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everybodyknows · 2026-02-25T20:04:35 1772049875

My experience is that once you get north of the city limits of San Diego, into either neighboring cities or unincorporated areas, the roads get a lot better.

kylehotchkiss · 2026-02-25T21:41:11 1772055671

I'm in north county, and it's very OK! we've had a good resurfacing pushing on quite a few of the roads around me. But they're ripping a lot of it up to lay (much needed) fiber.

everybodyknows · 2026-02-24T19:53:52 1771962832

My git experience got a lot better after I built scripts and customized the git config files to fully exploit:

  git-log --graph --reflog

  git-commit --amend

  git-cherry-pick

Also, becoming fluent with creation of and switching between local, short-lived branches.

With the above in order, I found I could subset the git state model:

* temporary branches rather than the "stash"

* commit tentative work to HEAD; amend, discard or set aside in a temporary branches rather than as later discoveries require

* side-step the index/cache/staging_area for most operations -- transfer directly between work tree and HEAD commit

everybodyknows · 2026-02-23T07:18:04 1771831084

The list of parsers is here: https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tools/index.html

everybodyknows · 2026-02-22T01:25:33 1771723533

The diagram shows five boxes, apparently each representing a server, but I am not at all clear on which (of exactly two?) legal business entities controls certain of those servers.

everybodyknows · 2026-02-21T08:49:38 1771663778

Fastmail will let you create any number of "aliases" as they call them, with not too much friction.

everybodyknows · 2026-02-18T19:46:27 1771443987

HN got a write-up in a highly political, non-technical magazine around that time.

everybodyknows · 2026-02-13T18:14:41 1771006481

Social pressure? Maybe thin wire frames soon becoming the only acceptable style -- the only one that doesn't lead people to assume the wearer is a creep.

everybodyknows · 2026-02-13T17:18:39 1771003119

> I randomly tried Android again for a few months last spring. Using a functioning keyboard was revelatory. But I came crawling back to iOS because I'm weak and the orange iPhone was pretty and the Pixel 10 was boring and I caved to the blue bubble pressure.

Here's a more substantive reason to prefer iPhone to Android: Android phones, mine anyway, have no option to suppress audible notification of incoming texts or calls from numbers not found in Contacts.

everybodyknows · 2026-02-12T18:58:48 1770922728

Follow-up PR from 6 hours ago -- resolves most of the questions raised here about identities and motivations:

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31138#issuecom...

everybodyknows · 2026-02-11T20:57:58 1770843478

Following your link above, https://openai.com/gptbot

> ChatGPT-User is not used for crawling the web in an automatic fashion. Because these actions are initiated by a user, robots.txt rules may not apply.

So, not AI training in this case, nor any other large-batch scraping, but rather inference-time Retrieval Augmented Generation, with the "retrieval" happening over the web?

groby_b · 2026-02-11T21:22:12 1770844932

Likely, at least for some. I've caught various chatbots/CLI harnesses more than once inspecting a github repo file by file (often multiple times, because context rot)

But the sheer volume makes it unlikely that's the only reason. It's not like everybody has constantly questions bout the same tiny website.

Tharre · 2026-02-12T02:39:06 1770863946

Those would have the user agent "ChatGPT-User" though, and I barely see those. The majority comes from "GPTBot" like in my excerpt above, which makes it pretty clear that it's used for some sort of training:

"GPTBot is used to make our generative AI foundation models more useful and safe. It is used to crawl content that may be used in training our generative AI foundation models. Disallowing GPTBot indicates a site’s content should not be used in training generative AI foundation models."