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PhantomBKB··on Julian Assange’s Extradition to US Approved by UK Home Secretary
Uk is a puppet of the USA. They are in no position to make any demands
PhantomBKB··on Women Who Ran Genghis Khan’s Empire
Not to mention the United States who killed hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians in Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombings which caused long-term side-effects on the populace, imposed sanctions, and even today control Japanese policy decisions and have permanent military occupation in Japan.
PhantomBKB··on Ask HN: Burnt-out, directionless but want to turn it around
Firstly, as others have suggested, take a break. Relax, don't think about job, coding or whatever else that bothers you. Spend your time doing something entirely different.

Second, join somewhere else where you are more valued. Or better yet, start your own company if you feel confident enough.

Third, find places (either offline or online) where you'll meet like-minded fellows. Join libera.chat if you wish. It's a great place to hang out no matter your networking skills.

PhantomBKB··on Forgit: A utility tool powered by fzf for using Git interactively
I missed the fact that he released the source.
PhantomBKB··on Bleh
Meditate, find peace, and all this nonsense internet hate will no longer bother you.
PhantomBKB··on 460M Indian Internet Users Are Now on IPv6
Looks like BSNL is still on ipv4
PhantomBKB··on Forgit: A utility tool powered by fzf for using Git interactively
Guy works at bytedance (creators of TikTok, and notoriously known for making use of intrusive telemetry), hasn't released source code, hence I can't trust this application.
PhantomBKB··on Outlook broken on Firefox for 6 months – MS recommend switch to Edge
I use the outlook desktop app. It's decent
PhantomBKB··on Russia opens criminal investigation of Meta over death calls on Facebook
ok man, peace
PhantomBKB··on Russia opens criminal investigation of Meta over death calls on Facebook
If they keep quiet about the issue, the public might protest about their inaction. If they make a move like they've done now, it's going to look like they are pro hate speech which also does not look good from the perspective of humanity.
PhantomBKB··on Russia opens criminal investigation of Meta over death calls on Facebook
They should have kept it quiet in any case. The rhetoric hurts them either way.
PhantomBKB··on Show HN: Send private messages to anyone on HN
Is it 5 messages every 24 hours per user or on the whole?
PhantomBKB··on A simple system I’m using to stay in touch with hundreds of people
When I was in school, I'd get home and call at least 2-3 friends on a daily basis on the landline, just to chat or ask what all homeworks we were supposed to do for the next day. We lost touch after we graduated and went our separate ways. But what I miss the most from those times was how interconnected our lives were. We'd hang out together all the time in school, then come home and talk on the telephone. After exams, we'd meet up at someone's house for a sleepover, play video games and gossip about school all night long.

I have tried implementing a similar lifestyle with my new friends as I grew older, but it just didn't work. I realized then, that the kind of bond we shared was a rarity and others had not had such an experience. I barely call anyone now. And more importantly, I feel uncomfortable calling people. Like I'm disturbing them. However, back in school days it was the telephoning that made us the great friends we were because we got to have 1 on 1 conversations with each other very often.

In recent times, texting has destroyed the telephoning culture. I absolutely detest texting, but all of my peers are doing it. I wish times were a little simpler.

PhantomBKB··on Tetr.io
Love this! Great implementation
PhantomBKB··on NodeOS – A Node.js Operating System
"The website has been blocked as per order of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology under IT Act, 2000."
PhantomBKB··on Usage statistics of server-side programming languages for websites
if frameworks in other languages were compelling to use in place of wordpress, we wouldn't even be having this discussion right now
PhantomBKB··on Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data controls
Cookie quick manager is a pretty good extension for managing cookies in Firefox. It gives you fine-grained control on all cookies for each domain.

https://github.com/ysard/cookie-quick-manager/

PhantomBKB··on Bitcoin Plummets Below 40K
And I just purchased my first Bitcoins last week. *sigh*
PhantomBKB··on Creeping as a Service
This is disgusting
PhantomBKB··on Big O Notation – Explained as easily as possible
I liked it, but perhaps giving an example each of the different complexities that it talks about with the suitable use case would have been great. On that note, I'll take up the task of doing that in the near future.
PhantomBKB··on Rust is a hard way to make a web API
I wouldn't say no, because it's built with the right spirit in mind. But at the same time, it's different from languages have native support for sum types. Advantage of sum type is that it can be matched exhaustively like an enum, but at the same time it's flexible to contain any data like a data class.
PhantomBKB··on Rust is a hard way to make a web API
I've seen my co-workers talk about similar things about Go. They especially like the verbosity. I personally like features that make code smaller, concise and at the same time readable. I'm referring to the syntactic-sugary things like the `for` comprehensions in Scala and `do` notation in Haskell which are pretty much built to do the same thing. Wish Go had a little more of those, it would have made things a little more exciting for me.
PhantomBKB··on Signal community: Reminder: Please be nice
if someone starts being toxic to me, I'll just let them know they have access to the source code like everyone else and that they are free to open a pull request if they wish to and close the thread. And that's the end of that.

If someone asks why, just tell them you don't entertain any level of toxicity.

PhantomBKB··on Advice from a 104-year-old PhD student [video]
Cold showers make you feel better in general and they say it helps increase your immunity.

I've been experimenting with cold showers since the pandemic began, first it was through the summer, and I summoned up courage to continue it through the winter. There were some days when I thought I couldn't take the cold, so I used warm water instead. But I remember the stark difference I felt on those days compared to the rest when I showered in cold water.

If you can bear the cold, I would recommend it. Even if you can't, take it up as a challenge (that's what I did), to get your body to adapt to it. Totally worth it.

PhantomBKB··on Dockerfile Security Best Practices
You can also use talisman to make sure you are not checking in secrets in dockerfiles https://github.com/thoughtworks/talisman
PhantomBKB··on One hour of slow breathing changed my life
It's not true that it won't harm you if not done properly.

Please learn it from professionals or friends who are already well versed in the practice if you are new to it.

PhantomBKB··on Show HN: Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper
To prevent a man in the middle attack. There's a possibility that a hacker could inject malicious scripts into the payload, or even completely change the content of the website that you think you are viewing.
PhantomBKB··on Oppenheimer and the Gita (2014)
That's a really good summary of the workings of life and the universe. Learned a good many things from your post as well.
PhantomBKB··on Why I Prefer Functional Programming
Once you become used to reading it, it doesn't seem like a big deal. But Haskell has a steep learning curve if you have never used functional programming languages before so it may take a while to pick up a few things.
PhantomBKB··on S0lly's Cellivization – Civ 1 Clone in Excel
Okay... Now that's pretty spectacular.

The person has even written a ray tracer in excel!

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