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bilalelon Astral to Join OpenAI

That's unfortunate for the python community. I can understand the move by Astral team, but it's still difficult to accept it.

bilalelon Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers

They seem to take poor weather condition into account as they reserve an amount of power to keep the link up and stable (equipment would be capable of pushing up to 75km) Those were data from first tests they did, might be interesting if they can confirm that in future updates.

bilalelon Pi-hole v6

My comment wasn't clear. I was indeed referring to blocking youtube completely, not just ads on youtube.

bilalelon Pi-hole v6

Do you mind sharing your blocklist for youtube? It has been a challenging one so far.

bilalelon DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching

Have you considered using the special chars (caps lock) to switch both mouse and keyboard from PC A to PC B, and vice versa?

bilalelon Ask HN: Tips for generating easy to remember but difficult to crack passwords

I would pick a word or name, and for each letter of the given word you create a sentences beginning with each letter. It doesn't need to make sense, you just need to make it easy to remember. Bonus point by adding a number (like a year date related to the word/name) and by separating each word with a special character.

For example : Alice Amendment%Liability%Indicates%Cute%Energy2006

bilalelon An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding

One can also take one skill out of the list as goal to achieve. I don't think an engineer is able to be perfect in all skilset. This kind of list should be seen as an inspiration and challenge you in the skill we are lacking from.

bilalelon Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in Asia

More to read about this on Bloomberg [0] and BusinessWire [1]

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/2020-12-17/kubota-v... [1] https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201217005811/en/

bilalelon Show HN: Turn Your Code into a Snapshot

On VSCode, I like to use the Polacode extension [0]

[0] https://myaccount.google.com/personal-info

bilalelon IPv6 Adoption

It's the same for Proximus residential gateways, they all have an ipv6.

bilalelon Show HN: Castor, a live dashboard for your projects

Cyclotron [a], and here is a link to the discusion on HN about it [b] :

[a] http://www.cyclotron.io/ [b] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13062998

bilalelon Dilbert: Startup idea

Sadly, a lot of people think that only ideas matter. Too bad for them, because ideas worth nothing. Don't you think?

bilalelon Is Uber Making Taxi Service Better?

In Paris, taxi are making it worse in term of customer perception. For example, the last protest from taxi drivers that suspended the service UberPop [0].

0 : http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/03/uber-suspe...

bilalelon iOS Code Samples

Here is the current status of the page: "I hadn't expect this to become so popular." With title: "The End"

Hope page will comeback online soon.

bilalelon A source for this picture?

As replied the OP, it's an anonymous friend of him.

bilalelon Show HN: WordsAPI

Hi,

Nice project! What about adding example of sentences?

bilalelon Show HN: Startup Utility – Collection of Startup Resources

Hi,

Is the source available on a public repo? This will be amazing for a private board. Thanks.

bilalelon Ask HN: Hacker forum or IRC?

Slack [0] is a piece of beauty for community/team communication. I don't if there is already a HN channel on it.

[0] https://www.slack.com/

bilalelon Mistakes You Should Never Make

I think this mistake had a cascade effect on the other ones. If you remove this one, a lot of other ones should be manageable.