ricardolopes

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by ricardolopes 8mo ago
I use OMZ because it lets me rely on popular defaults instead of bike shedding and rolling my own. Its main advantage is convention over configuration. For instance, I just have to learn the git plugin aliases once, and then I can use them
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by ricardolopes 11mo ago
The problem I have with coding on Termux is that it's not a full Linux environment, and a lot of tools will fail to compile because there's some dependency that doesn't exist. That includes, for instance, database adaptors fo
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Tcl announces NXTPAPER 60 Ultra with comfortable 4.0 display tech at IFA 2025(androidcentral.com)
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by ricardolopes 1y ago
This could be debatable if browsers had any UI at all to display XML. It's incomprehensible that if you open the open web solution for subscribing to web content (RSS) you're greeted with a wall of unformatted text. Right now, XSL
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by ricardolopes 1y ago
My experience with a Pixel 6: + Doesn't have the same compatibility issues Termux has, so I can install things like bun.js and npm packages with native bindings (e.g. database connectors) - Can't edit text selection, which makes i
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by ricardolopes 3y ago
This looks really neat. I've definitely thought of "Duolingo for X" project ideas that I only wish I had the time to actually develop.
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by ricardolopes 3y ago
In the post he mentions that he was already getting bored before Ukraine, and that war actually kept him going a bit further
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by ricardolopes 3y ago
Like others in the comments, I've also been happily using Harmonic after having tried almost every other HN app. I've got a strong preference for open source apps, so this is the best news I could get from this app. Thank you for
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by ricardolopes 4y ago
Do you believe the amount of time developers have spent building hello worlds is a waste because those are useless applications? Should go without saying, but the interesting thing about this thread is not that you can now play a flawed tex
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by ricardolopes 4y ago
Relying on hacks for production code is usually a red flag/code smell that indicates there was probably a better alternative. `string & {}` definitely feels like one of those hacks. As an alternative, wouldn't it be better to
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by ricardolopes 4y ago
I like to focus on the main business element. If it's a SaaS for sharing videos with comments, for instance, I'd take a longer look at the video and comment models, their relations, and the call chain from API endpoint to model. A
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by ricardolopes 4y ago
I remember reading this book in my teenage years and being moved by its story. I still think about it, and it's one I'd definitely recommend. I wonder how it got to the top of hn all of a sudden though.
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by ricardolopes 4y ago
This looks amazing! But if it's streaming copyrighted material, how will it survive legal action?
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by ricardolopes 4y ago
That's not how coinbase operates. You have a "Buy <Coin>" button, and you expect to get that coin without fail, every time. If a new token launches, you should be able to buy it without waiting for users to deposit and
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by ricardolopes 5y ago
> I don't want DuckDuckGo to filter/sensor based on "politics of the day". I don't mind them tagging results. Agreed on both. Maybe it should have been done sooner, to avoid looking reactionary. Though I understa
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by ricardolopes 5y ago
I honestly fail to understand how downranking state-run propaganda that promotes a dictatorship's lies is considered to be a bad thing in a service that is all about providing useful information. This isn't about silencing a polit
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by ricardolopes 5y ago
As someone said in another reply, setting these team expectations is important so that the developer won't assume the reviewer will do the heavy testing, and the reviewer assumes the developer must have done it, leading to preventable
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by ricardolopes 5y ago
This should be something agreed within a team, so that review standards are consistent across team members. In my previous team, the reviewer was the main responsible for the code they were approving. They were expected to test locally and
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by ricardolopes 5y ago
This is it. If you let the machines do their thing unsupervised, you're creating an optimisation game someone is going to win. I honestly believe the only way for a search engine to be as valuable as Google was years ago is to let huma
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by ricardolopes 5y ago
Its competitors DNAnexus and Seven Bridges seem to be US based, or at least report having offices there. But Lifebit is recruiting internationally, and even has a US office now too, so AFAIK it should also be a valid option for US folks.
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by ricardolopes 5y ago
My son (now 4yo) was diagnosed with two rare diseases, due to a mutation in a collagen production gene, and at first it wasn't clear if he was ever going to walk at all. His life will always be severely impacted. I feel your pain about
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by ricardolopes 5y ago
Been thinking about this for a while. If worker pay isn't keeping up but company profits and equity are, this means that people are overvaluing being a worker and undervaluing being an owner, compared to market equilibrium. Why would t
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by ricardolopes 5y ago
ETH2 was years in the making, with multiple delays and not fully migrated yet precisely because of how unsafe standard PoS is. Vitalik and co spent years researching the best mitigations. Right now, it seems to be one of the best protected
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by ricardolopes 5y ago
Maybe I didn't word it right, but I wasn't calling bitcoin's method reliant on centralised authorities, just asking if there were more methods out there that weren't as well. Bitcoin is an open source permissionless prot
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by ricardolopes 5y ago
Changing consensus rules requires coordinating a fork. This requires coordinating developers, miners and node operators. That may fly in pseudo decentralised chains where the community accepts whatever the leader says so, and even so, at hi
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by ricardolopes 5y ago
The block 200 will be adding validation to the previous blocks, and will be validated by the future ones. Without other types of checks, nothing stops you from rewriting the previous 199 blocks and using block 200 to validate them. This is
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by ricardolopes 5y ago
The Bitcoin Core client includes a hardcoded list of DNS servers that point to thousands of nodes. These lists get updated frequently by different people. Other clients may use other lists. What is the threat model you're suggesting he
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by ricardolopes 5y ago
That is money taken from custodials (i.e. the bitcoin wasn't actually yours) or through force from captured individuals. No part of that was taken by calling the bitcoin CEO to require editing the balances on the blockchain.
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by ricardolopes 5y ago
The original argument was that with traditional finance, banks could edit your balance when needed. That can't be done with bitcoin: the protocol won't accept transactions that aren't signed with the owner's private key.
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by ricardolopes 5y ago
Being lawless is a feature, not a bug. This is why, despite the many apparent flaws, bitcoin usage just keeps on growing with people living under authoritarian regimes, for instance. The money is yours and no government can confiscate it.

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