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This explains why the MBTI shit is so popular these days.


Tiktok is opium 3.0, but this time it's not UK selling the drugs.


Got the following error when trying to install it on Cursor:

> Error: Unable to install extension 'jetbrains.kotlin' as it is not compatible with VS Code '1.96.2'.


Is your version of Cursor outdated or is Cursor really still running on a version of VS Code released half a year ago?


Yes, this reminds me of meta-programming in languages like Python, it's useful if you want to create a framework like Django, but if you work on products, chances are good you should not use it.


I like the idea of DSL, but in real projects, I hate almost every DSL introduced by coworkers.


Because they are really really difficult to get right almost as difficult as building a new language. But when they work well they can be a real boost.


I thought the author was describing a chatbot when reading the first half of this article.


I really like Orbstack, switched to it and never looked back.


+1 OrbStack is incredible


Mine is in Asia and it's still accessible.


Aren't Hacker News users supposed to be able to hack it easily?


Hackers also use banks. Are them supposed to hack them as well?


> Hackers also use banks

Modifying CSS on my machine for my viewing isn’t comparable to hacking a bank.


I'm not comparing on those terms. I'm comparing about "being supposed" to do something. We may have the ability, but that doesn't mean that we will do everything we have the ability for.


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You may. But you are not supposed.


This doesn't work if you use utf-8 instead of ascii.


Sure it does. UTF-8 is constructed such that characters from lower ASCII have the identical 1-byte encoding. You might be thinking of UTF-16 or UTF-32, or non-ASCII characters...


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