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by jotaen 11mo ago
Their “About” site is (just slightly) more insightful: > Using AI-powered web search, we continuously monitor your questions and send you an email notification when the status flips to what you're waiting for. via https:/&#x2F
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by jotaen 11mo ago
Not OP, but I’ve referenced the time stamps in my sibling comment. Also, “Be kind. Don't be snarky.” ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html )
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by jotaen 11mo ago
> First question after Moxie Marlinspike talk at the CCC conference was: "When will Signal not base itself on a mobile phone number, I am an activist from Iran" Not meant to be pedantic, but the question about phone numbers app
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by jotaen 11mo ago
Can you give an example? E.g., the MIT license wasn’t motivated by collaborative considerations, but it was mostly about the effectiveness and practicality of software distribution.
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Anchors don't work the way you think [video](youtube.com)
1 points by jotaen 1y ago|0 comments
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by jotaen 1y ago
I don’t know much about the MinIO project specifically, but to me it seems to be a common misconception that just because a maintainer provides their software project under a permissive license (such as AGPL, MIT, etc.) would necessarily im
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by jotaen 1y ago
Disagreeing with the “sour everyone's view of you” aspect is one thing, but you called out parent comment for a potential conclusion that they neither made nor intimated.
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by jotaen 1y ago
> intimating that if you have dementia you better kill yourself [...] is not ok. Parent comment doesn’t say this, does it?
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Three gripes about Go modules(jotaen.net)
1 points by jotaen 1y ago|0 comments
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by jotaen 1y ago
Have you agreed on terms of payment with your client?
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by jotaen 1y ago
> In particular, by not allowing the user to change indentation style Prettier makes JavaScript much more difficult to read. Prettier allows configuring the indentation style (tabs/spaces) and indentation size, see https:/&#x2
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by jotaen 1y ago
> I'm sorry but this reads like AI slop. Or maybe it's not AI slop, it's just regular human-generated slop, but regardless: it's useless. > For one: it's intentionally completely unverifiable. Sure, maybe the
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by jotaen 1y ago
Yeah, sorry if my terminology was unclear here: by “relicense” I colloquially meant to say “assign a different license to the project that is applicable for any work from that point onwards”. > Any previous licenses used (MIT here) bear
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by jotaen 1y ago
Why would this be surprising? The MIT license explicitly allows to relicense a project at any point. In this case, the Bear maintainer decided to start off with a permissive license and now exercised their rights to change to a more restric
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Functional Source License (FSL)(fsl.software)
2 points by jotaen 1y ago|0 comments
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by jotaen 1y ago
+1 for GoatCounter. I’ve been using it as well for a few years now, and I find it to be a good middle-ground between useful level of insight and respect for privacy. It’s very straightforward to self-host too.
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by jotaen 1y ago
I think there is some nuance to this: to me, it makes a difference whether you are counting page views in a coarse-grained, anonymous fashion, or whether you are going through all the hoops to find out as much as technically possible about
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by jotaen 1y ago
I think it’s important to acknowledge that peoples’ brains function differently. Only because whiteboard sessions are best for one person to exchange ideas, there may be other ways to do so that work out just equally well. E.g., someone els
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by jotaen 1y ago
Just a brief feedback on usage of the website: I’m not sure I understand what clicking on one of the projects on the homepage does. It always takes me to the same profile site of some “Anonymous Lurker” (supposedly me?) with some text writt
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by jotaen 1y ago
Fun fact: “Das Mädchen” (“little girl”, neuter) is diminutive form for “Die Mad” (“girl”, female). All diminutives in German are neuter, for whatever reason. You could do the same for “Der Knabe” (“boy”) → “Das Knäbchen” (“little boy”). Cur
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by jotaen 2y ago
I forgot to mention that the price ranges I cited refer to DB (German railway company); I’ve edited my initial post to clarify. I don’t know the pricing at SNCF (French railway company).
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by jotaen 2y ago
> One-way fares from €59.99 second class or €69.99 first class. The “from” bit is worth to stress here: with DB (German railway company), one-way fares may be up to €233.00 for second class or €384.00 for first class, depending on demand
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Not all binary state is boolean(jotaen.net)
2 points by jotaen 2y ago|0 comments
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by jotaen 2y ago
I agree. While it’s probably not possible to settle on defaults that work for each and every scenario, my personal preference is that factory defaults should tend to optimise for safety primarily. (Both operational safety, but also in regar
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by jotaen 2y ago
2022; previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30428602
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by jotaen 2y ago
While that may be a cute pun (but probably also only if you know the “like tinder but for meal planning” backstory), I think their current name is a much better choice overall, as it’s clear and concise on it’s own.
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by jotaen 2y ago
> Oh God it’s even got a subscription for it. This app is literally garbage. Can you elaborate on why you think it’s “garbage” when an indie dev is trying to make money off something they created? May I ask what you do for a living? (Jus
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by jotaen 2y ago
That was covered in the article, but as the author was already older than 30 years, it wouldn’t have been applicable for them. It also seems the Working Holiday visa is intended for “employment as an incidental activity of their holidays fo
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by jotaen 2y ago
The Elastic license doesn’t use the term “competitor”. To me, the definition of the limitation is actually pretty clear: > You may not provide the software to third parties as a hosted or managed service, where the service provides users
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by jotaen 2y ago
I think it’s cool how the process of submitting feedback is quite straightforward and low-friction! One question: is the layout of the widget customisable? I.e., mainly the font and colours? Because while the “splashy” comic-style makes for

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