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by kleiba 7mo ago
Besides the technical challenges, how difficult is it to handle the legal aspects? I imagine taxes, liabilities, etc. must play a big role?
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by kleiba 7mo ago
I didn't downvote you, but I've noticed recently a trend on HN that just asking a normal question (possibly to start a discussion) gets downvoted for no apparent reason and without any explanation. Not good etiquette, in my opinio
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by kleiba 7mo ago
Looking at the video at the bottom of the page, the robot looks like an old man, especially in the trash bag throwing sequence. Compare that to the recent Chinese kung-fu robots video...
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by kleiba 8mo ago
Similarly to why you can pay 7-digit prices for a watch.
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by kleiba 8mo ago
...which is probably the better alternative, since having to hit ESC three times just in order to quit the current command seems excessive.
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by kleiba 8mo ago
No.
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by kleiba 8mo ago
Quick reminder of the "Slaughterbots" video from 9(!) years ago, when the content was still sci-fi. Well, we're catching up... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fa9lVwHHqg
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by kleiba 8mo ago
> I would press ESC repeatedly in Emacs, three of which are enough close a window. You can configure every combination of keystrokes in Emacs - just bind M-ESC ESC to something harmless (such as, e.g., not function at all). One possibi
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by kleiba 8mo ago
Hey, no terminal shaming here!
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by kleiba 8mo ago
I think there's some truth to what you say - at the same time, a lot of successful products have names that basically have no meaning at all, or at least none that's related to what the project actually does ("Windows",
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by kleiba 8mo ago
The "libre" terms originates from the "free software" movement which does not like the term "open source" on philosophical grounds. In English, "free" has multiple meanings, and the romance language-d
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by kleiba 8mo ago
Yeah, I know, it's pretty cool... because, frankly, who's got that much time to waste??
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by kleiba 8mo ago
> This struct we saw earlier had 700+ of optional fields. In Rust you would never design a struct like this. You would pick a different layout long before reaching 700 Options. But SQL schemas often look like this. Really? I've ne
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by kleiba 8mo ago
I recently had good luck writing a paper in org-mode. The .tex export has been around forever but I never really played with it - unlike other Emacs users, I don't actually use org-mode that much. But in the end, it worked surprisingly
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by kleiba 8mo ago
I wish I could read dark-mode but my eyes somehow cannot handle it (not just on that website, in general).
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by kleiba 8mo ago
Geez, how much space can you spend praising yourself and your own achievements? Gotta work on your prompts, buddy.
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by kleiba 8mo ago
Firefox is about the only piece of software in my setup that occasionally crashes. I say "occasionally" for lack of a better word, it's not "all the time", but it is definitely more than I would want to. If that was
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by kleiba 8mo ago
There's also a middle ground, i.e., renowned publishers who aren't free but still publish everything as OA. One example is Dagstuhl Publishing for CS research papers.
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by kleiba 8mo ago
We actually moved to Europe a number of years ago, and have lived in two different countries here. In my experience, there's often alternatives for 2FA that they'll tell you about once they know that you do not own a phone.
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by kleiba 8mo ago
Downvote? Really? You're not allowed to ask a question any more?
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by kleiba 8mo ago
> Smartphone apps have unfortunately become a hard requirement for basic day-to-day activities. I've never owned a smartphone in my life and are not planning on getting one, and I'm going through life just fine.
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by kleiba 8mo ago
Luckily, producing milk is completely environmentally friendly! /scnr
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by kleiba 8mo ago
That's also why the Handmade Hero series took more than 600 episodes to eventually go nowhere.
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by kleiba 8mo ago
Aren't there specific IDEs for OCaml like for more mainstream languages?
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by kleiba 8mo ago
The world at large always sucks. Most enjoyable things in life do not come out of worrying about the world but from things close to you, your family, your friends, your community. Focus more on the things you can actually have an influence
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by kleiba 8mo ago
Discussed before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44038209 (246 comments)
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by kleiba 8mo ago
Because they're waiting for Arnie to do it for them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPqUtKQaJFk
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by kleiba 8mo ago
Is Typst getting some traction recently?
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by kleiba 8mo ago
No, they don't need to be cooked, you can certainly eat them raw.
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by kleiba 8mo ago
The starch in the oats get released when you heat them up which is the reason the oat meal becomes creamy. The pectin from the apples helps, too.

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