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by mlang23 5y ago
I had to pay a visit to my doctor roughly every 6 months to get rid of excessive ear wax. To the point where I almost stopped hearing anything on my right ear. After 30 times going to the doc, I actually bought myself this big water-shoot
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by mlang23 5y ago
"To keep reading this story, get the free app or log in." Stuff like this should be banned from HN. Reading this as a person with disability leave a bad taste in my mouth. I wonder what people like this would do if faced with a r
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by mlang23 5y ago
If the evaluation of a position were only about the raw material count, the game would be rather dull.
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by mlang23 5y ago
For those of you with a little CPU time to spare, the fishtest project should be mentioned here. Stockfish has a "CI" which self-plays all PRs before accepting them. The client is easy to install. Go get it! https://
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by mlang23 5y ago
The "technical" term for what you describe is blundering. The winner amongst two humans playing each other is mostly defined by who blunders first. Some of these are sometimes so obvious that we have a take-back rule amongst frie
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by mlang23 5y ago
I wonder how much it costs to walk up to one of these forecasters and buy the first place. Given how popular forecasting seems to be, I am convinced there is a good bussiness model behind.
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by mlang23 5y ago
Well said. Google has become one of the big evil players. So fucking glad I turned down their hiring attempt.
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by mlang23 5y ago
I've said that in a comment about a similar article recently, and it needs to be repeated here: Google is actually helping big players to harass small groups into submission. And they are using their copyright system as a weapon. Bu
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by mlang23 5y ago
Students contributing to open source to get better grades should have a flag on GitHub so project maintainers can easily recognize them and treat their contributions with an extra bit of care. I've been consulted by students (and PhDs
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Why the text terminal cursor is important for accessibility(blind.guru)
89 points by mlang23 5y ago|6 comments
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by mlang23 5y ago
I would step in and do the work you are not doing on the 5th day. We will see how employers deal with this. "I want to work from home, and I want to work less", lets see if this works out for you people...
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by mlang23 5y ago
Graham's "On Lisp" was the only CL book I read from start to finish. Thanks Paul, it was one of the eye-openers I still think about from time to time.
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by mlang23 5y ago
"You need to enable JavaScript to run this app." I wish HN had a tag to identify JS-only submissions. And a filter feature to allow me to not show them at all.
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by mlang23 5y ago
I'd be seriously interested in it as a mobility aid, as a "replacement" for a guide dog. Could be useful to some types of users. But yes, thats not really the average guy... I guess it is like with Alexa. First, there is
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by mlang23 5y ago
I submit that doing a job that you like is already enough to make you happy and productive. Trying to boost both with a day less of work is pretty obviously just trying to cure a symptom. I always liked to go to work, even after 22 years o
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by mlang23 5y ago
Apple has a ton of internationalisation bugs. I am a VoiceOver user, so some of the things I "see" might not be obvious to other users. When I started with iOS 2012, umlauts in PDF documents were not pronounced correctly. This
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by mlang23 5y ago
Apparently something which you are not able to grasp.
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by mlang23 5y ago
Heck, early version of basic for windows had translated function names. I dont know if MSFT is crazy enough to do that these days, but it was a major PITA and pretty hilarious back then.
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by mlang23 5y ago
What a sad story. Fuck puritanism, fuck language police.
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by mlang23 5y ago
Well, war is also man-made, and kills humans. Still, those hoping for world peace are still viewed as hopelessly naive. So what?
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by mlang23 5y ago
I guess the author of this article would leave their spouse on first sight of trouble. Nice to see how loyality changed in the last 100 years.
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by mlang23 5y ago
+1 for using the term "storytellers". I call "journalists" Schreiberlinge in German, which has a similar conotation. If I have learnt one thing during the pandemic, that even supposedly serious media is not to be trust
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by mlang23 5y ago
I dont know how you want to measure relevancy. The topic is likely relevant to those which are still using IRC actively. Since you seem to imply in your messages that you have moved on and left irrelevant technologies like IRC behind, I g
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by mlang23 5y ago
Maybe I am just different. I never liked the mainstream. I never liked too well known festivals. My experience is, if almost everyone is there, I dont want to be.
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by mlang23 5y ago
To me, IRC is an exception because it has no inherent accessibility problems, like all the modern chat platforms have. Here is an experiment: Find a blind person and make them join your favourite discord or slack channel. Make them partici
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by mlang23 5y ago
You are pretty young, right? IRC is still the only group chat technology that I use semi-regularily. Slack, Discord, Matrix, FooBar, and the next yet unnamed hype can very well stay where they are. I dont care.
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by mlang23 5y ago
I feel the same way about automatic driving. Even if the accuracy and error rate surpass humans, every death due to an AV failing is one death too much. However, most people seem to be happy with a failure rate lower then my grandma...
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by mlang23 5y ago
friendship /= drama Please never hire at a company near me, thank you
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by mlang23 5y ago
So far, I only know: * Doesnt want to go back to work because of fear of infection * Wants to go back to work because she cant stand the kids and her husband anymore I havent heard any other stories so far. Maybe because I am not allowed t
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by mlang23 5y ago
My commute is a 5 minute walk. And thats no accident. I very deliberately chose my flat to be quite near to work. Has saved me about 5000 hours of commute time so far.

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