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by fouric 4y ago
Interestingly enough, if all of the above is true, then one can imagine that this very HN submission might be the work of a member of the Indian government/police wanting to increase pressure on Razorpay by applying negative PR to the
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by fouric 4y ago
Funny, I've been able to convince some of my conservative friends and family to recycle and change their minds on some conservation issues. maybe, like I suggested, the problem is that you're doing it wrong
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by fouric 4y ago
I didn't read anything in the comment about the neighbor preventing him from recycling - did they edit that part out?
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by fouric 4y ago
> Just the dumbest damn people. They might be less stubborn if you were less condescending and spent more time actually trying to come up with good arguments to convince them. pretty clear that being arrogant never changes anyone's
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by fouric 4y ago
This is completely absurd - anti-spam PoW is not remotely comparable to crypto miners, and the electricity cost will be so far below the noise floor of owning a computer in the first place that you will literally not notice (and neither w
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by fouric 4y ago
> as well as filtering to reject commits that use your real email address This is both novel and incredibly useful to me. I know that I'm going to have to go through my old commits and do something awful like filter-branch in order
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by fouric 4y ago
The message I received was absolutely not "fairly tailored request for expert advice". The rest of it reads: > That’s exactly what has triggered us to build Language Lens, an AI Co-Pilot for developers. > So it helps to,
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Tell HN: Startups harvesting GitHub commit emails for marketing purposes
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by fouric 5y ago
Another way of putting that is "you are required to become a developer in order to use the tool." Great for developer community, but not great for the average user (or even the above-average user - say, 98th percentile) who want
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by fouric 5y ago
> embracing the opposite of the suckless zen is probably a large part of why modern software is so bad Yes, so don't embrace the opposite of suckless - shoot for a nice middle-ground. The suckless philosophy is antithetical to the
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by fouric 5y ago
> In contrast to ion, larswm, and wmii [...] dwm has no Lua integration, no 9P support, no shell-based configuration, no remote control, and comes without any additional tools, such as for printing the selection or warping the mouse Holy
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by fouric 5y ago
How do you find good cheap low-self-discarge NiMH cells? I couldn't find any research on them (like the post article but for NiMH) because of SEO spam, and Amazon reviews are (of course) worthless. Heck, I'm afraid to even buy N
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by fouric 5y ago
It's significantly faster for me on my i3-5010U - 5s for the modern UI and 1s for the HTML UI, unloaded. During startup, or when I'm doing something computationally expensive in the background, that 5s turns into 10s, so that di
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by fouric 5y ago
> I could see why a beginner would need a slower pace with more "filler" explanation and background information. But that's what links are for - allowing you to deduplicate information by merely providing a link to some ot
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by fouric 5y ago
> good managers And that's the key - good managers. Now, I think that it's pretty hard for most people to identify good vs bad managers, and that's why a lot of people who aren't sensitive to the difference get into
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by fouric 5y ago
Hmmm, can you clarify what you mean by "malicious grants of permission"? Do you mean when a piece of software (malware, in this case) tells the OS to give it permission to hide the dot, when the user hasn't consented? If that
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by fouric 5y ago
You make a very good point about adblockers having that negative second-order effect where they continue to let people have the expectation of getting things that are intrinsically expensive (storage, bandwidth, sysadmins) for free - I di
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by fouric 5y ago
> A nice experiment showing that if you enjoy a lesson, it usually means you make no progress, meanwhile hard practice actually does make you progress There was a post a few weeks ago whose comments had discussion about whether video lea
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by fouric 5y ago
The article addresses this: > And it does seem there could be a fix here; you already have to give applications permission to access your mic and camera, and it seems there should be some way for an app to disable the orange dot once its
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by fouric 5y ago
Sorry, I didn't pick up on your facetiousness! Your approach of "replacement over removal" (of bad habits) is a solid one that I've had some success with myself! Better to distract yourself from the bad thing than just l
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by fouric 5y ago
Only for specific personalities. I'm somewhat prone to Dota addiction, but 14 out of the 15 people I play with are not, and in both my case and that 15th person we've managed it with some difficulty. For most people it won't
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by fouric 5y ago
Two suggestions: (1) Try learning a highly complex game like Dota 2. You can't alt-tab (well, you can, but you'll likely die fairly quickly), and the sheer number of things going on at once will require your full attention... but
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by fouric 5y ago
> How the hell do I explore that without spending 2 hours derailed by fun history facts? Answer: I do not. Actually, the answer is "train your brain". Nobody's forcing you to get distracted and start clicking/tappin
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by fouric 5y ago
Huh, most of these patterns appear regularly in US federal government workplaces...
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by fouric 5y ago
> In Nim, converters are automatically ran to convert between types if needed. Huh, this is an interesting take. Instead of taking either of the extremes of "coerce types aggressively" (Perl, PHP, C (kinda)) or "no type co
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by fouric 5y ago
Every single one of the guidelines is there for a reason. In this case, like the guidelines say, complaining about voting makes for boring reading, adds no value, and actively makes HN worse - as do comments like your reply. Interesting and
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by fouric 5y ago
I would like to say that the device itself, if it works, is rock-solid. With that said: > Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. https://news.ycombinator.co
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by fouric 5y ago
C source code and paths are both representable by strings, true, but the fact that they're not actually strings is still important, because most people don't know that, and in the case of paths that leads to a lot of edge cases (i
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by fouric 5y ago
Does Docker abstract filesystem behaviors like this? I always thought that it stopped at the libc level - that is, libc is included in the container, but it calls the host kernel's system calls, and so inherits the host kernel's b
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by fouric 5y ago
You nailed it - getting rid of spaces and dashes and underscores is extremely human-hostile. People added spaces to the English language for a reason, and that's because they make it way easier to read. Your system is only intended for

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