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by laumars 5y ago
Stainless steal has lead in too. Is there any research that compares stainless steal to ceramics? Edit: ignore me. I’m confusing lead with iron. That’ll teach me posting while drinking.
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by laumars 5y ago
Funny enough I got into Harvey Danger’s back catalogue because Flagpole Sitta happened to be the one song of theirs that wasn’t on Spotify. Now I’m wondering if that was intentional to encourage people to listen to their other songs.
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by laumars 5y ago
Just in case anyone doesn’t know the reference: http://bash.org/?244321
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by laumars 5y ago
> Literally nobody here is saying this. This then demonstrates how hard it is to understand the full context of a comment from only the short post and, I hope, makes you appreciate how important it is to assume a more charitable interpre
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by laumars 5y ago
> Furthermore, I’m disturbed by the cavalier attitude here. Suicide isn’t a predestined thing that we’re helpless to prevent as a society. That wasn’t the point that people were making. The point they were making is that removing fans do
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by laumars 5y ago
Project authors need to have the ability to own the project that author if there’s any hope of it growing and evolving with the times. We might not always agree with the leadership in a particular project but as like as it is open source th
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by laumars 5y ago
Plug-ins should be sandboxed anyway. Which means they shouldn’t be random Java classes with the same blast radius as your main application. And if you’ve done that right you’ve got a VM that can be restarted without having to restart the pa
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by laumars 5y ago
That’s a very condescending way of say “I don’t personally like this feature”.
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by laumars 5y ago
For every use case I can think of, there are several better ways of achieving the same goal.
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by laumars 5y ago
Sorry but I’m really not sure what the point you’re making here.
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by laumars 5y ago
I don’t have an issue with Linux DEs behaving like this because you have the freedom to install other WM and DEs.
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by laumars 5y ago
Not everyone on HN is on Silicon Valley wages. Or even work in international tech hubs like SV or London. For some in tech, $100 is a hell of a lot of money.
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by laumars 5y ago
The clue is in the first part of the GPs sentence which you latched onto: “sandboxing”. The code is running inside a virtual machine rather than natively on the host.
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by laumars 5y ago
It’s not the change that’s the issue. It’s the lack of context for what icons do without clicking them. Text offers that context. But maybe the ribbon wasn’t the best example of my earlier point about the UI needs of sporadic users vs regul
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by laumars 5y ago
> I think we should differentiate between single-use programs and those that are more of an investment. No you shouldn’t. What might be single use for Bob might be a daily driver for Bev. The Ribbon bar is a great example of that. It’s t
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by laumars 5y ago
The thing I hate most about Apple products is these secret member handshakes that are completely non-discoverable to anyone outside of Apples precious alumni. I’ve been using Apple products for years and I still haven’t figured out hall of
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by laumars 5y ago
I was a developer in the 90s and 00s and frankly I thought peoples dislike of Qt was pretty superficial. The problems being that GTK sucked. I’d have forgiven NIH (not invented here) syndrome if GTK was at least as good as Qt but it wasn’t.
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by laumars 5y ago
My point is: the more serious you are into a sport, the more severe measures you’re likely to support to counter cheats. Hence why pros will support anti-cheat software while those who just play causally are more likely to find it abusive.
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by laumars 5y ago
I say that because the GP seemed confused why pros were in favour of anti-cheat software.
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by laumars 5y ago
If you are a professional gamer then of course you’re going to hate cheats. It’s no different to professional athletes hating peers who take performance enhancing drugs. If your money and reputation comes from you being good at something, y
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by laumars 5y ago
Not just the 6128, the earlier and lower powered 464 did too.
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by laumars 5y ago
I once used PuTTY as the base for an internal SSH tool. We needed to provide data entry teams with access to a green screen but didn’t want to expose any more servers than what they were authorised to use and a simple interface because a lo
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by laumars 5y ago
It was advertising companies that started this trend of giving shit away for “free”. Before then people were used to paying for services.
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by laumars 5y ago
How is it not relevant. If we stopped breeding animals that doesn’t magically mean that we go back in time 60 billions years and kill every species of farm animal that had existed in that time.
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by laumars 5y ago
Retro games consoles are already useful, as games consoles. People collect and play them still. If anything, modding them into an ultra low powered z80 PC would have less usefulness. As it happens, there already are a number of z80 micro co
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by laumars 5y ago
Your only makes sense if you equate the opposite of life as always being death, but in this case it isn’t. In this case you’re not killing something by inaction. The distinction is important because otherwise condoms would be murder. (Which
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by laumars 5y ago
I’ve never once felt like strong typing has prevented me from solving unknown problems. I won’t deny that there have been occasions where I’ve had to redefine a type across a large code base and that has taken me half an hour to a hour. But
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by laumars 5y ago
Because of ergonomics. When you watch something on TV and movies you want your actors to do exaggerated movements to really capture the attention of the audience. But when you operate a computer you want your movements to be as little as po
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by laumars 5y ago
Lol I had the same thought. There’s times when HN feels a little like Monty Python https://youtu.be/xpAvcGcEc0k
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by laumars 5y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. I do like the look of that. I’d been using Solarized until now but will give this a try.

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