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by jolmg 10mo ago
> check out some of the cheaper Garmin smart watches. They use MIP displays so the battery life runs about 2 weeks Same deal with the watch of the article. It uses the same display: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46
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by jolmg 10mo ago
> but i think people should go out more and prefer quality over quantity Whether you find higher quality in your local area depends on your local area and what you're buying. More generally applicable, you can find higher quality wi
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by jolmg 10mo ago
I think a parent should be able to give their kid access if they deem their kid mature enough. If the kid can handle social media without it becoming an addiction or a self-esteem issue or similar, then it would generally be a net positive.
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by jolmg 10mo ago
> AFAIK they are not "those in power". AFAIK nobody here is. The point is that with relevance to the current discussion on potential future age-verification laws, only the widest definition matters, because that's what&#x2
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by jolmg 10mo ago
Doesn't matter what you want it to mean. What matters is what those in power want it to mean. It's very easy to stretch the definition to cover all sites where people can post content for strangers to see, or stretch it even wider
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by jolmg 10mo ago
Names fall on a spectrum on this argument. Sodium is not really random because of the use of "salt" on crypto. It's like saying that libsodium is part of your crypto. awk is more random. The argument goes stronger with projec
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by jolmg 10mo ago
That's part of the point, I believe. It's not about being always able to guess the function from first sight. It's also about the function and name serving as mnemonic to each other once you understand how it got named.
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by jolmg 10mo ago
Is "no contract" to be taken super-literally? Do they not ask to sign a terms-and-conditions document at least? or ask for ID at least to ensure you're a resident of the jurisdiction? I always thought "no contract"
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by jolmg 10mo ago
Someone was probably the first to call their valve a butterfly valve. Emacs can also be taken to be a category of editors. There are multiple emacs-derived editors.
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by jolmg 10mo ago
It's still to his point: > Even when engineers get creative, there’s logic: a butterfly valve actually looks like butterfly wings. You can tell how the name relates to what it actually defines, and how it can be memorable. Editor MA
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by jolmg 10mo ago
Cellphone service providers will most likely be unwilling to start a contract with a child, so the child can't get a SIM on their own. Also if the parent wants to make sure that the SIM card they get can't be used with another pho
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by jolmg 10mo ago
Just because it's bad, doesn't mean it's fine if it gets way worse. There's a difference between individual platforms potentially selling data with aggregators maybe finding ways to fallibly join them together, and the g
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by jolmg 10mo ago
Parents can still confiscate their children's belongings even if the child bought them. Imagine a child buys large speakers and puts them on blast with windows open in the middle of the night. Doesn't matter if the child bought th
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by jolmg 10mo ago
A store that asks for ID before letting someone buy a porn mag will have an employee check with their own eyes and then return the ID. By the time the person is out the door, any record of who they were is basically gone. The record is just
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by jolmg 10mo ago
No luck necessary. Not like you need permission from your child to deny them things. You can get a dumb phone since having a phone (not necessarily smart) is a good idea. There's also parental controls on at least Android smartphones t
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by jolmg 11mo ago
Seems perfectly reasonable to consider money management to just refer to management of money in one's ownership. Re: mortgages. IDK how things are where you're at, but from what I've seen, with houses of equal valuation, the
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by jolmg 11mo ago
Sorry, I should probably think more widely, but I was just considering Linux distros. > /bin is the "standard" location for bash on a subset of Linux distributions Considering "location" such that it includes &#x
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by jolmg 11mo ago
Worked for me, but the way you described it has issues: 1. You chmod my_script twice. 2. Did you chmod u+x /bin/my_lang too? Since you put it in /bin, are you sure the owner isn't root?, in which case your user wouldn&#x
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by jolmg 11mo ago
> This entire article is based on an assumption that this is somehow so obviously bad that there doesn't even need to be an explanation or defense of any kind of that idea. I'm not reading it like that. The tone is just one of
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by jolmg 11mo ago
Because /bin is the standard location for bash. The only one that breaks that expectation is NixOS (and maybe GuixSD?), apparently. I'm surprised they didn't symlink /bin or put a stub. Last time I tried NixOS was like 1
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by jolmg 11mo ago
It is possible for the shell to handle it. From zshall(1): > If the program is a file beginning with ‘#!', the remainder of the first line specifies an interpreter for the program. The shell will execute the specified interpreter on
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by jolmg 11mo ago
> Although this is probably the easiest way to implement '#!' inside the kernel, I'm a little bit surprised that it survived in Linux (in a completely independent implementation) and in OpenBSD (where the security people m
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by jolmg 11mo ago
Seems very unlikely for most sites to attract enough attention to get a DDOS. Searching "cloudflare outages": https://hn.algolia.com/?q=cloudflare+outage Cloudflare apparently has outages every 1-2 years or so.
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by jolmg 11mo ago
My 2 cents: Police body cameras capture events at random locations. These other cameras are fixed in place and can more reliably be used to stalk people.
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by jolmg 11mo ago
I imagine it's uncomfortable to grip since you need to be careful to not press a key doing so. Since you can't rely on fingers much for grip, you could put more force pressing downward with your wrist but that would also add frict
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by jolmg 11mo ago
Wonder if they'll ship worldwide.
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by jolmg 11mo ago
It also allows drawing on top. I find it convenient to screenshot / take picture of some code / error log / terminal output then circle some bit, draw some arrows, or do other types of drawings to draw attention to things. Em
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by jolmg 11mo ago
I think they understand that. They're saying they dislike TUIs and prefer CLIs because CLIs are composable.
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by jolmg 1y ago
> Passwords are protected with an anonymity model, so we never see them (it's processed in the browser itself), but if you're wary, just check old ones you may suspect. That could mean one might be able to disconnect from the i
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by jolmg 1y ago
> The national government doesn't just let its citizens slide into some healthcare-less, unbanked purgatory simply for not having a phone. Unfortunately, I think that depends on whether the portion of citizens without a phone is sig

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