dummy_physicist
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3 years ago
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on: Google allowed a sanctioned Russian ad company to harvest user data for months
I guess the point of the parent comment is that the real issue is not whether this is a anti American or pro Russia thing, but that Google's privacy practices are bad. Any government/institution doing the same would be bad, but the discussion tends to focus on whoever the public enemy currently is.
dummy_physicist
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3 years ago
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on: Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content
I'm starting to do this, bought some albums from bands I hear a lot on bandcamp friday. I like the idea of supporting the musicians more directly, but I still use streaming platforms, as I can't buy every song I hear, and it is easier to discover new music
dummy_physicist
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3 years ago
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on: Meld for Macs
I use neovim as mergetool and some ad hoc diff tasks, but I'm glad to see meld on Mac. It is the tool I recommend when I see someone struggling with git rebase conflicts (and not using using vim).
dummy_physicist
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4 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Why do people get angry when other people disagree with them?
I like the idea of Terror Management Theory [0], where a disagreement may be taken by a person as an indirect threat to its life. While there were some experiments, I guess they should be taken with a grain of salt.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_management_theory
dummy_physicist
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4 years ago
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on: Vim9 Script Feature-Complete
You can give VimR[0] a try, I don't know what mouse features you use on MacVim, but that was the most pleasing GUI version of vim/neovim I've used.
[0]: https://github.com/qvacua/vimr
dummy_physicist
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4 years ago
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on: Tabby – A Terminal for the Modern Age
I agree with you, and I wonder what would take for people to stop having Electron as their first choice when implementing a GUI app. I guess there's no other killer cross-platform library that is as friendly for GUI, maybe?
dummy_physicist
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4 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What do you use for programmatic drawing?
Graphviz for diagrams, R standard library for plots, and imageMagick for simple image creation or processing.
dummy_physicist
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4 years ago
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on: Vim Anti-Patterns That Cause Beginners To:Quit
I agree on the graphics part. I've tried doom emacs for the graphics, but it's not quite the same thing. On Mac, though, vimr[0] had a nice UI for neovim. On linux I'm yet to find a neovim GUI I'm happy with.
[0]: https://github.com/qvacua/vimr
dummy_physicist
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4 years ago
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on: The Oxymoron of “Data-Driven Innovation”
About the cishet thing, I think that's fair use in this context. When discussing diversity, it is normal to name the groups discussed. As the cishet is usually seem as the default, I'd say it is important to address it properly, as not to assume that as universal. Is this divisive language? In some way, yes, but that's the point: we use it to discuss the divisions we observe in society.
dummy_physicist
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5 years ago
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on: Haxe 4.2
For desktop game development it seems better. I don't know if you can use Typescript for GUI applications without Electron or something equivalent. There are some successful modern games that were developed using haxe[0].
[0] https://haxe.org/use-cases/games/
dummy_physicist
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5 years ago
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on: Looking for More Debugger
Some years ago I learned about ProDBG[0] and was pretty excited. It is going through a rewrite, I hope it gets usable soon.
[0] https://github.com/emoon/ProDBG
dummy_physicist
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5 years ago
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on: Notebook Is A Better Readme
I prefer my readmes in plain text formats, be it Markdown, AsciiDoc, or unstructured txt.
This reminds me of two interesting projects, maid[0], a task runner that uses markdown files, and mandown[1], a markdown pager that improves reading markdown files in the terminal.
[0]: https://github.com/egoist/maid
[1]: https://github.com/Titor8115/mandown
