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by jp_sc 6d ago
If the poster stopped acting like an emo teen from the 90s (“Clownflare”, really?), he would be aware of the why of the late Linux usage spike, but maybe he wouldn’t like it (it is mostly because of “Omarchy”)
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by jp_sc 17d ago
This was definitely an acqui-hire. I'm glad Adam could find an exit like this.
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by jp_sc 27d ago
My reasons to switch to Linux from Windows were very little about "security" and plenty more about freedom. Sure, it was very nice avoiding running an antivirus, but that was just the cherry on top. I wanted the freedom to change
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by jp_sc 27d ago
Because they like their Arch setup? Because installing Omarchy is three to five minutes at most so three to five times faster? XD
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by jp_sc 27d ago
It's definitely not why *I* switched away from Windows
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by jp_sc 1mo ago
I don't think the worldwide trendings are right. The ones I see (with personalization disabled) are not all in arabic (?)
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by jp_sc 1mo ago
I don't remember the specifics, it might have been a simplification for the example
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by jp_sc 1mo ago
Must be Wednesday
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by jp_sc 1mo ago
I got a bug for not remembering it, a couple of years ago: https://jpscaletti.com/p/8/true-false-one-and-zero
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Fixing a bricked Framework laptop(quantum5.ca)
425 points by jp_sc 1mo ago|301 comments
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by jp_sc 2mo ago
its undersea until it arrives to the land it connects to
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by jp_sc 2mo ago
One big problem is that lately this kind of extremism has become more like a cult: even considering the idea that the “others” might have some truth (while being wrong about the rest) is treated like blasphemy
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by jp_sc 3mo ago
Last year alone, 40 people died in Spain in a train derailment. In total, how many people have died over the last 100 years because of something a software engineer did?
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by jp_sc 3mo ago
One of the bonus features of the movie Ratatouille has a short video-game sequence about it: http://youtube.com/watch?v=-2xD9ShhMZU
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by jp_sc 3mo ago
So a software evangelist pretending to be humanitarian aid
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by jp_sc 3mo ago
It's completely naive. To say "we need to be better," you first have to define who "we" are and, by extension, *who isn't*. Drawing that line is what constitutes a community in the first place. It's the en
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by jp_sc 4mo ago
"Chai" means "tea", so "Chai Tea" is "Tea Tea". "ATM" means "Automatic Teller Machine", so "ATM Machine" is "Automatic Teller Machine Machine". Both are mention
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by jp_sc 4mo ago
What is this, the "lean methodology" for OSS? Every other repo of that user is a placeholder with an ellaborated README but zero code.
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by jp_sc 4mo ago
I also always block traffic from China, India, Pakistan, and Russia, after observing that 90%+ of the spam/scanning was coming from those countries. At least for China, I imagine most of the real humans might use a VPN anyway
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by jp_sc 4mo ago
Yes, but it’s 20k and all the time in the world .
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by jp_sc 4mo ago
Why you would anyone eats at a restaurant when they can buy the ingredients at the supermarket and download recipes from the Internet? Why software companies pay for software instead of making it themselves? Same reason
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by jp_sc 4mo ago
Is there any charity (older than five years) where the majority of the money doesn’t go to administrative staff?
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by jp_sc 4mo ago
Established in 2009. Who started as president that year?
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by jp_sc 4mo ago
I think he's saying he uses his website's URL in his tutorial examples, and other tutorials have copied them as-is
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by jp_sc 4mo ago
And you know this because of your firsthand experience observing it... or because the media told you so? Considering how readily the media is willing to lie for engagement, the truth is more likely to be the opposite of what they report.
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by jp_sc 4mo ago
I see Haiku but not BeOS
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by jp_sc 4mo ago
At least you know it wasn’t written by AI… maybe it was left in a draft state because the author disliked the idea of being accused of writing it with AI
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Show HN: Proper, a Rails-shaped Python web framework(properproject.org)
2 points by jp_sc 4mo ago|1 comments
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by jp_sc 2y ago
Funny, I was thinking the same for the people under 30
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by jp_sc 4y ago
Or you can use tailwind-ui components that look way more polished. Another big advantage of the Tailwind approach is that you can copy any component you see on the web, paste it in your project, and it will look the same (unless custom cla

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