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New comment by siriusfeynman in "A History of IDEs at Google"

siriusfeynman — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:18:14 +0000

The phrase is a reference to an episode of the simpsons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRdIltdDE4A

New comment by siriusfeynman in "OCR for construction documents does not work, we fixed it"

siriusfeynman — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:24:20 +0000

> Oh you sweet summer child

I know you're just repeating a phrase from a TV show but do you know how incredibly condescending this comes across to most people?

New comment by siriusfeynman in "Pretext: TypeScript library for multiline text measurement and layout"

siriusfeynman — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:29:31 +0000

I've had to approximate text size without rendering it a few times and it's always been awkward, I'm glad there's something to reach for now (just hoping I remember that this exists next time I need it)

New comment by siriusfeynman in "Monday – A personality experiment"

siriusfeynman — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 19:16:41 +0000

I asked it to include specific examples and it included/hallucinated a bunch of stuff I never asked about, so yeah I think this is just a generally acerbic model with no access to chat history

New comment by siriusfeynman in "Show HN: Do you know RGB?"

siriusfeynman — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 22:38:53 +0000

Every tool I've ever used referred to this as hex (including design tools but maybe I'm sheltered), whereas rgb refers to the 0-255 triples

If someone asked me for a colour in "RGB" they'd be rightly confused if gave them a hex format colour (obviously you can convert between them but that's not what they asked for)

New comment by siriusfeynman in "Show HN: Do you know RGB?"

siriusfeynman — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 21:44:53 +0000

> do you know rgb

> colours are in hex

am I missing something or being dumb?

New comment by siriusfeynman in "xAI to pay telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app"

siriusfeynman — Wed, 28 May 2025 20:18:37 +0000

Already here with google's ADK (agent development kit)

https://google.github.io/adk-docs/tools/built-in-tools/#goog...

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New comment by siriusfeynman in "Why does Mill use Scala?"

siriusfeynman — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:20:58 +0000

An approach I use is splitting my config tools into 2 stages

Stage 1 creates a "explicit" config that can be exported to plaintext that contains exactly what is going to be created/modified with no abstraction/simplification

Stage 2 applies the "explicit" config

You get to be as clever as you want in stage 1 to avoid excessive copy pasting or not being able to know what your tool is going to do because all you have to go on is some homegrown DSL

New comment by siriusfeynman in "IRC is the only viable chat protocol (2022)"

siriusfeynman — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 17:12:33 +0000

so many conversation about discord/slack/$currentThing vs IRC end up repeating the "why Dropbox when you can rsync" meme

New comment by siriusfeynman in "“Our paying customers need X, when will you fix it?”"

siriusfeynman — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 17:11:07 +0000

There are countries outside of the united states, and checks are pretty much extinct in many countries

New comment by siriusfeynman in "Common bugs in writing (2021)"

siriusfeynman — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 15:16:42 +0000

it's smaller than most other websites and for me on a 1080p display top level comments don't wrap until ~200 characters at the default zoom level which makes it even worse

edit: also for me the font size is set to 12, not 14

New comment by siriusfeynman in "An open-source mouse and trackpad utility for Mac"

siriusfeynman — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 20:01:46 +0000

the "natural scroll direction" is shared for mice and the trackpad, so you can't have mice and the trackpad scroll different without third party software

New comment by siriusfeynman in "An open-source mouse and trackpad utility for Mac"

siriusfeynman — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 19:34:33 +0000

for some reason apple think that the backslash and backtick keys are the opposite of what they actually are on british pc keyboards

New comment by siriusfeynman in "Microsoft execs on Apple's music store (2003)"

siriusfeynman — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 21:06:38 +0000

Interestingly I've had the same experience with firefox, I keep it installed as a fallback if something isn't working in chrome but every time I (infrequently) use it I have to dismiss several popups about new features and how to switch to it as my primary browser/import history etc.

New comment by siriusfeynman in "TypeScripting the technical interview"

siriusfeynman — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 22:01:44 +0000

Which is exactly the point, it's a leetcode question that tests whether you've memorised a bunch of leetcode interview questions

New comment by siriusfeynman in "Plot to steal cryptocurrency foiled by NPM"

siriusfeynman — Sun, 09 Jun 2019 10:05:55 +0000

> But doesn’t that mean you need at least one full time security auditor just to keep pace

Crazy idea - maybe you shouldn't be writing financial software if you're not going to audit the code that you're using