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by laserbeam 6mo ago
1. The video is amazing. It does deserve a shoutout. 2. I actually prefer when HN links to articles rather than videos. I kind of expect interesting reads, not watches when I open this forum.
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by laserbeam 6mo ago
If that's so, it's really poorly communicated. I strongly recommend full sentences for that.
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by laserbeam 6mo ago
> It points out that the compliant subjects who delivered the shocks weren't always following the procedure they were given perfectly. Which is, of course, expected, since people in general don't follow instructions 100% perfec
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by laserbeam 7mo ago
That’s my feeling when reading nixos forums. People are willing to help but don’t realize how little newbies know about nix when asking for help. The first month of nixos was a massive uphill climb for me, and that knowledge doesn’t stick w
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by laserbeam 7mo ago
Can you share some good examples of how you use nix shells with python for one off scripts? I am still figuring out how python interacts with nixos :(
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by laserbeam 7mo ago
This website needs to be simpler, snappier and polite on the homepage. I should be able to send it as a quick reply to anyone doing the deed. Just like nohello.net
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by laserbeam 7mo ago
To be fair, if I had a company and won a lawsuit like that... a lawsuit which makes for a good underdog story, I'd let my PR team use it as much as they desire! That lawsuit is a golden asset for them now.
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by laserbeam 7mo ago
It needs a Discord Server because MS Teams is just that good X_X
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by laserbeam 7mo ago
I would honestly expect AI ads to be invisible, and for them to just be injected by the provider as part of the prompt. For example, you ask for something about firefox, but the AI tells you that firefox has a nasty ugly way to solve your p
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by laserbeam 8mo ago
> against the spirit of science to keep them from the general public Within science, participants have always published descriptions of methodology and results for review and replication. Within the same science, participants have never
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by laserbeam 8mo ago
Ladybird has a strong "all dependencies built in house" philosophy. Their argument is they want an alternative implementation to whatever is used by other browsers. I'd argue they would never use a third party library like se
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by laserbeam 8mo ago
Defer is not spooky action at a distance. It is an explicit statement that gets executed as written. Unlike (for example, a familiar feature which C doesn’t have) operator overloading… which causes code that looks like one thing (adition fo
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by laserbeam 8mo ago
I would say the complexity of implementing defer yourself is a bit annoying for C. However defer itself, as a language feature in a C standard is pretty reasonable. It’s a very straightforward concept and fits well within the scope of C, ju
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by laserbeam 8mo ago
The problem is notepad itself would download and execute bad stuff if you click the evil link. If you would paste that same link in a browser you'd be ok. And the problem is a notepad app is expected to be dead simple, have few feature
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by laserbeam 8mo ago
Can we somehow get age verification without IDs? Age verification itself is OK as an idea. I’m happy to show ID to buy alcohol at the store… but the store clerk doesn’t take a photo of that ID and store it in logs somewhere forever. Can we
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by laserbeam 9mo ago
For weak bank logins, my guess is that reimbursing all account takeovers is cheaper than having a complex login process that would scare away non-technical customers. Or, well, I could see myself making that decision if I were more versed i
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by laserbeam 9mo ago
I found that moving between empty lines is the nicest way to navigate most code across all programming languages, markup languages and just regular text. I don’t have to think, I don’t have to count, I just move and select text big chunks a
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by laserbeam 10mo ago
The insane behavior in the post is not that you get fancy completions, but that the completion does not match the preview. If the computer starts doing A when you asked it B, it is equivalent to a trash can.
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by laserbeam 10mo ago
> I know picking the right defaults is hard I think we understand that UX problem much better now than developers did back in the 70s. In general, not just for ss/lsof
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by laserbeam 10mo ago
How will this hit OSS projects which rely heavily on github actions? I’m thinking of projects like nixpkgs, which is the backbone of nixos and always has dozens of actions queued or running. (I am using nix as an example for scale, but I am
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by laserbeam 10mo ago
Ask yourself. If you want things to be encrypted by default in the world, would a florist be able to self host nextcloud?
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by laserbeam 10mo ago
I know you are not being facetious. My problem is random Joe on the street sees it as a bug. He really does care more about actually being able to talk with his wife than Signal’s mathematically correct principles. He needs it to be reliabl
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by laserbeam 10mo ago
Unfortunately, those are 2 different problems. It’s easy to have servers store encryption keys to make https work. You only need to encrypt trafic between you and a server for 5 seconds at a time. It’s hard for personal communications. The
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by laserbeam 10mo ago
Someone needs to design a super dumb and robust system where I can safely store all my keys on all devices I use an account. The fact that whatsapp, signal and other platforms tend to have a primary device for keys is bonkers to me. A prima
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by laserbeam 10mo ago
I admit, it is a good acquisition announcement. I can’t remember the last acquisition announcement that was kept for more than 1-2 years. Leadership changes, priorities shift…
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by laserbeam 10mo ago
As I understand it, this attack works because the worm looks for improperly stored secrets/keys/credentials. Once it find them it publishes malicious versions of those packages. It hits NPM because it’s an easy target… but I could
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by laserbeam 11mo ago
I’d like to see a real shell script written in ion very early in the readme or manual. Something that wgets a tarbal, extracts some part if the filename, checks cpu usage, draws a simple progress bar to the terminal, checks a folder for old
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by laserbeam 11mo ago
The fact that it’s written as a personal journey and not as advice suggests the author was on a journey to become more genuine/accepting of who they are. It does read as someone who tried to be manipulative at the start but graduated a
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by laserbeam 11mo ago
Unfortunately, I require PDF outputs for some of my documentation. Right now this is possible via some plugins (I cannot remember which fork of a pdf export plugin worked, but at least one does) in Material for MkDocs. It’s not perfect, but
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by laserbeam 11mo ago
> What is the renewed interest? We just don’t have good desktop GUI platforms anymore. Qt and GTK are massive beasts, Windows changes theirs every 4 years (and no one wants to be tied to a single platform anyway), we don’t want to deal w

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