j1elo

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by j1elo 3y ago
I think like you. But also, one does not necessarily know beforehand that they will want to make money. Like a project could be born out of pure generosity, but after the happy initial phase the project might get too heavy on the maintenanc
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by j1elo 3y ago
Well, Open source is NOT a business model (and your business will fail if you think that it is) https://anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com/2018/08/24/open-source-... Previous HN discussion: https://new
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by j1elo 3y ago
Actually that comment derives onto this other issue, where the merits of the decision are discussed: https://github.com/prettier/prettier/issues/15956 and to be honest, it didn't look like silly to me :)
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by j1elo 3y ago
No, I don't have muscle memory, and in fact you have introduced me to the Ctrl+Shift+B shortcut to show or hide the Bookmarks Toolbar! :-D I won't use it though, because I have it visible and it's not something one typically
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by j1elo 3y ago
Everyone is writing their pet peeves, so here are mine: * Having a large tree of bookmark folders, navigating it to add a new bookmark is horrible in the small pop-up that is the "Add Bookmark" UI. * The Bookmarks sidebar allows
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by j1elo 3y ago
adtech monetizes your browsing data by collecting it across lots of sites we visit, and aggregating them all to build a profile. It's true that wiping cookies was the most effective to prevent building up this trail of cookies from eve
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> my browser doesn't store logins/cookies, so it'd be another login I have to do on each session. To be fair, that's a burden you imposed on yourself. But I agree that requiring an account just to browse and read co
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by j1elo 3y ago
Nope, the article's title itself has been editorialized, it appears. I submitted this with the HN bookmarklet [1], so the submission title is untouched from what it was at that moment in time. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.c
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Boeing Disaster Proves Americans Businesses Greedy Mentality Is Broken(businessinsider.com)
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by j1elo 3y ago
I went to check on the service, thinking about the 1.50€ a coffee might cost here :) but 6€ (+ taxes!) feels too steep for the value I'd get from it. Bitwarden is my frame of reference at 1€/month, and it is the most valuable tool
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by j1elo 3y ago
I was about to open a Mastodon account, but because I don't really use to publish anything too often anyway, instead left it for later. A couple month passed and the instance I had in mind, closed for good. I've been told before i
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by j1elo 3y ago
It's for fun. I just want to have them making the effort to realize that they shouldn't drop physical menus altogether. Also some times I didn't feel like doing the theatrics, and upon asking for a menu, they'd say &quot
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by j1elo 3y ago
I just play dumb and ask for a physical menu, claiming that my phone broke this morning. Adapt the experiment for the number of people. With 2, the other one might say "and I'm out of battery". 3 could be "mine I forgot
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by j1elo 3y ago
I think a useful iteration of that pattern is one called Functional Options : * https://dave.cheney.net/2014/10/17/functional-options-for-fr... * https://github.com/uber-go/guide/bl
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by j1elo 3y ago
To be honest for me when someone talks about "best practices" I expect it to be actual best practices that usually get documented somewhere that is a documentation resource well regarded by the "community" of that tool
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by j1elo 3y ago
This touches tangentially on a very interesting idea apart from contexts, at least for me as I've been recently learning Go: > it’s an anti-pattern for libraries to start their own goroutines. Best practices dictate that you should
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by j1elo 3y ago
Most relevant for anyone who also had this confusion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4K_resolution#2160p_resolution
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by j1elo 3y ago
Only 6hrs ago this comment summarizes a big part of what's wrong with the streaming model today [1]: > Disney+ removed Crater ~7 weeks after it was released, purely to reduce residuals and claim losses for lower tax bills[2]. [1]:
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by j1elo 3y ago
Curious about one of the technical details, I'm only asking to learn more about the limits of the RPi: couldn't this all be done only with the Raspberry Pi, using all those GPIO pins that it has? Feels like it is being underutiliz
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by j1elo 3y ago
The CT scan page https://www.scanofthemonth.com/scans/coffee mentions that detail too: Take it off the heat before the volcanic sputtering phase at the end; this only adds bitterness to your coffee. . Maybe that'
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by j1elo 3y ago
Well, Mongo decided it doesn't really work. At least not for them, anyway. This is one of the most notorious case of relicensing from Open Source to source available cases, so it might be interesting for you to look into the reasons (i
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by j1elo 3y ago
> frequency hopping That this is possible, and allows to maintain a dual connection to an AP and an ad-hoc connection to another device for AirDrop, sounds amazing. Now I want to learn more about that technique and where/how it
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by j1elo 3y ago
Apple usually does excellent integrations between their devices. But I haven't used AirDrop so I'm not familiar with how it works: in order to create an ad-hoc wireless connection, if the devices were already connected to some wif
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by j1elo 3y ago
> tcf-agent is [...] probably the second biggest security vulnerability after passwordless root SSH. I thought that passwordless SSH is actually a good idea in general for servers? Assuming, that is, that the public/private key lo
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by j1elo 3y ago
Just like the recent case of Mazda sending a Cease and Desist to someone writing an integration: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37990990 I would suggest complying. Then, probably, a clone of the repo could maybe sho
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by j1elo 3y ago
But of course they won't charge less to compensate for the reduced offering, will they?
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by j1elo 3y ago
This made me think... it would be awesome to build for my parents a picture frame that could show family photos, and was integrated with an LLM, such that e.g. my mother could say "now I want to see a photo of us during last years&#x27
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by j1elo 3y ago
How about other online learning sites like Babbel.com? Has anyone around used it and can comment on how good, effective, or otherwise it is? On thinking about learning a new European language, I had thought about using Duolingo for the firs
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by j1elo 3y ago
It's cristal clear that this page has been written for people who already know what they are looking at; the first line of the first paragraph, far from describing the tool, is about some qualities of it: " Polars is written from
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by j1elo 3y ago
I love all the comments that I'm reading here, but for most of the cases that are being presented, I'm having a hard time imagining myself needing to do the same, because for the most part there is always an app that already cover

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