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by cstrahan 1y ago
The sibling comments are great; to add to those, I highly recommend giving “The TTY Demystified” a read: https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/ It’s a long read, but necessarily so: there is considerable co
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by cstrahan 1y ago
The article received a ton of edits since it was first posted. See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43915500 And see my comment with examples of edits below that.
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by cstrahan 1y ago
Figured I'd provide the old version of those examples from above in the thread. Here are the NEW sentences again, for convenience: "Notably, Gigabyte has seemingly updated the 13-year-old B75M-D3H motherboard to support booting fr
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by cstrahan 1y ago
I just want a thermostat that gives me the option to specify that I want it to maintain a target temperature, and have it automatically switch between cooling and heating. The one I have in the apartment I’m renting only gives Cool vs Heat.
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by cstrahan 1y ago
No, one example of why being variable sized integers. See https://protobuf.dev/programming-guides/encoding/
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by cstrahan 1y ago
People share negative sentiments for a number of reasons. Sometimes it’s emotionally motivated (like venting), sometimes it’s because you want to see less hype and more realistic discourse are about the deficiencies in our industry. There s
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by cstrahan 1y ago
Right at the top of the docs for worker_threads: > The node:worker_threads module enables the use of threads that execute JavaScript in parallel. Now that it doesn’t say “concurrent”, it says “parallel”. This implies that multiple thread
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by cstrahan 1y ago
I would bet they meant the editor “Zed”.
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by cstrahan 1y ago
> It’s also open source, did they not accept your pull requests for these “improvements”? I don’t think you are being fair. This question presupposes that the supposed problems can be solved by iterative changes, rather than being inhe
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by cstrahan 1y ago
Well, to be clear, I didn’t actually count the sperm, as I was more interested in a rough, qualitative (rather than rigorous, quantitative) observation. That said, yeah, the relative amount of sperm didn’t drop off noticeably at the offset.
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by cstrahan 1y ago
While I disagree with your claim that steroids are a viable form of birth control, I do agree a bit with this, though not for the stated reason. What many people don’t realize (probably in large part because they see testosterone and estrog
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by cstrahan 1y ago
Woah, now. You are dangerously mistaken here. As I wrote over in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43746406 I’m on TRT, without hCG. I went and had a vasectomy a year ago. Because I’m weird and infinitely curious, two o
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by cstrahan 1y ago
> You're right that it doesn't stop sperm production, just emission. As for "the drip"; that's pre-ejaculate, which doesn't contain sperm inherently, but can pick up residual sperm in the urethra from a prio
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by cstrahan 1y ago
> You therefore get code that locally looks good, even if it has security mistakes. Instead of one source of error - the developer interpolated - you now have three. Could you give examples of this? > The developer forgot to interpola
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by cstrahan 1y ago
> It seems like before with an f string we had instant evaluation, now with a t string we control the evaluation You don't completely control the evaluation. From the PEP: > Template strings are evaluated eagerly from left to r
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by cstrahan 1y ago
Are you sure that what is being printed is the contents of a file? And which shell are you using? If your which command is a shell builtin, and nvm is a function, then you’re likely seeing the content of that function.
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by cstrahan 1y ago
George Carlin once gave a masterclass on how to talk like politician at the National Press Club: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG9rkiMe2nA
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by cstrahan 2y ago
I have a personal “Windows install / configuration playbook” so I don’t fall into these types of pitfalls for the Nth time (including the very example you give). Some fun ones: windows defaults to storing the hardware clock time as a t
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by cstrahan 2y ago
I think you are discounting the fact that you can weed out people who make a habit of that, but you can't do that with LLMs if they are all doing that.
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by cstrahan 2y ago
Changing the layout of key map layers for convenience, and macros, back when I assembled my first QMK keyboard. Haven’t touched it in years now, though.
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by cstrahan 2y ago
I doubt you have this same sentiment about continuous integration in the context of work. Same concept. Eventually you get every thing dialed in and you keep it there.
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by cstrahan 2y ago
The designers behind practically every newspaper (including the New York Times) would disagree with you: https://store.nytimes.com/cdn/shop/products/new-york-times-f... If you’re against established, commonly
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by cstrahan 2y ago
If I understand what you’re referring to, then I suspect you’re mistaken about the names you’re referring to. I presume you’re talking about a feature like this: https://tagboard.com/product/guides-and-remote-refresh-ca
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by cstrahan 2y ago
> In other words, people shouldn't make claims that one pattern is objectively more readable than another. Ever. Maybe you haven't seen the sort of code I've seen. Consider this specimen, for example: // Call
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by cstrahan 2y ago
Flashing every day isn’t too uncommon if you’re often changing the key map, macros, and other configuration. I probably flashed my QMK keyboard an average of 10 times per day for the first week, and then that tapered off to once or twice a
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by cstrahan 2y ago
And if you aren’t a fan of being sedated (I’ve never been, and I’d prefer to keep it that way), you can opt to do it without sedation. Had a colonoscopy and an upper endoscopy the same day, no sedation. A little uncomfy, but not painful. If
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by cstrahan 2y ago
My (limited) understanding is that the shape is a large factor. Something about sharp edges or points concentrating the electric field induced by the microwaves, leading to a high voltage buildup. So forks are a bad idea, while spoons will
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by cstrahan 2y ago
> Do dedicated sound cards offer tangible audio quality improvements over modern onboard solutions like Realtek? Depends on motherboard, but: I had a top of the line, very well reviewed gaming mobo, and I’d hear a buzzing noise over the
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by cstrahan 2y ago
> the interviewers hinted that the direction was not what they were looking for No, they said they couldn’t see the utility in what he was doing, which is very different than being told that his solution is unsatisfactory. I have had cou
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by cstrahan 2y ago
> When the inputs and outputs are types... how do you interface with such a solution? That wasn’t part of the criteria. If that’s something they wanted to assess, they should have told him “no” when he asked if it would be alright to enc

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