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by foo101 8y ago
Does this work on macOS? The source code seems to be including X11 headers, so I guess it would require XQuartz or something to make it work? Has anyone got sct to work on macOS? Redshift works just fine on macOS. I've been using it an
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Redshift – A better flux program for Linux (2014)(techblog.jeppson.org)
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by foo101 8y ago
The colors on a RGB-based display is incorrect either way (with flux or without flux) at any color temperature (cool, warm, or in between). Why is it that you prefer the incorrect colors without flux to the incorrect colors with flux? Sound
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by foo101 8y ago
> Ozone doesn't have a smell. This does not sound right. This is what I see on Wikipedia which is also exactly what I was taught in high school: > It is a pale blue gas with a distinctively pungent smell. Source: https:/&#x
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by foo101 8y ago
What would be the right daytime setting in f.lux to reduce the harmful effects of blue light? The default daytime setting under recommended colors in f.lux is 6500K. I tend to use a daytime setting of 5500K. Is 5500K good enough to reduce t
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Ask HN: What is your favorite text-based browser (lynx, w3m, elinks, etc.)?
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by foo101 8y ago
Can someone who has more context around this commit explain what is going on here? What does this commit do? Why did this commit get accepted in the commit history tree published at android.googlesource.com?
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by foo101 8y ago
> The whole magic of the site is being able to have the experience of looking over other people's shoulders into their inbox, and seeing how they actually talk with one another when they're not on stage. I am having a hard time
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by foo101 8y ago
Where can I see the rate limit? I tried https://api.github.com/rate_limit but I see a rate limit of 60 only: { "resources": { "core": { "limit": 60, &quo
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by foo101 8y ago
I have a very similar story with an interesting twist. I knew exactly one person who got on a PIP by his manager and didn't get fired. Almost anyone who worked with this person including me felt that the PIP was justified because he wa
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by foo101 8y ago
You are probably not aware but in Google and many other companies it is very normal and in fact common to have a manager earning less than an employee reporting to the manager. I have not experienced any kind of friction due to this. Why sh
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by foo101 8y ago
> Last time I checked my domain got penalized for having abnormal low markup or some such Do you have a link to the document you were pointed to when you got penalized? If it was Google who penalized you, they must have pointed you to a
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by foo101 8y ago
I have never worked with Wirth languages, so I would like to know why you think Wirth languages deserve a comeback.
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by foo101 8y ago
> What do other people do for ad-free hosting? By your own domain a $5/month VPS and host your apps just the way you like it. Just 10 years ago, geeks like us used to take pride in buying domain and creating a personal presence with
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by foo101 8y ago
> "It allows you to skip the tedious work of setting up test data, and dive straight into practising your algorithms." Setting up your own test data and pretty-printing your trees with your own code are important in my opinion.
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by foo101 8y ago
> I couldn't for the life of me figure out why my sift wasn't working. Wasted like an hour on it. Turns out it was working, it was just my printing/test-harness stuff that was flawed. Sure that was a useful hard-knock, but
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by foo101 8y ago
Exactly this! If you are learning algorithms, you should be implementing your own trees rather than relying on a library like this that does the work for you. The real benefit of learning algorithms comes when you put the hard work into it
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by foo101 8y ago
Done in true GitHub style with the source code of this post at https://github.com/natfriedman/hello rendered with GitHub pages. :-)
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by foo101 8y ago
I am going to agree with what doctorsher said in response to your comment. I can confirm that what SiVal said is not a typical experience in Apple.
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by foo101 8y ago
> You want to know what those Ads are, ther'e justification that I won't go broke if I pursue code. That does not make any sense. Writing code to make a living is a very very popular profession in India. Your parents must be al
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by foo101 8y ago
Can you offer specific examples that make you believe that the cumulative opinion of scholars are going to be objectively worse than the cumulative opinion of everyone?
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by foo101 8y ago
I don't have a good answer but I believe that it certainly cannot be everybody. Perhaps people who are accomplished scholars in political theory and economics and a few other relevant areas?
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by foo101 8y ago
Why is democracy such a popular system for establishing governments? When a member of our family becomes sick, we don't ask everyone to vote on possible treatments? We go to doctors who are trained to diagnose the cause of sickness and
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by foo101 8y ago
I have found that I can type much faster than I can write with pen and paper. I am curious what you think about that. Do you find writing with pen and paper equally fast or is it that the speed of writing does not matter while creative-writ
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by foo101 8y ago
Yes, DDG gets relevant results too: https://ddg.gg/?q="ip+command"
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by foo101 8y ago
openssl uses single dash for long options too: -inform, -outform, -text, -noout, etc. gcc uses single dash for long options too: -std, -pedantic, -dumpspecs, etc. I am sure there are many more modern commands that do this.
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by foo101 8y ago
I think JoeAltmaier (your parent commenter) still has a point. If the leap in complexity of octopuses is so obvious that we can tell it's an alien, do you mean other earlier life in our planet was not alien? That would not make sense b
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by foo101 8y ago
Here is what I would like to understand: If there is any truth to the theory that Octopuses indeed evolved in outer space and were delivered to our planet via a cosmic payload, how is it that they happened to have the same kind of protein-b
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by foo101 8y ago
It has everything to do with physical form. The fact that research is carried out via centralized journals is a relic of a practice that is over 300 years old, when printed paper was the only feasible medium to distribute such research. If
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by foo101 8y ago
I am surprised that it took so long after the invention of the Internet. In the pre-Internet era, these journals used to play a significant role in distributing research papers in physical paper form. It made sense then. There was no way to

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