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Re:SIM swapper abducted, beaten, held for ransom on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @02:17PM (#32929046)
What steps do you think you'll be taking to never have to deal with this again?
Re:CSS Houdini on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @01:00PM (#27132517)
Search in repos that have X dependencies. For instance, I want to find a file named `_app.ts` in repos where next and typescript is installed.
Re:How to join a team and learn a codebase (2020) on Saturday January 16, 2021 @04:37AM (#25801199)
The text on this blog needs more line height. I find myself tracing lines in order to read.
Re:Show HN: Flurly – sell any digital file online on Monday December 21, 2020 @07:04PM (#25501317)
Make it.
Re:Zero-Bundle-Size React Server Components on Monday December 21, 2020 @04:10PM (#25499588)
I thought you did a fantastic job, too.
Re:Show HN: Flurly – sell any digital file online on Saturday December 19, 2020 @07:42PM (#25482800)
You know it's a Tailwind site with a single look.
Re:TailwindCSS v2.0 on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @09:07PM (#25145411)
An actual inline style would suffice in this case. Before v2.0, if you want anything other than `top: 0`, it was recommended you do it in the style attribute: `style="top: 20px;"`
> In many cases, stacking encryption algorithms actually weakens the resulting security.

Could you, please, explain how?

Re:React is becoming a black box on Thursday September 03, 2020 @10:48AM (#24364554)
I, for one, do not mind developers adhering to some common patterns/best practices. Whenever I open a codebase foreign to me, I bank on those patterns to understand the app to be able to contribute, learn, etc. Seeing new patterns would be helpful to myself, of course. But, there's a good chance I would bail out if I don't have a huge need learning that codebase.
Re:Scrollbar Blindness on Thursday August 27, 2020 @11:15AM (#24294479)
Even Google has this problem[0].

[0]: https://i.imgur.com/kusIhDh.png

Could you add post points and how much time since/when was the article posted? It would help as some topics do not age as well as others. Having sorting (most popular, most recent) and range search (last year, custom range) would also help those who want to narrow their search.
Re:Thomas Sowell interview on Monday August 03, 2020 @09:38AM (#24037591)
I very much prefer his older TV appearances to his more recent ones as he used to elaborate and present you with evidence on the spot. Nowadays, he keeps his input to a minimum on a given interview which is often unconvincing and borderline dismissive. I should keep in mind that he's 90 of age, though.
Re:WebTorrent Desktop 0.23 on Saturday July 18, 2020 @10:49AM (#23881744)
OOOH! That makes sense. Yes, it was off of a public tracker. So, this is a P2P file sharing website, then?
Re:WebTorrent Desktop 0.23 on Saturday July 18, 2020 @08:47AM (#23881065)
How does instant.io work? I just "download" from magnet, and the app hangs in there for ages[0].

[0]: https://i.imgur.com/8hdoVEX.png

Re:Text-Only Social Network on Sunday July 12, 2020 @10:48PM (#23816699)
I disagree. Using this thing for an hour, users with emojis are more distinguishable at a glance. I often face this issue with HN where I have to read the user's username to know if they're OP. Twitter usernames with emojis, however, is really obnoxious.
Re:Text-Only Social Network on Sunday July 12, 2020 @08:19PM (#23815881)
I really hope this takes off. I already love it to the exclusion of Twitter with its thought leader wannabes and tech comedians.
Re:Text-Only Social Network on Sunday July 12, 2020 @06:58PM (#23815461)
> It might raise the quality of the content on Minichan.

Coming from an imageboard myself, I think about this often. The "serious" users keep comparing themselves to Reddit when they should strive to be more like HN, instead. Now HN is home -- literally; it's my homepage.

The hero image is 3104x1876 scaled to 900x500. It's totally butchered and illegible.
Re:Ask HN: Has anyone fixed their own bruxism? on Saturday June 27, 2020 @10:50PM (#23666440)
I don't grind my teeth, but one thing I do is that I hold my breath when I'm thinking or doing something irritating like reading bad docs. When I started programming two years ago, I thought that it would be impossible for me to continue because I was stuck too often and didn't breathe. It got a little better since then.
What are you referring to? I find IRC irritating, personally.
Re:On Liberty (1859) [pdf] on Thursday June 25, 2020 @01:18AM (#23637162)
A tyranny of the majority is most certainly a thing. You defining that majority based on race and drawing conclusions is your call, not everyone's.

Coming from an Islamic country, minorities such as gay people or non-religious people cannot seek legal action without a strong sense of a chilling effect.

In the US, you have the electoral college as an attempt to amplify small state's voices to not have states with massive populations dictate who's president (at least in spirit, as I understand the implementation is far from perfect) which is understandable, since states are _first-class citizens_. The other thing, and correct me if I'm wrong, is that you have the house and the senate. The senate adheres to that first-class citizenship of states, while the house is a direct representation of citizens (blocks of them), which makes a tyranny of a majority (e.g. one-size-fits-all bill that suits people of California but wouldn't go well with the people of Wyoming) impossible.

So, if you don't feel like there is a tyranny of a majority in the US, you perhaps have to thank your legislative process for that. That sadly, does not map to private entities.

Re:On Liberty (1859) [pdf] on Thursday June 25, 2020 @12:44AM (#23636995)
One of my more used quotes. Page 35 on the document.

> He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side; if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion. The rational position for him would be suspension of judgment, and unless he contents himself with that, he is either led by authority, or adopts, like the generality of the world, the side to which he feels most inclination. Nor is it enough that he should hear the arguments of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations. That is not the way to do justice to the arguments, or bring them into real contact with his own mind. He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and do their very utmost for them. He must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form; he must feel the whole force of the difficulty which the true view of the subject has to encounter and dispose of; else he will never really possess himself of the portion of truth which meets and removes that difficulty.

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