nitrogen

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by nitrogen 5y ago
It's clear that a line is being crossed though, when we go from "take this external low-cost behavior to enjoy the privilege of driving at 80mph" to "inject this substance into your body or you will be denied all acce
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I'm not the OP. They linked to a prior comment of theirs that makes their case in this specific instance. Their take may or may not be an overreaction. However, commenting generally (with all the caveats that implies), it's abun
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by nitrogen 5y ago
A team that ignores product quality will soon run out of money to spend on solving social etc. issues. Effort follows attention, so attention should be weighted appropriately across issues, but it's not uncommon for companies and caus
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by nitrogen 5y ago
What if you want your own colors and your own level of medium contrast that works well on your specific display and lighting conditions?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
MacOS has a very powerful built-in shortcut changing system that appears to date all the way back to NextStep based on some of the names of prefs and plists to change. But, every Electron app and productivity website hard-codes the old Mac
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Are there any Linux desktops that don't require you to sign up for an account to submit a crash report, and keep crash report details private until triage? That has kept me from reporting reproducible bugs in KDE apps before.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Every random flashlight app has full network access, too. It's insane.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
It's a fairly accurate description of the apartment towers in downtown SF.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Respect for society, or lack thereof, happens at all levels. People partying and cheating their way through college, or running billion dollar ponzi schemes, aren't doing so because they have to survive, but the root cause is the same
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by nitrogen 5y ago
What is the cost of not imprisoning criminals? How much economic damage is caused by shutting down stores that keep getting looted?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
When I was a kid I met some new friends on a camping trip. Their grandparents were rolling in a nice trailer, had nice fishing gear, etc. One day I walked over to their campsite to invite the kids to play, and accidentally overheard them
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by nitrogen 5y ago
No, they are orthogonal. A society split between middle class workers and billionaires still has inequality without poverty. A society of 100% poverty has no inequality.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
It activates more information channels into my brain. Prose is just one transfer channel, and for me, not a very efficient one (though I love reading!). Mathematical notation is one more. But that leaves out word association, color, spatia
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Did you paste what you intended to paste: "Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles."?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
From comments here it sounds like people already deeply familiar with the mathematical notation used in a domain really want to stick with the compact, black-ink-only equation representation. However, as an engineer who occasionally wants
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Patterns occur in code, too, especially when allowed to span multiple lines with indentation.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Could there be a reason to do that? E.g. preventing the format string from accidentally coming from untrusted user data?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I've never used git-notes, but it sounds like this is what you are describing: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-notes
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I'm curious, do you know what function was being declared implicitly? That's really atypical in modern C code, so there's probably a missing #include somewhere that could be fixed upstream.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Use rvm with .ruby-version (and optionally .ruby-gemset) files in each project. RVM hooks into the cd command so it's automatic. For CI scripting you use "rvm (path) do (command)."
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Ruby is a lot like spoken language in that regard. When the many ways in which to do things are chosen well, Ruby reads like pure poetry. For that I will always enjoy Ruby. Moreover, the choice of which idiom to use conveys the intent and
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Still, Bluray discs with the downmix metadata set correctly should still sound better in stereo than a streaming source that was downmixed without dynamic range and mix preference metadata. The technology is old enough to be long out of pat
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by nitrogen 5y ago
It has solar panels, so it can't be in shadow. IIUC the advantage of earth-sun L2 is it's away from the light and shadow of the earth and moon, while being reachable by radio year round.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
You'd also want to add 3) not everyone should live in a high-cost-of-living area . There are lower CoL areas that could still provide good (or better, due to lower cost) services for people in need.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
It's kind of fun to imagine "what if" in these situations. Like, what would it take for such a box to be real? It doesn't seem all that far off from a low pin count bus, or from a modern game console mod chips that s
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Should anyone be allowed to suppress factual information about themselves because they're uncomfortable with it? eg. "10 years ago I racked up enormous amounts of debt. I'm shameful of that. Being reminded of that hurts me.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Based on the lawsuit about Tesla removing features from a used car it seems like it's not fine.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
My 05 car's (I bought it used much later) navigation is way better than Google Maps at keeping a GPS fix and giving clear directions. If I could get new map data for it I would use it instead of my phone.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I don't know jwz personally, but given that his own website redirects all requests with an HN referrer to something NSFW, he probably doesn't have to be drunk to express disdain for something.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
It would most likely have been in a state history section some time in the 1990s.

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