toomanyducks

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by toomanyducks 5y ago
I currently am a 'gifted child', and it really is all bullshit. I go to a 'prestigious' school where everyone around me is a 'gifted child', and so many of us are perpetually tired and perpetually beginning to
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
> When an app on your computer or phone doesn't work well do you say Windows or iOS is broken Yes. All the time. A good platform supports that which builds upon it.
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
The web is broken. Someone's website wouldn't scroll (I don't remember the details, and I don't think I wanted to find out --- maybe it was overflow: hidden, but it could've been something else), and the only way I
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
we truly are no different from twitch.tv
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
Um? Okay? I don't see why I (or the author of this article) care(s) how people like to spend their time.
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
Similarly, there's a suckless tool called sent: 0: http://tools.suckless.org/sent/
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
My AP CS class covered UML, I haven't seen it anywhere else. Diagrams, yes, quite frequently. UML, never once. I put the bare minimum of time into studying UML, and I'm glad I did.
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
What's the license? I didn't see it on the repo.
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by toomanyducks 6y ago
Re: abstractions, I think what seperates Window/MacOS abstractions from Linux/UNIX abstractions is obfuscation. The aggressively closed-source nature means that *nix abstractions, to a reasonable degree, anyway, reflect the underl
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by toomanyducks 6y ago
To be pedantic, you can see the dash/dock when you hit the super key, I don't believe anyone actually uses the hot corner. Also to be pedantic, there are plenty of desktops that don't use a dock, in the form of most window m
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by toomanyducks 6y ago
Honestly, I have no idea why I'm so surprised. This is what happens when you put desktop dev tools on an (albeit modified) desktop desktop environment on an (albeit modified) desktop operating system on a phone. Can't wait for the
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by toomanyducks 6y ago
Well, as is previously mentioned, it's not _quite_ a 0-day, and finding it and responsibly disclosing it is a very good thing *compared to alternatives*. I do agree, though, that the tone is needlessly confusing, and it feels like PR o
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by toomanyducks 6y ago
I use Zoom fairly regularly, and haven't had *too* many issues. (Debian, x11, the app, though the browser version is fairly terrible)
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by toomanyducks 6y ago
Any CI books you can recommend? I have been completely treating it as a linux box with a shell script and have cobbled together all of my shit from google/SO.
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Rust's Result Type for Python(pypi.org)
5 points by toomanyducks 6y ago|5 comments
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Ask HN: How can I address confirmation bias on HN?
6 points by toomanyducks 6y ago|2 comments
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by toomanyducks 6y ago
> the world is shrinking as large corporations try and squeeze as much revenue as possible out of markets this. My friends (I'm in highschool) that aren't as experienced in technology (use it as you describe, "God forbid y
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by toomanyducks 6y ago
Relative counterpoint - I'm an online student, all of my classes require a PC, all of my homework requires a PC. My orchestra requires I listen to and play along with recordings (on a PC). The minimum 'personal gadget footprint&#x
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by toomanyducks 6y ago
> FreeBSD NVIDIA desktop. Any links to guides/docs? My GPU is really the one reason I haven't yet at the very least tried FreeBSD on my desktop.
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by toomanyducks 6y ago
How does a VM (JVM, GraalVM) compare to something like LLVM's IR? From your description as a ``universal, _interoperable_ VM`` it seems like they have some similar goals --- what are the reasons to write a compiler to a VM instead of w
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by toomanyducks 6y ago
If the only basis for perception of speed is essentially deceit, ``being less annoying'' means it lies to you more --- I don't think I'd call that an intrinsically positive feature.
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by toomanyducks 6y ago
> This article is BS. it's literally called ``Raspberry PI for Kill Mosquitoes by Laser'' not quite sure what you were expecting
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Show HN: Disorg, a disorganized agenda organization tool(gitlab.com)
4 points by toomanyducks 6y ago|0 comments
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by toomanyducks 6y ago
> Why don't you write your own I feel there are plenty of reasons to not write your own anything , from prioritizing other projects, not having time, or just not having all of the required expertise. As a student I'm lucky eno
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by toomanyducks 6y ago
Yeah that makes sense, thanks.
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Ask HN: Does anyone use a single-board computer for their PC?
3 points by toomanyducks 6y ago|4 comments
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by toomanyducks 6y ago
Sort of reminds me of Plan 9, with the ability to treat text as executable, where execution can include opening a file in a designated application. I haven't used either OS for more than a cumulative 10 minutes, but this was definitely