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by execat 7d ago
This is so refreshing. Almost everything in top/new/best is an interesting read. Either I don't know anything about the topic ("...the spanning tree protocol") or am seriously interested in the topic ("Remember
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by execat 4mo ago
> thinking the japs will invade from the sea Be mindful of using terms that are widely recognized as racial slurs.
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by execat 11mo ago
> An autocratic, single party state where the government is so popular that they need to rig their elections against themselves to get dissenting voices. It's not a single party state. Over 1/3rd of Singaporeans vote for the no
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by execat 1y ago
At risk of going off-topic, when I see comments like these, I wonder how the comment author comes up with these corrections (cross-checked, the comment is in fact true) Did you have the number memorized or did you do a fact check on each o
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by execat 1y ago
What's their end game here? What is Microsoft gaining from their push to passkeys? They knew this was going to piss off a lot of people, but they went ahead with it anyway. That makes me believe there's something else at play. My
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by execat 1y ago
How to do the same thing with `nix shell` (The flake based command) instead of `nix-shell`?
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by execat 2y ago
That's a wide range, isn't it?
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by execat 2y ago
In his last lecture he mentions that the best part of teaching is when a student sends them a photo of a rainbow 10 years after graduating, saying that they remember the whole physics behind it. Same for me. I think of the cones of light be
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by execat 2y ago
This is interesting. When we talk about interstellar travel in the far future, this may be another issue to consider. The handover of knowledge will have to happen over at least a few generations. It will end up being a software application
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by execat 2y ago
No. ~etc is equivalent to /home/etc. ~/etc is the same as /home/<current user>/etc.
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by execat 2y ago
Be kind. Don't be snarky. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by execat 2y ago
A Christian Netflix exists. It's called Pure Flix.
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by execat 2y ago
In addition to everything mentioned here, projects based on holiday dates (Christmas sale feature, Thanksgiving promotions etc) not rolling out on time means that the feature can go out only in the next year.
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by execat 2y ago
Companies that plan on doing something like this: please make sure you are paying your candidates market wage for the interview. For Leetcode style questions, there is some amount of interaction from the interviewer, so the cost to the comp
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by execat 3y ago
Instagram reels have completely replaced Tiktok. No one around me misses Tiktok.
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by execat 3y ago
> A single-line block uses { }, but when it's multiple lines, it has to be changed to "do" and "end" - why? It doesn't have to be changed. {} work fine on multi-line blocks also. It's probably your lint
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by execat 3y ago
I love this. The app is less than 4MB and with so many puzzle types!
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by execat 3y ago
You might be over-estimating how long it takes to write a Nix config. Just start with a reasonable Nix config and take it from there by comparing with nix-darwin and home-manager configuration pages. I know people who did it over a weekend.
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by execat 3y ago
You need SponsorBlock. Usually people leave a "highlight" marker which tells you where you're supposed to jump to. Along with the regular "This video was brought to you by <insert>VPN".
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by execat 3y ago
All used. Don't try these.
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by execat 3y ago
All of these are used.
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by execat 4y ago
Paul Graham (Y Combinator co-founder) has a lot of essays on Lisp or mentions of Lisp: * Lisp: http://www.paulgraham.com/lisp.html * Beating the averages: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html Other notable pr
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by execat 4y ago
Unrelated to Disney but related to mosquitoes: Singapore's Wolbachia-Aedes suppression technology is very interesting, but specific to Aedes mosquitoes. The government releases male Wolbachia-Aedes mosquitoes that suppress the Aedes ae
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by execat 4y ago
That link shows me two completely different things on incognito and regular browser. Incognito shows me the actual page, regular mode Rickrolls me. EDIT: Oh, later in the thread they're talking about this.
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by execat 5y ago
> I want to get into a zone solving interesting problems. I know this question is about macOS, but you could consider how to have this method implemented in your Mac. I recently installed FreeBSD on my MBP 2015 since it was quite dead an
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by execat 5y ago
Since the original post is about OpenBSD and the parent is about FreeBSD, just some addition: 1. ZFS is not supported in OpenBSD. Here's why OpenBSD doesn't have ZFS (pretty much every other BSD does): https://old.reddi
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by execat 5y ago
> launcher for video games Probably not, otherwise there would be a lot more panic regarding SteamDeck, SteamOS, and Proton within Microsoft.
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by execat 5y ago
I think this opens another Pandora's box of fake posts from nominated accounts. Someone nominated their spouse, they are splitting and the spouse makes a fake demise post. Can legit get people to panic if the person in question is famo
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by execat 5y ago
Is their plan to have the login screen on landing or is it just a beta thing? If I have to log in to an account only to search, that'd be a no-go for me.
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by execat 5y ago
Tokyu Hands is all over SG too.

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