parsd | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Are Protonmail.com Addresses Snubbed?
Hmm, only Gmail addresses appear trustworthy then? What else is so prevalent... Outlook?
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parsd | 3 years ago | on: Britain is sleepwalking into censorship?
> communism killed 100 million people (myth debunked hundreds of times)
A myth? Do you not know why there are monuments to victims of communism all over Europe? Have you not heard of the holocaust that the Bolsheviks unleashed on Russians, Ukrainians and countless other ethnic groups? Do you not know how many millions of people were murdered in communist China during its Cultural Revolution? Do you not know why communism is often rightly compared with Nazism?
parsd | 3 years ago | on: Chime 2.0 – a Go Editor for macOS
I did ponder whether to not mention Go in the title, but I had noticed that it's unclear what the devs mean by "support for 23 languages". Go is known to have been their main focus. In general, there is no documentation whatsoever, although the editor is interesting.
parsd | 3 years ago | on: Leaked documents outline DHS’s plans to police disinformation
Defining disinformation exhaustively and concretely is an impossible task, it's almost like defining beauty. Moreover, disinformation is not even contradictory to "vetted, objective facts", because not all "information" (which is also hard to define) is necessarily intended to be viewed as factual, and not all information has any kind of deliberate intent associated with it (malicious or useful).
parsd | 4 years ago | on: So you want to study mathematics
If you're interested in both mathematics and physics, does it make sense to learn both concurrently? If yes, what areas complement each other? Or is there no overlap to warrant concurrent study of the essentials? By essentials I mean what a college student must know, or really anyone who pursues self-education without a background in these areas.
Beautiful website, by the way!
parsd | 4 years ago | on: Facebook loses users for the first time
There is nothing facetious or self-flattering here, these things aren't achievements, rather reactions to dependence on some massive facets of modern life, which, as it turns out, are not critical or even necessary.
parsd | 4 years ago | on: Facebook loses users for the first time
I am thankful to these evil companies. Thanks to them - I spend less time online, try to read more books, appreciate real-life conversations, rely on locals for information and news, and let my mind wander.
parsd | 4 years ago | on: Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a different web
1. Been doing this for a few months, using only Safari for all my browsing.
2. My big annoyance is the weight on the CPU and battery. I have this sick pleasure from opening the network tab and seeing hundreds of requests filling my machine with garbage. :)
3. I often disable JavaScript temporarily with a hotkey - in macOS, you can map this action to any combination. This works incredibly well. Once I am done with the page, I re-enable it with a single keystroke. I only wish Safari did this just for the current page and not the entire browser.
parsd | 4 years ago | on: Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a different web
I've started to think about it differently. I no longer use any ad blockers.
I actually want to experience the web (and its decline) the way it is, to take it all in, feel the pain and strengthen my patience in the process.
Also, when I visit a website that is truly obnoxious with its ads, I simply leave immediately and never go there. You build your own filter of bad actors, behaviors, and concrete sites. You don't need to block everyone, you simply walk away from abusers. You want to take notice of improper behavior before consciously and deliberately boycotting it.
parsd | 4 years ago | on: Sublime Text 4
Yes, something that could do what Postman does.
parsd | 4 years ago | on: Sublime Text 4
Is the team considering making an "HTTP Client, done Sublime" at some point?
parsd | 5 years ago | on: Reading Camus in Time of Plague and Polarization
Read this one not too long before the pandemic. Fascinating novel. Among other things, it showed me how to react to emerging epidemic concerns - I took all COVID news seriously from the start.
telegrammae | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?
Anything by Tolstoy.
telegrammae | 6 years ago | on: Andrei Tarkovsky’s Message to the Young: “Learn to Be Alone” (2015)
He definitely meant a different type of healthy solitude, rather than the one on which newspapers and studies report when they assert loneliness and isolation among young people is at an all-time high.
telegrammae | 6 years ago | on: Fortran.io – a Fortran Web Framework
I wouldn't care if this weren't a .io site. But now I am intrigued by how cool this looks.
telegrammae | 6 years ago | on: Unofficial Apple Archive
Very interesting! Also a great reminder that AI is just a program that solves a problem in a certain way that may not need the most talked-about techniques, like deep learning.
telegrammae | 6 years ago | on: Unofficial Apple Archive
I wasn't even talking about the hardware, that's a separate story. Apple's old hardware also looks and feels wonderful.
telegrammae | 6 years ago | on: Unofficial Apple Archive
Apple's design of 10-15 years ago looks excellent even today. Truly - good design does not lose its attractiveness as styles and standards change. Most icons, fonts, panels, colors of most of their old software and promotional materials look very pleasant, even in low resolution.
telegrammae | 6 years ago | on: Why I Quit Using Google
What's reasonable is if you want to avoid using Google services (for whatever reason), then you do not need to be fanatical about it. Move off gradually, one service at a time, and keep using some Google services, if you really must - why not?
telegrammae | 6 years ago | on: Chime – A Go Editor for macOS
This one seems to be a native app for macOS, not an Electron app. So, hopefully this allows to achieve higher performance with much lighter resource utilization.
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