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ORioN63··on Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys
History section is clear:

ImportBot scrapes Amazon.com, matches product id with ISBN10 (which can be converted into ISBN13 without anything else IIRC), imports product as book.

Candle: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/168298494X

ORioN63··on Leaf-cutter ants have rocky crystal armor, never before seen in insects
I don't think I've ever came across them before, but not even 20 minutes ago I was just checking out the deep mining wikipedia page that also mentions the same snails.
ORioN63··on Escaping strings in Bash using !:q
:q!

: - Open command prompt.

q - Quit.

! - Yes, I'm sure.

ORioN63··on Randomized Living
Passports and borders are not the only restriction to travel, though. I would wager that the distance traveled now-a-days for the average person is higher than in most if not all of history.
ORioN63··on The bridges portrayed on Euro banknotes aren't fictional anymore
This. The article looks undated and its title seems to reflect a moment, so it's a bit weird. Could [2013] be added to the title?.

NL Wikipedia [1] has some more info on them. It also provides a source for the bridges opening date.

[1] https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spijkenisser_Eurobruggen

ORioN63··on Bubble barriers: a smart solution to plastic pollution in rivers
Without looking further, I would say it's because elements bubble up as they're sorted.

Edit: Wikipedia [1] seems to agree:

    The algorithm, which is a comparison sort, is named for the way smaller or larger elements "bubble" to the top of the list.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_sort
ORioN63··on PandaDoc employees arrested in Belarus after founders protest against violence
I just want to clarify Belarus does _not_ border Kalinigrad. You'd either have to pass Lithuania or Poland.

If that happens, the Baltic states should be worried.

In my opinion, it won't though. It's neither a threat nor a direct strategic advantage. It won't connect Kalinigrad. Belarus is landlocked. The population did not and is not asking for Russia assistance in any way, only Lukashenka did. While not super friendly, they're friendlier than to the EU bloc. I think it's just not worth the trouble and an eventual net-loss.

Unless, they have bigger plans, of course.

ORioN63··on Moreutils – Unix tools that nobody thought to write (2012)
I use vipe frequently, to let me pipe from/into vim. This enables fun shortcuts as:

    xclip -o | vipe | xclip
This one in particular, let's you edit your clipboard with $EDITOR.
ORioN63··on Ask HN: Why is Reddit on mobile so obsessed with making me use their app?
Videos show the wrong duration, sometimes, as well.

A couple of weeks ago, someone was asking for the full video of what looked like a 10s clip (which also played just 10s). Someone else replied, that it was literally the post. He got downvoted to hell (like below 100). He was right. After checking his comment, I went to the video and by seeking I got it to show the whole 2m and something. This was not the first time this issue has appeared for me.

v.reddit.com is abysmal. I agree.

ORioN63··on U.S. citizens no longer have access to most of the world
I got mine to travel to the US in the end of March. Yeah...
ORioN63··on Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode
> If I wake you up in 3AM would you remember the format of links? is it parentheses first or brackets?

I sure as well wouldn't. It confuses me thoroughly.

ORioN63··on A primer on the cruel, tacit laws of type-level programming in Haskell
He's drawing a comparison between Haskell kinds and concepts shown in the (once) popular teenage movie "Mean Girls".
ORioN63··on I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors
I haven't checked the data and I'm not sure why you're being downvoted since you don't seem to be breaking any of HN code of conduct.

That said, isn't median a better measure in this context, though? There can be a set of salaries that skews the average by a significant amounts, but most receive ~110k$

ORioN63··on GitHub is experimenting with personal READMEs
The search results! And I'll be the first to admit. I'm not sure what I want, but what it is, is sadly just not it.

A couple of things I _feel_ (based on personal usage):

- When I search `import package`, I rarely want the package itself, but usage examples.

- There's a lot of repetition from forks.

ORioN63··on The PEPs of Python 3.9
Yes. Although you can use `islice` from itertools to get around this problem, when a problem.
ORioN63··on Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public
support@triplebyte.com is probably for clients.

Source: Candidate, has a very specific marketing meaning, of you being the product.

ORioN63··on The Unicorns Fell into a Ditch
I read as OP believes examples are common enough, that saying it, is the same as not saying anything at all.
ORioN63··on WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of the web
I've been fighting my ~3000 (~70% untagged) bookmarks for a while.

Right now, I've gave up on silly tags like "Postgres" or "Python". Currently, I'm trying to adapt the bookmark concept into different uses cases. The main one is sessions, but I have a few others niche ones, like "read later" and "a tool a day".

