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by caned 4y ago
I often share links to HN instead of the referred link. Many times the comments are as interesting as the content. This applies to sharing Twitter or Reddit links, too, albeit with a lower S/N ratio.
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by caned 4y ago
The comments on here make me realize how fortunate I was to have a PC and an interest in learning C as a kid. Not to mention a supportive mother who bought me Borland's Turbo C++ compiler when I was ten or so. Thanks, Mom. You opened t
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by caned 4y ago
That she was obscenely rich makes it all the more noteworthy that she lived a dutiful life. Need more examples of that.
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by caned 4y ago
> they've got a long history of pre-installing malware and backdoors in their products (often in exchange for money) Source for this?
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> Personally I choose to use Teflon for eggs and stainless or cast iron for everything else. OT, but are you trying to avoid cooking eggs with fat? Once I started making mine, over easy, with well-seasoned cast iron...I just could not go
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Just want to make a plug for Paul Sellers. His YouTube videos on woodworking with handheld tools have kept me captivated for years. Through watching his videos, I learned how to cut mortise and tenon, dovetail, and dado joints without touch
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by caned 4y ago
A guess. I would guess chances are that someone with a philosophy degree has more options to begin with, and would more likely go lateral into some white collar office job than become destitute.
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by caned 5y ago
I go back and forth trying to decide whether to try and introduce my 5 year old to programming. To him, every screen is a little entertainment portal of some kind. I recently got him an Odroid Go Advance kit - a Linux-based handheld gaming
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by caned 5y ago
At my job we use nasm to assemble the x86 entry points for our OS kernel. Any assembler would do the job - someone before me just happened to pick nasm.
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Future Pinebook Pros may ship without SPI Flash, creating hurdles for some OSes(twitter.com)
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I was hoping for cheese-related news.
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I started strength / resistance training about four months ago, and I've lost at least 15 pounds and have gained considerable strength from working out 4x a week - this is without substantially cutting my calorie intake either. I
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Between using Magit and org-mode, I don't know how I could ever transition away from using emacs. I've tried to resist it, I've sworn it off and moved to exclusively using vim + command line tools for several years, and yet I
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It seems telling that this post has struck such a nerve within the HN community. I suggest there is a predominant hypersensitivity amongst this crowd to the perception of being "smart", "stupid", or perhaps even worst of
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> Most people, if they rely on their own research and decision making, will do poorly. That's an interesting assertion. I would have guessed the opposite is true.
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At the risk of looking stupid, how would mentioning that he designs CPUs establish any kind of authority?
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- Stalking old flames
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> Good thing there was a "steady hand" Eisenhower that green lit dropping of the bombs on general population "... in formulating policies regarding the atomic bomb and relations with the Soviets, Truman was guided by the U
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I am amazed that this got downvoted.
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An employee may over-commit and fail to maintain a clear delineation between work and private life regardless of their employer's demands. There is a lifestyle issue at play here.
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I'm torn between feeling that I too am dealing with some degree of burnout and thinking that I just simply haven't been taking care of myself. A series of sluggish days leads to a pileup of work, the pile seems to grow exponential
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Apple Says iCloud Mail Is Currently Down for Some Users(forums.macrumors.com)
2 points by caned 5y ago|0 comments
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Donate computing power to help search for potential Covid-19 treatments(worldcommunitygrid.org)
1 points by caned 6y ago|0 comments
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Sounds like a cop-out from someone who can't defend their assertion. Oops! I said "cop."
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Source?
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It seems that there is a movement that values "sensitivity" more than understanding. How does this so-called progress lead to greater understanding?
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by caned 6y ago
"Confidence check" is insensitive toward individuals with low self-esteem.