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Re:SetBigTimeout on Friday October 18, 2024 @01:04PM (#41881332)
I agree it’s not the prettiest, but I had no trouble clicking on “tree” to get to the folder and then “mod.ts” to see the code.
Re:B-Trees and Database Indexes on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @08:25AM (#41500043)
This goes pretty deep in English. I'd argue that the semantic intention behind the colloquial usage of "vulgar" is nearly inseparable from the "class distinction" baggage it carries. Consider these common synonyms and their etymologies:

- Rude: "coarse, rough, unfinished, unlearned" (https://www.etymonline.com/word/rude#etymonline_v_16610)

- Mean: "shared by all, common, general" (https://www.etymonline.com/word/mean#etymonline_v_12495)

And even synonyms like obscene, indecent, or disgusting, which don't evoke this distinction directly, still almost always ultimately rely on separating things based on what is "good" and "clean" according to class distinctions.

Re:B-Trees and Database Indexes on Monday September 09, 2024 @03:25PM (#41492466)
Note that, in the abstract, “vulgar” means “common” (as in “vulgar latin”). Indeed, its negative connotations come from that same sense: “common” people are unrefined.
Re:Big (O)Notation Every Developer Should Know on Sunday May 26, 2024 @08:56AM (#40481804)
Am I missing something about the O(logN) section? Why is there a graph of O(n^3 logN) under the text Here is how logarithmic complexity look like?
Re:Why Don't I Like Git More? on Friday April 05, 2024 @11:17AM (#39943456)
I know this isn’t truly the point of the article, but I’d encourage anyone/everyone to give https://fork.dev a try. Unlimited free trial but well worth it to support the great devs. It solves basically all of the ergonomic gripes I have with the `git` CLI.
Re:End of Life for Twilio Authy Desktop App on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @01:32PM (#39360999)
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here? on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @12:17PM (#36588693)
At the risk of correcting the primary source, I was able to load https://www.ebiester.com/ but not https://ebiester.com/

EDIT: I see you’ve already updated your comment. Thanks!

Re:Distcc: A fast, free distributed C/C++ compiler on Thursday June 01, 2023 @08:07AM (#36150020)
Xcode used to have native support for this, long ago. And it had mdns support too!
Re:Twm − Tab Window Manager for the X Window System on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @04:34PM (#34602536)
The wikipedia page[0] has screenshots.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twm

Re:Yapsl: Yet another Python SMS library on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @08:11AM (#33705352)
This is cool. Although when I looked through the code I thought, “surely there must be a general-purpose Hayes command library for Python”, so I searched around, and didn’t find anything. Kinda wild.
Re:PayPal Demonetises the Daily Sceptic on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @10:08AM (#32925380)
The first amendment is mostly about what the US government can/can’t do, and even then it’s not 100% protection.
Just want to add that I make extensive use of “tapbacks” with pretty much everyone I use iM with.
Re:LibreRPi – open source replacements for RPi firmware on Thursday September 15, 2022 @08:13AM (#32850559)
I’m not an expert, but iirc banana-pi and beagleboard are SBCs with more of an open source bent.
Re:“It’s time for Apple to fix texting” on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @01:38PM (#32415746)
Thanks for this link! This is a great explanation which clears a lot of things up to me.
Re:“It’s time for Apple to fix texting” on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @02:59PM (#32402380)
I’m curious about how this works, can you link me someplace where I can read more about it? I tried searching for “cellular over wifi” but wasn’t about to find anything promising.

EDIT: I searched harder and found “VoWiFi”. It looks like this can support SMS and is supported by iOS. TIL.

Re:“It’s time for Apple to fix texting” on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @12:41PM (#32400294)
> definitely sent/received SMS over wifi using my iPhone

Are you certain? From what I understand about how SMS works, I don’t see how that’s possible. Apple’s own docs also appear to suggest that SMS-over-WiFi won’t work: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207006

Re:The Upper Middle Class Is Getting Squeezed on Monday July 25, 2022 @03:16PM (#32229544)
I didn’t read “conservative” or “liberal” as US political identifiers so much as synonyms for “risk averse” and “risk tolerant” respectively.
Re:The Great Tech Salary Crash on Thursday July 21, 2022 @12:17PM (#32181187)
I always roll my eyes a little bit when people use the "FAANG" acronym because Netflix never really seemed like a good fit and it leaves out Microsoft which seems like a better fit. Nevermind that "Facebook" is actually "Meta" now and "Google" is actually "Alphabet" now. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Tech#FANG,_FAANG,_and_MAMA...
Yes IP, and also User Agent doesn’t look like it’d be hard to filter against using the posted code.
Re:Honey, Please Shrink the Touchpad on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @10:40AM (#29081953)
I suspect the commenter is using “tap to click” which would cause the drag operation to be terminated once they lift up off of the trackpad.
Re:U.S. prisons mull AI to analyze inmate phone calls on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @11:11AM (#28142960)
You are capable of more productive discussion than this.
Agreed. "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
+1 on Fork. As a person who does almost _everything_ from the command line, all of my colleagues think I’m nuts for using a GUI for git, but Fork makes basically everything I want to do with git feel effortless.
Re:GitHub Repo with the Most Commits on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @03:36PM (#27452125)
And here I was thinking matching compensation to LOCs was silly. Clearly more employers need to pay based on commits per second!
My understanding is that programs like these work on the hypothesis that violent crime is often a symptom of an underlying public health issue (often mental health, in particular), and so should be addressed by public health resources more than by enforcement resources.
It’s opt-in. You need to go digging around to find the setting to turn it on.
Re:Ask HN: Are you still using Keybase? on Thursday May 06, 2021 @11:13AM (#27064439)
Wasn’t that always optional?
Better yet, let’s try to find cost-effective means of keeping people out of cages in the first place!
Re:The Pomodoro Technique for Time Management on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @10:00AM (#25747722)
Probably talking about the Wine Is Not an Emulator project: https://www.winehq.org

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