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Re:Seven books I keep close because I love them on Friday August 14, 2026 @01:47PM (#49302162)
Roget's Thesaurus is part of Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22
Re:GitHub Is Down on Monday February 09, 2026 @11:59AM (#46947653)
As an example, Go build could fail anywhere if a dependency module from Github is not available.
"I would pay close attention to accessibility: forecasts would be in local languages..." There are many situations where somebody is interesting about the local weather but not speaking the local language. Why overwrite the users preferred language from the browser?
Re:The Lobster Programming Language on Thursday August 28, 2025 @07:10PM (#45058062)
Running some of the samples feels like those old SGI Iris GL demos, but implemented with a way nicer and concise language. I'll try to port some of my old code from that era.
Produced a 151 characters long prompt in my current development directory. This is really a starship, but I'm a pedestrian.
Re:Advent of Code 2024 on Sunday December 01, 2024 @06:32AM (#42287833)
There are CLI tools to fetch and submit solutions. At least one of them allows you to download the puzzle description as markup: https://github.com/scarvalhojr/aoc-cli
Re:Ractor – a Rust Actor Framework on Sunday November 03, 2024 @03:50AM (#42031904)
This seems to be used at Meta: "Ractor had a session at RustConf’24 about how it’s used for distributed overload protection in Rust Thrift servers at Meta."
Re:Show HN: Edna, note taking app for developers on Monday July 01, 2024 @04:44PM (#40850437)
If you have git, golang and bun/nodejs on your machine it works from localhost.

  git clone [email protected]:kjk/edna.git
  cd edna/server && go get && go build && cd ..
  ./server/server -build-local-prod
  ./server/server -run-local-prod
Re:Hacking a Philips Sonicare Toothbrush on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @06:44PM (#36132127)
It works happily with a brush head without NFC. That was the first thing I tried with my new toothbrush.
Re:Pulumi 3.0 on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @08:07PM (#26883687)
One of the strength of pulumi is to export and reimport state, which is represented as an easy to digest json. You can edit state and that is even suggested by pulumi when it's stuck.
Re:Introduction to ARC/ORC in Nim on Thursday October 15, 2020 @09:13AM (#24788245)
Not really. As the intro of this article says, it's possible to disable GC, but you loose most of the libraries, which is one of the strengths of Nim.
Re:Be skeptical of Ring's indoor security drone on Friday September 25, 2020 @02:20PM (#24592645)
and the ability to open and close doors...
Re:Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com on Thursday September 17, 2020 @02:35PM (#24508309)
I lost my .com in a similar way.
Re:433% Keyboard on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @04:48PM (#24497691)
You mean there is a need for this?
The correct order to delete your account is

  Sign in to SlideShare
  Go to Menu “Account Settings”
  Change Password
  Delete Account
  Yes, Delete my Account
It clearly shows a strong bias, practically turns a woman into a man.
I'm more comfortable to store encrypted passwords at the cloud using a service, whose core business is to make it secure than any homegrown solution.
I prefer not to be hit, even if it's not fatal.
Re:Show HN: Komiser – Detect potential AWS cost savings on Saturday May 04, 2019 @06:54PM (#19829902)
It's at the top of the repo itself.
Re:New brand on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @09:26AM (#19796778)
I miss the shadow from the hat. The new logo tries to be very PC, conforming in all possible ways. At the end, it's just boring.
Re:Jsonnet – A data templating language on Sunday April 14, 2019 @07:09AM (#19658668)
With a deep enough JSON structure with similar enough items, the jq expressions are hard to make or maintain. This is a real world example: jq '.sourceSelectionTrees[].rootNode.children[].children' | jq '.[]? | .action.attributeMapping.attributeSources' | jq -r '.[]? | select(.type == "XYZ") | .dataRef.id'
Checked Hungry, where it stated soybeans is the top third crop, but in reality, soybeans are marginal there. To find outliers like that it would be interesting to compare data with published statistics.
What's your use case for such a strict backup regime?
Re:Ask HN: How many hours do you sleep on average? on Friday March 23, 2018 @12:36PM (#16659869)
5-6
Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux is good, but not enough yet on Saturday October 14, 2017 @04:15PM (#15474020)
How can you explain that unzipping an archive under WSL filesystem is 5 minutes, while on the same machine atop of windows native filesystem it's 3 seconds?
Re:AWS Serverless React Native Starter App on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @03:48PM (#15288159)
As a startup, the last thing to worry is vendor lock-in. With an architecture like this, you got fast time to market, minimal operations, scalability, zero starting cost, fair pricing. Just my 2c.
This device works on the CAN bus, where you can actually issue commands, not just listen. So this is a bad idea in that sense.
While this plugs into the OBD-II port but the main use is to dump the CAN bus. Comparing it with OBD-II dongles where the functionality is restricted to the OBD part is misleading. It's far from universal, as not all cars expose all the CAN bus at the OBD-II socket, but a good start for sure. I ordered mine.

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