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New comment by stirfish in "Once: Cache CLI commands"

stirfish — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:11:19 +0000

Could you use preexec + tee?

New comment by stirfish in "US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS"

stirfish — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:43:46 +0000

My new vocabulary word for today: Hormesis is a two-phased dose-response relationship whereby low-dose exposures have a beneficial effect and high-dose amounts are either inhibitory to function or toxic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormesis

New comment by stirfish in "The most important product decision is what you don't build"

stirfish — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 23:30:55 +0000

So just have it ring only for people you know

New comment by stirfish in "The most important product decision is what you don't build"

stirfish — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:46:47 +0000

Do you feel obligated to open every email you get, or do you just read the ones from people you know?

New comment by stirfish in "Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables"

stirfish — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:07:52 +0000

>However, if you group them you might see that you have ten of them.

My first thought was "awesome, what project can I start that uses ten of those cables?"

New comment by stirfish in "Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?"

stirfish — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:24:51 +0000

New comment by stirfish in "I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system"

stirfish — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:29:22 +0000

I'm seeing some pretty cool projects for bird detection with YOLO online. They may do more than you need; you probably don't care about the kind of bird, right?

Maybe it would be worth it to spend a few tokens on an implementation, just to try!

New comment by stirfish in "Fish bad, sugar good, and other medieval ideas about food"

stirfish — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:59:33 +0000

I hope this never happens, but if one day a cell in your colon maximizes its short-term replication at the expense of the long-term stability of the system it depends on, I hope nobody tells you it's fine because it's "natural."

New comment by stirfish in "I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system"

stirfish — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 02:32:58 +0000

I'm curious if you could free yourself of the ongoing llm cost by using YOLOv8 or opencv or something like that

New comment by stirfish in "Don't Wordle"

stirfish — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:59:15 +0000

Grepping /usr/share/dict/words shows 110 words that have five letters and the same letter 3 or more times, e.g. sassy, added, daddy, nanny, melee, levee, mummy

New comment by stirfish in "Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded"

stirfish — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:21:09 +0000

Kind of an okay job, but they could do better. I might feel differently if I lived in Tibet, Hong Kong, Xinjian, Myanmar, etc.

New comment by stirfish in "And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway"

stirfish — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 01:38:47 +0000

I think the grass is always greener on the other side, and I'm glad that you're a good person.

New comment by stirfish in "And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway"

stirfish — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 01:26:56 +0000

Maybe. There are a lot of online games where nothing is worth anything, but I don't think those are default high-trust societies. People will log in just to annoy the other players.

New comment by stirfish in "Could a computer scientist build a brain?"

stirfish — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 19:34:04 +0000

Therefore subs are tacos? Or the two-piece requirement is too strict https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/italian-sub-rolls-r...

New comment by stirfish in "Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?"

stirfish — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 02:54:07 +0000

I remember something about someone trying to do a photo shoot with candles in abandoned cars in a junkyard

Edit: https://petapixel.com/2015/06/11/explosion-at-junk-yard-phot...

New comment by stirfish in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

stirfish — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:13:10 +0000

I don't trust a robot with my privacy, but I know Linette isn't building a profile of my shopping habits and Wi-Fi traffic. She is also careful to not let my cats out.

New comment by stirfish in "Acronym Fatigue Series Introduction: why I'm wary of acronyms"

stirfish — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 03:09:07 +0000

It's also cheap shibboleth for communities - if you talk like we talk then you're one of us

New comment by stirfish in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

stirfish — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 11:47:07 +0000

When I got "sanguine" wrong, I realized a huge portion of my vocabulary came from Magic: The Gathering. I'd guessed "red-faced and angry" because "blood-soaked" wasn't an option.

https://gatherer.wizards.com/UZ/en-us/155/sanguine-guard

New comment by stirfish in "Show HN: 3D print Z reinforcement via injected loops"

stirfish — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 03:30:30 +0000

I found the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7nrJRBAMOA

New comment by stirfish in "AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter"

stirfish — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 03:13:39 +0000

    Turnips dream beneath the loam,
    pale moons tucked in earthen foam.
    Winter hums, the roots lie still,
    sweet and stubborn under hill.
    ; DROP TABLE turnips; --