TUIs are very in right now. Nostalgia/vintage-computin-aesthetics & guru-gatekeeping around command line savviness are front and centre in the HN-and-adjacent mindshare.

I think it's AI tools, they are often done as tuis, they work well with text, the cli is a text processing god that is easy to extend with cli utilities, and since you find yourself in the terminal much nicer having TUIs quickly available, editor, git client, etc. I love the shift to the terminal as I use it a lot anyways (I'm old), but the missing piece for me is having a good sql tui client that does at least some of what data grip does. So I'm building my own as an experiment into agentic coding something from scratch (which I think what this TUI Studio is also). Surprised how good it is but also surprised how much time it takes to get things polished.

It's strange. For decades we've been trying to move towards GUIs, now we're moving backwards.

Is the Israeli intelligence facial recognition system in the room with us now?

Oosto, Corsight AI.

Ah, you conveniently left out the rest of the guidelines:

> If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

So you have no intellectual curiostity of the stakes here, at all?

Yes, you nailed it. Surely that must be it.

Fantastic work.

It's hard to tell with him. In the past rayiner has written that people opposing fascism were being antisocial. He's either a troll (and very committed to the bit) or a very confused individual.

I actually believe he may be goading on US self-destruction in some attempt at retribution, perhaps, for being bullied as a child of foreign parents.

He’s clearly educated and articulate, so not much else makes sense.

Quite the opposite: I had an idyllic childhood in a southern state suburb that voted for George H.W. Bush twice. I grieve for the loss of that America and fear the regression to the global mean.

No, just MAGA normalizing Trump/the US going to war with Europe, and shitposting.

The only comic worse is Garfield. I have no idea how anyone enjoys either of them.

I see you've never met 'Andy Capp' popularly serialised in UK papers, together with Peanuts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Capp

I totally agree about Andy Capp. The only interesting thing I ever heard about Andy Capp was from Jean Shepherd.

He said the Andy Capp title was a cockney accent pun for Handicap. Apparently Andy was a cockney horse race fanatic. That tidbit did make the strip any funnier to me.

He was from Hartlepool, not London, so not a cockney

I’m sure you’re right. I know as much about Andy Capp as I do about Cockney.

Yep my electronics engineer dad was like "you cannot do this" but it worked! He got me to put an aligator clip wire from case to case so the grounding would at least be joined?

Are you referring to the "Freedom Convoy"?

If so, the capital did perfectly fine breaking it up, they were just politically hamstrung. But otherwise, it took all of an afternoon and a couple horses to break up that nonsense.

Yes, agreed.

At this point I have seen many fantastical interpretations of what happened there. I assume popular US media coverage of it was a contributor there.

Agreed. How can a media file sharing app possibly saturate Sqlite's write limit? I would use an app-level global lock on all writes to Sqlite.

Probably during scanning libraries? They read hundreds of files and for each of them look for metadata in the internet like discogs and similar. So sure if implemented as async in c# you could run into this issue.

Are you hinting at the lack of an `AsyncLock` in .NET?

I did not really inspect their code in this detail. I just did it once few years ago when I was exploring integrating with my oidc provider that use. At that time auth code looked not great with static class handling it it somehow. Anyway I meant that if you scanning a lot of files and do some kind of operations for each of them, and obviously you need to save the result. Depending on how you do it. You could ram sqlite DB with thousands of connection. Which is not great way to do it but it is possible.

Yep same experience here. And I'm in one of my city's most walkable neighborhoods.

Space War was great! Briefly in high school a few of my friends and I all had Palm OS devices.

I taught myself to crack palm apps and games, and with Space War I modified the strength of my ship. The IR multiplayer had no validation of parameters so I pranked my friends in an IR multiplayer match by one-shotting them all and zooming across the whole map in one turn! Great times.