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by autocorr 6y ago
So cool that they're using the QMK firmware and open hardware. They also include a split space-bar, taking one of your digits "off the bench" :) [1] I made a crazy ergonomic keyboard, but I think the most useful things in pra
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by autocorr 6y ago
The prices can be steep for pre-built split-keyboards, between $200-300 USD, but if anyone has access to a university laser cutter or makerspace they can actually quite cheap to build. I made an entirely custom, split hand-wired setup for a
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by autocorr 6y ago
I think this is the most salient point for the increasingly polarized discourse we have online nowadays: > So the one problem is that people have a right not to have unfair below- the-belt tactics used to discredit them without ever resp
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by autocorr 6y ago
I interpret the post as saying "banning people on Twitter won't solve our problem, transparency in advertising and social media algorithms will" because before your quote Mitchell (CEO of Mozilla) in the post says: > But a
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by autocorr 6y ago
Taken out of context that quote would imply "we need even more serious censorship", but admits that deplatforming a certain world leader is a not a real solution and that these actions that should be taken: > Reveal who is payi
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by autocorr 6y ago
This is a killer feature for me too. Works great between all my devices across Linux, Android, and iOS. If I see an interesting article I just ship it off to my desktop to read later instead of keeping the tab open for days on my phone.
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by autocorr 6y ago
I think there's something to be learned by comparing our current situation to WW1 and the Cold War. In short, we in the present can identify the root cause that will lead to a major crisis (powder keg), but we don't know if that c
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by autocorr 6y ago
Just an anecdote, but I installed Debian on my laptop two years and I was impressed with how easy full-disk encryption with LUKS was to setup. All it took was checking the box and creating a password. No issues so far! It definitely does se
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by autocorr 6y ago
Although it would super cool for the story to have a common ancestor across huge swaths of land and time on Earth, I think this has a higher likelihood of being correct. There are several stars in the 5-6 magnitude range close to the limits
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by autocorr 6y ago
Yes! One of the things that stands out to me about Debian is that it is community governed and not underwritten by a specific large corporation. There are a special few huge open source projects that can boast that kind of stable, persist
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by autocorr 6y ago
I'm not sure how you conclude that from even your quoted source: slavery, states' rights to own humans as property, and the westward expansion of slavery and slave-holding into the territories are all about slavery. Slavery was a
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by autocorr 6y ago
As noted in the post: 1998 was super hot and it was around there from about ~2000-2010. Data from 2010-2020 shows it was just part of a noisy--but still upward--trend.
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by autocorr 6y ago
I think this is the main thing, which is that the quality of the discussion really depends on the topic. As a post-doc in astronomy, I'm happy to report that the quality of HN discussion on astro-related submissions tends to be quite g
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by autocorr 6y ago
Authoritarianism in schools sucks, but bathroom privileges aren't a great comparison. In the US, most prisons have an open, bare toilet in the cell shared by a few cell mates. Even if one can technically use it whenever, according to w
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by autocorr 6y ago
That's... even more clever! :) Obviously this astronomer is deficient in musical taste.
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by autocorr 6y ago
That's a really clever name. It's a reference to the black hole Cyg X1 [1], which was among the first astronomical X-ray sources discovered. X-rays are (fortunately) blocked by our atmosphere, so X-ray astronomy began using soundi
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by autocorr 6y ago
I agree, but that's also probably why the OP left out Dark Souls 2 from their list :)
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by autocorr 6y ago
The ErgoDox EZ[1] is very cool. The split is nice on the shoulders and upper back. My favorite part is that they are fully programmable and easy to customize with the online configuration tool. You can see my setup for some of the crazy stu
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by autocorr 6y ago
The site guidelines and @dang suggest "shallow dismissal" is now the preferred term. Paul Graham, cofounder of YC explains in a comment, back when he still posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920
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by autocorr 6y ago
You raise a lot of good points, but I'd just like to comment on the "I can't for the life of me understand why you do this to yourself" part. I'm a postdoc in astronomy, and my situation is pretty good all things co
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by autocorr 6y ago
I suppose... but often the top comment is wrong or mis-leading in some way: "the middle-brow dismissal" HN is famous for. I usually find the most enlightening commentary on HN a few replies down from the top comment where a true e
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by autocorr 6y ago
That's funny because as an astronomer the title is both very exciting and completely fair. We've known about long-wavelength radio emission from Jupiter for ages. Astronomers have been looking for the same thing in exoplanet syste
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by autocorr 6y ago
That's an interesting perspective, I've found the opposite. I distro shopped a lot around ~2006, settled on Ubuntu then moved to Debian for project philosophy reasons. It's great because I haven't had to think about &quo
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by autocorr 6y ago
Well, on the flip-side the previous thread from the announcement blog received the most comments I have ever seen on a HN post. About 3000? And most of those were displeased reactions. A lot of people are talking past each other in these po
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by autocorr 6y ago
If people disagree with YouTube's normative choices they can (a) wage a boycott, (b) create a new platform that follows the desired norms, (c) attempt political action to regulate private companies. I don't think (a) is very effec
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by autocorr 6y ago
Thanks for posting! I hope that the conversion from bookmark to custom search engines will work with Firefox Sync. That has been a killer feature for me of the bookmark keyword searches. I've probably had the same keyword searches in m
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by autocorr 6y ago
I really like keyword searches in Firefox's navigation bar. They are like lower latency and faster DDG "bangs". What I found is that most of my searches are better served by direct searches on Wikipedia and Stack Overflow. Fo
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by autocorr 6y ago
HN user's have an interesting mix of free-speech absolutism and progressive/liberal lean. It's unfortunate that partisan invective seems to have overwhelmed more nuanced arguments of platform moderation... I think it will be
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by autocorr 6y ago
Another fun fact, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs or "paws") are commonly observed in interstellar space and a substantial reservoir of carbon overall! The 3.6 micron band from the IRAC camera on the Spitzer space telescope
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by autocorr 6y ago
Thank you, dang and sctb!

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