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SeanDavon Show HN: VS Code extension to share code snippets instantly

Teams / Slack etc allow instant code snippet sharing. As far as syntax highlighting goes - 5 seconds after someone receives your code snippet they can copy and paste into their own editor.

No need to install YAVSCE (Yet another VS Code Extension)

This in probably more a reflection of my constant journey towards KISS and in no way is meant to be disrespectful about the extension.

SeanDavon Now might be the best time to learn software development

>> "ChadGPT"

There actually is a ChadGPT but I assume the OP meant ChatGPT

SeanDavon How the BIC Cristal ballpoint pen became ubiquitous

Thereby proving that Coke Bottle and BIC pens are meeting a need. They are not perfect (what is) but they are good enough to sell billions upon billions of product. Pretty hard to argue against overwhelming success.

SeanDavon How the BIC Cristal ballpoint pen became ubiquitous

100 Billion sales means there are some things to like ...

SeanDavon Kongregate closed to new games, shutting down forums and chat

Phone games are largely a nightmarish morass of ads-to-progress and pay-to-win.

SeanDavon The failed rollout of Britain's covid-19 app were the result of clear errors

This is small potatoes. When the UK government really puts its mind to it, it can screw up far more royally:

How about 10 - 12 billion GBP (depending on who you ask) for a National Health Service computer system that never worked and was never delivered.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/18/nhs-records-...

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families...

https://www.henricodolfing.com/2019/01/case-study-10-billion...

SeanDavon GitHub Super Linter: one linter to rule them all

Not sure I agree. Most coding is maintenance. Far better to adapt to whatever the coding style convention is.

I also believe that formatters should be "light-touch" and not have an opinion about every last thing. At that point I start thinking, "if you so smart, why don't you write the bloody code!"

SeanDavon How the most popular Chrome extensions affect browser performance

> "DDG Privacy Essentials does a simple object property lookup based on the request domain, an operation that is practically instantaneous"

This sounds interesting. A bit of searching is not providing much enlightenment - anyone care to explain in a bit more detail?

Also, if it is so fast, why aren't all the filter add-ons doing it?

SeanDavon AWS CodeArtifact: A fully managed software artifact repository service

You are fine. New people with low karma are most at risk. Once you are a little established, you have to do something very upsetting to get shadowbanned, or be consistently unpleasant. Once established, a few controversial posts with negative karma should not be a problem.

Avoid criticizing HN staff or related companies. Gentle / kind disagreement is fine, but err on the side of keeping it private.

SeanDavon AWS CodeArtifact: A fully managed software artifact repository service

Looks like a kind mod un-shadowbanned you. Welcome to the land of the living!

SeanDavon $1M treasure in Rocky Mountains has been found, says Forrest Fenn

Parents "lie" to their kids about things like Santa because they remember the magical world that was created for them from their own childhoods, before the reality of a world with no Santa, murder, disease, death etc intruded on their reality.

Which is better, telling your child:

"yeah you will lose all your baby teeth and each one will hurt and bleed and make you look silly with big gaps in your mouth"

"oooh you lost a tooth, now let's put it under your pillow and the tooth fairy will exchange it for a little gift while you sleep"

SeanDavon $1M treasure in Rocky Mountains has been found, says Forrest Fenn

> "That or he will feel tricked and betrayed and wonder what other things in his reality were crafted for him by his parents."

Don't agree at all. Do you feel betrayed that Santa is not real or there is no such thing as a tooth fairy?

SeanDavon NoDesign.dev – Tools and resources for non-artistic developers

Brilliant. Bookmarked.

Of course some of the choices are personal opinion as to how good they are - especially items like UI Designers, but still good to have the choices in the first place.

SeanDavon Pain Points of Haskell

You seem to be disagreeing with the OP about how to explain Monads, yet the link provided by the OP is referred to as a "non-explanation".

It is true that Monads are a pain point in Haskell. They are extremely powerful but not easy to grok, even by some very smart programmers.

