SanderSantema

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by SanderSantema 3mo ago
Alternatively I’ve found it beneficial to try and clarify and further elaborate on your “opponents” reasoning. If you’re correct, then you should find the errors in their reasoning; without ever actually having to oppose them (your opponent
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by SanderSantema 2y ago
If I am to believe the Corruption Perception Index, which I certainly would over your unsourced blanket statement, you’re wrong and Europe is actually doing rather well at having low rates of corruption. Anecdotally that has certainly been
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by SanderSantema 3y ago
Given the required permissions I’d like to read the source code before using it, but that doesn’t seem to be available. Is this correct?
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by SanderSantema 3y ago
I think the point isn’t necessarily to not use chrome but to use something not based on chromium in general, which brave is, e.g. Firefox or Safari.
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by SanderSantema 3y ago
Lua wasn’t made for scripting video games but as a scripting language for a mining company if I remember correctly from this excellent paper[1]. I can highly recommend all the other ACM hopl papers too for those interested in the history of
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by SanderSantema 4y ago
> She lamented the disappearance of the option to show only PDFs in the search results Nitpicking but this is still possible at least using ddg, google and possibly other search engines by appending `filetype:pdf`.
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by SanderSantema 4y ago
Are you suggesting this person should’ve spent their time working on reimplementing wayland in rust instead? If so I suggest you drop all the projects you’re currently working on and do the same.
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by SanderSantema 4y ago
If there’s no deadline there’s no problem I think to stop working on it for a while. Do you have any other projects or things to work on? Then work on those instead for a bit. Then return to your big project whenever you feel inspired to wo
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by SanderSantema 4y ago
This doesn't seem viable in practice, determining how much polution a product causes for every product you tax is impractical and although not guaranteed I would think it likely that you'll simply export less when you start imposi
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by SanderSantema 4y ago
Either way, it’s easier if you’ve got the source code as well.
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by SanderSantema 4y ago
Although you could make this argument in this context I don’t think it is valid. I’m quite certain that someone who’s trying to figure out what some obscure service is doing on their machine would be able to use `apt-get` perfectly fine and
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by SanderSantema 4y ago
Whereas on closed source you’d have to do all of that and probably a good deal of reverse engineering on top of that. That’s unfortunately not something which it necessarily makes any easier, but rather a lot harder.
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by SanderSantema 5y ago
Thanks for the interesting tidbits!
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by SanderSantema 5y ago
Although I personally haven’t got any experience with linux internals (insofar not needed as a user) I’d think https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ might be a good place to start. You might want to find ou
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by SanderSantema 6y ago
You might want to google for Library Genesis and see if you can find them there to compare these and buy one of them afterwards.
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by SanderSantema 6y ago
I still accidentally try to use these on my linux machine, that’s one thing I really do miss. One consolation is that I can still use them in my shell :) Weirdly enough I never accidentally use these shortcuts while using vim. I’d guess my
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by SanderSantema 6y ago
I don’t think it’s influenced by js: http://www.lua.org/doc/hopl.pdf
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by SanderSantema 6y ago
At least trying three times seems like a very good thing to me. Although you might want to try a fourth time, Git really isn't that hard I think but rather quite opaque and easier when understood. What made me understand is this pictur
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by SanderSantema 6y ago
I'm no expert, but I believe it's indeed what they're already doing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_bacteria#... But if I could make a guess I'd say that it in theory it might be
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by SanderSantema 6y ago
That's right, currently reading it for my uni course :)
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by SanderSantema 7y ago
There are quite a lot of KDE apps which aren't that well known which together cover a large swathe of desktop usage and are quite nice. Most of them are here: https://kde.org/applications/
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by SanderSantema 7y ago
As an open-source alternative to typora I can suggest Marktext https://github.com/marktext/marktext which I believe is on par with typora features. Don't be alarmed by the fact that it's electron, it's p
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by SanderSantema 7y ago
Taking a rectangle select screenshot using ⌘⇧⌃4 (CMD + Shift + Ctrl + 4) will put the screenshot in your clipboard on macOS
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by SanderSantema 7y ago
⌘⇧5 (CMD + Shift + 5) doesn't do anything on my macOS 10.13.6 system, ⌘⇧⌃4 (CMD + Shift + Ctrl + 4) is the default shortcut to take a rectangle screenshot and store it in the clipboard.
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by SanderSantema 7y ago
Is this fix already available in the dev version of firefox? Edit: The improvements are already available on nightly https://twitter.com/whimboo/status/1168437524357898240
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by SanderSantema 7y ago
Have I interpreted the guidelines incorrectly?
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by SanderSantema 7y ago
A quick heads up: "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." From the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by SanderSantema 7y ago
Not if you use a firmware password. Which you can enable from recovery mode (accessible by pressing cmd-r at startup), you can find the option in one of the menu bar items. Remember that you’ll have a very hard time recovering your Mac if y
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by SanderSantema 7y ago
I was interested what the exact meaning of a “Middlebrow dismissal” is (non-native speaker). But I could only find the following in the HN guidelines which doesn’t seem to mention middlebrow dismissals nor does it seem to be applicable to t
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by SanderSantema 7y ago
Sidenote: An important thing to remember in all of this is that most peolple will probably fail a few times and for instance get into the habit of gaming again. But failing is only good because the next time you would try you’d probably las

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