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nitros commented on Ask HN: How to be alone?    · Posted by u/sillysaurusx
lifis · 5 days ago
If you just want to talk about your day or receive psychological support or even answer questions like this one, LLMs are great: Opus 4.6 is currently considered the best, but also try Gemini and ChatGPT.

As for interacting with humans, if you are finding it hard, maybe you can try something that is easy because it has a structure, such as some sort of workshop where you either share in a circle or are paired with a random partner and share (ask LLMs for help in finding them).

Or even pay someone to talk to them, such as a psychotherapist or a counselor.

nitros · 5 days ago
It's probably less damaging to recommend abusing Xanax than recommending using a LLM.
nitros commented on “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server   windowslatest.com/2026/03... · Posted by u/robtherobber
lowdownbutter · 11 days ago
Maybe you can explain it for we non German speakers.
nitros · 11 days ago
Klopilot: Klo ~ Toilet Vibrierkot: Kot ~ Faeces
nitros commented on Detecting and Preventing Distillation Attacks   anthropic.com/news/detect... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
nitros · 18 days ago
How exactly does distilling a censored model produce an uncensored model?
nitros commented on Why I love OCaml (2023)   mccd.space/posts/ocaml-th... · Posted by u/art-w
cyberpunk · 4 months ago
immutability?

    Interactive Elixir (1.19.0) - press Ctrl+C to exit (type h() ENTER for help)
    iex(1)> x = 1
    1
    iex(2)> x = 2
    2
    iex(3)>

What's immutable about elixir? It's one of the things which I MISS from Erlang -- immutability.

nitros · 4 months ago
This is like saying Haskell doesn't have immutability because it has the state monad, or that rust doesn't because you can shadow with let.

Data is immutable and thats much more important than whether local variables can be modified imo.

nitros commented on ./watch   dotslashwatch.com/... · Posted by u/shrx
jsheard · 5 months ago
Interesting idea, but the generic green PCB is a bit of a missed opportunity. Some manufacturers now offer transparent solder masks which emphasize the copper traces and can look really cool with a clean PCB layout.

e.g. https://hackaday.io/project/194683-plasma-toroid-sky-guided-...

nitros · 5 months ago
It's also becoming possible to have transparent rigid PCBs as of quite recently: https://www.pcbway.com/blog/News/Transparent_Rigid_PCBs_Laun...

Naturally it does mean you can't have a ground pour, so the PCB needs to be designed to look nice with it.

nitros commented on Informed poll   pigweed.dev/pw_async2/inf... · Posted by u/kaycebasques
nitros · 5 months ago
Also might be interesting to read about: https://embassy.dev/
nitros commented on macOS Tahoe   apple.com/os/macos/... · Posted by u/Wingy
kkylin · 6 months ago
There are also under-the-hood changes that I found truly upsetting: among other things, all the Emacs versions I've tried (stock GNU Emacs or Mac Port, downloaded binary blobs and compiled on my machine) are either immediately unusable or become so slow after a day that they are almost unusable. Tracing things on Instruments suggests a culprit (the culprit?) is NSAutofillHeuristicController. This is not a new feature, but I'm guessing with them pushing Apple Intelligence it was rewritten. AFAIK no obvious way to disable this "feature". (Turning off Apple Intelligence doesn't seem to do it.)

I'm contemplating rolling back to Sequoia.

nitros · 6 months ago
The following should fix that:

  defaults write org.gnu.Emacs NSAutoFillHeuristicControllerEnabled "NO"

nitros commented on I used standard Emacs extension-points to extend org-mode   edoput.it/2025/04/16/emac... · Posted by u/Karrot_Kream
eviks · 6 months ago
> Does it matter if I'm the only one using it?

Yes, you yourself can also suffer from that breakage, and worst of all, might no even notice it right away, so have a period of silent issues

nitros · 6 months ago
Eh, Emacs isn't really a system where broken behaviour goes unnoticed. It either works as you expect or something isn't working correctly.
nitros commented on The Awful German Language (1880)   faculty.georgetown.edu/jo... · Posted by u/nalinidash
ur-whale · 10 months ago
> there are rules for 2/3 of cases

LOL.

And are they rules to remember which word falls in the 2/3rd ?

nitros · 10 months ago
Nope, but it's not so different to irregular plural forms or verbs in english.

Afaik: At some point in the history of the language there would(?) have been rules for these nouns, but not today.

nitros commented on Ruby's Timeout is dangerous and Thread.raise is terrifying (2015)   jvns.ca/blog/2015/11/27/w... · Posted by u/thunderbong
endgame · 2 years ago
Haskell seems to be the only language where throwing exceptions at another thread isn't a box of footguns. Anyone know why that is?
nitros · 2 years ago
bracket [1] is easy to use and ensures that the cleanup operation runs, the Control.Exception module is also well documented [2]

[1]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.20.0.1/docs/Contr...

[2]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.20.0.1/docs/Contr...

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