Quote from main article about Monads:

> "Monads.....Despite many attempts though, I don’t think we have yet found the best way of explaining what they actually are. "

and

> " The Wikipedia article has quite a good example of non-explanation."

SeanDavon SimRefinery Recovered

Awesome! Thanks so much for this! I will take a look just as soon as I can.

SeanDavon SimRefinery Recovered

>"I did find some download links for various things labeled as "borland sidekick", but I'm going to guess you've been down this road already"

Thanks for your efforts! Yes I did go down that route, but not with much success.

SeanDavon SimRefinery Recovered

While on the subject of old games, does anyone have access to a working version of "Vogon Poetry"? This was a shoot-em-up game bundled with Sidekick Plus.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1988/03/21/s...

SeanDavon Blue Cross Blue Shield plans sue CVS for overcharging them for generic drugs

Seems like an obvious business model. Sell OTC drugs at fractions of current prices and still make a large profit...

What is the catch?

SeanDavon A mysterious company’s Covid-19 papers in top medical journals may be unraveling

Interestingly, there is this article in the same publication: "Core progress in AI has stalled in some fields"

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6494/927

SeanDavon Reinventing the Wheel: Discovering the Optimal Rolling Shape with PyTorch (2019)

The Reuleaux triangle is for some measurements (for example material used), more optimal than a circle, while still able to roll smoothly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuleaux_triangle

SeanDavon Show HN: A Firefox add-on to strip Google search results of 'blacklisted' URLs

It is probably just me, but I have noticed a marked drop in rank for Stack Overflow links in search results, even on programming-type questions.

If in fact this is more of a general trend and not my little bubble, then I wonder if this is caused by Stack Overflow mods closing any question that may have an opinion in the answer and since these answers have not shown activity for years, perhaps other links and sites are slowly starting to eat SO's lunch.

Pure speculation on my side.

SeanDavon Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs

As a fully paid up member of the tab collectors club, I mourn the demise of Tab Mix Plus. Not found anything which beats it, although some of the tree-style tab solutions are not bad.

SeanDavon Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down stay-at-home order that closed businesses

https://psmag.com/magazine/a-year-in-the-heart-of-the-addict...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/1...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_Belt

This is not a comment about the quality of the people in the region, but of the challenging circumstances caused by factors largely outside their control.

SeanDavon Scraping Recipe Websites

Another tool for difficult-to-scrape sites is OCR. There are a few decent free/opensource options available:

https://source.opennews.org/articles/so-many-ocr-options/

SeanDavon MS Flight Simulator 2020 vs. Real life

I can't go on any revolving fairground attraction or use VR for more than a few seconds or I get nauseous and generally feel unwell and disorientated.

This feeling can last days in extreme cases (more from an intense fairground ride than VR - never taken VR use to that extreme!)

SeanDavon My Mid-Career Job-Hunt: A Data Point for Job-Seeking Devs

> "... the way you look up or look down when you're trying to recall how you solved a particular problem"

Are you talking about NLP here?

SeanDavon How to Build a Remote Team: Resources and Advice from Remote Companies

The article appears to end prematurely - last item I see is "Start Slowly"

SeanDavon If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (2014)

Fantastic. I especially liked the speed of light button. One of the interesting things I originally missed because I eventually used the shortcut buttons was this gem (from the source code):

> "If the proton of a hydrogen atom was the size of the sun on this map, we would need 11 more of these maps to show the average distance to the electron"

SeanDavon India considers commissions cap for Uber, Ola, unsettling industry

> Imagine half the plasma in your body moving to your digestive tract the second you eat something

Actually this is not too far from what really happens soon after you eat a big meal. The blood flow to the stomach-related arteries greatly increases soon after a meal (not sure on actual number for "greatly").

I tend to agree with your main point in any case.

SeanDavon Go master Lee Se-dol says he quits, unable to win over AI Go players

> I would counter with the fact that in physical endeavors it's apparent to us that we are not #1 - our household cats are more agile than us.

Not in the case of our household cat. He isn't called TheBlob for nothing (out of his hearing of course!)