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by nix0n 2y ago
ESG itself isn't new. To pick on Environment specifically, according to [0] fossil fuel divestment campaigns have been around for over a decade now. It's also not really American politics: concern for the global environment is
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by nix0n 2y ago
> The HTML editor not so much, and didn't appear to get much attention. I highly recommend SeaMonkey's HTML editor to anyone who would otherwise be tempted to write HTML in MS Word. It doesn't have a ton of features, but t
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by nix0n 2y ago
There's a difference between GPS vs A-GPS (Assisted GPS)[0][1]. Since A-GPS uses the cell tower to get the list of satellites in view, the GPS on some cellphones will keep working when cell service is lost but won't start working
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by nix0n 2y ago
The steps are Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Embrace is the one you can fork. Extend is the closed-source bits that connect to the open source stuff. (For example, all the closed-source extensions to VSCode.)
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by nix0n 3y ago
> I guess I need requests to the NTP server to go over WAN directly. ... My eternal gratitude to anyone who shoves me in the right direction... Do you have something on the LAN side that could run an NTP server? I'm thinking you co
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by nix0n 3y ago
> Out of curiosity, was this comment generated by an LLM (at least partially)? Same author as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39876247
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by nix0n 3y ago
> it makes "something doesn't feel right" highly impractical sadly. What kind of doctor would a person go to for something like that?
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by nix0n 3y ago
> Honestly, with software development, I find it disappointing that our social conventions currently conflate "readability" with "comfort and familiarity to Generic Programmer" instead of something more useful like &q
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by nix0n 3y ago
> encouraging more use at off hours NYC is "the city that never sleeps". Deliveries have been happening overnight for decades already, due to the traffic congestion.
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by nix0n 3y ago
> https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualzucht (german) Here[0] is an English-language explanation of the term Qualzucht (with the English translation given as "torture breeding"). That German article also re
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by nix0n 3y ago
"Credit card only" is a sure sign of money laundering: it's a way to game the cash vs credit ratio. (Edit: maybe "sure sign" is a little bit hasty, but I think the other possible reasons for a "credit card only
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by nix0n 3y ago
It worked for me on the first try, but here's an archive link in case it goes down again: https://archive.is/xusR7
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by nix0n 3y ago
Thank you! This is exactly the sort of thing I was looking for. I found the source at https://github.com/andreasfertig/cppinsights
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by nix0n 3y ago
Is there a specific "-fdump" that you recommend?
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by nix0n 3y ago
This is why the C preprocessor is superior to templates: gcc's "-E" option will show you the preprocessed source file. (I think clang also?) My personal theory is that compiler authors have not provided a template equivalent
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by nix0n 3y ago
> The issue is that their methods are unacceptable and, when understood, are likely to be explicitly rejected. This sounds to me exactly like refusing to learn.
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by nix0n 3y ago
> acknowledging all of the costs Road maintenance is the biggest expense of most local governments in the USA. Buses obviously take a toll on roads, but the shift to large SUVs is making things worse for the current system of private car
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by nix0n 3y ago
Amazon doesn't really need video surveillance in the coffee room for union suppression. They just need the appearance of surveillance, hence the camera embedded in a device with no use for one, and a gallery left wide open. The paran
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by nix0n 3y ago
As a developer, OpenProject is fine. Search is pretty good, so I assume the reporting is okay, but I've never tried it. We used to get occasional slowdowns, but someone threw more HW at it, and speed is good now. I've never used J
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by nix0n 3y ago
> UX heuristics that are two plus decades old All the UX rules I know of would encourage keeping the physical knobs and switches instead of replacing them with touchscreens. Maybe I missed a memo in the 2000s?
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by nix0n 3y ago
Used GPUs cannot be sold for the same price that new GPUs are bought.
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by nix0n 3y ago
> within an hour of a bigger city, but small enough where the real estate is still reasonably priced This is more rare than you would think, depending on your definitions of "bigger city" and "reasonably priced". It&
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by nix0n 3y ago
> what they are really measuring is student quality for the most part That doesn't make sense to me. What sort of forces do you imagine will cause one school to have better students than another, consistently for decades?
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by nix0n 3y ago
> in my 20s (20 years ago), it was very common for 20somethings to live in shared housing with 2-3 roommates. They would share kitchens, fridges, everything. And these houses weren't even that great to begin with. That's how pe
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by nix0n 3y ago
I've been using a 1980s-style digital watch for this. It's good enough for cooking, which is the only time I care about not touching my phone.
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by nix0n 3y ago
Previous HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38647363
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by nix0n 3y ago
Power users matter a lot for web browsers, because web developers are power users of web browsers. Firefox's loss of market share in general is a direct consequence of its loss in market share among web developers, because web develope
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by nix0n 3y ago
The Firefox "Dark Background and Light Text" extension works fine on this page when using the "Invert" option.
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by nix0n 3y ago
> most stores aren't selling you the content Yes they are, the stores are just not delivering on what they're selling. > People need to actually buy the content People are buying the content, then discovering that they no lo
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by nix0n 3y ago
> just get everything dry In many places this is not easy.

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