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by l0b0 6y ago
There are some good ideas in here, but `--qsn` is described[1] like this: > Print filenames ONE PER LINE. If a name contains a newline or other special char, it's QSN-encoded like 'multi-line \n name with NUL \0 byte' Thi
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by l0b0 6y ago
Aren't AIs already better at solving CAPTCHAs than humans? Every time I see one of those fucking things I know some fellow thinking human being has decided that nope, I shouldn't be allowed to browse the web using privacy-protecti
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by l0b0 6y ago
Pairing is the solution to this. I worked for four years doing trunk-based development, and pair programming is basically live code reviews.
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by l0b0 6y ago
After working with YAML and JSON (and XML and INI and CSV and so on), it seems like a) JSON is equivalent and simpler for basic structures, b) JSON + jq or a language library is better than YAML's complex syntax (like not being able to
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by l0b0 6y ago
Oh, I would not want to use any kind of password manager with built-in synchronization either; an integrated solution presents a much more attractive target for black hats. I've been using KeePassXC and its predecessors, and sync to ot
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by l0b0 6y ago
The problem here is that the system exposes localized aliases in one context ("Bin" in the "folder" list) but only supports underlying identifiers in another context ("trash" in search). The author is too har
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by l0b0 6y ago
Pixave[1]. Looks like it's still the same people; the email address at the top of the page is still the same as back then. I was a bit reticent at first, but they were super helpful, including coordinating receiving the photos from my
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by l0b0 6y ago
Dad had about 2200 negatives lying around, and asked one day if I could scan them. Luckily I realized this can actually be done dirt cheap by professionals. I ended up with ~300+ GB of TIFFs at almost 8k resolution for £400. <20p per i
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by l0b0 6y ago
To paraphrase(!), in a way you're paraphrasing your thoughts when speaking. I think I do this a lot while programming, and certainly rubber ducking (or the human equivalent, a quick sanity check with a colleague) seems to be a good way
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by l0b0 6y ago
Free utilities with well-defined success criteria (cat, tac, head, tail, ls, rm, cd, etc.) are generally rock solid. And there are some examples of excellent desktop software (Firefox, KeePass.?.?, GNOME Terminal). However, many GUI appli
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by l0b0 6y ago
You'd basically need a server in your home to avoid massive latency issues. Even then it's not easy to get native-feeling feedback across the board.
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by l0b0 6y ago
Workaround: terminate and disable Google Drive.
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by l0b0 6y ago
Yikes, 600+ upvotes and no response? There must be thousands of users frothing at the mouth by now.
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Ask HN: Why am I getting Google Drive notifications about strangers' documents?
57 points by l0b0 6y ago|21 comments
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by l0b0 6y ago
Your argument assumes that bringing in a giant JS framework has zero negative effects, but this should never be taken for granted: - The framework may well be buggy for a small percentage of users who happen to this time not include som
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by l0b0 6y ago
Funny but disingenuous, since "predicts" implies that the model was created before the 1960 election. This no more predicts a 15-bit value than getting two specific bytes out of a PRNG with a specific seed. It's just like tha
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by l0b0 6y ago
> I think great UX designers just grew up naturally having much more empathy towards others and having a much better ability to place themselves in others shoes and see the world from their eyes. If UX designers are so good at empathy, h
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by l0b0 6y ago
Thank you for the offer, but there are already several people reviewing it.
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by l0b0 6y ago
The title isn't fixed, but it'll be the first Bash book from Newline ( https://www.newline.co/ ).
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by l0b0 6y ago
I'm working on a book about Bash scripting which is currently in the review phase, and it includes most of these. For graceful exit I recommend `trap cleanup EXIT` rather than specifically trapping SIGINT, mostly because the special ex
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by l0b0 6y ago
Some issues after using for a few minutes: - Registration via Google, even for a non-Google email address. I really don't want any third parties scooping up my address. - The price should have a currency associated with it. You might n
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by l0b0 6y ago
Is there something similar for Postgres? I realize it might be a lot shorter, but any system big enough has its share of gotchas.
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by l0b0 6y ago
Some open source authors are also annoyed by: 5) Reporters not spending hours getting familiar with the build system to verify the bug in origin/master, even though it's been there in the three last stable releases. 6) Not provi
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by l0b0 6y ago
Thank you, came to say something similar. This is basically Machiavellian corporate politics, by someone clearly bitter at the way the system works. The bit I found useful in there is the idea that the people who don't care about quali
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by l0b0 6y ago
As per my original comment, literally any separator other than NUL (or slash if you're only ever dealing with filenames, not paths, even though that would be hella confusing) breaks with some filenames. Just use NUL.
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by l0b0 6y ago
Re-reads Yes. It is a bit of work, but not huge: - Use natural in-repo CI configuration like GitLab and Travis. That way a fork of the project can easily establish an identical pipeline. I can't imagine going back to Jenkins or the l
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by l0b0 6y ago
Doesn't work: $ cd "$(mktemp --directory)" $ touch $'foo\'\n\'bar' $ ls --quoting-style=shell-escape-always | while read -r escaped; do > eval "filename=$escaped" > echo &qu
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by l0b0 6y ago
Except filenames can contain quotes as well as newlines, so it is still not possible to parse the output of ls[1][2]. In fact, filenames can contain any byte except for NUL (the terminator) and forward slash (the directory separator). D
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by l0b0 6y ago
No, because they inevitably lack at least one (usually all) of the following: - A working CI pipeline. - Comprehensive tests. - Enforced linting/formatting. - A script (or at least documentation) to set up a dev env from scratch (inclu
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by l0b0 6y ago
How do we, users, makers and managers alike, move away from this awful state of affairs? Some random ideas: - If anyone manages to build some truly fantastic software for massive numbers of end users, maybe those users will start expecting

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