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shaan7 commented on No right to relicense this project github.com/chardet/charde... · Posted by u/robin_reala

spoiler · 10 days ago

That whole clean room argument makes no sense. Project changed governance and was significantly refactored or reimplemented... I think the maintainers deserve to call it their own. Original-pre MIT release can stay LGPL.

I don't think this is a precedent either, plenty of projects changed licenses lol.

I keep kind mixing them up but the GPL licenses keep popping up as occasionally horror stories. Maybe the license is just poorly written for today's standards?

shaan7 · 10 days ago

> plenty of projects changed licenses lol.

They usually did that with approval from existing license holders (except when they didn't, those were the bad cases for sure).

shaan7 commented on Something is afoot in the land of Qwen simonwillison.net/2026/Ma... · Posted by u/simonw

misnome · 10 days ago

I've been playing with 3.5:122b on a GH200 the past few days for rust/react/ts, and while it's clearly sub-Sonnet, with tight descriptions it can get small-medium tasks done OK - as well as Sonnet if the scope is small.

The main quirk I've found is that it has a tendency to decide halfway through following my detailed instructions that it would be "simpler" to just... not do what I asked, and I find it has stripped all the preliminary support infrastructure for the new feature out of the code.

shaan7 · 10 days ago

> that it would be "simpler" to just... not do what I asked

That sounds too close to what I feel on some days xD

shaan7 commented on “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server windowslatest.com/2026/03... · Posted by u/robtherobber

athenot · 12 days ago

One of my favorites being Micros~1, in reference to how Windows had to mangle file names for DOS's 8+3 character limit.

shaan7 · 12 days ago

That and PROGRA~1 brings back memories.

shaan7 commented on Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War anthropic.com/news/statem... · Posted by u/qwertox

krzyk · 16 days ago

Does US really have Department of War? Is this Antropics way to show how f&^^& up they are in Department of Defense, or did they rebranded it to the old WWI/II days?

shaan7 · 16 days ago

Yep it was rebranded: https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/429582...

shaan7 commented on Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users atha.io/blog/2026-02-12-v... · Posted by u/thatha7777

s17n · a month ago

The reason that European tech sucks is that people in Europe are open to such arguments. If an engineer in the US started talking about SHOULD vs MUST, some PM would just give them that "what the fuck did I just listen to" face, spend the next few minutes gently trying to convince them that the customer experience matters more than the spec, and if they fail, escalate and get the decision they want.

For example, why does Google handle this differently for consumer and enterprise accounts? Well it's Google so the answer could always just be "they are disorganized" but there's a good chance that in both cases, it was the pragmatic choice given the slightly different priorities of these types of customers.

shaan7 · a month ago

Well the current US Administration would agree - the law doesn't matter, we need to be "pragmatic" and do what we think is right. Rules be damned.

Once you deviate a bit from the standard, you're down a slippery slope. Its not that difficult to use pragmatism to justify wrongdoing.

shaan7 commented on The kind of company I want to be a part of dvsj.in/my-company... · Posted by u/ctxc

shaan7 · 4 months ago

Qt has provided a solution for this since its early days: https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/i18n-source-translation.html#handle-p...

shaan7 commented on When I say “alphabetical order”, I mean “alphabetical order” sebastiano.tronto.net/blo... · Posted by u/sebtron

sverhagen · 5 months ago

When copying files from a device and then between systems, too often the dates get lost (shouldn't, but still...)

shaan7 · 5 months ago

That only happens for the datetime metadata of the files (modified, created, access etc). The EXIF metadata will still remain the same.

shaan7 commented on Why our website looks like an operating system posthog.com/blog/why-os... · Posted by u/bnc319

fmbb · 6 months ago

If you like things the way they were before the law, just answer yes to all cookie banners you see.

It does not take time if you don’t care to read it. Yours click yes, and they will remember you want to be tracked.

shaan7 · 6 months ago

Yep, it baffles me that a lot of people would rather not have the option to reject cookies. Its weird to say "I don't want to stop a website tracking me because the UX is terrible. I'd rather get tracked instead.". Of course, it would be better if the UX were even better, but I'd rather take something over nothing.

shaan7 commented on Sci-Hub has been blocked in India sci-hub.se/sci-hub-blocke... · Posted by u/the-mitr

nesk_ · 6 months ago

What a shameful government!

clicks the link

blocked

Oh right, France government is shameful too.

shaan7 · 6 months ago

Same in Germany, unfortunately. Was on HN a few days back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45003033

shaan7 commented on AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore praf.me/ai-coding... · Posted by u/_praf

jwr · 7 months ago

In my experience, listening to music engages the creative part of your brain and severely limits what you can do, but this is not readily apparent.

If I listen to music, I can spend an hour CODING YEAH! and be all smug and satisfied, until I turn the music off and discover that everything I've coded is unnecessary and there is an easier way to achieve the same goal. I just didn't see it, because the creative part of my brain was busy listening to music.

From the post, it sounds like the author discovered the same thing: if you use AI to perform menial tasks (like coding), all that is left is thinking creatively, and you can't do that while listening to music.

shaan7 · 7 months ago

I describe it slightly differently. Similar to what the author described, I'll first plan and solve the problem in my head, lay out a broad action plan, and then put on music to implement it. But, for me the music serves something akin to clocks in microcontrollers (and even CPUs), it provides a flow that my brain syncs to. I'm not even paying attention to the music itself, but it stops me from getting distracted and focus on the task at hand.