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by arendtio 3y ago
> The only real solution is the passage of data privacy laws that... Even the GDPR with its huge impact and global implications does not apply to law enforcement agencies. So I wonder who would make such a law?
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by arendtio 3y ago
Yeah, I know, but 'export -f' is not POSIX compliant [1]. In addition, I have read, that this solution has quite a bad performance [2]. 1: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V
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by arendtio 3y ago
POSIX shell scripting is just broken. Don't get me wrong. I love doing it, but from a language design point it is abysmal. Just this week I tried to write a script to apply a custom function to a list of files. But the amount of time y
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by arendtio 3y ago
I like Termux, but most of the time I use a real PC, because of the better UX. However, together with Samsung Dex most of the usability problems disappear and you can use your phone as a work station. Sometimes when I don't want to sta
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by arendtio 3y ago
I agree. I have built a 'new tab' website for me and included a widget with the top 3 from the HN best list. So I am very happy with about 1-2 per day ;-) Btw. this is the way I found this thread :D
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by arendtio 4y ago
Thanks for the confirmation. The screenshot behavior is very weird indeed.
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by arendtio 4y ago
Am I the only one for whom the "Bitstream Charter" font family on this page causes the text to be mostly invisible (except for some punctuation characters)? System Information: "Bitstream Charter" is installed; Georgia i
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by arendtio 4y ago
And some players have come a long way. One of my highlights was, when DauT won the Red Bull Wololo 3 tournament as someone who is playing the game 20+ years. And some fans are doing great stuff too, like this video that was released shortly
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by arendtio 4y ago
The T-West video talks about a match between Mr. Yo and Valas ;-)
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by arendtio 4y ago
That alphabet would probably be easier to chain.
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by arendtio 4y ago
My guess is, that the global transparency about products and designs provided by the modern internet accelerated this convergence.
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by arendtio 4y ago
This. I wonder why the US doesn't seem to have such a system. The process is quite easy: The company pays the tuition fees and selects a person that satisfies their requirements (not necessarily good grades). The person works for the c
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by arendtio 4y ago
In my opinion, people underestimate how much CS is about learning to analyze things objectively and to learn about the flaws of human processing. Coding is not just about building something, but also about recognizing how many errors you ma
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by arendtio 4y ago
Thank you very much for the GPU course. Even though my college taught shell usage to some extent, when I asked about GPU programming it was considered a nerd topic back in 2009.
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by arendtio 4y ago
Does this affect Firefox on iOS too? Just yesterday I tried to add a website to my home screen but couldn't find the button.
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by arendtio 4y ago
Too bad I am from EU, but don't see the reject all button anyway...
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by arendtio 4y ago
They would be amazed by what is possible and appalled by the things we do with all that power.
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by arendtio 4y ago
Some time ago I read 'The Hard Thing about Hard Things' by Ben Horowitz and what you describe reminds me about 'The Struggle'. Ben Horowitz wrote about it in a blog post too [1] and I find it gives a much better impressi
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by arendtio 4y ago
In August I switched to Outlook. By the way, the desktop version of Thunderbird just brought me back to this conversation.
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by arendtio 4y ago
Reading about a Thunderbird version for Android got me exited, because I am a big fan of the desktop version (actually, I donated a few bucks this week). However, on Android I used K9 for years, until I noticed how unreliable it became. I s
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by arendtio 4y ago
After learning C, one of the first projects I came into contact with, was the ID Tech 3 game engine [1] On the one hand, it taught me how professional C programmers structure their code (extra functions to remove platform differences, speci
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by arendtio 4y ago
So which tool do you like?
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by arendtio 4y ago
> good writing is a highly skilled activity This. Yes, having everything written down and searchable is definitely a good goal. However, in my experience, the people in most companies have very different skills and few are good writers.
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by arendtio 4y ago
I wish I knew someone.
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by arendtio 4y ago
Not yet the level of Bartosz Ciechanowski but Josh is on a good way ;-)
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by arendtio 4y ago
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie [1] It made me realize how deeply emotional humans are. I always saw humans as mostly rational beings which sometimes loose control. However, after listening to that book I saw that t
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by arendtio 4y ago
Given that the best people might find new jobs faster than the worst, you might drive away the better half of your human resources. With the 'fire-first' approach, you have more control over who should leave (e.g. hiring managers)
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by arendtio 4y ago
Yes and my personal favorite: Functions can behave differently depending on, if they are being called from a conditional expression vs. from a normal context. Errexit has no effect if the function is called from a conditional expression.
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by arendtio 4y ago
The biggest Issue is that error handling is completely broken in POSIX shell scripting (including Bash). Even errexit doesn't work as any normal language would implement it (One could say it is broken by design). So if you don't c
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by arendtio 4y ago
My grandpa got an Arch Linux which I update every once in a while via SSH. Since most of his use cases revolve around a browser (news, weather, ebay, e-mail, banking) it doesn't really matter which OS is running below the browser as lo

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