kmarc

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by kmarc 4y ago
I think you are trying to find a technical solution to a social problem. Eventually technical solutions will be needed, yes. Right now it's unreal to even think about VPNs and proxies and customized phones etc. It's not a technica
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by kmarc 4y ago
It feels like this is a lost case... Since then I spent a couple months in Ecuador (and other SouthAmerican countries), and what I see, was similar: Less fortunate people, whose (only?) entertainment is TikTok/YouTube/Facebook con
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by kmarc 4y ago
> vpn > proxy These are solutions for ME and YOU when we are there as tourists (if we really want to chop off that $10 from our travel budget). Probably not a solution for people who have never heard of websites like Wikipedia.
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by kmarc 4y ago
Cool pet project, admirable engineering etc. My comment is about something else: net neutrality, as someone already mentioned. I was teaching English in Laos for school kids. I was amazed that some of their families struggle with providing
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by kmarc 4y ago
I recommend using slide on android: https://github.com/Haptic-Apps/Slide
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by kmarc 4y ago
This is.... oddly specific, but I verify it's true :-)
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by kmarc 4y ago
Since you seem to be the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room. Most probably you have a ton of $$$$ by this time, so leave that damn room (sabbatical, or simply quit), and use that money to do something which you maybe don
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by kmarc 4y ago
I ran into this with a person of romantic interest. Thankfully I never got addicted to social media; once I could see that a "break from social media" would be the only thing that could possibly help this person. It never worked o
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by kmarc 4y ago
16" MacBook Pro M1 Max 10coreGPU, 32coreGPU, 64GB RAM, 1TB SSD. I can't even find this model on apple.com, it costs close to €4.000. I use it to SSH, and log in to a VNC session. At least it's heavy.
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by kmarc 4y ago
Many companies did this in the past. Nowadays Java, Go, etc GCed languages are still used but not for the hot path anymore. They are a couple million times slower than what we need.
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by kmarc 4y ago
More precisely, this is not a feature of the terminals but of readline. https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/readline.3.html All engineers working with the command line (even after 35 years) really, real
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by kmarc 4y ago
Oh he was brilliantly playful with his musical cryptograms. Also see: * BACH Motif: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BACH_motif The letters of his name, B, A, C, H encoding a melody.
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by kmarc 4y ago
As a Hungarian, I love and hate this infographic at the same time.
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by kmarc 5y ago
That's the point though. You won't find any example, because none of these services would ever want guarantee of 100% data safety. That's why I encourage to think about what services we blindly trust without having safety mea
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by kmarc 5y ago
While I cannot comment on what changed in Evernote, eventually someone unhelpfully will ask you "WHAT? You didn't have backup?!", which is kind of a legit question. Until then, on Evernote's Tos [1] scroll down to "
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by kmarc 5y ago
Vim's non-linear undo[1] history is hard to beat. Set undofile [2] and you are done with local versioning. For visualisation of the undo tree, install undotree [3] [1] https://vimhelp.org/undo.txt.html#undo [2] https:
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by kmarc 5y ago
Doesn't work on Firefox@Android :-[
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by kmarc 5y ago
> One thing I'd love to see, is a TUI editor that focuses on providing hooks for developers to build deeper integration with various frameworks into the editor and it's autocomplete. But... Don't they already do that? I
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by kmarc 5y ago
Yes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30760084 There is also vimspector, which is more advanced, a full blown debugging solution, using LSP and its lesser known cousin, the debugger adapter protocol. However, its quite
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by kmarc 5y ago
to my surprise, vim has built-in support (:help termdebug) for gdb. It's not as chiselled as some GUI debuggers but still usable and makes it (visually) easier to debug in terminal. Accidently I also moved my mouse cursor over a variab
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by kmarc 5y ago
This used to be one of my there's-no-wrong-answer interview questions: what's the (philosophical) difference between a pull request and a merge request. Engineers start to think out loud about it, mention github and gitlab, etc et
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by kmarc 5y ago
Firefox (and AFAIK Chrome too) has native APIs for unloading/suspending tabs. I use [1] auto tab discard to configure background tab unloading after a certain period of time. Works very well, battery usage reduced greatly. [1]: https:
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by kmarc 5y ago
Someone mentioned on the reddit thread that after 200+ comments noone actually questioned if the story is true. On HN, there is one comment, and it does question if it's true. GOOD! I am curious if it's real or not. My bet is it&#
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by kmarc 5y ago
* learn languages * don't spend free time on professional development. I have a great job and very good salary right now, but it pisses me off how slowly I can pick up basic words/sentences when I travel. I'm very bad at lear
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by kmarc 5y ago
Sorry to hear that it became a failure. My PT uses a software exactly like this, and that made it possible that my progress was tracked during my months long vacation too, all online. The app: https://medbase.physiapp.com/
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by kmarc 5y ago
The PADI (suba diving) app barely works without constant internet connection, especially eLearning is useless with it once you are offline / have a shaky connection. Scuba diving spots on the world are rarely well covered with internet
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by kmarc 5y ago
Besides that it improved my salary, it made backpacker-like traveling much easier. Sitting on a bus from one to other town and having an hour or so downtime, I can browse, compare, and even buy my next flight ticket/room booking on th
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by kmarc 5y ago
Hmmm does my version have a presence monitor? I don't remember being bothered by this (using it on Linux desktop, android phone and android tablet)
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by kmarc 5y ago
For [1], I saw in the yesterday update that the web version also can sync secret chats. I don't have my laptop with me (for another month), so I have to check this, but based on the redesigned devices dialog, I can imagine that this is
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by kmarc 5y ago
I am amazed how high quality telegram's client apps are. Both on desktop (native), android, and even the web versions are feature full, native, blazing FAST. As I said once, telegram is not the best chat app I have to use, but the best

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