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Fear Is the Mind Killer; Or, the Bene Gesserit Guide to Managing Anxiety(chicagonerdtherapy.com)
4 points by satyanash 5y ago|1 comments
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by satyanash 5y ago
Dockerized Nextcloud + Postfix + Dovecot + Strongswan + OpenLDAP + SpamAssassin running on an ARM machine. Sounds mostly alright, although it seems you cannot buy it without the $99/yearly subscription, which makes me wary. Sure, a sta
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by satyanash 5y ago
> It was deemed the problems were bigger than the new possibilities. I mean, we could speak Finnish/English just fine and there was usually no need for any other languages. It also excluded a large part of the world from participati
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by satyanash 5y ago
The ruby comparison is unfair: o = Object.new def o.my_method(x) self.y + x end def o.y 10 end o.my_method(5) == 15 # true method_as_fun = o.my_method # Wrong number of arguments, 0 for 1 The
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by satyanash 5y ago
I personally find Ruby's built-in shell features more ergonomic: `cat package.json | grep name` branch = `git branch --show-current` `dep deploy --branch=#{branch}` if $?.success? [ "sleep 1; echo 1"
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Layers of Understanding a Message: {Brittle AI,Astrology,Crosswords,Race}(amahabal.medium.com)
1 points by satyanash 5y ago|0 comments
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by satyanash 5y ago
Isn't that like saying reality ruins all good ideas. :)
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by satyanash 5y ago
> WITCH I would presume: Wipro, Infosys, TCS, Cognizant, HCL
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Charting Range Vectors in Prometheus(satyanash.net)
1 points by satyanash 5y ago|0 comments
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by satyanash 5y ago
> Uniball Signo 207/307 The signos are pretty good pens. I especially love the flow as it compares to Fountain, but the stroke width could be a bit less.
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by satyanash 5y ago
The ruby one with the -run option is a bit nonintuitive in how it works. $ ruby -run -ehttpd . -p8000 The -r option requires un.rb[1] which is a file full of convenience functions, such as httpd in this example. Classic Ruby. Given t
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by satyanash 5y ago
Canvas will become de-facto, just like React did. Once that happens, indexing and scraping the web won't be trivial anymore. One would have to "opt-in" to using HTML/CSS to make sure that their page would be indexable. C
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by satyanash 5y ago
> I’ve used it in lots of FLOSS projects, but the risk is lower there. How is the risk lower? It's basically an RCE vuln which can poison open source artifacts. Massive blast radius.
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Protected Mode Basics(rcollins.org)
1 points by satyanash 5y ago|0 comments
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by satyanash 6y ago
> they gave a figure of 1.3%, which is pretty low anyway, 1.3% chance of collision is _not_ low at all! Especially when you start considering the chaotic cascading effects that a collision can result in!
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Ask HN: As an engineer, is your brain corrupted by money?
1 points by satyanash 6y ago|1 comments
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by satyanash 6y ago
Thanks for making me look up "Mossad is gonna Mossad" -> Schneier -> Mickens' essay titled "This World of Ours". https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf
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Understanding Prometheus Range Vectors(satyanash.net)
1 points by satyanash 6y ago|0 comments
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by satyanash 6y ago
If you have a thing for obscure window managers, are looking for massive configurability and have time to sink, check out Fvwm2[1]. Fully configurable using text files[2][3] that can be version controlled. Edit: apparently it has been reviv
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by satyanash 6y ago
Note that you can still export a CSV of your books, (although this is not all the data that is present). Here https://www.goodreads.com/review/import
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by satyanash 6y ago
Does it matter? Populations for ref: Maharashtra pop. 11.42 crores France pop. 6.7 crores Germany pop. 8.3 crores Clearly, there is a bias in favour of western authors in tech. No harm in offsetting it a little bit. It's also not like
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by satyanash 6y ago
The same reason why Kafka, Camus and others (who seemingly have no relationship with tech/startups) may sometimes make it to the front page. I admit that this is not a detailed article or anything as such, but there is a definite inte
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by satyanash 6y ago
If the server-side contract is documented, the open source mobile apps should be easily reconfigurable to point to a self-hosted implementation.
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by satyanash 6y ago
As in, it doesn't block most stuff automatically. You need to pick them using the element picker manually. And even that doesn't stick all the time.
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by satyanash 6y ago
OT: Why are medium.com URLs getting special subdirectory handling for usernames in the trailing HN title parentheses?
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by satyanash 6y ago
I saw a lot of people asking about Aaron Swartz in the other thread about Reddit's co-founders. Would highly recommend watching this documentary, if you haven't already.
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by satyanash 6y ago
> Isn't Eclipse basically the modern Emacs? Ah, but you miss its hackability aspect by virtue of being a lisp runtime. I wouldn't say eclipse is anywhere close to "hackable" as emacs is. Just run C-x b <scratch&gt
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by satyanash 6y ago
While I feel sad too, I think the primary reason why it imploded under its own weight was the "magic". I still love Ruby, for all its developer friendliness and the consistency of its idioms. But too much of that sugar leads to bl
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by satyanash 6y ago
What's the ruby equivalent of `functools` and specifically `functools.lru_cache`? Note that `lru_cache` doesn't just do caching, it also provides convenient methods on the original function to get cache stats etc in a pythonic way
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by satyanash 6y ago
> documentation also seems to suggest that even with the strongest settings, it can lose transactions; Can be reproduced even on a single node postgres. Just hammer it with inserts and maintain a local counter for inserts performed. Then

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