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1 year ago
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on: Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
Also the most egregious thing: Israel knew about 911 (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdiQuU7upfw) and did not share that intel with the USA. There is more evidence of this but it gets harder to find as time passes and it gets taken down, perhaps no entity benefited more from 911 than Israel.
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1 year ago
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on: Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
The reasons behind these polarized emotions will differ based on who you ask and are too many to list. Both sides feel entitled to the land, I personally don't care what the place is called, I just want everyone living in it to have equal rights and for justice to exist in the land. But that requires persecution and killing to end – which I don't see happening in the foreseeable future as tragic as that is.
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2 years ago
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on: Victor Mono Typeface
Though ligatures when I first saw them looked really cool but trying them out I quickly realized how much I hated actually reading and writing code with them turned on. Cursive has also been an odd choice for monospace fonts to me, I don't like how they break the expected uniformity of the monospace text. Varying font weight, color and using italics has always been enough for me.
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2 years ago
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on: htmx
how do you feel about JSX?
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3 years ago
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on: Why Tesla removed radar and ultrasonic sensors [video]
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3 years ago
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on: reMarkable 2
I am hoping the carta 1200/1250 display which ever it ends up shipping with will help to reduce latency, but for my use case which is more reading and less note taking it is seemingly perfect.
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3 years ago
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on: reMarkable 2
I honestly cannot see the value in ReMarkable after the Kindle Scribe announcement. The kindle has a newer faster, 300dpi display vs 226dpi on the ReMarkable. I am waiting on reviews before ordering one for myself, but I can already see that Kindle Scribe is going to be disruptive for this segment.
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3 years ago
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on: Plastic recycling remains a 'myth': Greenpeace study
It is not just about ocean plastic. Garbage is burned as fuel too in less developed countries. Stopping dumping of garbage in 2nd and 3rd world countries by developed/first world countries is going to benefit the environment in more ways than just reducing ocean plastics. We need to hold waste producers accountable. We need a systemic change, more push to reuse and recycle, better laws to limit production of single use plastics and a push towards repairability to limit production of e-waste.
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3 years ago
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on: Theoretical Computer Science – An Introduction (Markus Bläser) [pdf]
This was posted here 5 years ago [0], I had saved the file at the time and rediscovered it today while sorting through my collection of documents. The original link is now gone so I have linked to an archived version of it. While searching online not much can be found on it. I really appreciate the work Markus Bläser has put into this, and have no idea why the original file was taken down. There is little to no information on this online but I think it is really interesting and definitely worth a read.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14713915
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3 years ago
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on: I patched my Slack client to keep “oops” messages others delete
This is so unethical and sadly not rare. I have had people reach out to me (twice, recently) on LinkedIn to interview for them (using names and credentials of people who have work authorization for USA) and the offer is usually a fixed rate + commission per job per month for the lifetime of the job. They hire skilled engineers to secure the jobs for them while outsourcing the actual work. So the scam can go further than just outsourcing the work to people with potentially far lower skills.
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3 years ago
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on: GraphQL kinda sucks
Yes that is the one strength I think GraphQL has that should be undeniable even though I am not a proponent of GraphQL myself.
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3 years ago
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on: GraphQL kinda sucks
I know I can make an API endpoint in Rails equally as fast as writing a query in GraphQL and the code needed to use it. I don't really buy into GraphQL yet since I have not come across a strong enough advantage of using it in my carrier. Although I do see the advantage of basically being able to run SQL through the browser. Unfortunately it is just one of may technologies over hyped by JavaScript developers.
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3 years ago
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on: GraphQL kinda sucks
Saving bandwidth is really not the actual super power. The main advantage is being able to save network requests by fetching all required data in the same request.
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3 years ago
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on: Our plans for Thunderbird on Android
I would love to see what this will bring to K9 mail. I hope having the support of Thunderbird will allow K9 to really get some much needed polish. My preferred app right now is FairMail, its interface takes some getting used to and settings layout is very confusing but once I did manage to get it setup, it became clear that I preferred its extensive customizability and sidebar vs K9 when it comes to managing emails across multiple accounts. They are basically the only two FLOSS Email apps worth using on android, so K9 getting some extra support is really awesome.
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4 years ago
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on: Vim9 Script Feature-Complete
One measure is the number of stars on github and active contributors 49.7k vs 25.7k and 737 vs 79. The other measure can be the number of new extensions being written for each of them (particularly extremely high quality ones like telescope). Searching `nvim` on github yields many plugins which are advertising the Neovim editor by having it in their name, some of these are even ones which support vim e.g. Shougo/denite.nvim all of which point to the fact that neovim is a huge success and is on tract to overtake vim. It would not be an exaggeration to say that a lot if this is due to first class lua support in Neovim. By adding nice features like treesitter and LSP it has become an improved version of vim, an editor that actually understands the code being edited beyond simple text objects (e.g.
https://youtu.be/E4uaPs9e9UU?t=68)
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4 years ago
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on: Dracula Theme – A dark theme for many different apps
I used to love this theme (you can even see it in my old screenshots
https://github.com/talha-akram/anvil) but over time I started to prefer lower contrast themes now the same neon colors are jarring to me.
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4 years ago
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on: Two lines of CSS that will improve HN on mobile (IMO)
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4 years ago
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on: Tree Sitter and the Complications of Parsing Languages
JavaScript will dynamically change the effective type of a value like sting or number into another depending on the operation being performed on it:
'2' * 3
=> 6
'2' + 3
=> '23'
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4 years ago
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on: macOS Monterey
If it is your work machine than you probably shouldn't upgrade right away, give it a week or two (esp. if you work with old/outdated dependencies or packages). For personal machines I would be less cautious.
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4 years ago
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on: The database ruins all good ideas
It is extremely difficult to design a good RDBMS schema without understanding the data model, and once you do, it is there documented in its entirety with best in class tooling for anyone else to come along, pickup and be up to speed with it, additionally you don't have to forgo document storage, most if not all modern RDBMS suppord json(b) types.
