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by philsnow 5y ago
I'm on an iphone 12 mini, have the same issue (I emailed you some screenshots before seeing this comment in the HN post, but it's the text box where I'm naming a new checklist and also the text entry when I'm adding item
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by philsnow 5y ago
some stuff specific to internal perforce usage in `cptop4`, including `g4 citc` which is a blast from the past
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by philsnow 5y ago
You're running linux (with nix installed) on the bare metal of a mac, and then a VM on top of that running macos (with VFIO passthrough so it's not dog-slow?), is that right? Performance is pretty reasonable? APFS works fine in t
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by philsnow 5y ago
As a privacy enthusiast, I am very mildly (because I was not directly affected) annoyed that you undertook this project. I see your post discussing it as tacitly attempting to move the overton window in a direction you want it to go. >
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by philsnow 5y ago
> GPG files can be decrypted only inside EMACS To get this you have to sacrifice the convenience of using gpg-agent, though, right? Otherwise any other program that can open your gpg agent socket can use your gpg keys.
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by philsnow 5y ago
I hope "AuthZ" is just a temporary codename, that will be changed if/when they open source their work. authz/authn are very generic terms that already mean something and it's distasteful when companies squat on suc
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by philsnow 5y ago
That actually sounds more like depression than ADHD, although ADHD folks very often also have depression so they can be hard to suss out.
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by philsnow 5y ago
> multiple accounts with different passwords for the same email address Amazon (retail) does this too. My wife's email address can log into two different accounts depending on what password you use.
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by philsnow 5y ago
I vaguely recall this -- was it one that would have the borg play games of angband?
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by philsnow 5y ago
My understanding is that the term "rogue-lite" came about sometime around / after the Berlin Interpretation of what it means for a game to be rogue-like was agreed upon. It's called the Berlin Interpretation because it
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by philsnow 5y ago
I've been impressed by DCSS's dev team's ability and willingness to make unpopular decisions and make radical changes to the game. They seem to be principled in their decision-making. I read somewhere that, since I stopped p
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by philsnow 5y ago
See https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Losing and in particular the comic linked from there, https://dwarffortresswiki.org/images/4/40/FunComic.png
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by philsnow 5y ago
I have a Karabiner-Elements "Complex modification" rule that changes ^[ to an ESC keypress everywhere in the OS. I don't recall where I got it. My karabiner.json has this https://gist.github.com/philsnow&#x2
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by philsnow 5y ago
(DarkGod is a recurring guest on Roguelike Radio http://www.roguelikeradio.com/ )
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by philsnow 5y ago
There's tons of variants, probably the most out of any of the roguelikes. ZAngband "Zelazny Angband" took the tolkien elements and added elements from Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber series. SAngband "skills
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by philsnow 5y ago
> These pluralities are unable to exist on social media. There must always be objective truth, there must always be a side that wins, a side that loses [...] But neither side "wins". They both just shout louder and louder in t
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by philsnow 5y ago
Daniel Suarez has a 2012 near-future novel that features this kind of thing [0]. In the book there are drones swarms armed with single-use tube guns, essentially, Saturday Night Specials [1]. I shill for his books regularly on HN. They&#x
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by philsnow 5y ago
You mention in the epilogue that you would use plastic sheeting instead of directly waterproofing the 8'x4' plywood sheets -- that would also make the plywood somewhat more re-purposeable. How loud were all the pumps combined? Yo
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by philsnow 5y ago
I had thought that there wouldn't be any labeling requirements for Sidewalk-enabled devices, but you bring up FCC IDs. I've never given them much thought, but that's at least one thing to look out for in the future. I'm
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by philsnow 5y ago
> If you already have an Alexa device running on your network I don't, which is why I was installing the Alexa app on my phone. > I wouldn't assume you can't opt-out later ah, I was thrown by the headline "given on
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by philsnow 5y ago
So the opt-out period is only only one week, and I presumably won't be able to opt out later? I don't own any of these devices, but if I want to have the option to buy one later but not have it be a sidewalk bridge, I guess I have
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by philsnow 5y ago
> what problem does Amazon thinks this solves? Bad connectivity experiences for Ring users? I wrote my guess elsewhere in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27358758 tl;dr Amazon will resell access to Side
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by philsnow 5y ago
My only options for escaping Sidewalk are living far enough away from neighbors or convincing all the neighbors within range of my house that they shouldn't have any Sidewalk bridge-able devices. I would at least be interested in a way
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by philsnow 5y ago
Amazon is going to sell access to Sidewalk to e.g. TV manufacturers (and anybody else), making money off of your internet connection. Before Sidewalk, if a device manufacturer wanted to be able to get sensor/environmental/etc data
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by philsnow 5y ago
> command vocubulary A sibling comment mentions interactive rebase. I had never thought about it this way but if stacked got gives you a command vocabulary / imperative interface to adjusting your local commits, I would say `git re
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by philsnow 5y ago
This is great, I've been getting into using airtable / coda for some house management stuff, but I've not liked that it's in the cloud (because I want to be more sure that I can look back 5 years and still see it). I lov
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by philsnow 5y ago
For what it's worth, I have paid for nearly everything I possibly could with credit cards for decades, and I haven't paid a cent in credit card finance charges in at least 15 years (since my fiancee straightened me out and helped
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by philsnow 5y ago
> I could rely on my mother's health insurance until age 26 (thanks Obama) I don't know the particulars of what law enabled this, but I used my dad's health insurance until I was 26 as well, before Obama's first term.
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by philsnow 5y ago
https://www.redblobgames.com/ Amit Patel's blog, there's lots of game dev articles there and many of them have interactive demos
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by philsnow 5y ago
> I'm not there anymore because I think it should be their responsibility to take responsibility reflective of their size and impact. I lost faith that the leadership agreed. I fully agree with you, and I don't think that there

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