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by hnlmorg 1y ago
I’d imagine that differs from county to country. For example the risks of skidding might be higher in Finland due to the colder climate. Whereas in the UK, black ice isn’t as common so days when it’s icy, the best advice is just to take it
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
> The things all being described are way beyond non trivial to solve, and they'd need to be solved for every language. Except it already is a solved problem. If languages compile to a common byte code then you just need one tool. Yo
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
grep is great. My point isn’t that we shouldn’t use it. My point is that we shouldn’t be held back by it.
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
grep is half a century old now. If we can’t progress our ecosystem because we are reliant on one very specific 50+ year old line parser, then that says more about the inflexibility of the industry to move forward than it does about the “new
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
The lack of earbuds is a welcome change because the included ones were almost always shit. Either sound quality wise, build quality wise, or simply just the lack of different silicon moulds for different ear shapes. I do miss the power bric
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
A lot of software from the Linux/UNIX world will have macros to support Windows even without cygwin. For example with tcpdump: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Athe-tcpdump-group%2Ftcpdu... So it’s not quite the same
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
Ahhh. It must just have been shell scripts, Perl and the likes that I ran under cygwin then. Thanks for correction
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
It’s been a while since I’ve played with Cygwin and I do recall there were a lot of stuff compiled for Windows, but couldn’t it also run Linux software run natively too? Admittedly back then I was working for a place that mainly developed i
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
That’s arguably an easy task though because there is more commonality due to POSIX. But there are plenty of examples of compatibility layers like this throughout computing history. WINE, cygwin, Linux compat, etc. Microsoft even went down t
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
Even that’s not true. cygwin, mingw, and others have been around for decades.
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
You’re making a lot of assumptions about me when you don’t know anything about me. > From the way you fixated on the battery after going through that part, it clearly didn't even come to your mind that the shells can be heavier than
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
You’re arguing a lot but ignoring what other people are saying. It’s pretty clear from your other comments that you have distain for “software jockies”, but that doesn’t mean that we are idiots who don’t understand how hardware works. Case
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
> The void between software jockeys and hardware world sometimes makes me feel numb. Comments like the above are completely unnecessary and against the rules on HN
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
> XREAL is DisplayPort Alt Mode + USB for gyros. It's also wired only. I know what Xreal uses. As I said, I have a pair > DP needs 10-40Gbps of bandwidth, doesn't work wireless. And as I also said, having a cable is a featur
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
> How do the glasses serve as a "dumb camera to your phone"? What protocol do they use to do this? It doesn't exist. It's something that must be solved at the OS layer. USB webcams have been a thing for years ;) I h
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
Loads. I’ve got a pair of Xreal glasses and use it regularly.
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
It’s called Murex: https://github.com/lmorg/murex It’s a typed shell. So you can do jq-like data manipulation against a plethora of different documents. Unlike Zsh et al that are still ostensibly limited to just whites
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
There’s loads of good shells and text editors written in other languages. I’m the author of a shell written in Go and it’s more capable than Zsh.
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
…and Linux, Android, WebOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonflyBSD, GNU Hurd, Minix, QNX, Inferno, L4, FreeDOS, OpenSolaris forks like Illumos, OpenIndina and SmartOS, the various embedded real time OSs, the various Sony PlayStation and Nin
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
That wasn’t my experience in the UK. Sony Ericsson dominated the high end consumer phones. They supported Java games, Google Maps, could play MP3s, and so on and so forth. These feature phones weren’t nearly as advanced as the iPhone but th
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
Nokia was already in decline before the iPhone came along. Sony Ericsson and Motorola, and to a lesser extent, Samsung, had supplanted Nokia as the fashionable handsets for consumers. I think the iPhone more directly killed Palm and Blackbe
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
Consumers don’t use protocols, they use branded software. Hence why Microsoft’s “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish” is/was so effective.
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
That already happens. Content creators have merchandise, patron exclusives, fan clubs and so on and so forth. The problem isn’t that other revenue streams don’t exist. It’s that they’re still dependent on the whims of YouTube to get their b
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
I’m not being defeatist. I’m literally just pointing out the reality of consumer trends. There is oodles of research into this topic. It isn’t something I’ve just made up. It’s why analytics exist to explore website user journeys and then p
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
Same problem applies: That’s another site to read. Another app to download. Another product to discover. I nearly didn’t even open the link because I didn’t want to learn something new before I’d had my morning cup of earl grey. Chances are
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
The GP is still correct. People are lazy. If you add even a small complication for people to consume content, then it doesn’t matter how much respect that content creator has, people will just follow someone else instead. Google knows this;
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
You shouldn’t compare backwards. Saying “at least x isn’t as bad as y” doesn’t further a discussion, it only acknowledges denial about just how bad the problems are with x. This is particularly true when we weren’t even discussing y (in our
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
The JavaScript invented by Eich is nothing like the clusterfuck that is the modern JavaScript ecosystem. And modern node.js code will look nothing like the JavaScript Eich developed for Mozilla. Equally, PHP3 is worlds apart from modern PH
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
PHP might have a bad reputation but I honestly don’t think JavaScript is a better language in real world terms. I do get why JS appeals to people, but switching from PHP to JS feels a little winning an internet argument — you might feel sma
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
When Netbooks were popular, laptops were expensive and heavy, and smartphones weren’t anything like what they are today. Netbooks were the ultimate portable productivity tool. Journalists would write about how they could take them on site a

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