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Re:Ask HN: Identify duplicate files in my data hoard? on Friday September 02, 2022 @12:57AM (#32686756)
Czkawka worked pretty well for me.

https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka

Re:Not Your Grandmother's Textbook Exercise on Thursday September 01, 2022 @11:54PM (#32686409)
I had to reread this comment multiple times since I felt that I had a fundamental failure of reading comprehension somewhere along the line.

> The problem statement says "find the record" but all the answers are about printing the median age.

> So answer to the question posed? None of the above.

The problem statement does not say "find the record". The problem statement says, fully quoted:

> Rank the responses in the order of their relative concern with programming considerations, economic considerations, or other important considerations. If you were the programmer, which approach would you prefer? If you were Mary Jones, which approach would you prefer?

Re:Unity merges with IronSource on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @11:53AM (#32084409)
Because the company that most benefits from it existing also makes the world's most used browser.
Re:You wouldn't download a back end on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @12:36PM (#32072426)
I actually believe it's referring to Assassin's Creed 2. It had to check in with the central server to see if a legitimate copy was being played, and the way it was cracked was basically going through every possibility where the check can fire off, recording the request/response, and having the cracked version play back the appropriate response to the request. It basically had to be exhaustively played to get to a point where all the request/response combinations got recorded.
Why are you assuming that they're using the home edition?
Re:Code colocation is king on Thursday February 03, 2022 @09:02AM (#30192468)

    cd a
    ln -s . a
Problem solved; perfect organization.
Re:New Colorways for Firefox 94 on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @03:12PM (#29099011)
They're colour themes. Mozilla's celebrating the fact that you can change Firefox's colour theme while trying to spin it as something super unique.

> we chose “Colorways” rather than “themes” to show we are branching out from our language of “browser” to speak the language of everyday life and everyday users.

Basically, fashion-industry word salad, but for the tech industry! Hooray!

Re:Exa: An alternative to Ls on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @11:59AM (#29015041)
ls doesn't do colours by default, but a lot of distros alias `ls` to `ls --color=auto` so it seems that way.
It's a "well, yes, but actually no" situation, seeing as some torrent-related programs implement a few draft BEPs. I haven't seen any that support the torrent signing BEP, though. https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0035.html
Re:FFMPEG from Zero to Hero on Saturday March 06, 2021 @06:42PM (#26371613)
Perl edges it out, but only barely.
Re:How to Interview Engineers on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @02:54AM (#24762977)
Board states, yes, but in a game of tic-tac-toe, placement order matters as well. There are a total of 9! (362880) possible (but not necessarily valid) game states. With such a low number, it's not hard to brute force the correct answer. Someone more well-versed in combinatorics could probably do it in a more efficient way.
Re:How to Interview Engineers on Monday October 12, 2020 @01:40PM (#24757056)
Since I didn't see it mentioned here among the mentions of satire, and I found the problem interesting...

The number of valid tic-tac-toe games is 255168.

Re:Ask HN: How can I tell if a site is being rate limited? on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @04:58PM (#23024214)
People's attention spans are ridiculously short. If the person is actively looking for the content, sure, that obviously won't work. However, if it's a more casual browser, then going to a site that takes a long time to load between different pages is definitely a way to get them to not visit it any more. This even works on tech-savvy people, as opposed to just blocking a site which will just get them to use a proxy.

> Is that a thing countries do, like if they want to "punish" a site while retaining plausible deniability?

China and Russia do this with a lot of western sites, from what I've heard.

Re:Rust Survey 2019 Results on Friday April 17, 2020 @07:24PM (#22903949)
Why is it considered culturally taboo within Google?
Re:I Want Off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride on Friday February 28, 2020 @12:46PM (#22444620)
My most popular project on Github is currently a program I slapped together in Go a long time ago. The `sync/atomic` issue mentioned at the end of the article is THE issue that made me stop considering Go for anything other than trivial things. Lack of decent error handling, a terrible builtin json library, constant `interface{}` to poorly substitute for generics, the package management issues that made Node.js look well-thought-out by comparison, struct field tags, and generators provided by the core team that set off linters provided by the core team with no good way to silence them kind of piled on before that, but the `atomic` issue is the one that made me avoid it. The author is right, all the little things add up.

Note that a bunch of these may have been fixed since I last used it, but honestly, I haven't checked because it was frustrating working in it and debugging it. It's a shame, `pprof` and the race detector are pretty cool.

Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @03:09PM (#19089257)
It didn't blow up like the comment-editing incident, but I was referring to https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/7a2mle/possible_...
Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @01:52PM (#19088432)
Also, when they created comments and manipulated their timestamps to make it seem like they were created far earlier than they actually were, for advertising purposes.
Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @01:18PM (#19087987)
Modern reddit isn't open source.
Re:Use DuckDuckGo to improve your privacy online (2018) on Thursday January 31, 2019 @02:10AM (#19043038)
That's anecdotally false. I've had Google use synonyms for words I put in quotes instead of the words themselves.
Not the person you are responding to, but the comment you're replying to is referencing Seinfeld, due to the name of your company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stand_In_(Seinfeld)

"Slightly exaggerated example since I can't remember any concrete ones off the top of my head"
> This is in contrast to google where searches return things that don't even contain your keywords.

This has become so frustrating as of late, especially when you search for something like "c++ map" and it decides to completely ignore the "c++" part of your search, leaving you with pages of actual maps. Slightly exaggerated example since I can't remember any concrete ones off the top of my head, but the actual situation happens way too often.

Where are all the Elixir jobs at in Toronto? I can't seem to find any.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018) on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @09:13PM (#17668521)
Why does your application require a Linkedin URL?
Re:Tech’s Two Philosophies on Thursday May 10, 2018 @01:39AM (#17036641)
So far, just for Windows, I've had ads:

  1. On the lockscreen
  2. In my start menu's tilebar
  3. In my start menu's search results
  4. In my start menu's program list
  5. In Explorer, for OneDrive
  6. In Edge, on a "blank" page
  7. In toast notifications
And that's just what I remember offhand; I'm certain there's even more.
Re:Gitea: Open source, self-hosted GitHub alternative on Sunday May 06, 2018 @01:14PM (#17007193)
> Are users expected to install and find out?

When I was looking into switching from Gogs to Gitea, that is exactly what they expected you to do. I recall there being an issue saying that they won't compare the two because it's hard to keep up-to-date.

Which is a stupid excuse, considering it's supposed to be a community-based fork instead of run by one person.

I would say "small scale" would refer to project size in Go.
Re:An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 on Thursday October 12, 2017 @10:40PM (#15462932)
How is the AGPL restrictive in this case?
Re:Show HN: Twitch Plays Doom on Sunday August 06, 2017 @01:25PM (#14942274)
Okay, I understand the reasoning for most of these choices, but what kind of barbarian argues that a tab should be 3 spaces?

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