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by fouric 5y ago
> sworn testimony before congress Citation please?
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by fouric 5y ago
> do you have an example where this works? Yes. On my laptop, Linux is extremely stable, and yet extremely hackable. What, Linux doesn't work for you flawlessly? 99% chance it's drivers, which has nothing to do with stability a
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by fouric 5y ago
I count five logical fallacies here: > Another peak self-absorbed Hacker News comment Unnecessarily inflamatory - perhaps an ad-hominem attack, or appeal to emotion. > in which we learn that curiosity only means tinkering with devices
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by fouric 5y ago
Assume that the intern actually was in the wrong. Should you apologize for your behavior anyway? I'm not saying that Radon was wrong or Amajad was right, by the way. I'm constructing a hypothetical about how one should respond i
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by fouric 5y ago
"Never apologize to a mob."
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by fouric 5y ago
You can do the same thing with the Dactyl-Manuform layout! I regularly hit two modifier keys at once (e.g. shift and control) - it's rather easy to do, or at least for certain pairs (although the same property appears to apply to the M
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by fouric 5y ago
Alright, I'll take your benchmarks. Thank you. However, it doesn't matter. > It's not irrelevant. My point is that your ancient CPU with a horrible GPU is less powerful than a mid range smart phone. I literally pointed out
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by fouric 5y ago
I think that the Manuform's thumb clusters, while having slightly fewer keys (6 per hand vs 8), are more ergonomic than those of the Mitosis, due to allowing the thumbs to use their stronger movements (curling in vs. moving laterally).
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by fouric 5y ago
> In particular, oft-used commands[1] should be available through a single key (or a very short and accessible[0] key chord) if possible. Wouldn't a real ergonomic keyboard (i.e. Dactyl-Manuform or Squeezebox) with thumb clusters
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by fouric 5y ago
Even aside from security vulnerabilities, wouldn't the ability to write your own microcode for Intel CPUs be interesting for many hobbyists?
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by fouric 5y ago
> your 8 year old ThinkPad is less powerful than a $300 smartphone What does "more powerful" even mean? If you mean "better single-threaded CPU performance", I absolutely don't believe you. If you mean "bett
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> Also what does "bloated election app" mean? It means (1) high memory usage (although people are ridiculously oversensitive about this relative to CPU use) (2) long startup times (3) high ambient CPU usage and (4) a high-laten
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by fouric 5y ago
> The fastest of these previous typing-by-brain experiments allowed people to type about 40 characters, or 8 words, per minute. Ah, so it's previous record for BCI typing speed , not "typing speed" in general. Original he
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by fouric 5y ago
I'm not a fan of the CCP, but I don't believe several of your claims on the face of it. What makes you say that the CCP are smarter than the WW2 Germans? And why don't you think that they have allies?
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by fouric 5y ago
The code examples are in C and make no mention of any webtech or mobile. I'm pretty sure that this is meant for desktop interfaces.
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by fouric 5y ago
I'm curious about the four that you listed. Fixed is relatively obvious, but I don't have a handle on the conceptual models of the other three. Where can I learn more about them without reading through hundreds of pages of webte
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by fouric 5y ago
> It is a real privilege to watch the ever-quickening march of science in the 21st century. Although these inventions seem to rarely get much actual use. Although I can't find it, I saw an HN comment a few months ago about how ~doze
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by fouric 5y ago
Miriam Webster is even further from "collectively defined" than Wikipedia is.
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> Let’s say hypothetically that a Texas-based Instrument and parts maker has a part, let’s say that part is something like a TPS65892 (revision AB), and like all parts that Electronics Engineers (EEs) select, needs to be kitted exactly t
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by fouric 5y ago
I think that the perfect editor would use the perfect extension language...which, sadly, does not exist. As a Lisp+Emacs user, I'm biased towards elisp, but it's definitely not perfect, having multi-decade-old baggage that holds
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by fouric 5y ago
> Built with Rust. No Electron. No VimScript. No JavaScript. Great. So, what's the extension language? Rust is utterly inadequate to be a scripting language (if you have to recompile the text editor to reconfigure it, that's
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by fouric 5y ago
> NAT is literally the only thing stopping every single personal device in the world from being hacked. This is so wrong that it must be satire. NAT provides the very most basic protection possible, easily replicated (and surpassed) by
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by fouric 5y ago
How is this comment at all related to parent article? It isn't written to make programmers seem unique at all, and in fact explicitly states "Flow is not a concept unique to computer programming".
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by fouric 5y ago
These factors are left out because they're rarely relevant. > 1. Business value isn’t always a measure of coding velocity. Interruptions are often gifts in disguise. Yes, there's a known partitioning between design and implemen
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by fouric 5y ago
> Edit: Glad I'm being downvoted "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."[1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by fouric 5y ago
Those things are not mutually exclusive? You can say to someone "I want to punch you", and that can both be the truth and hostile. ...and yes, you're being extremely hostile. There's a reason you got banned off of that
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by fouric 5y ago
> USB-C bashing threads represent the 'HN echo chamber' for me. :) I don't understand how you can possibly call it an "echo chamber" when there are (1) reasoned arguments (2) supported by facts with (3) dissentin
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by fouric 5y ago
> it's difficult to determine compatibility without bricking the device This is the problem! This is what everybody talking about the specs doesn't get - it's difficult to (1) tell which spec a device claims to support
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by fouric 5y ago
The idea for this service is neat! However... Given the increasingly hostile behavior of Reddit's mods over the past few years, I would prefer a service that searches for non-Reddit subReddit-like-things. I don't want to feed
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by fouric 5y ago
> As a society we should really prevent anyone to have more than a certain reach, like for example 5k people viewing a post. Why? What benefit does this provide to everyone? How is this not just going to silence minority opinion?

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