Honestly, my takeaway from managing my bookmarks, is that, snapshotting a session, is the closest thing I have to a "hot" start. I instantly recognize what I was working on and I remember why I opened/kept open those tabs.

ORioN63··on Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
https://github.com/Qu4tro/git-bookmark

A simple git subcommand to keep your browsing sessions together with whatever repository relates to the session.

It's kinda trivial, but learned a few different things, mostly about git and BATS.

For example:

     git checkout --orphan
As its name suggests, creates a branch without a parent. Pretty trivial, but I hadn't encountered it before.

It's tested, CI integrated, already in use.

ORioN63··on Show HN: Push-to-Talk for Pulseaudio
Same. Works wonders.

But I had to configure the shortcut (Setup is i3 + pulseaudio + sxhkd):

    /*sxhkd/.config/sxhkd/sxhkdrc (lines 19-20)*/
    @XF86Audio{RaiseVolume,LowerVolume,Mute,MicMute}
      pulseaudio-ctl {up,down,mute,mute-input}
ORioN63··on France offers each cyclist €50 for bike repairs once lockdown ends
Not sure why you were downvoted.

When I was in college, I also didn't have much more than 50€ for groceries. I did fine, but I also lived in walking distance to everything. Not everyone is as lucky.

Do people think poor people don't commute? 50$/€ is def. a lot for a myriad of people.

ORioN63··on The death toll for Covid-19 in Nembro, Italy
> Herd immunity kicks in when a large fraction of the people you encounter were already infected

Alternatively, immunized people.

ORioN63··on Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages
I started to learn programming, by writing programs in TI-BASIC on the TI-84 (compatible with the 83) calculator. I just got it, because it was required to have a graphic calculator for math class.

It was just enough of a push. Small programs and games were fine and I actually got really used to the keyboard (I can still type on it pretty quickly these days). For longer programs I def. remember wanting to program with more monitor real estate and not having to rely on GOTOs. That's how I started to learn Python, which I still use daily.

ORioN63··on If the heart is a muscle, why doesn't it ever get tired?
245J/5s == 49W

This website [1] shows several sources. The range of estimated power outputs is between 1W and 5W.

https://hypertextbook.com/facts/2003/IradaMuslumova.shtml

OP hypothesis seems to be correct.

ORioN63··on Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its bad side
It would be great to understand the downvotes on this.

Chrome/Chromium phones home, period. Last time I've personally checked this [1] was still true.

It's hard to argue that Google doesn't have an interest on collecting as much data it can. Especially, since their heavy focus on ML, where the algorithms are very data-hungry.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/Chromium/comments/3fgabt/privacy_is...

ORioN63··on NeutralinoJS: Lightweight Electron alternative using native browser controls
_sigh_

Source?

Even disregarding the poor term you've used, I'm pretty skeptical of what you just stated. Especially with a margin error of 1%.

ORioN63··on NPM: 429 Too Many Requests
It seems the issue is resolved at the moment. From the same link

> Monitoring - Our content delivery partner has informed us they've implemented a fix. We are monitoring. Feb 17, 13:07 UTC

Edit: And in the OP GH thread, people are also mentioning it's back up.

ORioN63··on LibreTaxi 2 published, open-source Uber PoC
If I'm understanding this correctly, this is the equivalent of the "taxi radio". Taxi drivers without a current ride or on a short one, can listen to it. They usually talk to a centralized office, but also amongst themselves. i.e. Ask for advice going somewhere, warn about accidents, etc.

It's a great idea for Taxi's (the radio).

I'll hold my opinion on this software.

ORioN63··on Dogs poop in alignment with Earth’s magnetic field, study finds (2014)
Thanks! For someone that didn't understand why this was considered p-hacking, that made a whole lot of sense.
ORioN63··on GNU Recutils
While I agree with the general awesomeness of sqlite, I worry about the blanket statement that you've claimed.

If you read the documentation 'Purpose' [1], it says, the issues with databases, like SQLite:

    - The stored data is not directly human readable.
    - The stored data is definitely not directly writable by humans.
    - They are program dependent.
    - They are not easily managed by version control systems. 
I just want to say that I also love sqlite, but I cannot avoid worrying that when the asteroid strikes and the ocean men invade, I will not be able to program a sqlite driver on a homemade 8 bit computer.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/manual/Purpose.html#Pu...

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