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cptn_brittish | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024?

My brother has coined the term Depression Olympics between this and The Stormlight Archives for what the characters go through and Farseer makes Stormlight look like childsplay

cptn_brittish | 5 years ago | on: PipeWire: The Linux audio/video bus

It has a jack and pulseaudio api wrapper. I use it because it means I don't need to muck around with configuring pulse and jack to work nicely together.

cptn_brittish | 5 years ago | on: PipeWire: The Linux audio/video bus

I can confirm that a issue causing my audio to completely drop at random points resolved about 1 month ago and now everything works perfectly.

cptn_brittish | 5 years ago | on: AMD Reports Q2 2020 Earnings

Theres this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dev47apps....

Its a little tempermental but works without to many issues.

cptn_brittish | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: How often are you on call?

Company the size of about 10.

I am the only person on call 24/7.

cptn_brittish | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you organize and manage database migrations?

I can second Dbmate.

The process of a sql migration management is pretty simple and like other comments it's not hard to write something yourself which works well I just prefer to use something a little more battle tested in the deployment process.

Also it's a go app so you don't need to pull down a stupid amount of dependencies for it to work just pull from it's github release and mark it as executable.

cptn_brittish | 6 years ago | on: Setup VS Code for Efficient PHP Development

So does Emacs. Emacs also has multiple webrowsers and email clients out of the box. Those features do not make Emacs not a text editor though.

cptn_brittish | 7 years ago | on: Smooth Video Game Emulation in Emacs

By default M is Meta or Alt not esc

cptn_brittish | 7 years ago | on: U.S. government seeks Facebook help to wiretap Messenger

The War on Drugs is considered a failure and in parts of the world like NSW, Australia made prostituion legal in 1979 in both cases because criminalising things most people use generally doesn't work and all you do is randomly jail people for doing the exact same thing as a large proportion of the population.

cptn_brittish | 7 years ago | on: The Hacker News Habit

4G is quicker then fttp for me it's getting ridiculous.

cptn_brittish | 7 years ago | on: Michael Pollan reluctantly embraces the 'new science' of psychedelics

It wouldn't be science but at the same time those conditions are horrible in order to study the effects of psychedelics.

The conditions are almost a sure fire way to make someone have a troubling experience if they were given the doses knowen to be taken in those times and did not have prior experience dealing with the reality altering effects of those substances.

cptn_brittish | 7 years ago | on: Parsing JSON is a Minefield

You use p-lists instead so that {"foo":"bar"} becomes ( :foo "bar")

cptn_brittish | 8 years ago | on: Caffeine and Cannabis Effects on Vital Neurotransmitters in Rats

Cannabis seems to bridge the gap between all major drug types with it simultaneously acting as a stimulate, depressant and psychedelic with the depressant being the most obvious to a user.

cptn_brittish | 8 years ago | on: Caffeine and Cannabis Effects on Vital Neurotransmitters in Rats

Been smoking for a long time and a massive coffee drinker to the point work thinks something's wrong with me and Ive never felt the effects some of my googling describes regardless of my then Cannabis and Caffine intake.

cptn_brittish | 8 years ago | on: The Nature of Lisp (2006)

The issue is these days everytime I hear optional I think of semicolons in JavaScript where they are optional except for one or two edge cases I can't remember off the top of my head. Optional is good as long as its a complete you can do it this way or that way like gradual typing in some languages.

cptn_brittish | 8 years ago | on: Fnl: zero-overhead Lisp syntax for Lua

In regards to lisp a large amount of lisp editors are written in lisp so they do already do exactly that'

cptn_brittish | 8 years ago | on: Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values for 3rd parties

Except spelling is a popularity contest with the one in largest use being considered the way to spell it.

cptn_brittish | 8 years ago | on: Punk science: a growing movement wants to make scientific tools available to all

Turn off js

cptn_brittish | 8 years ago | on: How Facebook has used Instagram to beat Snapchat

From the younger demographic (22) most of the people in this area I know have simply growen up with ads on the internet and know to just ignore them even if they do not use a ad blocker that may be a issue for you. On Facebook at least from what I read there is a larger demographic to target (ala parents trying to keep track of their teenagers) who may not be used to filtering out ads so that may account for the better conversion rate.

cptn_brittish | 8 years ago | on: SEC Files Fraud Charges in Bitcoin and Office Space Investment Schemes

There is only a limited amount of bitcoins which can be mined so you can assume at some point all coins will be mixed at that stage what do you propose happens?

Woth the type of people who invest in bitcoins I can see them simply making sure all bitcoins are tainted in this way for purely idealogical reasons not even to ensure that illigal activity can occur.