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New comment by zhengyi13 in "Sequoyah’s syllabary created a written language for the Cherokee"

zhengyi13 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:37:16 +0000

I think your point about the loss of case generally stands, but surely the genitive isn't lost?

New comment by zhengyi13 in "Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor"

zhengyi13 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:28:25 +0000

As opposed to relying solely on engine braking (or the EV equivalent thereof)?

I'd personally prefer a belt-and-suspenders approach.

New comment by zhengyi13 in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

zhengyi13 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:53:04 +0000

If your server is Indian, they'll likely react positively, and get you what you want.

New comment by zhengyi13 in "DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again"

zhengyi13 — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:38:59 +0000

"I'm just asking questions!"

Probably for a number of reasons, starting from our desire as a society to ensure they are as broadly applied as possible, which is in turn driven by our desire as a society (read: "collective") to ensure that they're as effective as possible, which means driving for herd immunity and even things like permanent eradication.

For those who aren't aware of any "blanket liability immunity", I found https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/faq a useful starting point. I hadn't heard of such before.

New comment by zhengyi13 in "A History of IDEs at Google"

zhengyi13 — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:47:30 +0000

Probably not in the way that you might mean it, but for me (Xoogler, 2010 - 2023) internalizing bazel means:

"Hey, where's your tool's code in $MONOREPO?" ""

Cool:

    g4d my-citc-client # moral equivalent to `cd ~/repos/stuff`
    blaze run path/to/stuff:target

... and you get a running version of whatever $stuff is, immediately built from head, quickly - no matter the set of dependencies, or which language they were built in. I can just try your thing out immediately with a common interface for all the builds, and I don't need to understand the build at all, unless or until I do, and then OK, absolutely every single build is always expressed in exactly the same way, same idioms, same patterns...

New comment by zhengyi13 in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

zhengyi13 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:41:39 +0000

Wild to see the usenet/uuencoding model reproduced on the web w/ jpegs.

New comment by zhengyi13 in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

zhengyi13 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:58:12 +0000

That's a feature, not a bug /s

New comment by zhengyi13 in "IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm"

zhengyi13 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:07:26 +0000

Probably both, to respond to the risk tolerances of any given org.

New comment by zhengyi13 in "The Hateful Eight is 85% of S&P 500 Decline"

zhengyi13 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:51:36 +0000

... and the standard reply to this standard reply is "The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."

New comment by zhengyi13 in "The Hateful Eight is 85% of S&P 500 Decline"

zhengyi13 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:50:52 +0000

It's been interesting to review my portfolio, such as it is, against this situation, and see that I'm down relatively little. Not because I've bet against anything per se, but I made a conscious decision years ago to diversify out of the SP500 ("VTSAX and chill!") into broader and exUS indices.

New comment by zhengyi13 in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

zhengyi13 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:57:32 +0000

I'm reminded of people inside Google arguing with Vic Gundotra to drop the Real ID requirement for Plus :(

New comment by zhengyi13 in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

zhengyi13 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:35:09 +0000

> There are outcomes where the US government seizes the company. Not super likely, not impossible.

Are there historical examples in the US specifically where we've nationalized a business?

Because we've certainly invaded countries and assassinated leaders over exactly the same.

ETA: I could have answered my own question with two minutes of research. Yes, we have: https://thenextsystem.org/history-of-nationalization-in-the-...

New comment by zhengyi13 in "Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums"

zhengyi13 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:14:44 +0000

I can't speak to their quality, but every time I see their name, I wonder about how they're received in England: Americans might generally be unaware, but "smeg" as a name doesn't land well there, as I understand it.

New comment by zhengyi13 in "Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue"

zhengyi13 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:30:18 +0000

Some of us have hands (and wrists and arms) that are dealing with RSI. Keyboard use reduction is very important in these cases.

Greg Priest Dorman [0][1] had other physical issues such that he had to regularly switch between sitting, standing, and walking during his workday. His solutions included (in part) some very specialized keypads, but TTS might well have been another solution for someone with similar needs.

Another fellow on my team refuses to write/type anything other than pure code to solve issues at work, but will absolutely talk for hours on end about designs, considerations, issues, what-have-you, so we're actively trying to get him to adopt a TTS-based workflow for knowledge transfer, writing tickets/bugs, etc.

[0]: https://computerhistory.org/profile/greg-priest-dorman/ [1]: https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/top

New comment by zhengyi13 in "The Waymo World Model"

zhengyi13 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:24:32 +0000

Various European cities come to mind: Narrow streets are something of a trope in certain movies/genres.

New comment by zhengyi13 in "Claude Opus 4.6"

zhengyi13 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:57:49 +0000

They're still out there; people are still posting stories and having conversations about 'em. I don't know that CmdrTaco or any of the other founders are still at all involved, but I'm willing to bet they're still running on Perl :)

New comment by zhengyi13 in "Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code"

zhengyi13 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:56:17 +0000

I feel like Daniel @ curl might have opinions on this.

New comment by zhengyi13 in "Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years"

zhengyi13 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:06:16 +0000

As covered literally just a few days ago (IIRC), you absolutely can demand payment: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi actively works to detect MDM, and if found, demand payment.

Not open source, but an interesting counterpoint, I think.

New comment by zhengyi13 in "Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft"

zhengyi13 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:35:09 +0000

I feel like this is exactly the use case for things like Hooks and Skills. Which, if you don't want to write them yourself, I get it. But I do think we can get the tool to do it; sounds like you want it doing that a little more actively/out-of-the-box?

New comment by zhengyi13 in "Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle"

zhengyi13 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:20:04 +0000

... If there were an ever-evolving landscape of awful things crawling up out of my sewer through my toilet, I would very much want to pay for automated toilet updates to prevent the most recent awful crawling horror from appearing in my bathroom.