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by manifoldgeo 3y ago
Michael W. Lucas is such a good author, and I just wanted to give a shout-out: "TLS Mastery" opened my eyes to the world of TLS / SSL certs in an understandable way that used interactive examples on Linux.
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by manifoldgeo 3y ago
I've only watched Tim Cook's introduction, but it sounds like his voice is being shifted (autotuned) to sound pitch-perfect. It's pretty uncanny valley and off-putting imho.
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by manifoldgeo 3y ago
It sounds like this failure led to the complete destruction of 3 online communities. While this might not be as bad as, say, a fatal multi-car accident on the highway, I bet it led to some heavy grief as users mourned the losses of their co
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by manifoldgeo 3y ago
Top o' the line in utility sports. Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts-- Canyonerooooo!
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by manifoldgeo 3y ago
Totally true! I would love to see that. In practice, I doubt that will happen because contributing to GnuCash seems to require a lot of nuanced understanding of their very old codebase and build system. OP's PDF generator is a web app,
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by manifoldgeo 3y ago
I'm the OP for post [0], and I feel the need to explain myself: I made that fold-in 2 days ago just for fun, but then it became a timely joke. So, I scrambled very quickly to throw it into an HTML page with basic CSS so I could post to
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by manifoldgeo 3y ago
If anyone is looking for a comprehensive accounting tool for personal finance or small business, GnuCash also has the ability to generate invoices. In my opinion, the PDF generator made by OP makes way more beautiful invoices than GnuCash.
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by manifoldgeo 3y ago
Thanks for the kind words! Your comment made my day. I used to get a kick out of the fold-ins too, and I feel lucky that we live in the Internet Age where I can bet that any idea I have (CSS MAD fold-in) has likely been done better than I&#
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Show HN: Twitter Logo MAD Fold-In(brendenhyde.com)
79 points by manifoldgeo 3y ago|7 comments
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by manifoldgeo 3y ago
I read the same books you did, and I was equally unsatisfied afterwards. The "Using Asyncio in Python 3" book was good enough to help me write some code that had to hit an API 400k times without blocking, but I never returned to a
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by manifoldgeo 3y ago
That's a good point, a computer is probably more screwdriver and less jackhammer. I still dislike companies that externalize their costs to their employees, but I do agree my analogy was slightly off. Funny, I actually mentioned Snap-O
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by manifoldgeo 3y ago
That's true. And for new mechanics that don't have their own tools yet, there are vendors like Snap-On that drive tool trucks to different garages will sell them tools on a payment plan. This creates a situation where a person in
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by manifoldgeo 3y ago
I don't know many other jobs that work this way. Imagine getting a construction job and having to supply your own jackhammer or take out a temporary loan to buy one. Doesn't the company have some they should supply you with? Gig-e
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by manifoldgeo 3y ago
I applied to two different Canonical jobs, and the process was so off-putting I dropped out of both at different stages. One position required me to take a psychoanalytical test where they judge your personality traits to A.) make sure you
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by manifoldgeo 3y ago
Thanks for posting! I'm always glad when I discover good blogs like yours.
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by manifoldgeo 3y ago
My college professors said that an encyclopedia article can't be cited because it's a tertiary source of information. That's considered too far abstracted from the original source of the info to be used as a citation. Primary
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by manifoldgeo 4y ago
> This impacted less than 2% of our users. I think they mean it impacts less than 2% of user _accounts_. Not every account is created equal. If you were an open-source org with millions of image downloads a month, having your org deleted
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by manifoldgeo 4y ago
I wish there were such a website, but I haven't seen one. That's unfortunate, because I often feel the need to skip the comments sections on HN for economics-related posts. There are many armchair economists here, mostly with a pu
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by manifoldgeo 4y ago
I recently bought a System76 Oryx Pro 9, and I could not for the life of me get Debian to boot from a USB. The same USB booted on my old Galago Pro, so I know it was good. The Oryx Pro runs on some FOSS UEFI or BIOS made by System76 themsel
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by manifoldgeo 4y ago
I'm creating a 3D claymation fight between Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Amy Coney Barrett done in the style of Celebrity Deathmatch. I've finally gotten enough Blender modeling, rigging, animating, texturing, materials, and video editi
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by manifoldgeo 4y ago
Buttercup[1] is a highly usable password manager that supports multiple storage backbends. It has clients for desktop on Linux, Mac, and Windows, and it's got Apple and Android mobile clients. There's also a browser plugin. I&#x27
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by manifoldgeo 4y ago
If anyone is interested in an alternative to the software mentioned in the article, I've had very good results with Meshroom[0], and it works on Linux. References: 0: https://github.com/alicevision/Meshroom
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by manifoldgeo 4y ago
For me, it was the realization that some languages have REPLs and can be used just like bash. Since I started with Linux sysadmin and worked my way into programming, I found a lot of the details of programming hard to understand, e.g. runti
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by manifoldgeo 4y ago
I've been trying to get into C this past week, and this is a great coincidence to see this today! I was just thinking how convenient it is to type emojis right into strings in Python and print them. I assumed C didn't have much un
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by manifoldgeo 4y ago
Does this news story strike anyone else as native advertising, i.e. a product placement disguised as news? As always, it's hard to discern between the two, since the lines are blurred. Still, there isn't a lot of novelty to this a
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by manifoldgeo 4y ago
This is a fun game! It taught me about the alt-key shortcut for managing handles. In Inkscape I just go back and do that with buttons in the UI, so this will save me some time. On a side note, I don't think this game will necessarily m
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by manifoldgeo 4y ago
I think Discord's use of the word server is misleading, and it leads people to think they own something when they don't. Discord owns it and can pull the rug out from under you at any time, regardless of how much hard work you put
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by manifoldgeo 4y ago
From what I read, Ross Ulbricht (as Dread Pirate Roberts) offered ~500 BTC for the assassination of some person who he felt had wronged him or the Silk Road. A law enforcement officer posed as an assassin for hire, submitted "evidence&
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by manifoldgeo 4y ago
This title sounds like a buzzphrase generated by GPT-3 if it were fed a corpus of nothing but HN titles. I haven't actually read the article, but the only way it could sound more like an HN post is if it mentioned Nix. This isn't
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by manifoldgeo 4y ago
I'm a little confused by this announcement; does this mean that I have to host my own Jitsi Meet server and that Element will connect to it, or does this new version of Element "bring its own" Jitsi? I host my own instance of

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