vfinn

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by vfinn 2y ago
Yes, I know what you mean, but you can say no to movies, social media, tv, and choose to live in the countryside for example (of course that depends on your financial situation and where you live). That alone makes a big difference.
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by vfinn 2y ago
One thing I believe is that the less you're involved in fantasy, the more realistic your dreams are. So if you're a simple, practical man without beliefs in supernatural, your dreams will be about daily life; but if you read fant
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by vfinn 3y ago
I hope you get better. You made the world a better place.
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by vfinn 3y ago
If cops are practically mandatory in a state, how is that statement meaningful? Why not just say state equals violence? Or are you saying humans don't need to control each other? If they do, how does it make a diffrence under which lab
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by vfinn 3y ago
1) His way of giving away things for free undermines the suffering people go trough to make a living; it makes effort and hardship look like a joke (maybe in the future no effort is required, and we are reminded about this possibility here,
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by vfinn 3y ago
MS Word, huh. Hmm... Yes I guess it satisfies this one condition I have. Haven't used it for ages. But it's a key feature for me not to be cornered right from the start, so I would think it's ruled out anyway. Also, moving al
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by vfinn 3y ago
Hehe. Yeah, paper notepads would be nice, but they aren't big enough (they'd have to be tens of meters wide), and if I taped them together, they'd be difficult to handle. Also, erasing stuff is a pain. At one point I was cons
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Ask HN: Is there a grid style Notepad?
2 points by vfinn 3y ago|5 comments
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by vfinn 4y ago
Yes, something like that crossed my mind also, but it could be that it's not feasible in small diy work. Have to check.
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by vfinn 4y ago
It's hard to say what kind of forces are involved. I could probably open the side panel and be able to see if I run it without water. I was hoping the rubber seal would mostly be flapping along mildly as a whole.
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by vfinn 4y ago
I was thinking of a truck wheel patch, but I'd like to be sure there won't be any stains, and that the glue won't react with the detergent, for example. I don't know if it's possible.
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by vfinn 4y ago
Maybe you don't mind me asking. I have a small hole in my top-loading washing machine's rubber seal and I have been wondering whether it could be fixed (a new seal costs 100$ and it'd feel nuts to throw it away for environmen
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by vfinn 4y ago
Imagine using this across different platforms :/, and let alone using different techniques in addition... edit: maybe you'd catch some criminals if you tried to match reddit against dark web for example
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by vfinn 4y ago
AI will kill the need for all these abstractions. There will be as many or as little abstractions you want. It doesn't matter. New languages of all shapes and forms will be generated eventually on the fly. You will just have to know wh
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by vfinn 4y ago
Yeah, why bother with propaganda, let's just use nanorobots that spread in the air instead...
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by vfinn 4y ago
I'm down for purely text-based web experience :-).
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by vfinn 4y ago
I have thought along similar lines, and I think one's own abilities determine the places you end up :), meaning that the more one knows, the more likely one will end up in deep conversations with deep thinking people in sites or situat
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by vfinn 4y ago
I have had text file + folder system for over 4 years now, and I feel it iteratively gets better and better. The upper level (text file) category determines the high level structure, e.g. 01. todo; 03. ideas, concepts; 06. thoughts; 12. hum
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by vfinn 4y ago
Thanks. Yeah, I don't doubt that there are problems and that it could get really hostile and difficult. I'm just unsure how unsolvable the conflicts are, and I'm not convinced that there's a fundamental flaw, such as &qu
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by vfinn 4y ago
I use Wikipedia for navigation mostly. To take anything at face value is not a good idea, even if most of it were "probably true" / true-ish.
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by vfinn 4y ago
I salute your efforts, but even if you have experience in the field (Wiki, OSM), I'm sorry to say that your arguments are weak and overly specific. I'd be more understanding if you had said working for Wikipedia/OSM isn'
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by vfinn 4y ago
If subject A's and subject B's synthesis created a new thing C, wouldn't he then be considered an expert in C, solely because there's no-one else doing what he's doing? In this way you could be an expert in many thi
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by vfinn 4y ago
You do something and see whether it sticks. If it does, you continue; if it doesn't you switch. Then later on you might come back to the previous thing.
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by vfinn 4y ago
I think that was a good write-up, and he made a pretty strong case. I don't drink alcohol myself and I share some of his feelings. Talking about alcohol seems to be a really nice way to start and keep up a conversation, I've notic
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by vfinn 4y ago
Yeah. I learned in primary school that I could bypass a password prompt in a simple program just by changing one conditional jump instruction to another (if password is wrong, success)
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by vfinn 4y ago
Being "more knowledgable" isn't one dimensional, and manager doesn't know most about everything. Actually, probably everyone in the workplace knows the most about some subject-matter, niche or not.
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by vfinn 4y ago
Reminds me of when I tried to Gmail myself a zip archive, and it was denied because of security reasons iirc. I then tried to base64 it, and it still didn't work, same with base32, until finally base16 did work.
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by vfinn 4y ago
Bad/illogical/outdated directory structure is one of the most annoying things I've encountered while using Linux, because it makes the admin job feel unnecessarily messy (things are all over the place), and it feels as if the
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by vfinn 5y ago
That xxe vulnerability sure was brutal and key to the whole thing. It's quite uncomfortable to be responsible for the security knowing exploits like this exist (of which you aren't aware of)
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by vfinn 5y ago
Create an alternative, lead the way, show that there's a different kind of life out there that can exist. No-one else will do it for you. Actually, there are a lot of people who do that, but they are not the majority. They are these pe

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