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by xrisk 4y ago
Why would anybody use the Outlook app on iOS as opposed to the built-in one?
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by xrisk 4y ago
Thanks! I was planning to reach out to the folks at SIGCIS already :) As for your point about specific features, I plan to treat this as a STS-esque project. TLDR: de-emphasize linear models of technology development. Besides, I feel that t
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by xrisk 4y ago
Can I have your email if that’s okay with you? Or you can drop me a line (rk@rishav.io) and I’ll reach out to you within a couple of days. Thanks a bunch!
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by xrisk 4y ago
You’re correct, but I expect that the need to invent those features arose with limitations in existing systems (those that were just plain text content or non-web, as you say).
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by xrisk 4y ago
I’m tentatively looking to begin with BBS (potentially CompuServe), but I’m willing to go back as far as needed to paint a comprehensive picture. This is also one of the bits I’m having difficulty with — what was it like to actually use t
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Ask HN: Histories of Early Social Media
27 points by xrisk 4y ago|26 comments
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by xrisk 4y ago
I’m somewhat familiar with how git works. In my understanding, a commit is just a blob combining the commit information and a tree blob, hashing them together to create a commit id. This design doesn’t preclude the usage of additional infor
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by xrisk 4y ago
I feel the commit data could be extended to include some metadata that isn’t used to compute the hash. GitHub could then make use of this data to populate whatever. (Not sure if such a field already exists in the commit blob)
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by xrisk 4y ago
The Gaussian would be a more natural way to model latency variation IMO.
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by xrisk 4y ago
openwrt offers this. Another reason to install it whenever you can!
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by xrisk 4y ago
Fair argument but I don’t see why training should inherently be unpaid. In fact, I don’t see why the ability to have a good standard of living should be predicated on your profession in the first place. The fact that engineering training is
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by xrisk 4y ago
Whoa that’s a cool trick! It’s important to note, however, that sshfs has been archived by its creator. What this entails with regard to the future of the project is uncertain though.
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by xrisk 4y ago
I think it’s certainly a myth that an engineer’s profession is “inherently harder” than a coffee brewers. In my opinion, people who would like to study engineering would do so not so because of what they are paid (the situation today), but
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by xrisk 4y ago
We use Citrix too. Your choice to call it pretty good is interesting…
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by xrisk 4y ago
No. I need to remote into a desktop from my laptop to WFH… which seems unusual to me?
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by xrisk 4y ago
This is more on the banal side, but I just interned at a place with some weird restrictions — Windows machines, you have to remote into them if you want to WFH… stuff that really hampers my productivity. I’m going to get this stuff sorted o
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by xrisk 4y ago
fwiw: the App Store also prohibits JITed code or in general code pulled in after app publishing. I guess the idea is that (at least in theory) that Apple sees all code that an app runs.
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by xrisk 4y ago
I’m primarily a Python dev but I’ve been recently working on a React codebase. One of the things that’s been driving me insane is how the default way to import things is without a namespace, aka: `import {foo} from ‘bar’;` This makes readin
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by xrisk 4y ago
Please remove the strip-ey overlay you have, it makes the text actively harder to read.
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by xrisk 4y ago
Wouldn’t people working on Asahi right now write their own GPU drivers?
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by xrisk 5y ago
Crossover is proprietary. Pure Wine cannot run x86 apps on ARM if I understand correctly.
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by xrisk 5y ago
Could you elaborate on where the btrfs snapshots come into play? I use rsnapshot on a plain ext4 fs and it’s pretty slow (lots of small files).
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by xrisk 5y ago
Can recommend Keepassium for macOS/iOS. Just works™.
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by xrisk 5y ago
Has anybody done this for Python?
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Implementing TLS Encrypted Client Hello [Nov 2021](guardianproject.info)
40 points by xrisk 5y ago|18 comments
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by xrisk 5y ago
I don’t see how being multiethnic makes Russia or Iran not have national identities (the requirement for being a nation state).
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by xrisk 5y ago
Pretty sure that circumcision reduces chances of HPV significantly.
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by xrisk 5y ago
You can statically link LLVM, no problem. In fact, you never have to call any binaries specifically; just do it through code and everything should link at compile-time and become one big binary.
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by xrisk 5y ago
FWIW, Ctrl+D is not "magic". It works because Ctrl+D is EOF. Applications that read input should expect that the input is done when they encounter EOF.
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by xrisk 5y ago
Can you point me to these torrents please? I can’t seem to find them.

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