leeoniya

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by leeoniya 3y ago
> My point is it's cultural they didnt get your message in Nigeria
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by leeoniya 3y ago
> you run the risk of getting fined or being foreclosed upon yes! i was fined because my dandelions crossed the magical 8" threshold for a week a few seasons ago. i happily paid it of course. you see, i had saved up the $20 by then
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by leeoniya 3y ago
> But we can change our behavior by showing ourselves less ads. i have uBO chrome extension installed, so i'm doing pretty good by that metric!
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by leeoniya 3y ago
pollution, habitat destruction, and climate change are not all different things. i guess you can blame all the above on a single root cause, though: human over-population. we just don't have plagues and famines like we used to; we&#x27
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by leeoniya 3y ago
> Look at nordic countries. Norway has a seed vault and has 80% of new cars are electric. 80% of 0.001% is a rounding error. scale matters. just because a first-world country of 5M can do something does not make this attainable for the o
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by leeoniya 3y ago
> If people don't change even with the threat of human life being lost then there's no way they care if multiple species of birds goes extinct. people won't change. they are addicted to convenience, low prices, diversity i
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by leeoniya 3y ago
George Carlin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c&themeRefresh=1 i will say that saving (preserving) the planet for your children is still a form of "saving" it. english's lack of nuance here is
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by leeoniya 3y ago
climate change is always framed in terms of how many coastal people it will affect when sea levels rise a few meters. the canadian wildfires going on now. the only thing i hear about it in the media is how bad the air quality will be in thi
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by leeoniya 3y ago
it can for sure "handle" it. the question is "how well"? a sparkline with 100 datapoints is very realistic. and having a couple columns in a table with 100 rows filled with these svg sparklines will have ui lag that you&
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by leeoniya 3y ago
this works well when you have a few sparklines with a dozen datapoints each, but less well when you have many sparklines with hundreds of datapoints.
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by leeoniya 3y ago
i'm starting to see this as well. it's frustrating because capacity planning expects that all engineers / ICs write code at least 75% of their time. the effect is that titles+headcount no longer accurately reflects what are a
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by leeoniya 3y ago
> You have to notice and recognize it pretty much immediately, and perform surgery. problem is, the damn cat wont tell you until it's too late.
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by leeoniya 3y ago
same, but in 2016 :( at least we suspected that's what the cause was since it was in the upper hind leg / near base of tail. cat was healthy for 9yrs before this.
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by leeoniya 3y ago
> 2. Get offers from 3 FAANGs. buried the lede. securing offers from 3 FAANGs is something very few people can do. that alone is immense leverage.
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by leeoniya 3y ago
academia sounds systemically toxic. publish or perish, lifelong grudges from irreplaceable never-wrong superiors looking to further their own Erdős numbers. unpaid peer reviews that then become paywalled. rent-seeking from public libraries
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by leeoniya 3y ago
> Also completely garbage unstable and unreliable driver & firmware support from both AMD and Lenovo, but that's another story as a counterpoint, i'm on a P14s Gen 2 Thinkpad (Ryzen 7 PRO 5850u) and have zero issues on Ende
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by leeoniya 3y ago
probably better: https://github.com/nextapps-de/fat https://github.com/jeremyckahn/shifty
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by leeoniya 3y ago
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/scrollbar-g...
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by leeoniya 3y ago
on a desktop display i would expect some kind of limit on content width, plus centering. right now the content is left-aligned to about 15% of the full page width: https://non.io/#all
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by leeoniya 3y ago
> Variable hoisting can be achieved with this neat trick. Specify a negative lifetime to make a variable exist before its creation, and disappear after its creation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMEFROM
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by leeoniya 3y ago
that was a follow-up. the first one was in 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21207132
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by leeoniya 3y ago
not specifically from a hiring post, but i was hired in 2020. however, it was about a year after a prototype project of mine made it to the front page here. had some other legit/promising inquiries and interviews prior and after this a
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by leeoniya 3y ago
obligatory: https://bisqwit.iki.fi/story/howto/dither/jy/
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by leeoniya 3y ago
indeed. also knowing how/if your kid is climbing out of a crib, if their sleeping position is causing issues. it could prove to be really useful to assess these things early/passively rather than late/intrusively. there'
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Ask HN: DIY baby cams/monitor(s) with privacy?
12 points by leeoniya 3y ago|17 comments
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by leeoniya 3y ago
or add(a,b,c)
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by leeoniya 3y ago
https://github.com/redox-os/relibc ? https://musl.libc.org/
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by leeoniya 3y ago
ICU :( https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/2541 https://twitter.com/jarredsumner/status/1616597667408404481
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by leeoniya 3y ago
i'm not a designer, but use Krita for very basic edit tasks and Inkscape on occasion. can't use GIMP well because it's GTK2 and the UI doesnt work well for pixel-scaled (HiDPI displays), and GTK3-based GIMP 3 dev builds often
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by leeoniya 3y ago
i threw in the towel as well after debloating the same win10 install for the millionth time. switched to Arch (EndeavourOS KDE/Plasma) and life is sane again; enjoyable, even! i do miss Affinity products, tho, which cannot even run in

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