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by hk__2 3y ago
> I tend to view all platforms negatively because I am afraid that all are a virtual substitute to actual encounters and debates. They are not virtual substitute, they are actual debates but through a medium different than voice. Of cour
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> Like meth or alcohol abuse, it's a bad solution to a problem. Which other solution do you think of for someone who’s bored at an event, can’t go out, and doesn’t have anything more in their pocket than their phone? I don’t know wh
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by hk__2 3y ago
> Social Media creates the illusion of social connectivity. While I might tweet a reply to Garry Tan and he might like it. It doesn't mean we are best buddies. Why would that be an illusion? If he did read your response that counts
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> What are the motivations for people to be daily activate users these days? Honestly just curious. Why do you go on HN? That may be the beginning of a response since HN is a social platform.
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Thanks. > npm and gem behave like this No, `npm` has a couple aliases like "i" for "install", but you can’t use "in", "ins", "insta", etc. It has "view" and "version"
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Sure, but that makes it less relevant as an example in a comment on a story about London.
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> A lot of command line software already works that way, where you only need to type the minimum number of characters required to disambiguate a command, and as far as I know nobody has died yet as a result. Do you have an example? None
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Yes, because as a populated city it’s very young: it virtually didn’t exist in the 19th century while London was the most populated city of the whole world at the time. Even in the 1930s London had 300x the population of Riyadh. You have to
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Riyadh and Dubai are bad examples as they are in the middle of a desert.
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> Now it is honestly too expensive, £8 a pint in pub near work, it makes going out less fun. Aren’t the salaries higher as well? In Paris a pint is €7 on average (~£6) but according to Glassdoor the average SWE salary is only €53k/y
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> The delay was not on the HTML page. Nobody is saying that.
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I started a new job at a small company 3 years ago and the very first thing I did was to create a central documentation repository, using Jekyll for some "fancy" rendering. All you have to do is dump your knowledge in a markdown f
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by hk__2 3y ago
> browsers are capable of caching all sorts of things, even something as peculiar as an HTML page. Yes, and this is irrelevant to your previous comment: caching the HTML doesn’t cache the redirect itself.
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> The reason there isn't a delay the second click is because the redirect is cached locally in your browser. No, because it’s not an HTTP redirect. It’s an HTML page that redirects you using a meta tag, something that the browser do
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by hk__2 3y ago
> Why not publish the list? Users would know what not to submit in that case. Except maybe you’re worried about the list being heavily curated a certain way… The "certain way" is the experience of moderating HN. Publishing the
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by hk__2 3y ago
Shadow banning is one of the most effective ways to fight spam and harassment. Not being "honest" with spammers and harassers can often be a good thing.
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I would say that’s it’s well known among developers who follow the tech news, who (sadly) are a minority among all developers.
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> And it can handle Twitter scale now *in hosting costs.
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Print statements were a mistake. If you forbid breaking changes, you have no way to fix past mistakes in the language design. There’s noting inherently "right" in refusing to do breaking changes.
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Which websites?
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by hk__2 3y ago
And another related concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult
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> We never open sourced our coordination server because Headscale beat us to it. From what I understand, Headscale has not all the capabilities of Tailscale’s server. Excerpt from Headscale’s README: > Headscale's goal is to prov
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I’m not saying they do, just that you can’t know from the code alone.
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It’s using GPT-4 by default, but we can’t know what it uses for real since that’s in the environment config.
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Temptations of an open-source Chrome extension developer (2021)(github.com)
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> It looks quite polished but for an offline feature set OsmAnd~ has a lot more and is more established OrganicMaps is a fork of Maps.me, which is very well known among the general public: 55k ratings on the Apple Store and 50M downloads
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I didn’t knew that either, and there’s nothing embarrassing about it: pretty much every CLI tool that doesn’t have a clear name is an acronym (grep, cd, pwd, dd, yacc, etc).
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How do you avoid overfitting and how do you test performance?
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> Okay, but for people who DO know about basketball, this would make the article laborious. Well, then let’s close HN since every single article will be laborious for the people who DO know about the subject.
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With an introduction on the context and on the terms it would use in the rest of the article, a bit like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37034987 or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37034996 .

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