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by wheybags 2y ago
WSL2 is what people use now though. Saying "WSL is not linux" (because wsl1 isn't) is pedantically analogous to saying "mac os is not a unix based os" (because mac os 9 and under isn't)
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by wheybags 2y ago
Why does apple still do this? Surely there's some other way they can implement whatever functionality these files provide? The collective number of man hours wasted on this issue is probably centuries by this point.
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by wheybags 2y ago
My metric for when you've left the city is "have I passed a field of potatoes"
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by wheybags 2y ago
I always click through regardless, because the rss text is probably missing formatting and images. I'll never be sure I'm getting a proper copy of the article unless I click through anyway.
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by wheybags 2y ago
Rss is pretty light. Even if you say it's too much to be re-sending, you could remove the content from the rss feed (so they need to click through to read it), which would shrink the feed size massively. Alternatively, remove old posts
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by wheybags 2y ago
Now, yes. But before 1978 in the us there were some extra steps (I think just attaching a copyright notice & publishing it, but I'm not 100% sure)
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by wheybags 2y ago
The homepage sort of implies that "having an accent" is something only non native speakers do? Like an accent only comes from your exotic mother tongue. Kinda weird. It told me I'm a native speaker, and I am a non American na
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by wheybags 2y ago
Strongly agree here. IMO libraries should try hard to return sensible error codes (within reason, eg null pointer access is unrecoverable imo) but application code should just crash. And when a library returns an error code, default to just
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by wheybags 2y ago
> it was so easy, we actually used it as an IPC mechanism. Can you elaborate on that? It sounds interesting
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by wheybags 2y ago
Fwiw I host some static html websites on a cheap ovh vps (used to be a literal core i3 kimsufi box for a couple hundred a year, it's very slightly beefier now), and have hit the front page of hn with that setup several times with no is
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by wheybags 2y ago
On windows, clumsy[1] is a great tool for this. The animated gif on their homepage is a super intuitive demo of the functionality too. 1: https://jagt.github.io/clumsy/
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by wheybags 2y ago
This is a sentiment that I've seen expressed in comment sections many times. I've been programming professionally now for 10 years, and it just doesn't resonate with my experience. Problems with build systems for external dep
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by wheybags 2y ago
Ireland is a solid democratic European, English speaking country with no significant hard right presence in government. Culturally I think an American would find it easier to adapt than eg France or Germany. The anglosphere individualism is
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by wheybags 2y ago
Compared to most other trades, computing is in its infancy
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by wheybags 2y ago
Until shockingly recently I thought the definition of summer, winter etc was just when it's hot / cold in England. So I thought December is still winter even in Australia, it's just not cold in winter there. In my defense, we
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Intel and AMD Form x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group(amd.com)
2 points by wheybags 2y ago|0 comments
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by wheybags 2y ago
You can artificially create scope. I often write code like: Foo f = null; { ... stuff with variables f = barbaz; }
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by wheybags 2y ago
It's the bones that make them crunchy
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by wheybags 2y ago
Fdic only covers $250k per person. If you had more than that in your account, you're out of luck.
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by wheybags 2y ago
Email works just fine? Seriously, absolutely hate the trend of making apps out of websites.
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by wheybags 2y ago
No spoilers, but I think you would enjoy this short story: https://qntm.org/transi
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by wheybags 2y ago
It was actually silverlight in an adobe branded trenchcoat
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by wheybags 2y ago
Hah, so young and foolish. Everyone knows pasta grows on trees: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8scpGwbvxvI
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by wheybags 2y ago
If you're going to pull hydrocarbons out of air, isn't it more useful to make fuel for engines / heating? Genuine question, as I'm not very familiar with this tech.
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by wheybags 2y ago
Highly unlikely I'm afraid :(
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by wheybags 2y ago
That title is a real garden path sentence ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence )
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by wheybags 2y ago
I did come across some mentions of that, but it sounded like you would need to configure it at build time. If you know of a way to do it with a pre-existing binary that wasn't designed with that in mind I'd be very interested.
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Show HN: Resurrecting a dead Dune RTS game(wheybags.com)
485 points by wheybags 2y ago|100 comments
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by wheybags 2y ago
I would reckon most people in Europe could recognize a robin based on Christmas cards alone.
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by wheybags 2y ago
I don't really get why you'd waste space on a battery in a device like this. It's going to be used plugged in, so who needs it? I know there's the idea of AR goggles but like, c'mon. Nobody really believes that will

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