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by 1_player 5y ago
> The idea that we should eliminate fossil fuels is truly a privileged take. It is, and it's our only option. It's the reason nobody is doing a lot to combat climate change: because it'll require a lot of tears, effort and
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by 1_player 5y ago
Always has been. And not only on HN, on the Internet everybody is a contrarian that knows better. It's cool to hate.
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by 1_player 5y ago
Never crashed once in the past year I've used it daily for work. N=1
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by 1_player 5y ago
It's a (better) terminal, for Windows. Mac and Linux have got nothing to do with it.
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by 1_player 5y ago
"Post nut clarity", as they call it, might be the reason to do something productive with your time, when you're already on the site.
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by 1_player 5y ago
The tragedy of learning a new programming language as an experienced software engineer is having to start from complete basics tutorials about counting apples in a basket and metaphors to teach what a variable is. One day I'll finally
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by 1_player 5y ago
> Even as a teenager 20 years ago I wouldn't work for less than $10/hour. Lucky you. Sometimes even teenagers have to provide for their family, for even more ridiculous rates because they're teenagers and thus somewhat exp
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by 1_player 5y ago
Those that have no other option? I don't get the question at all, not everyone has the chance or luck in life to become a surgeon or a software engineer.
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by 1_player 5y ago
There's few things as fun as a multiplayer notepad that wasn't intended to be an actual chat, before it's invaded by bots and spammers. Congrats on the fella that tried to paste an ascii art version of Pepe the Frog.
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by 1_player 5y ago
It hasn't been the processor nor the RAM holding smartphones back, they're plenty fast nowadays. It's the operating system and the form factor the issue. M1 won't solve any of that.
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by 1_player 5y ago
Not porn per se, but porn sites are notoriously filled with dubious ads, so ad-heavy sites would load so fast people say they don't even need an adblocker anymore. Apart from that, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok will load faster? Yay,
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by 1_player 5y ago
CSS stops being scalable much earlier than 1/10th Google's scale. Without rigorous practice, CSS' idiosyncrasies start getting in the way after 50 lines of it.
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by 1_player 5y ago
And Black Pants Legion [1] for some very fun playthroughs of the game. Hail Cargonia! 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHweuFtIS-M&list=PLR5zhFCFVb...
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by 1_player 5y ago
> Out of curiosity, why do you think "libre" is a terrible moniker? For me, as a fan of open source, Libre-something means something focused on being open source, than being a good product. And in my humble opinion, open source
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by 1_player 5y ago
"Tactical" squad based competitive games such as Counter Strike: Global Offensive. Played at the high levels, are all about setting up an action plan, executing it the most efficient way possible, quickly reacting to a deadly yet
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by 1_player 5y ago
I don't know, in my book the idiots are the big brains that thought that calling it 5D would be a smashing idea. Can't wait for the next version being sold as 6D+ It's probably the same type of people that decide the USB tech
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by 1_player 5y ago
Do you think you'd die if you were to eat with your hands off the floor? Rich Western citizen probably have weaker immune systems than people living in the middle of the jungle, but they're all the same species, it's not a ma
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by 1_player 5y ago
Everybody commenting that WireGuard over TCP is a bad idea, and TFA explains why it exists: "WireGuard out of the box works only over UDP. This can cause problems because UDP is blocked on many public networks like in cafes and on trai
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by 1_player 5y ago
Your reasoning also completely ignores the reality that the vaccines do not pose _any_ risk to most people.
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by 1_player 5y ago
You cannot make absurd claims like yours without any source whatsoever. Please link it below.
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by 1_player 5y ago
> We evolved to do a lot of things we no longer tolerate Such as?
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by 1_player 5y ago
You firewall against network connections, not against PIDs. What is PID 1 connecting to/accepting connections from that blocking them breaks the system?
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by 1_player 5y ago
That's the point of ultra processed food. They taste incredible.
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by 1_player 5y ago
The page keeps reloading for me on Brave on iOS. And sadly text is not very legible on Mobile, but I see a big chunk of time labeled Hacker News, which seems realistic to me.
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by 1_player 5y ago
Why can't gendered nouns stay as a cultural curiosity? To me the Moon will always be feminine and the Sun masculine, even if they're not gendered in English. So what? People that are bothered by this duality tacitly imply that one
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by 1_player 5y ago
It's not gonna be the linguists nor the social activists that are going to send us to space or solve world hunger.
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mIRC scripting language(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by 1_player 5y ago|1 comments
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by 1_player 5y ago
I started with BASIC and C in my teenage years, but mIRC scripting turned coding into a passion for me. Some of my fondest memories is weekends spent chatting with friends and strangers on IRC, and improving my script or reading someone els
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by 1_player 5y ago
Yes, the latest stable version 495 has GBM support.
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by 1_player 5y ago
And then make fun of people who prefer long form content without distracting crap, login screens and ads in between. Fucking nerds, am i right?

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