Timpy

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by Timpy 6y ago
> Similarly, in the Ancient Greek world, one was meant to focus in on a close knowledge of just two books: Homer’s Odyssey and his Iliad Can anybody on HN verify if this is true? I thought the Iliad and Odyssey were only two of Homer&#x
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That's an archetypal abusive relationship
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In my opinion the issue is path dependency. Everybody in my generation grew up with Microsoft Office free on every installation of Windows, and teaching everyone new efficiency software is costly. It looks like Google is trying to win the
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Does this get confusing when you're actually using Vim? Do you ever use Keyboard Normal Mode when you're in Vim?
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I formed my opinion before clicking the article, already working out some comments in my mind like "who's surprised?" After reading the article though, surprisingly my opinion changed. This doesn't seem all that bad.
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Microsoft bought it and gutted it, it has terrible usability now. I think when the pandemic hit the most usable system was bound to get tons of traction quickly, and I guess that happened to be Zoom.
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I always thought Kali wasn't really for daily use. Not a vehicle for every day driving around town, more like a secondary vehicle you only use for work. HiDPI, tool icons, and gnome themes make it seem otherwise. Sure, these things
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> Users are able to identify when something is valuable to them. I strongly disagree with this. Users are just responding to dopamine sensors that have triggers that they don't understand. "Value" extracted can be detrim
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Unfortunately, for every conscientious person that they push away another user is hooked even deeper. Their redesign is insidious. Their page is now aggressively attempting to manipulate you into browsing longer; infinite scrolling, and t
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I had the same experience. When I talk with the few people remaining in my life from that era we refer to the nickname as a third person. I'm not that person any more, I think most are not the same person they were 10 or 15 years ago
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The example of artistic skill translating to military cartography was the most interesting part of the article. Tell me HN, what are your expiring and permanent skills? I would cite knowledge of a particular software as a rapidly expiring
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The sysadmin at my company is notoriously terrible at written communication, especially his code. He uses unintelligible variable names; sometimes it's so bad you would think you're looking at minified code. When I was lamenting
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I'm more paranoid about big companies selling me out for ad money than I am about phishing attacks. There's a number of sites where I feel like I should add 2FA for security, but I won't do it for privacy reasons. Logging i
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If this is a national security risk, having Microsoft purchase it is a terrible idea. Will Microsoft install this app next to Xbox Live and Candy Crush on your start menus? Is it going to end up in your startup-apps, launching every time
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I edited the word "radicalized" out of my original comment to make it more concise, but that's exactly how I feel. I had medical issue while I was in a foreign country that cost me $35 to see a doctor and get medicine. When
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Yeah, the pirate chips are curing the symptom and not the disease though. I think Smart TVs are a really concerning symptom. If 1984 were about tyrannical corporations and not tyrannical governments, telescreens would be spot-on for Smart
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I programmed for a refurbishing company for some time, where I learned about toner cartridge refill kits. Once you've bought an expensive copier for your company you're vendor locked into proprietary toner cartridges, and they ch
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Alright, well I'm avoiding twitter as hard as I can so I guess any day now the President will stop affecting public discourse via Twitter.
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This is great! Simple and elegant. Just an idea, maybe you put a cheat sheet under :help command. It would be very useful for people fluent in vim.
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> I don't like Twitter either, so I don't use it. It's a really effective solution! Schneier's point is the threat of a malicious actor starting a war by hijacking a politician's Twitter is non-zero. People like
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Is it clear what this "special access" is? After touring the landing page of Amazon's Neighbors app it's not clear to me how this affects privacy. It could be as benign as a message board moderator position. Don'
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At the interview for the position I'm in currently, the senior programmer I was interviewing with didn't pay much attention to my resume. He mentioned that he saw my .vimrc on Github though, and we chatted about that and other li
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I understand the decision too, you can tell the guy in the video is really torn about this. He's frustrated but it was clearly a hard decision, he kept justifying it to the camera but I think he was really justifying it to himself.
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Cool snippet, I had the same problem and this fixed it
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The collective opinion probably leans towards the cost of a mouse's life being worth the benefit of furthering knowledge of human well-being
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I know productivity takes a hit when you switch tools but FF dev tools are great, it just takes some getting used to
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How are they embedding youtube videos without any of the youtube branding? I've never (to my knowledge) seen this sort of thing before. Isn't the youtube team pretty relentless at ensuring their logo is in the bottom right corne
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You're right, that's exactly what I'm talking about. Are there environments where genes that lend to intelligence do not thrive?
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You're right this is survivorship bias, but I think it also illustrates that my premise is unfalsifiable. I'll try to restate it, keep in mind we are talking about evolution: There must have been people throughout history who whe
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Is there a level cap for fish intelligence where an individual fish won't gain any more benefit from increased intelligence? Being the smartest fish may not help you as much as swimming with the pack would help you. Are humans the sam

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