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by uncircle 1y ago
The keymap functionality in your OS is a hack because most keyboards are not programmable. I use a split keyboard in a Colemak layout, and it's programmed to send the correct keys despite them being in "different" places comp
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by uncircle 1y ago
Cut also has a dedicated keycode. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44911608
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by uncircle 1y ago
On Linux, they map to XF86Copy and XF86Paste. There's also XF86Cut and XF86Undo. You can bind these on Emacs, for example.
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by uncircle 1y ago
I use Alt-W and Ctrl-Y in the terminal, because I already use these to copy/paste on Emacs, and none of the CLI tools I use require these shortcuts. The only issue is remembering to use Ctrl-C/V on Firefox, unless someone knows a
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by uncircle 1y ago
English politicians are just a decade ahead than the rest of the Western world. They are not the only ones doing massive surveillance, but they are some of the first to have learned that the masses are completely powerless against the state
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by uncircle 1y ago
Am I supposed to hallucinate a reply from my own words? Say what you mean.
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by uncircle 1y ago
Before 2010-something, the very popular meme in software engineering was that functional programming is really hard to understand, and really not suited for anything outside of academia. [1] Now that I've been programming in an immutab
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by uncircle 1y ago
“My code crashes, what did I do wrong?” “NTA, the framework you are using is bad and should be ashamed of itself. What you can try to work around the problem is …”
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by uncircle 1y ago
That is a fair assessment, but on the other hand, yes men are not required to do things, despite people liking them. You can achieve great things even if your team is made of Germans. My tongue-in-cheek comment wonders if having actors with
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by uncircle 1y ago
I want an AI modeled after short-tempered stereotypical Germans or Eastern Europeans, not copying the attitude of non-confrontational Californians that say “dude, that’s awesome!” a dozen times a day. And I mean that unironically.
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by uncircle 1y ago
A good, albeit controversial, argument in favour of monarchy I’ve heard recently is that a monarch has to plan ahead for decades, if not centuries, to ensure them and their dynasty can keep ruling over a prosperous country. A democratic pol
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by uncircle 1y ago
Excellent insight, would explain why opinions of an AI-driven future tend to be very extreme. Assuming the vast majority of us see a world in rapid collapse, that not even politicians have a decent answer to [1], either AI is the shining te
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by uncircle 1y ago
Many such cases
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by uncircle 1y ago
Calling other people’s work “garbage” is not conclusive proof of arrogance, if that work is actual garbage. Linus has calmed down a lot over the years, yet at this point if he still has issues with somebody’s work, it’s probably best to lis
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Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux(mark.stosberg.com)
164 points by uncircle 1y ago|223 comments
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by uncircle 1y ago
Ah, there’s where all the anti-AI posts went! I thought everybody on this site had drunk the kool aid, but it’s just any criticism doesn’t make the front page any more. Thanks, much appreciated.
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by uncircle 1y ago
“Really good” under which metric? Because it is slow, even more confusing after the terrible sidebar redesign and, to quote a famous author, its usage does not spark any joy. Codeberg and gitea, on the other hand, feel great, like early Git
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by uncircle 1y ago
The reality is this is on the HN front page probably because it was trending on Reddit/Twitter or whatever the kids use these days. Without the grace of the benevolent algorithms, you would never ever have found out about this website.
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by uncircle 1y ago
> Works best in Firefox! The Internet is cool again.
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by uncircle 1y ago
Ah, the marvels of modern democracy. No serious way to enact change, politicians still do whatever the hell they want, and we still believe that voting for someone else will change things. It’ll soon be like the UK, that if you campaign aga
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Visualizing quaternions: An explorable video series (2018)(eater.net)
85 points by uncircle 1y ago|13 comments
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by uncircle 1y ago
That’s a fancy metaphor for a “yes man”
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by uncircle 1y ago
In the age of Docker & co., people really overestimate how much effort it is to self-host a service. Probably it’s the entire generation that never ventured outside using AWS managed services. In practice, if you do not require 99.99%
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by uncircle 1y ago
I believe the slightly higher barrier is a feature, and a good filter for low quality spam. On the other hand, if I spent time and effort writing a patch for public release, I have no issues jumping through hurdles to see it published, whet
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by uncircle 1y ago
The opening of your post made me think of a scifi writing prompt where, in a dystopic future, people are paying mega tech-corporations thousands of dollars per month to replace their meat brain with a subpar artificial one just to become mo
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by uncircle 1y ago
Hoping not to be culturally-deaf, you have an arabic sounding username, so maybe there is still hope for him if he decides to learn the language
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by uncircle 1y ago
It's hard for a naive parser (one-token lookahead, for example), to tell after parsing `const add = (` if this defines a function or a variable. A "function" keyword often exists just to help the parser. C3, for example, to s
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by uncircle 1y ago
I've heard the same thing about monetising search engines. Kagi didn't get the memo, and last I've heard they're turning a profit. Sure, only nerds would pay for it, but not all products have to capture 100% market share
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by uncircle 1y ago
Pro tip: when a protocol's name contains the words "extensible", "flexible", "universal", "interoperable", they tend to be utter abominations designed by a committee of stakeholders often with co
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by uncircle 1y ago
As if the authoritarian state doesn’t prefer its subject distracted and entertained by Netflix, Reddit, TikTok instead of reading books and meeting in coffee shops to discuss anarchist literature and Uncle Ted’s manifesto. The Internet has

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