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andelink commented on We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA   olimex.wordpress.com/2025... · Posted by u/CTOSian
timr · 5 days ago
> Current administration is not aligned with labor and poor people are the one who will pay the most.

You might want to tell labor. I just listened to an hour-long podcast with the Teamsters leader, where he revealed that over half of their members supported Trump in the most recent election:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-unions-went-for-tr...

andelink · 4 days ago
Yes, and it boggles the mind as to why they did. Biden was quite the pro-worker president. Biden saved the Teamsters pension fund and then still the Teamsters officially wouldn't endorse him or Harris. To have your retirement rescued so spectacularly while the opposing party was throwing stones at it and then go on to vote for that opposing party who would have stopped that funding if they could... I just don't understand.
andelink commented on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City   cnbc.com/2025/08/22/waymo... · Posted by u/achristmascarl
AngryData · 9 days ago
That seems completely fucked to me. Charging people who aren't guilty of any crime with a crime because somebody else was driving their car?
andelink · 9 days ago
What would be the alternative? Just get who was driving your car to pay you back for the fine. If they are not accountable/honorable enough to back you back, then why were you letting them drive your car in the first place?
andelink commented on Sequoia backs Zed   zed.dev/blog/sequoia-back... · Posted by u/vquemener
rustystump · 11 days ago
While i am sure this sounds insane i had to drop zed due to lack of the “last file dif” button gitlens vscode plugin provides.

It is a godsend on quickly debugging the why of things. If anyone knows how to replicate the same functionality with the same number of clicks in zed, id happily switch back to it.

andelink · 10 days ago
Seems like a minor thing to change IDEs over. Would a Zed task that runs the relevant git command work for you? e.g.

    // ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/zed/tasks.json
    [
      {
        "command": "git --paginate log --follow -p -m -1 ${ZED_FILE}",
        "label": "last-file-diff:${ZED_FILE}",
        "shell": { "program": "sh" }
      }
    ]

You can even throw a keybind on it if you'd like:

    // ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/zed/keymap.json
    [
      {
        "context": "Editor && mode == full",
        "bindings": {
          "ctrl-shift-g d": [
            "task::Spawn",
            { "task_name": "last-file-diff:${ZED_FILE}" }
          ]
        }
      }
    ]

I am not familiar with gitlens so not sure how close this gets you but you should be able to replicate the functionality you need from the git CLI and some light scripting. This can be a jumping off point maybe. If you want to view the diff using the zed diff viewer, you can do so using `zed --diff`, as demonstrated in this GitHub discussion: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/33503#disc...

andelink commented on Work Life balance slows careers   pathtostaff.com/p/work-li... · Posted by u/elza_1111
andelink · a month ago
Short sighted to prioritize career over life. Few people in the US have any self-worth or identity outside their career, at least IME working in tech. It saddens me greatly. “Productivity” is a disease. Some of my closest friends have no idea what to do with themselves outside of work. No one lays on their death bed wishing they worked more.
andelink commented on Show HN: Cobble – A hard daily word game   wilf.live/cobble/... · Posted by u/wolfred
andelink · a month ago
It says “framer” is not in the word list, but it most certainly is a word, at least according to the New Oxford American Dictionary.
andelink commented on What's happening to reading?   newyorker.com/culture/ope... · Posted by u/Kaibeezy
conductr · a month ago
This. If someone sends me a full page email, I immediately skip it. No time for that. They'll follow up more concisely when it becomes important. Or if it requires such elaborate description, a phone call or meeting would have probably been a better channel for this communication. Likewise, anytime I start typing an email and it gets lengthy I know I'd be better off picking up the phone/scheduling a call.
andelink · a month ago
I’m sorry, but you can’t find five minutes (if even) to read an email? No way your day-to-day life is so completely composed of things demanding your full attention that you don’t have a couple minutes to read an email. You typed out this comment, presumably after reading the thread. Surely you have time if someone you know sent you an email. You could read it in the time it takes to brush your teeth.
andelink commented on What's happening to reading?   newyorker.com/culture/ope... · Posted by u/Kaibeezy
TeMPOraL · a month ago
You must be the org that operates this mysterious, legendary KB system that has any actual information in it.

None of the KB systems I've ever encountered, from orgs big and small, reputable or otherwise, had in them any useful information whatsoever. It's all just bullshit, roundabout sales, and a lot of answers to questions no actual human being would ever ask.

Whether or not to put LLM in the KB's search bar is immaterial. Myself, when I see a KA syste, I immediately close the tab and "bounce" back to the search engine.

> People don't skip the documentation because they can't find it; they skip because they don't want to read!

Yes, but also because they don't trust you to provide enough information to diagnose and solve their problem. There's no point wasting the time when experience tells you most customer-facing KBs are nothing but false hope and misleading headlines.

> They want to bug a live a person (and make it their problem)!*

Yes, but not because they hate that random support person - it's because it's the only remotely reliable way to solve the problem itself. Companies shouldn't complain, not after standardizing knowledgebases and phone menus, which are all implicitly and often explicitly designed to keep customers away from support staff - and instead of providing a solution, they're optimized to make the user think the solution exists somewhere and they're just too dumb to find it (therefore, user's own fault, not company's fault; customer's brand perception unaffected).

As for making it the support person's problem - that's literally their job. That's what they're paid for.

andelink · a month ago
As a counter point, I’ve read through more than one knowledge base systems I found perfectly sufficient for answering my questions
andelink commented on The new literalism plaguing today’s movies   newyorker.com/culture/cri... · Posted by u/frogulis
burnt-resistor · 2 months ago
> watched in the background while people are doing something else.

There are these devices called "radios"* and this stuff called "music."

There's no point to "watching" a show if it's not being watched, it sort of ruins the whole purpose of it. Dividing attention lessens almost everything. It's like "reading" a book while moving your eyes over the words faster than you can read them. SMH. It's kind of like the cliché of the Banksy couple staring into their screens across from each other, or people who have intercourse while staring at their phones.

* That have been replaced with apps like Spotify and Tidal.

andelink · 2 months ago
> people who have intercourse while staring at their phones

This can’t be real. Surely no one does this. Do people do this?

andelink commented on A Virginia public library is fighting off a takeover by private equity   lithub.com/a-virginia-pub... · Posted by u/sharkweek
charcircuit · 2 months ago
>Public parks don't turn profits.

If people don't care enough about a park to fund it, then that space may be of better use to something else.

>Public roads don't turn a profit.

They are a loss leader aimed to make more money elsewhere.

>Food stamp programs and housing assistance don't generate a profit.

If people don't want to fund such things people in those programs should make or buy their own food and housing.

>that indirectly translates into increased economic efficiency

Again the idea of things like loss leaders are not foriegn to entities that want to be profitable.

andelink · 2 months ago
Are you saying that people who use food stamps – because they cannot afford food – should instead buy food with the money they don’t have?
andelink commented on Show HN: Jukebox – Free, Open Source Group Playlist with Fair Queueing   jukeboxhq.com/... · Posted by u/skeptrune
skeptrune · 2 months ago
THANK YOU FOR THE REC TO ODESLI!

Tbh I should have done an Ask HN. I tried googling and using the AI to find some song API which could replace youtube and nothing came up.

andelink · 2 months ago
No problem! You might also consider the iTunes Search API [1] to power your search functionality e.g.

    curl 'https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=jim-e%20stack&entity=song' | jq
[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Au...

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