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by dancek 6y ago
I strongly disagree about "lower-quality people". Yes, some people post low quality content, say horrible things and behave antisocially. Yes, in a community you want to restrict destructive behavior (by excluding people if need b
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by dancek 6y ago
We can belong to many communities, and indeed we have many different facets or identities. That's what it's like to be human. Attending a chess club doesn't mean you cannot also hang out with tennis players. So yes, the small
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by dancek 6y ago
> And they are, and they might help you, but trying to ask scientific or metaphysical quæstions about it, is an exercise in futility. What non-futile metaphysical questions are left, then? Is metaphysics completely futile? If so, is phil
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by dancek 6y ago
More info: https://hackaday.com/2020/12/10/a-xilinx-zynq-linux-fpga-boa... Exciting times!
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by dancek 6y ago
While it's not about FPGAs, I got started by working through https://www.nand2tetris.org/ . After that I bought an UPduino v2 and started hacking. Of course working on a fantasy CPU and a real FPGA are completely diffe
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by dancek 6y ago
Side note: Angular tends to create new commits (keeping the author, changing the committer) instead of directly merging the PRs. The real acceptance rate seems to be high.
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by dancek 6y ago
Yes. Swedish is also easy compared to English and French, the other two languages I've learned after early childhood. The only thing that makes it hard is that you never really have use for it and you're forced to learn it neverth
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by dancek 6y ago
Cotton underwear doesn't work that well if your activity varies. Wear enough cotton to be warm while sitting for hours, and you're certain to be sweaty after five minutes of physical activity. And moist cotton underwear makes you
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by dancek 6y ago
Our tastes are so different. I'd much rather watch a great video from 2005 than a good one from 2020. I'm irritated by the recommendation algorithms pushing new content. Why would I care whether the video was published last night
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by dancek 6y ago
Is this similar to git add -e? I have a hard time keeping diffs valid when editing. I use git-revise a lot but it doesn't cover all my use cases. Maybe this will be useful.
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by dancek 6y ago
I like your approach. As a maintainer of small projects with very few users I'm not offended by business-like bug reports. But it's very nice to hear someone is actually grateful for my software. (You only need one arrogant asshol
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by dancek 6y ago
Depression does not make a person completely incapable in every way, at least not usually. This comment comes off as belittling someone else's depression, and I'm afraid it might be very hurtful to the author.
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Alexei Navalny: Putin critic 'probably poisoned' – doctors(bbc.com)
1 points by dancek 6y ago|0 comments
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by dancek 6y ago
A great example of the HN use of the word "just".
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by dancek 6y ago
I'm sorry if I've misunderstood the term. I mean absolutely no offense. I understand freemium as proprietary service with both free and paid tiers.
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by dancek 6y ago
I expected "free" to mean free software. It means freemium here. EDIT: NOTE: I mean nothing negative by freemium: I just mean there are both free and paid tiers. Not sure what the definition of freemium is.
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by dancek 6y ago
You have a very good point. However, Gemini does not exist in a vacuum. The web will be there. There will be social media platforms, multimedia, awesome webapps and all that. And Gemini is just text. When you have the choice between easily
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by dancek 6y ago
That's true, but I don't think it's a huge problem. Listening to an audiobook typically takes at least five hours. Usually you can tell whether you're happy with the narration within a couple of minutes. While you say &q
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by dancek 6y ago
This is an amazing keyboard, and the best thing: it's really easy to modify to suit your needs. I got to try a friend's Dactyl so I had a general idea of what doesn't feel ergonomic to me about it. Then I took some measuremen
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by dancek 6y ago
I find https://rscss.io/ to be a really nice design philosophy that takes the best parts from BEM. And agreed: it's easiest to just work directly with flexbox (and grid if you can drop IE11), and a set of design princi
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by dancek 6y ago
We've had a great experience building a mid-size app with re-frame. Sure, writing subscription and event handlers and wiring it all together seems like a lot of boilerplate when you could just fetch().then(), but in the long run the ar
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by dancek 6y ago
Thanks for linking, I'll check it out! I'm occasionally running Beaker Browser to publish my https-first website also over dat, but I'd gladly switch to a better dat-capable browser.
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by dancek 7y ago
That's weird. I find people with kids care more about personal and professional development, and are more diligent in their work. This might have to do with the environment I'm in (7,5 hour days with almost no overtime; recruiting
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by dancek 7y ago
You can reverse engineer native binaries, too. Many companies are happily publishing web apps where the actual source is available, in minified form. Why does your source code need to be so secure?
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by dancek 7y ago
For those unaware of the context, StackExchange fired a (volunteer) moderator in September causing a wave of moderator resignations. Now in January they fired two Community Managers (ie. employees) and a third CM resigned. https:/&#x2
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by dancek 7y ago
I didn't mean to imply how you think or feel. Sorry if my comment came off that way. Maintainer burnout is a real problem and I personally would run a real risk if I ever released something worthwhile. I agree that the idea is raw and
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by dancek 7y ago
ITerm allows you to map the left and right option keys separately. Maybe that helps?
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by dancek 7y ago
This is a great article. I respect every FOSS maintainer for what they're doing and am saddened by the bs I often see them deal with. The article is balanced in describing different reasons for coming off rude--as a non-native speaker
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by dancek 7y ago
No need to. The Option key is configurable in terminal software.
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by dancek 7y ago
MacOS Terminal and iTerm users need to configure their terminal to use the Option key properly. You need Option-Enter to output either Esc+Enter or Meta-Enter. See https://superuser.com/a/496152 for screenshots.

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