome for a really long time and not once I've missed it.

New comment by shlewis in "Lost in translation: The linguistic challenges facing N. Korean defectors (2025)"

shlewis — Mon, 04 May 2026 03:04:38 +0000

This is an extreme level of pedantry(forgive me), but there is a subtle difference between "DC" and "할인" (and also "세일").

"할인" refers to a wide variety of discounts: it may have a few conditions (minimum quantity, membership, etc.), be available only for a certain period of time, or be a fixed amount or percentage.

"세일" is pretty much the same, although it puts a tiny bit more focus on being a limited-time offer and being percentage-based.

"DC" almost always refers only to a simple, percentage-based discount or rounding down the price. It also sounds much more spontaneous and less formal.

New comment by shlewis in "Lost in translation: The linguistic challenges facing N. Korean defectors (2025)"

shlewis — Sun, 03 May 2026 23:03:03 +0000

Imo as a Korean speaker, the thing about North Korean Korean is that it sounds much more aggressive, from the words to the general tone. They’re also usually much more direct, and in a lot of North Korean defector stories I’ve read, that has been a common pain point for them.

New comment by shlewis in "DeepSeek V4–almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price"

shlewis — Sat, 02 May 2026 15:08:19 +0000

I've never asked LLMs to build a whole app without detailed directions. I've done giving it a general data flow, structs and methods..etc

Are frontier models capable of building something only with general directions now?

New comment by shlewis in "Swiss AI Initiative (2023)"

shlewis — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:03:46 +0000

Why is this not written in German, I'm afraid to ask?

New comment by shlewis in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

shlewis — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:08:46 +0000

Web API wrapper. That's really all it is.

New comment by shlewis in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

shlewis — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:07:22 +0000

I first thought "Fine, I'll stop using Thundebird(which I kinda already did, using Betterbird)." But it's Thunder_bolt_? What's with this name?

New comment by shlewis in "Moving from WordPress to Jekyll (and static site generators in general)"

shlewis — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:04:01 +0000

I get the complex part: it's not as easy as Wp, but what makes it _limited_ when all you needed was a static website?

New comment by shlewis in "Tell HN: OpenAI silently removed Study Mode from ChatGPT"

shlewis — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:55:25 +0000

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xeb/TheBigPromptLibrary/r...

I think this is pretty much the entirety of study mode. Never used it before but as long as there's no UI changes, yes, it's 100% replicable.

New comment by shlewis in "Moving from WordPress to Jekyll (and static site generators in general)"

shlewis — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:19:52 +0000

Hugo is not Wordpress alternative, really. It's an static site generator. Wordpress is not static. Trying to do things what only Wordpress can do will introduce a lot of complexity and often will just not work.

If all you need is a, well, static website without forms or such, Hugo is an easy winner.

New comment by shlewis in "WireGuard VPN developer's Microsoft account locked"

shlewis — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:00:42 +0000

What a distasteful response. People are not `dumping on` microsoft. What kind of PR is this?

New comment by shlewis in "Bitwarden Is Down"

shlewis — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:14:54 +0000

They still can, provided they have logged in before.

New comment by shlewis in "Show HN: Dull – Instagram Without Reels, YouTube Without Shorts (iOS)"

shlewis — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 01:42:46 +0000

Selling it is one thing. Making it a subscription is just crazy to me.

New comment by shlewis in "The Cognitive Dark Forest"

shlewis — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 03:04:51 +0000

Pretty rude remark. And what makes you think that ASI is _just on the horizon_?

New comment by shlewis in "Nobody Reads Your Setup Docs"

shlewis — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 03:18:49 +0000

Okay I'm building this.

New comment by shlewis in "Stop picking my Go version for me"

shlewis — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 03:03:12 +0000

Thank you so much.

New comment by shlewis in "South Korea Mandates Solar Panels for Public Parking Lots"

shlewis — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 02:04:19 +0000

I wouldn't call it luxury. It's just that people don't find it attractive while living in Seoul. Average joe definitely can afford having a car.

New comment by shlewis in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

shlewis — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:37:06 +0000

I have minor inconveniences and hiccups with Linux.

I have a gut-level disdain for and distrust of Windows.

New comment by shlewis in "CERN uses ultra-compact AI models on FPGAs for real-time LHC data filtering"

shlewis — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:31:00 +0000

> Is a LLM logic in weights derived from machine learning?

I was just answering this question. LLM logic in weights is fundamentally from machine learning, so yes. Wasn't really saying anything about the article.