I’m sorry, but could someone please elaborate on the significance of this post?

Sneakers is a very popular movie in the HN community. It's a great movie, well written, well cast, well acted, suspenseful, interesting, funny.

It beautifully captures the golden age.

BTW the writers also previously wrote WarGames, and you can see a lot of the same fingerprints...

Hacker culture.

> The replacement will affect more than a hundred utilities that are part of Coreutils

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> Last week, the issue of the package uutils coreutils 0.0.30 successfully passed 507 tests (in the last issue of 506, in a year old – 476) from the standard GNU Coreutils test set.

If I’m reading this right then there are on average only one to five tests per utility (like cat, dd, …) which is a shockingly low number. Particularly when you consider how many options a single command alone might accept. And of course, this alone would not even remotely cover a critical part of all the circumstances that might vary.

Many of those were written in 80s, testing was not a thing.

Yes, I remember. It still shows me how I overestimated the maintenance work distributors do / can do. My unreflected expectation was that in the past 40 years test were developed to secure the very foundation we keep on building on since then.

Also suspended is not removed.

I assume there is some kind of divide and conquer going on.

If there'd just be an alternative to claude code...

Isn't https://aider.chat similar?

Not sure about the technique wiby uses to filter garbage, but I could imagine a search index that contains only HTML4 pages could be quite resourceful.

Nice idea. Another option albeit way more reliant and resource intensive, checking the wayback machine for page is very old + content hasn't changed much. A lot of these alt search engines look at signals of lack of JS and tracking but that is sort-of a cross-section of more non-commercial stuff.

I’d really love to find this dictionary of filthy terms that exists on Apple device for the sake of cleaning passwords. Is it compiled in the code or encrypted? I can’t imagine it’s just laying around in clear text. In a way, both cases are kind of funny when you think about it.

The "Comparison" section of the Product Ownership also seems rather ridiculous, where NextCloud is just a questionable "fork" while ownCloud glouriously carries the torch of product ownership. Especially since it's placed directly below the "License" section. Apparently, someone didn't quite understand the idea behind the GPL.

Especially since ownCloud was started originally by Frank Karlitschek who left to fork and create Nextcloud!

This is just like Oracle claiming OpenOffice is the better project and the LibreOffice fork is a shady knock-off.

After all, reading is mostly thinking with someone else’s brain.

You'd get by just fine. It's not uncommon to speak three languages fluently in CH (given it has 4 official languages), and usually English is in the mix. I lived there for a couple of years and while not speaking French or Italian, I got by quite easily in the respective regions.

Get by, yes its often enough. Job search - that limits your choices maybe to 10%, in a job market that is consistently overcrowded (100-500 applicants for any good position, not all are brilliant and with right experience but some always are, whole world tries to get here).

You will regularly hit the language wall in places like shops, post office, neighbors etc. where answer in given language if they speak english is consistently "no". Integration outside big cities is a lot about you becoming like them, not vice versa, better keep the differences compared to locals behind doors of your home. Smaller cities, more rural places - forget english outside tourism, many young speak it but otherwise there isn't much will and often neither skill. French part is worse than German part in this (just like French from France are much, much worse when it comes to will to speak english than Germans from Germany are).