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Warn HN: Monarch upgrade deletes all files in $HOME
114 points by divan 5y ago|19 comments
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by divan 5y ago
I'm in Tallinn (happened to fly here for a regular business trip a day before it started), but I'm 24/7 online with friends, with gf on video call. Internet and power are totally fine, no distruptions so far.
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by divan 5y ago
As a Ukrainian not knowing if Kyiv will be hit by ballistic missles by morning (attack is happening right now, and everyone is hiding in shelters), I really feel your pain.
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by divan 5y ago
Because many people on HN have personal morality perhaps.
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by divan 5y ago
Have you actually tried it or it's just a guess? I had similar thoughts before I tried myself, and actual experience is completely opposite. People don't care if it "feels off" (especially when it's pixel-to-pixel p
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by divan 5y ago
Before I started writing Flutter I had the same feeling. My first reaction to the Flutter design was "haha, it's not gonna work". But when I tried to make my first app I was shocked how good it was. Since then I learned that
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by divan 5y ago
Could you elaborate on why is it a downside?
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by divan 5y ago
> We looked it up, and in her opinion there was no point to them because they were far, far, far below the level of any even moderately competitive skater. It wasn't hard for skaters in 1930s to do all figures too. The hard part was
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by divan 5y ago
Right, but that's also true for the long jump. Why not use progressive approach for the distance? (I'm not advocating, just raising question to show that there is no design involved, mostly tradition) Television emerged much later
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by divan 5y ago
The real tragedy of figure skating is that there is no figure skating anymore. It's called "figure skating" because the primary skill was "skating" and skaters were drawing "figures". It was called "c
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by divan 5y ago
oh boy, glad to see those thoughts are on HN, but it barely scratched the surface of the problem. It's a special topic of interest for me, as I'm currently trying to reform sports in my country (figure skating in particular) and i
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by divan 5y ago
Looks nice. One question about desktop Mac version – is it an Electron app or a native app or something else?
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by divan 5y ago
Of course it's not. Yet it's hard to find non-Electron desktop apps nowadays.
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by divan 5y ago
Thank you for this comment. It's scary to think that majority of the tech-savvy people in the world never question sanity of web stack and don't see how badly it is unfit for making UI apps. I switched to Flutter few years ago, an
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by divan 5y ago
Thank you for sharing the story of EdgeDB! I'm probably one of the early adopters of it. Honestly I don't want to write SQL never ever ever again after using EdgeQL. Currently I'm migrating some of my projects to EdgeDB and a
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by divan 5y ago
Obligatory reading https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/against-sql/
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by divan 5y ago
The coolest thing I've seen in this space is Hristo Bojinov's work on implicit learning. Meaning the password is planted into user's brain without them conciously knowing it so they can't be coerced to reveal it. Not sur
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by divan 5y ago
Guide on deploying EdgeDB on fly.io: https://www.edgedb.com/docs/guides/deployment/fly_io
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by divan 5y ago
I'm impressed by the simplicity of the idea too, and going to try it. Can't really choose what app to use, though. My go to choice for now is a vim and plain text file. But I'd love to have iCloud sync + smart features (like
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by divan 5y ago
My DB discovery and the game changer of 2021 was EdgeDB.
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by divan 5y ago
Couple of links to check https://github.com/GroovinChip/macos_ui https://github.com/leanflutter/awesome-flutter-desktop
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by divan 5y ago
> just looks like mobile apps on desktop. It's probably Material Design "looks like mobile apps" on desktop, not Flutter itself. Flutter gives you all the tools and flexibility to style and design your app as you wish. I&#
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by divan 5y ago
Fascinating article. Video version of this talk is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSdGG6wEE9k
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by divan 5y ago
> CSS is effectively solved It never ceases to amaze me how many smart people ready to spend 25 years "fixing" thing that shouldn't exist.
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by divan 5y ago
We tried quadratic voting for internal organizational stuff couple of years ago (using dApp on Ethereum). It was okay and refreshing, but in that case it didn't work well, because of the number of options (there were like 20 or 30 opti
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by divan 5y ago
Sortition (random selection of politicians from the pool) is the answer. https://www.ted.com/talks/brett_hennig_what_if_we_replaced_p...
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by divan 5y ago
Yes, in post-soviet countries it's pretty common to bribe large number of people from elderly and poor population with food or alcohol. It's literally trucks with food or vodka and name of the party/politian that head to the
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by divan 5y ago
Or just print stacktrace with `debug.PrintStack()`
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by divan 5y ago
Quake I is literally the only game I want to play (I play video games like few hours per year, but memories of the Quake I multiplayer blooshed back in the student years are pretty much alive). Does anyone have a good link on how to run Qua
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by divan 5y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12477190

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