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Horba··on Don't Use RAR
You can have that with updates using Squirrel; https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows.
Horba··on Ask HN: What's the best, but relatively unknown use of Git you've seen?
It's the data layer of https://www.passwordstore.org/.
Horba··on Always Bet on Text (2014)
The medium of your reply contradicts the content.
Horba··on Ask HN: Which technology for creating internal desktop application?
There's a reason why there are so many legacy Visual Basic .NET / WinForms projects out there...
Horba··on Ask HN: What field has the most objective, quantitative evaluation of skill?
You can imagine a rock paper scissors scenario where 3 players compete for the top spot but their differing styles make it difficult to objectively determine the best player. You need fields where the meta-game is tiny; hence why Golf, track & field etc. is the top response at the moment.
Horba··on Have we already been visited by aliens?
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Horba··on Ask HN: Lenovo Thinkpad or Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition for Linux
I've used both.

I did a trial with a T490s and settled on it. The keyboard is better on the ThinkPad and it doesn't suffer from the heat problems and screaming fans of the Dell XPS 13.

Horba··on Git is too hard
1. This isn't currently possible. It would require git to track the staging area for each commmit and branch.

2. See 1.

3. `git pull` by definition conducts a fetch because it Incorporates changes from a remote repository into the current branch.

4. Use `git config push.default current`.

5. Use `git branch --no-track new existing`.

6. I assume this is something to do with the reflog.

Horba··on Ask HN: Is hydrogen likely to be a major source of power in the next 10 years?
Could you expand on;

> Hydrogen cannot just be put in a normal tank, it dissipates through Hydrogen bonds which is a quantum mechanical effect.

This goes against my understanding of a hydrogen bond.

Horba··on Show HN: Gandalf, a simple and brutalistic URL blocker
I was expecting a _URL shall not pass_ joke somewhere.
Horba··on Is the Cloud Recession-Proof?
Aren't you making gp's point for him?
Horba··on Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?
It'll be shy of apocalyptic. There'll be 3-5 years of chaos in loans, credit cards, insurance etc.

Mortgages and business loans will be less affected because real people actually go out and inspect those things. I think we'll have to get used to speaking face to face with real people again when we want any kind of long term financial product.

Horba··on Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?
There will be _the_ data leak.

It's impossible to remotely validate who anyone is regardless of provided name, age, birth location, mothers maiden name, social security, previous address, contacts, fingerprints, retina scan, DNA profile ...

This will end the privacy debate because all personally identifiable data will be public knowledge. All private information (stored in the cloud) will be easily leaked due to _the_ data leak. Blackmail will be rampant.

It'll be common to have credit cards and loans taken out in your name. Companies will be inundated with bots and trolls creating accounts. Fintech and government will scramble to prop up the system of trust with government issued ID, which will then be leaked, collapsing the system completely.

The sheer amount of fraud causes a contraction in the availability of credit with impact on the scale of the credit crunch of 08.

Horba··on Ban kids from loot box gambling in games
You can. These are called Challenger Decks.

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/challe...

Horba··on Trunk-Based Development
I've implemented GitFlow with multiple support versions. We just added a "version" dimension to each of the main branches.

1.1/master 1.1/release 1.1/development

1.2/master 1.2/release 1.2/development

When we fix bugs in 1.x, we work off 1.1/development and merge into all later versions.

This doesn't fit for a "web" or "continuous delivery" model. It does fit very well for software houses with many customers on 6 monthly upgrade / development cycles.

Horba··on Turns websites into Markdown
I feel validated that my markup must be sane considering a generic utility can parse the html into markdown.