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by eitau_1 11mo ago
If there's no regulation, nothing stops a website from telling hundreds of third-party entities about your visit. No amount of fiddling with browser settings and extensions will prevent a keen website operator from contributing to trac
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by eitau_1 11mo ago
See also: great video on a very adjacent topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klq-sNxuP2g "Moves are Broken" or why non-destructive moves are at odds with invariants
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by eitau_1 11mo ago
I can't remember if it was main video or second channel one, in which Alec states with confidence that big brands make powder worse on purpose to push their higher margin pods. The opinion is based on his experience (horrible residue l
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by eitau_1 11mo ago
The sad reality is that easy tech explores solution space faster
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You're being rude. Put away your phone. New manners for post-smartphone society(theargumentmag.com)
5 points by eitau_1 1y ago|3 comments
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by eitau_1 1y ago
à propos the distance tool, please let the user: - type coordinate pairs by hand - copy coordinates entered by clicking otherwise, it's a great tool!
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by eitau_1 1y ago
I find double-action[0] a really useful mental model of market. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_auction#Game-theoretic_...
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by eitau_1 1y ago
meanwhile Youtubers: a penny per view would be 10x what Youtube pays us https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nloigkUJ-U&t=4851s
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by eitau_1 1y ago
When personal responsibility fails to be exercised, personal liberty suffers.
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by eitau_1 1y ago
Here's the ultimate explanation of tides from PBS SpaceTime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwChk4S99i4
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by eitau_1 1y ago
Why the same advice doesn't apply to `setup.py` or `build.rs`? Is it because npm is (ab)used for software distribution (eg. see sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45041292 ) instead of being used only
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by eitau_1 1y ago
I'd be more than happy with read-only access. Still potentially bad for 'normal users' but not disastrous.
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by eitau_1 1y ago
nixpkgs shines especially bright in this exact scenario
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by eitau_1 1y ago
I hope the small web will thrive again once the profit incentive for putting content on the web ceases to exist so SEO/dark-pattern heavy players will give up and stop suppressing valuable (altruistic?) stuff.
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by eitau_1 1y ago
I wish there was a (Jupyter) notebook-like interface in shells so only the final set of commands is saved in the history after a trial-and-error/refinement cycle
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by eitau_1 2y ago
You have a point, I guess. I'm wildly interested what's your (and hn community's in general) proposed macro policy mix. When accounted for workforce changes (demography+participation), there was absolutely no economic growth
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by eitau_1 2y ago
> something the tory party did nothing to address When PM Liz Truss tried, it ended with disaster.
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by eitau_1 2y ago
Chrome's UI is written in C++/native GUI toolkit. Firefox's UI is written in JavaScript/HTML (thinly wrapped in native toolkit).
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by eitau_1 2y ago
Vienna is less populous now than it was 100 years ago.
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by eitau_1 2y ago
The executables are vendored in the repo [0]. [0] https://github.com/sindresorhus/clipboardy/tree/main/fallbac...
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by eitau_1 2y ago
It's not even funny: $ ll /nix/store/*-insect-5.9.0/lib/node_modules/insect/node_modules/clipboardy/fallbacks/* /nix/store/…-insect-5.9.0/lib/node_modules
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by eitau_1 2y ago
Great work! From the README: > is designed to be easily extensible Can you elaborate a little on that?
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by eitau_1 2y ago
On an unrelated note, on the Sunday we had a major lunar standstill i.e. the full Moon at its highest orbit (as seen from northern hemisphere). It happens every 18.5 years.
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by eitau_1 2y ago
to put public finances on sustainable path, keep inflation low and make interest rates lower long term?
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by eitau_1 3y ago
Unfortunately Libredirect went completely bonkers and is going to stop using public instances and instead will download binaries (or docker containers) (sic) to run frontends on user's device. [0] https://github.com/lib
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by eitau_1 3y ago
The main thing is, I was thinking, there's no^W less NAT so you can host those 140 character entries directly from your devices and you can avoid things like DHT. Now we can start solving other problems like masses having to own domain
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by eitau_1 3y ago
Great. After today's blows against open Internet (Reddit, Twitter, YouTube) I started to consider IPv6 as a necessary enabler of truly decentralized (as in p2p or POSSE) social networks.
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by eitau_1 3y ago
? I mean both (profits/water vapor) are indeed powerful but only mere amplifiers of underlying causes in both phenomena. BTW it's a shame MMT-ers rebranded themselves into greedflation folk and stopped promoting their painful but
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by eitau_1 3y ago
Stating that margins/profits are causing inflation is like stating that water vapor is causing global warming.
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by eitau_1 3y ago
With little progress in performance, they're gonna compete with secondary market aka used devices.

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