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by bmacho 1mo ago
Guidelines explicitly mention this type of submissions: > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, i
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by bmacho 1mo ago
What if there was a way to use your home computer from a very cheap laptop?
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by bmacho 1mo ago
Especially from someone whose "modern art" means mid-19th centuary European art under an article that starts with "In the mid-twentieth century".
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by bmacho 1mo ago
Maybe they want to torrent Linux ISOs but can't because their ISP/VPN blocks the torrent protocol. Http for server->client downloading is inferior but we are stuck with it.
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by bmacho 2mo ago
It's like looking at the early internet and then suggesting teenagers should write browsers as their projects instead of webpages.
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by bmacho 2mo ago
> That leads right into: The only thing you can truly exert control over is yourself, I don't see a disinction here between 'yourself' and 'the environment/world'. Both affect you, and you can/cannot co
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by bmacho 2mo ago
I think Linux (and other unix-like system) would be best off with something like rio on plan9. The API should look like a file-system hierarchy, and API virtualization/access management/input output hooks and mapping could also be
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by bmacho 2mo ago
> It's a shame xlibre didn't come around sooner Xorg team had accepted Enrico's patches then did not release them. Classic saboteur handbook stuff
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by bmacho 2mo ago
Citations from people who want the whole platform die. (Actually they get paid for that, it's their dayjob to kill X11, but it can be their personal belief as well)
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by bmacho 2mo ago
Lol, we don't talk about xlibre here. Announcments and reviews are banned. Waiting for dang to argue the 7th time that is not somehow his personal decision to ban xlibre that he's set up a system where a couple of nazis with autom
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by bmacho 2mo ago
> being allowed to train on any data that you can legally obtain ought to be a right for anyone. I have the opposit viewpoint to the extreme. They shouldn't be allowed to even read that data until they are very clear about what they
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by bmacho 2mo ago
I'm so surprised that HN is this much anti-government. I'm a doomer myself, I fear the rich, I fear the terrorists, and I think the only one that - can save my life, - is interested in saving my life - i have some control
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Why Books Don't Work: Constructivism over Transmissionism (2021)(masterhowtolearn.com)
11 points by bmacho 2mo ago|7 comments
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by bmacho 2mo ago
> This article is my response to Andy Matuschak’s article Why books don’t work ( https://andymatuschak.org/books/ ). If you haven’t please read it first. However, if you want you can read this article now. I believe t
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by bmacho 2mo ago
> And three/seven Web GUI interfaces. Is there one that uses html (text, div) and not canvas/bitmap?
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Hacker Public Radio(hackerpublicradio.org)
176 points by bmacho 2mo ago|30 comments
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by bmacho 2mo ago
Among all these pictures there is exactly 1, the first one that would be an example of someone living in an important place, a middle of a road, and refusing to move. And the occupied place isn't very important to the state, but rather
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design of Plan 9 and how I use it (2022)(hackerpublicradio.org)
3 points by bmacho 2mo ago|1 comments
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by bmacho 2mo ago
Original title: Plan 9: An exercise in futility. Subtitle: I talk about the design of Plan 9 and how I use it I think the secondary title makes more sense in context of HN
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by bmacho 2mo ago
I don't get it. Can you reformulate/elaborate?
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by bmacho 3mo ago
Exactly. So what I wrote debunks your assumptions and proves your argument wrong. This is how conversations normally go.
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by bmacho 3mo ago
This would be the solution for any problem/algorithm, wouldn't it? Factorize big numbers, sort an array, beat stockfish at chess, create a SOTA microkernel OS from English description. All O(1) with lookup table! It's not how
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by bmacho 3mo ago
Read the recently frontpaged "There are no instances in ATProto" by dan abramov < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48599515 >
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by bmacho 3mo ago
Here's a HTML viewer (not mine; use it at your own risk): < https://html-preview.github.io/?url=https://raw.githubuserco... >
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by bmacho 3mo ago
I see now, it gives the same example as the article I linked, even worded a bit shorter. I missed that. TFA certainly doesn't have the tone what I want from an article that talks about facts , compared to the linked/source articl
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by bmacho 3mo ago
So bad article. It is waay too long and it is just repeating ~3 claims without even looking like the author is interested in their truthness. Here's a nice pdf version of the sourced article 'Pentland, A. (2012) The new science o
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Stop Memorizing Design Patterns: Use This Decision Tree Instead(medium.com)
3 points by bmacho 3mo ago|1 comments
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by bmacho 3mo ago
Author provides a free medium link after the first paragraph: < https://medium.com/womenintechnology/stop-memorizing-design-... > (which HN has removed from the submission) but also here's the archive link:
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Why don't schools teach debugging? (2014)(danluu.com)
2 points by bmacho 3mo ago|0 comments
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by bmacho 3mo ago
When I encounter a version number I mostly want to know either: - what are the major characteristics of the program - how old is the program Traditional software versioning helps in the first case: they bump version after a big eve

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