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by distcs 3y ago
> I am entitled to give my feedback to anybody I think. Yes, of course! And others are entitled to ignore your feedback, downvote your comment, or say it to your face that your feedback is unwelcome, or flag your comment as they see fit.
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by distcs 3y ago
Glad it worked out for you. But I have to ask: What if it wasn't mental and was a symptom of a deeper issue in the body that needs diagnosis? I mean when should you bet on the pain being a mental issue? My worry is that if I bet wrongl
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by distcs 3y ago
> The biggest change is the updated S3 state backend which now uses the v2 Go AWS SDK underneath. Can you shine some light on whether this change was done to maintain feature parity with Terraform's code that is also evolving? Or is
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by distcs 3y ago
> control prefix as a thumb key, I read that and found it to be not relevant to non-tech-savvy users. Well the problem is how do you really make them alter their keyboard so that control prefix is now a thumb key without sacrificing some
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by distcs 3y ago
> You've ignored other alternatives that would work better than a capslock even for the less tech-savvy crowd What are those alternatives? Why talk in riddles when you can simply share those alternatives? I'm looking at a mac u
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by distcs 3y ago
Home row mods is a superior solution but not every Emacs user is tech-savvy enough to know how to get home row mods. Emacs users come in all forms. There are authors, researchers, people from humanities who use Emacs. Only a few weeks ago
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by distcs 3y ago
Beware! This is an article from a spam account! See: * https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=aksh7i (100% self promotion) * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37963914 (flagged) * https://n
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by distcs 3y ago
If you do not want to see articles like this on HN, you can always flag it to seek moderator attention. The author aksh7i seems to be using HN purely for self promotion who posts self-help (and dare I say, offtopic) stuff like this. Their l
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by distcs 3y ago
Thanks for the answer! I've got some more questions now. Sorry, but if anyone is willing to take a stab at these questions, it'd be helpful to me. 1. IIUC PE executables are Windows executables. So a Linux system that targets UEFI
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by distcs 3y ago
It's been a long time since I've done ASM but do I understand it right that this implementation compiles each function and then executes it immediately? Or does it really compile the whole source code and then execute the binary g
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by distcs 3y ago
When we talk about these sector$LANG implementations, I am guessing we are talking about the boot sector that BIOS recognizes, right? Does the 512 byte limit for a boot sector exist in UEFI too? I don't know much about UEFI so if someo
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by distcs 3y ago
> This is not a C compiler. This is technically true! What is posted here is not a C compiler. It is an implementation of a subset of C. I'd prefer that the title honestly mentions that like: A compiler for a subset of C that fits i
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Vimari(irreal.org)
1 points by distcs 3y ago|0 comments
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by distcs 3y ago
Are there no other people who can work on the TeX and Metafont after Knuth? What if someone else wants to create bug fixes for these projects? How would they version TeX? Or do they have to fork TeX and have a new versioning system?
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by distcs 3y ago
What a wonderful comment that so nicely describes probably what many of us experience. This is the kind of thoughtful and well written comments I come to HN for. I wonder if there is any life hack or mind hack we could try to overcome this
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Ask HN: Do I need a special keyboard layout to learn array programming?
4 points by distcs 3y ago|8 comments
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by distcs 3y ago
Why are you literally spamming HN with your own posts?
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by distcs 3y ago
Why hand over your browsing data to Google?
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by distcs 3y ago
> idk what kind of legacy orgs people in this thread work for where there are Linux sysadmins working for their companies which directly manage server configs and security settings. I don't know if you consider Amazon/AWS &quot
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by distcs 3y ago
That is totally fine. I was talking about people who CANNOT do a bash for/while loop. You are talking about people who CAN do a bash for/while loop but choose not to. We are talking about different types of people. I am comfortab
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by distcs 3y ago
> I don’t understand why you think the fact that someone may choose to point and click to do something, a task which depending on the UI can be completely mindless and yet significantly safer eliminating any chance of making a mistake (b
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by distcs 3y ago
I have no problem viewing pictures shared by those who don't understand basic color blending and just want to swipe. But I may have a problem with people who can't do a bash for/while loop or understand pipe chaining commands
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Is that really the source code for this software?(lwn.net)
3 points by distcs 3y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Examples of software/websites with good backward compatibility in UI/UX?
2 points by distcs 3y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Examples of software/websites with good backward compatibility in UI/UX?
1 points by distcs 3y ago|0 comments
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by distcs 3y ago
Honest question. Where you buy your clothes from? As much as I would like to buy clothes without logos, they are not easy to find where I live.
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by distcs 3y ago
> if THEY CHOOSE to restrict themselves by requiring "pure" open source software only, thats THEIR fault, not mine. It is nobody's fault. Just like nobody can force you to choose a "pure" open source license, nob
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by distcs 3y ago
Even if we ignore the open source purists, restricting commercial usage still violates the popular libre software guidelines like FSD and DFSG: * https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html#fs-definition - FSD * ht
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by distcs 3y ago
Didn't grow up with Apple 2, sadly! So I have to ask. The text in the OP is hard-wrapped to 40 characters. So did Apple 2 support 40 character width screen?
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by distcs 3y ago
I open them in Emacs! It has built-in support for reading PDFs!

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