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by jchook 5mo ago
The US fundamentally wants the oil to flow globally. Its secondary blockade of the Strait seems to be driven by optics and PR rather than strategic value.
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by jchook 5mo ago
Recently published https://hngram.com/ It’s an n-gram viewer for Hacker News comment data. Still working on daily data updates, etc but it’s live!
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by jchook 5mo ago
My first three stumbles were: - https://halupedia.com/07-hitlerwasrighthitlerwasrighthitlerw... - https://halupedia.com/0-0-fuck-ai - https://halupedia.com/67
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by jchook 5mo ago
Is the conjecture not trivially sound at an intuition level? It's surprising that this proof was difficult.
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by jchook 6mo ago
I would rename "the dark forest" to "the interesting horizon"
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by jchook 6mo ago
> To see Sid use his motivation and resources to solve his own problem is the core message (IMHO) of the hacker community. Hacking is about exploration beyond the known, and iterating towards a clear understanding.
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by jchook 7mo ago
Like the evergreen comic, "How would you like this wrapped?" by John Janik For decades policymakers have been trying to sell us the same surveillance state they accuse their adversaries of having, wrapped as either security or pro
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by jchook 7mo ago
Fool me once...
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by jchook 8mo ago
https://zulip.com/
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by jchook 8mo ago
A lot of vim users use comma as the leader key so this is probably natural for a lot of folks. Also seems convenient to be able to type ,<tab> to autocomplete over your custom commands, in case you forgot the name you assigned them.
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by jchook 1y ago
Incredible popular software lore here. Calibre and Kitty are two of my favorite pieces of software in the world.
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by jchook 1y ago
Obligatory reference to Simple Made Easy https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/ I watch this talk about once per year to remind myself to eschew complexity.
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by jchook 1y ago
Is that true? I thought wg-quick etc were just convenience functions and that it's relatively trivial to use iproute2 to configure a VPN link
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by jchook 1y ago
Wireguard ships with the Linux kernel so you only need to receive ~60 bytes of configuration information.
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by jchook 1y ago
Critical portions of the server are not FOSS. Also the core software forces you to join their servers. Also we have no proof that they are running the server software published on GitHub. This concern is exacerbated by the fact they didn&#x
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by jchook 1y ago
Oops I meant Revolt, the Rust-based alternative to Discord. Updated. Thanks. https://github.com/revoltchat
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by jchook 1y ago
Signal has a central, proprietary server. It's between impractical and impossible to run your own Signal server like you can with Matrix, Revolt, or Delta Chat for example. BlueSky has a similar approach (compare to Mastodon). Also Sig
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by jchook 1y ago
It's illegal to encrypt CB radio signals in the US and many other countries.
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by jchook 1y ago
Fascinated by so many replies of "actually Nix does this just fine, you just have to be an expert like me"
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by jchook 1y ago
Exemplifying the meme.. "[Doing American things Americanly]: What are we, ASIAN???"
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by jchook 1y ago
Details of the prompt can be found in appendix E… but there is no appendix E.
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Framer – No code website builder loved by designers(framer.com)
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by jchook 2y ago
Excellent video snipping resources. I love HN for this.
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by jchook 2y ago
ELI5 Why use Sublime over NeoVim?
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by jchook 2y ago
Friendly reminder that China publishes twice as many AI papers as the US[1], and twice as many science and engineering papers as the US. China leads the world in the most cited papers[2]. The US's share of the top 1% highly cited a
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by jchook 2y ago
Going for a tit-for-tat with China on censorship is so hypocritical for the US it undermines its entire global persona.
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by jchook 2y ago
You have data?
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by jchook 2y ago
Arguably China has won the day with the massive migration to RedNote.
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by jchook 2y ago
Was it? What was the real concern? And can you prove it?
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by jchook 2y ago
Yes, the tool snaps to I-frames when slicing. The `-c copy` flag ensures no re-encoding, and inherently limits cuts to keyframes. TBH it's an unfortunate side-effect sometimes as you cannot cut video or audio exactly where you want.

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