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Re:Physics of badminton's new killer spin serve on Sunday August 24, 2025 @06:41AM (#45003096)
The difficult part is to do it in the same action as other serves. I used to do it as a kid around 20 years ago, but my action for this serve was different, so easily noticeable.
Dell latitude laptops sleep very reliably. I have had 4 in a row now since 2007.

Also as a side note, as a user, I agree you don't care whose fault is it, but then this is hacker news where we are interested in whose fault it is.

Blame microsoft for it with their crazy si0x experiment breaking everyone.
Re:An Engineer's Perspective on Hiring on Saturday August 09, 2025 @08:14AM (#44845922)
Good points. Most FAANG/MANGO companies in India do leetcode. And I know Amazon still does leetcode in US/Europe.

So, yeah, you are right. Live coding is very good, which is what I do, but too many people confuse live coding with just leet coding.

Re:An Engineer's Perspective on Hiring on Saturday August 09, 2025 @07:09AM (#44845577)
There's a difference between live coding round and leetcode rounds where you need to perfectly write code for as medium or hard leetcode question in 20 minutes.
Re:NetBird Is Embracing the AGPLv3 License on Thursday August 07, 2025 @12:13AM (#44820495)
Not the OP, but here’s how I see it: freedom doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Whether it’s in society or in software, real freedom comes with some responsibility. You can’t just take, take, take and expect the ecosystem to stay healthy. That’s not how any of this works.

Same thing applies to free software. If we actually care about keeping that world alive, there’s gotta be some duty baked in—some expectation to contribute back, or at least not strip-mine the commons and bounce.

MIT’s blown up mostly because the big players don’t need the broader free software community anymore. They’ve got the scale, the headcount, and the cash to build and maintain their own internal ecosystems. So from their POV, permissive licenses like MIT are perfect—no obligations, no copyleft, no friction.

But let’s not pretend that’s “freedom” in the idealistic sense. It’s freedom to extract, sure. Freedom to integrate and forget where it came from. For a lot of people on HN, that’s fine. But if you care about the sustainability of the broader ecosystem? Then yeah, we’ve got to talk about duty, not just rights.

Re:Blueos written in Rust, compatible with POSIX on Sunday July 27, 2025 @03:14PM (#44703754)
It's time to learn Chinese. Especially with advances in RISC-V
Re:Purple Earth Hypothesis on Sunday July 27, 2025 @10:27AM (#44701565)
It is common for authors to say that "We are not aware an explanation as of now."
Yes, but the article is not talking about your scenario. It is talking about commercial software, where people would need to be paid to ensure that the software is supported on the platforms they like.

You have the privilege of being able to develop open-source but that's hardly a sustainable model.

Re:Installing Arch Linux on a Laptop on Sunday September 15, 2024 @10:40AM (#41547751)
The post by itself is not harmful, since it can be that the person posted it for their own blog because they like to write for themselves. Someone now finding it and using it for their own benefit/loss, that's a problem.
Re:Ten Things to Know about the Great Wave on Sunday September 08, 2024 @10:04AM (#41480473)
I don't feel any difference in both the images.
We had a Samoyed who was completely uninterested in food. We tried everything including treats, meat, peanut butter, what not. It would not even touch that food and only eat when he was hungry. He did love combing his hair a lot, walkies and frisbee. So, in the first couple of months, we actually used combing his hair and frisbee as a prize, despite our reservations because his hair would develop knots. But he learned extremely quickly and then we could let it go.