fao_

73 ms·

781.
by fao_ 6y ago
I don't see how this is seriously a suggestion. Not everyone lives in Silicon Valley and earns a >20k/yr paycheck. There are other things to consider like reliability, cost, that force your hand.
782.
by fao_ 6y ago
conversely it takes literally two seconds to Control-Shift-M and check smaller resolutions, and it takes even less time if you don't code pixel sizes, something that a CSS developer in 2020 should never, ever do
783.
by fao_ 6y ago
They're advertising a web development tool on a website that doesn't scale to my laptop's 1280x800 monitor. I literally don't know what to say to that.
784.
by fao_ 6y ago
> It doesn't look like fun to figure out where to insert something in a pages-long document with sections that like like ))))))))))))). What kind of editor doesn't support jumping between braces? The version of Vi that shipped
785.
by fao_ 6y ago
> That's feels a little like XML, just without attributes Attributes: (p :class 'center' (div ...)) > and untyped end-tags. The end tags are implied by the start tag. Why do you need an end tag? It'
786.
by fao_ 6y ago
I'll crosspost what I wrotw about Doom Emacs on Reddit: ----------------- > The killer feature of Atom to me is its ability to tell you what commands are associated (or erased) for a keybinding you are pressing, live. It is very pra
787.
by fao_ 6y ago
> I’ve suspected for a while, and am now pretty sure, that this system has become so byzantine that the (incredibly talented) people assembling distros, writing the software, and maintaining the man pages, don’t know how it works. Which
788.
by fao_ 6y ago
OS dev[1] has a full page on how to do this and more, as well as links to sample code, etc. Unfortunately it's down right now, so here's a webarchive link from 1st Sept[1.5] A resource you'll find immensely useful is ctyme&#x
789.
by fao_ 6y ago
Corbyn got invited to a Jewdas passover party - it's in literally no dispute that he was against anti-semitism. Labour's systematic problems were under investigation at the time and it was fair of him to not say anything until tha
790.
by fao_ 6y ago
Hey, I have some specific things that I'd love in runaroo to be able to move to it full time (things like !gsc => google scholar search, etc.). I would love to contribute these in some way, is the source available?
791.
AT-SPI 2 – Universal screen reader interface for programs, using DBus(freedesktop.org)
2 points by fao_ 6y ago|0 comments
792.
by fao_ 6y ago
Bold of you to assume it's npm that's being spoken of :D
793.
by fao_ 6y ago
Scrub the information and rotate encryption keys with enforced deletion. Sure, this would not get around a dedicated attacker, or screenshotting, but that's the same as printed information, or information transfer over radio. Someone c
794.
by fao_ 6y ago
or they said something ridiculously heinous
795.
by fao_ 6y ago
Hi there! It looks like you've been shadowbanned, I vouched a few of your comments because they didn't seem terrible, but I didn't scroll very far. It might be worth sending a mail to dang to ask him to take a look at your ac
796.
by fao_ 6y ago
Hold up. The expectation of junior developers seems pretty low. I think I've been job seeking below my mark...
797.
by fao_ 6y ago
Thank you for this, it's fascinating!
798.
by fao_ 6y ago
Lurk for a while and learn the vibe, I guess. Also read the guidelines, as it'll put you above half the people that work here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
799.
by fao_ 6y ago
I mean, I'm early in my career and I feel the same way.
800.
by fao_ 6y ago
No problem! It was very interesting!
801.
by fao_ 6y ago
imagine if there was a place you could ask other people if they had heard this same thing. oh wait, there is!
802.
by fao_ 6y ago
> More simply, public schools and Youtube would break this sort of conditioning in short order. Ehh? I've been exposed to decades of stimuli and yet I still have feelings and emotions that were created in my childhood, and it is dif
803.
by fao_ 6y ago
You're missing my point completely. And I already covered the reasons you just stated, in my comment above yours. That's what the second to last paragraph was about :/ > Considering this is also a "news" site, I
804.
Identifiers that are Readable, Spellable, and Pronounceable (2009)(arxiv.org)
3 points by fao_ 6y ago|0 comments
805.
by fao_ 6y ago
Because the lambda papers were multiple submissions for a thesis (each one rejected(!)), sometimes comments slip in about certain things, and it's just generally fascinating to read.
806.
by fao_ 6y ago
I agree with the format change, but I don't think people in 2020 are inherently more informed than people in the past. It depends on the individual to put their mind to work and allocating time, and the culture that they surround or gr
807.
by fao_ 6y ago
It's interesting how nobody's responded or engaged with this, the post is 3 hours old with 0 comments, there's another post currently on the frontpage that's 1 hour old with 38 comments. When PG set this place up he didn
808.
by fao_ 6y ago
> I think the whole board-state could be represented with 13+52 byte array, having markers between the cards to indicate different piles. A multiple-gap buffer is more difficult to handle than a linked list, yeah.
809.
by fao_ 6y ago
flatpak/snap still rely on libraries. This only relies on filesystem features and kernel functions which are, for all intents and purposes, 'static' (because of the "Never break userspace" policy). As such, the resu
810.
by fao_ 6y ago
Well, no. It's illegal (in any coherent district) to put hard chemical waste (like silver) into the wastewater. you either take it to, as you suggested, a local film lab, or you clearly label it, build up several gallons of it, and tak

More ›