SanderSantema

Alternatively I’ve found it beneficial to try and clarify and further elaborate on your “opponents” reasoning. If you’re correct, then you should find the errors in their reasoning; without ever actually having to oppose them (your opponent and their arguments).

If I am to believe the Corruption Perception Index, which I certainly would over your unsourced blanket statement, you’re wrong and Europe is actually doing rather well at having low rates of corruption. Anecdotally that has certainly been my experience. I don’t really understand the perceived competition anyhow, why not wish for everybody to do well?

Given the required permissions I’d like to read the source code before using it, but that doesn’t seem to be available. Is this correct?

I think the point isn’t necessarily to not use chrome but to use something not based on chromium in general, which brave is, e.g. Firefox or Safari.

Lua wasn’t made for scripting video games but as a scripting language for a mining company if I remember correctly from this excellent paper[1]. I can highly recommend all the other ACM hopl papers too for those interested in the history of programming languages. The papers don’t seem to be open access but sci-hub might help with that if you’re so inclined.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3186277

> She lamented the disappearance of the option to show only PDFs in the search results

Nitpicking but this is still possible at least using ddg, google and possibly other search engines by appending `filetype:pdf`.

Are you suggesting this person should’ve spent their time working on reimplementing wayland in rust instead? If so I suggest you drop all the projects you’re currently working on and do the same.

If there’s no deadline there’s no problem I think to stop working on it for a while. Do you have any other projects or things to work on? Then work on those instead for a bit. Then return to your big project whenever you feel inspired to work on it again, I don’t think that’ll take long.

This doesn't seem viable in practice, determining how much polution a product causes for every product you tax is impractical and although not guaranteed I would think it likely that you'll simply export less when you start imposing the same taxes on the exported products.

I'd bet it would increase inequality as well, given that people with low incomes proportionally pay more taxes on bought goods and services than people with higher incomes (I'm quite certain that's the case but economics really isn't my strong suit).

Either way, it’s easier if you’ve got the source code as well.

Although you could make this argument in this context I don’t think it is valid. I’m quite certain that someone who’s trying to figure out what some obscure service is doing on their machine would be able to use `apt-get` perfectly fine and wouldn’t ignore any all-caps warnings.

Whereas on closed source you’d have to do all of that and probably a good deal of reverse engineering on top of that. That’s unfortunately not something which it necessarily makes any easier, but rather a lot harder.

Thanks for the interesting tidbits!

Although I personally haven’t got any experience with linux internals (insofar not needed as a user) I’d think https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ might be a good place to start. You might want to find out how much actually is about system internals instead of administration. I think system internals are a much broader subject than what is needed to be a very good linux administrator.

You might want to google for Library Genesis and see if you can find them there to compare these and buy one of them afterwards.

I still accidentally try to use these on my linux machine, that’s one thing I really do miss. One consolation is that I can still use them in my shell :) Weirdly enough I never accidentally use these shortcuts while using vim. I’d guess my subconscious is somehow aware of the contexts in which I’d use these shortcuts and is able to differentiate between my browser, the commandline and vim but not between using a browser on a mac vs. a linux machine.

I don’t think it’s influenced by js: http://www.lua.org/doc/hopl.pdf

At least trying three times seems like a very good thing to me. Although you might want to try a fourth time, Git really isn't that hard I think but rather quite opaque and easier when understood.

What made me understand is this picture: https://miro.medium.com/max/962/0*psCSE-BxW3zn4Ya1.png and the gittutorial manpage which is also available online: https://git-scm.com/docs/gittutorial

I'm no expert, but I believe it's indeed what they're already doing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_bacteria#...

But if I could make a guess I'd say that it in theory it might be relatively straightforward or easy to do but it's probably a lot harder in practice. That's often the case anyways.

That's right, currently reading it for my uni course :)

There are quite a lot of KDE apps which aren't that well known which together cover a large swathe of desktop usage and are quite nice.

Most of them are here: https://kde.org/applications/

As an open-source alternative to typora I can suggest Marktext https://github.com/marktext/marktext which I believe is on par with typora features. Don't be alarmed by the fact that it's electron, it's pretty fast either way. And as far as I know typora is electron based too.

Taking a rectangle select screenshot using ⌘⇧⌃4 (CMD + Shift + Ctrl + 4) will put the screenshot in your clipboard on macOS

⌘⇧5 (CMD + Shift + 5) doesn't do anything on my macOS 10.13.6 system, ⌘⇧⌃4 (CMD + Shift + Ctrl + 4) is the default shortcut to take a rectangle screenshot and store it in the clipboard.

Is this fix already available in the dev version of firefox?

Edit: The improvements are already available on nightly https://twitter.com/whimboo/status/1168437524357898240

Have I interpreted the guidelines incorrectly?

A quick heads up: "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

From the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Not if you use a firmware password. Which you can enable from recovery mode (accessible by pressing cmd-r at startup), you can find the option in one of the menu bar items. Remember that you’ll have a very hard time recovering your Mac if you lose your firmare and admin password.

I was interested what the exact meaning of a “Middlebrow dismissal” is (non-native speaker). But I could only find the following in the HN guidelines which doesn’t seem to mention middlebrow dismissals nor does it seem to be applicable to the toplevel comment:

“Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something”

What exactly is a “middlebrow dismissal” and why would the toplevel comment be that?

Sidenote: An important thing to remember in all of this is that most peolple will probably fail a few times and for instance get into the habit of gaming again. But failing is only good because the next time you would try you’d probably last a bit longer and it would take less of an effort. The important part is recognising this, not beating yourself up over it and to keep trying even after failing many times.