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So like banks requiring you to have a PIN on your ATM card, even if you don’t want one… that’s bad? Seatbelt laws are bad?

I get the pain point, but databases are a much better data model for multi-device, intermittently-connected sync. Filesystems just aren’t designed to be async and conflict-resolving.

> databases are a much better data model for multi-device

Fyi, a filesystem is a database too.

And acid SQL databases ain't much better at that domain from my perspective.


I found the story and photos entirely haunting. Those sailers had no chance.

The survivors possibly had a change if Russia had accepted the offer for help from the Norwegian rescue divers right away.

From the article

> Analysts concluded that 23 sailors survived the initial blasts and took refuge in the small ninth compartment at the rear of the submarine.

> Evidence suggests they remained alive for more than six hours. When oxygen grew scarce, they attempted to replace a potassium superoxide chemical oxygen cartridge, but it fell into the oily seawater pooling on the floor and exploded on contact.

> The resulting fire killed several crew members and triggered a flash fire that consumed what remained of the oxygen, asphyxiating the last survivors.

That does not suggest a possibility of a foreign rescue vessel making it there in time.


Also:

"No search was launched for more than six hours."

"It ultimately took over 16 hours to locate the stricken vessel, which lay on the seabed at a depth of 108 meters (354 feet)."


Hindsight. They should have tried given they didn't know. I remember it unfolding at the time and astonished at the lack of Russian response.

If you’re looking for a place that surfaces only human-written content regardless of whether it’s interesting, rather than interesting content regardless of how it was written, HN is not the place.

There might be a market for your alternative though. Should be easy enough to build with Claude Code.


If the content was interesting, the author would've written about it himself.

By asking AI to write the article for you, you're asserting that the subject matter is not interesting enough to be worth your time to write, so why would it be worth my time to read?


You just need AI to read it for you and summarise back in to the original prompt.

That nuance is lost on the majority of anti-AI folks who’ve learned they get positive social reactions by declaring essentially everything to be AI written and condemnable.

“An em dash… they’re a witch!”… “it’s not just X, it’s Y… they’re a witch!”


> anti-AI folks who’ve learned they get positive social reactions by declaring essentially everything to be AI written and condemnable.

that's a strawman alright; all the comments complaining how they can't use their writing style without being ganged up on are positive karma from my angle, so I'm not sure the "positive social reactions" are really aligned with your imagination. Or does it only count when it aligns with your persecution complex?


You have the same problem apparently. You think it’s okay to go witch hunting and accuse people with no real evidence.

I’m so glad the witch hunt has moved on to phrasing so I get less grief for my em dashes.

As opposed to Very Serious Lifelong Programmers, who, of course, see nothing but success in every project.

Blindsight is spectacular.

Gnomon by Nick Harkaway has some of the same “unreliable world” aspects with great writing to boot.

If you like unreliable narration and rug pulls Nick Harkaway's novel 'The Gone-Away World' really takes the cake (and is brilliant)

I enjoyed Gnomon, but boy I didn't find it an easy read

The second and third times through get easier, once you can appreciate the patterns and links that seem extraneous and confusing at first. Totally different kind of book, but I’d put it up with Infinite Jest as far as being convoluted but incredibly rewarding. And of course more SD / tech focused.

Thank you. I'll give it another go. I did enjoy Angelmaker as an enjoyable romp

way more than that. settings.json and settings.local.json in the project directory's .claude/, and both of files can also be in ~/.claude

MCP servers can be set in at least 5 of those places plus .mcp.json


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