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Yevgeny Prigozhin’s reported death may consolidate Putin’s power(economist.com)
6 points by nathan_phoenix 3y ago|1 comments
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Polar: Crowd-Fund GitHub Issues by Paying Maintainers, Not Random Bounty Hunters(polar.sh)
1 points by nathan_phoenix 3y ago|0 comments
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by nathan_phoenix 3y ago
You can if you are just executing a static python script never changes. But if you want to call some python functions with your TS input then you would need to serialize the TS input, pass it as an arg to the script, there deserialize it an
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AppFair: Federated App Index Repository(appfair.net)
1 points by nathan_phoenix 3y ago|0 comments
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by nathan_phoenix 3y ago
This assumes that you use your computer and browser regularly. There's nobody to yell at you if you don't use your computer... (which my older relatives don't, they just use it once every few months for some gov sites and suc
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by nathan_phoenix 3y ago
Yeah exactly, it refuses to update itself automatically after not being updated in a while. That's the issue in my case, why does it want me to re-download it manually, can't it do that itself?
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by nathan_phoenix 3y ago
I usually don't use Chrome so it's perma closed and see this behavior only after not opening Chrome for some time (around two (?) months or more). Then when I do opened it, after some time (guess checking for updates in background
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Ask HN: semi-old Firefox/Chrome can't update itslf, requires full reinstal, why?
23 points by nathan_phoenix 3y ago|27 comments
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It’s NOT a Superconductor, Says Uni of Maryland’s Condensed Matter Theory Center(theverge.com)
3 points by nathan_phoenix 3y ago|0 comments
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by nathan_phoenix 3y ago
Can't lose the edge to Tim Apple...
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Ask HN: Is Hacker News GDPR Compliant?
2 points by nathan_phoenix 3y ago|2 comments
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WASIX: WASI extension with more compatibility for POSIX programs(wasix.org)
7 points by nathan_phoenix 3y ago|0 comments
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Judge dismisses major arguments in Google antitrust case(theverge.com)
2 points by nathan_phoenix 3y ago|0 comments
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The Boring Company will dig a 68-mile tunnel network under Las Vegas(arstechnica.com)
5 points by nathan_phoenix 3y ago|0 comments
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LK-99 – here’s what the experts think(theverge.com)
6 points by nathan_phoenix 3y ago|0 comments
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by nathan_phoenix 3y ago
Expected a huge list and there's only 3 items there, and one of them, JPEG XL, is kinda moot because it didn't seem viable until recently after Safari started supporting it... Feel that the list could have had much more substance
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by nathan_phoenix 3y ago
Support the idea of limiting addictive apps/websites for minors, but think that China's implementation of government overreach and bio-authenticating for every online service is way too privacy invasive. Tho not sure how one could
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Chrome browser could soon be decoupled from ChromeOS in favor of Lacros(theverge.com)
3 points by nathan_phoenix 3y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: If a password manager stores your 2FA token is it still 2FA?
5 points by nathan_phoenix 3y ago|5 comments
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Senate panel advances bills to childproof the internet(theverge.com)
27 points by nathan_phoenix 3y ago|46 comments
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by nathan_phoenix 3y ago
Would wouldn't it be harder for the government to shut down your government provided email than for some corporation? Analogously to turning off someone's water or electricity, the gov would need a really good reason which can sta
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by nathan_phoenix 3y ago
Never thought of it that way, that by having the service being provided by the gov more restrictions apply to it being monetized and therefore being in a way better privacy wise. Like what you said, not being able to sell activity data. Int
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Ask HN: Should the government provide email to its citizen?
15 points by nathan_phoenix 3y ago|16 comments
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by nathan_phoenix 3y ago
Looking forward to that for completeness sake! Btw, regarding a bit older pre-Flakes commits, at least some packages will error out while nix-installing on M1 (or newer) macbooks because at that point nix packages didn't anticipate mac
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Spack – package manager for supercomputing centers and home setups(spack.readthedocs.io)
1 points by nathan_phoenix 3y ago|0 comments
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by nathan_phoenix 3y ago
Oh, didn't know, thanks for the explanation! Does seem like an interesting concept, will check out Speck more in-depth.
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by nathan_phoenix 3y ago
Thanks for the answer! Looking forward to the followup post :D And yeah, nix naming conventions are sometimes a mess. Your approach does seem much nicer. Last question if you have a bit more time. How come that you don't have every ver
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by nathan_phoenix 3y ago
> yet if I understand correctly, it often has one version per package per Nix version? Both yeah and no. Taking the example of nodejs, you have all the supported major releases like nodejs_16, nodejs_18, etc. for each Nix revision[1], bu
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by nathan_phoenix 3y ago
First off, amazing tool and thanks for doing the nix community a favor! If you could expand more on the architecture of the tool I'd be very curious! Like what goes all on from parsing Hydra builds to getting a useful package versions
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Biden administration launches new cybersecurity label for smart devices(theverge.com)
6 points by nathan_phoenix 3y ago|1 comments

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