distcs

27 ms·

271.
by distcs 4y ago
This was a nice read! Thanks for sharing OP! Need more of these articles. Practical HOWTOs like this go much further along in convincing people to use Lisp than plain advocacy which more often than not rubs people the wrong away. If there a
272.
by distcs 4y ago
Couldn't an AI generate pictures that look like work in progress?
273.
Extreme winter warmth shatters thousands of records in Europe(news.yahoo.com)
2 points by distcs 4y ago|0 comments
274.
Ask HN: Relatively less known but good blogs?
8 points by distcs 4y ago|6 comments
275.
by distcs 4y ago
Thanks! This directory seems to have a random collection of blogs. It is better than nothing of course. But after doing a few searches I realized that all of the good blogs that I have seen on HN are missing from their list. I guess blog ow
276.
Ask HN: List of blogs maintained with love by independent website owners?
6 points by distcs 4y ago|4 comments
277.
by distcs 4y ago
To be fair, results like this are very improbable to come from someone who is not a full-time mathematician. And no that does not mean someone working in machine learning or someone who did their PhD 6 years ago. How many such results do yo
278.
by distcs 4y ago
Arugably a dupe. It was already discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34083366 (1243 points, 370 comments)
279.
by distcs 4y ago
I don't see how inverting this comment would make it valid. Users seem to like terminals already. The same users who like terminals still turn out to be averse to Emacs. So if I invert the comment and ask, "Why do you new users wh
280.
by distcs 4y ago
> Is your argument that no one should create TUI applications except within Emacs? Not at all. I said in my original comment that I am all for creating TUI applications. And also that the work done by Textual is nothing short of impressi
281.
by distcs 4y ago
> Your comment is confusing because emacs isn't a library for creating rich text mode applications. But all the functions Emacs has and Elisp together do seem like a library for creating rich text mode applications. Just look at how
282.
by distcs 4y ago
> Emacs is a complete environment and set of capabilities But so is the shell and the terminal and yet new young folks are much more willing to try out shell+terminal tools than Emacs+packages. Your comment describes the difference betwe
283.
by distcs 4y ago
Impressive work! I am not trying to diminish the awesome work done here but I think all of this is already possible in Emacs, right? And Emacs an be made to run in Terminal if the user wants it to, right? Now I am not someone who would ask
284.
by distcs 4y ago
But why does that stop technical folks from creating protocol-based software and services? That is how the Internet was in the 90s, right? It was no mainstream and nobody cared much. The tech folks created their protocols, server tools, cli
285.
by distcs 4y ago
Did you obtain permission from the publishers before posting a link to the copy of the book here? Reproduced by Addison-Wesley from camera-ready copy supplied by the authors. Copyright © 1994, 1989 by Addison-Wesley Publishing Compan
286.
by distcs 4y ago
What level of confidence is there that all this API will work exactly as it works now after 30 years? I am concerned that they might at the very least deprecate and remove the ciphers used to encrypt my data in portable secret. Worse what i
287.
by distcs 4y ago
For me the biggest problem with a setup like this is complete loss of access to my secrets. The crypto functions supported by browsers may change in future. A cipher algorithm used to encrypt my secrets may get deprecated and removed by the
288.
by distcs 4y ago
> the domain displayed in the url bar is your server, then you're fine. if you're viewing a post or user on their own server Wait! You do know you can see the users and posts of any server (even if it is not the server you are
289.
by distcs 4y ago
So the answer is yes, the server operators can look at our random DMs. You may not be interested in looking at them but some other server operator might. So it is a good thing to know this beforehand to know what we are getting into.
290.
by distcs 4y ago
The word federated makes total sense. Thanks! The word decentralized was written by the author of the OP, not by me and that's why I needed to ask the folks here if Mastodon is really decentralized. Your comment clarifies it for me
291.
by distcs 4y ago
No, I am just using the https://mastodon.social/ website on browser. > but if you are using a web browser, then that's where all the rigmarole comes from. Requesting again. Can you be more specific? What rigmarole d
292.
by distcs 4y ago
> if you try to follow someone who is not on your instance, there is a whole rigamarole you have to go through. Can you be more specific? What rigmarole did you have to do ? For me, I just hit the follow button on anyone I like and it ju
293.
by distcs 4y ago
Ok! Granted there is some effort to figure out which server to choose. Isn't everything as easy as Twitter after that? Arguably, it is even easier than Twitter because what really happens on Twitter these days is you sign up for an acc
294.
by distcs 4y ago
> Its decentralized nature makes some things a lot more difficult to pull off than its competitors. Help me understand one thing about Mastodon. We choose a Mastodon server to create account. What is decentralized about it? Doesn't
295.
by distcs 4y ago
The average joe can just sign up for https://mastodon.social/ can't they? How is it really more difficult than signing up for Twitter or Facebook?
296.
by distcs 4y ago
> Yes, Mastodon is more difficult to use than whatever social media platforms you are on now. What about Mastodon is more difficult to use? Isn't it just choosing a server, typing its URL, signing up for a new account and then you a
297.
by distcs 4y ago
> From how I understand it, ChatGPT doesn't have any knowledge. How do you define "having any knowledge"? How is what ChatGPT does different from that definition?
298.
by distcs 4y ago
I find it strange that individual persons still think of getting into open source as a profession. If the motive is to share something you built with others with no expectations (except attribution, maybe some bug fixes, a user community) i
299.
by distcs 4y ago
Slightly off-topic: Are there countries that have such good local public transit that I don't have to depend on Uber?
300.
Aha Moments (2006)(groups.google.com)
1 points by distcs 4y ago|0 comments

More ›