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garlicrouted

Interesting.
Re:Ask HN: How do you explore new food / restaurants? on Friday July 01, 2022 @09:05AM (#31945823)
You give them cash for food, then see if they can pull that off more than once.
Re:Ask HN: A noob question about exponential growth on Friday July 01, 2022 @09:04AM (#31945813)
If you truly had a week of above average days, by the end of it you'd probably be threatening to put the local KGB recruiter's head through a Starbucks window.

(Maybe be happy if they do a little art thing in your cortado rather than overanalyze. every. little. thing.)

Re:Ask HN: Why are no flights taking off from Munich? on Friday July 01, 2022 @09:03AM (#31945800)
Maybe someone decided to exploit one of the myriad of security vulerabilities they noticed there the last time they visited... a decade plus ago.

(It's gonna be a big suspect list. Good luck to... Scotland Yard or whatever.)

Re:Ask HN: Want feedback on LinkedIn alternative on Friday July 01, 2022 @09:01AM (#31945785)
It's called "email".

Dear Doctor so and so. Hi, it's me, your old coauthor. Something something science. (And then... here's the hard part: don't attach a photo of your genitals... just a PDF of your CV).

LinkedIn is bad opsec, use the IM feature to take things offline.

Re:Long live software Easter eggs on Friday July 01, 2022 @09:00AM (#31945773)
Thanks for your counterpoint parent.

Just before Mike Nelson shit himself in the car on the way home last night, I pointed out to him that what his generation calls "Easter Eggs" are often just security flaws that can be used to fingerprint the internet traffic of dissidents, and that his cavalier attitude towards data privacy is why they had to close the Russian Consultate in Seattle.

(Or maybe the above is creative nonfiction, and your hands deserve to shake if you make this poster explain the joke.)

Re:Fish Shell 3.5.0 on Thursday June 16, 2022 @03:10PM (#31769756)
Sounds promisingm, especially now that macOS defaults to Zsh... I very rarely see any documentation where that is the default.
Re:Fish Shell 3.5.0 on Thursday June 16, 2022 @02:30PM (#31769362)
If I'm not a "power user" (learned rudimentary bash as teenager, stuck with it on MacOS through college) is it worth it to learn a new shell?

I respect the craftmanship, but if I'm more of a "software carpenter" why should I invest the time?