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cptn_brittish··on Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024?
My brother has coined the term Depression Olympics between this and The Stormlight Archives for what the characters go through and Farseer makes Stormlight look like childsplay
cptn_brittish··on PipeWire: The Linux audio/video bus
It has a jack and pulseaudio api wrapper. I use it because it means I don't need to muck around with configuring pulse and jack to work nicely together.
cptn_brittish··on PipeWire: The Linux audio/video bus
I can confirm that a issue causing my audio to completely drop at random points resolved about 1 month ago and now everything works perfectly.
cptn_brittish··on AMD Reports Q2 2020 Earnings
Theres this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dev47apps....

Its a little tempermental but works without to many issues.

cptn_brittish··on Ask HN: How often are you on call?
Company the size of about 10.

I am the only person on call 24/7.

cptn_brittish··on Ask HN: How do you organize and manage database migrations?
I can second Dbmate.

The process of a sql migration management is pretty simple and like other comments it's not hard to write something yourself which works well I just prefer to use something a little more battle tested in the deployment process.

Also it's a go app so you don't need to pull down a stupid amount of dependencies for it to work just pull from it's github release and mark it as executable.

cptn_brittish··on Setup VS Code for Efficient PHP Development
So does Emacs. Emacs also has multiple webrowsers and email clients out of the box. Those features do not make Emacs not a text editor though.
cptn_brittish··on Smooth Video Game Emulation in Emacs
By default M is Meta or Alt not esc
cptn_brittish··on U.S. government seeks Facebook help to wiretap Messenger
The War on Drugs is considered a failure and in parts of the world like NSW, Australia made prostituion legal in 1979 in both cases because criminalising things most people use generally doesn't work and all you do is randomly jail people for doing the exact same thing as a large proportion of the population.
cptn_brittish··on The Hacker News Habit
4G is quicker then fttp for me it's getting ridiculous.
cptn_brittish··on Michael Pollan reluctantly embraces the 'new science' of psychedelics
It wouldn't be science but at the same time those conditions are horrible in order to study the effects of psychedelics.

The conditions are almost a sure fire way to make someone have a troubling experience if they were given the doses knowen to be taken in those times and did not have prior experience dealing with the reality altering effects of those substances.

cptn_brittish··on Parsing JSON is a Minefield
You use p-lists instead so that {"foo":"bar"} becomes ( :foo "bar")
cptn_brittish··on Caffeine and Cannabis Effects on Vital Neurotransmitters in Rats
Cannabis seems to bridge the gap between all major drug types with it simultaneously acting as a stimulate, depressant and psychedelic with the depressant being the most obvious to a user.
cptn_brittish··on Caffeine and Cannabis Effects on Vital Neurotransmitters in Rats
Been smoking for a long time and a massive coffee drinker to the point work thinks something's wrong with me and Ive never felt the effects some of my googling describes regardless of my then Cannabis and Caffine intake.
cptn_brittish··on The Nature of Lisp (2006)
The issue is these days everytime I hear optional I think of semicolons in JavaScript where they are optional except for one or two edge cases I can't remember off the top of my head. Optional is good as long as its a complete you can do it this way or that way like gradual typing in some languages.
cptn_brittish··on Fnl: zero-overhead Lisp syntax for Lua
In regards to lisp a large amount of lisp editors are written in lisp so they do already do exactly that'
cptn_brittish··on Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values for 3rd parties
Except spelling is a popularity contest with the one in largest use being considered the way to spell it.
cptn_brittish··on Punk science: a growing movement wants to make scientific tools available to all
Turn off js
cptn_brittish··on How Facebook has used Instagram to beat Snapchat
From the younger demographic (22) most of the people in this area I know have simply growen up with ads on the internet and know to just ignore them even if they do not use a ad blocker that may be a issue for you. On Facebook at least from what I read there is a larger demographic to target (ala parents trying to keep track of their teenagers) who may not be used to filtering out ads so that may account for the better conversion rate.
cptn_brittish··on SEC Files Fraud Charges in Bitcoin and Office Space Investment Schemes
There is only a limited amount of bitcoins which can be mined so you can assume at some point all coins will be mixed at that stage what do you propose happens?

Woth the type of people who invest in bitcoins I can see them simply making sure all bitcoins are tainted in this way for purely idealogical reasons not even to ensure that illigal activity can occur.

cptn_brittish··on Volvo admits its self-driving cars are confused by kangaroos
It's not confusion as other Australians here have said they really do not behave like any other animal and appear out of no where at speed. A actual collision with one normally takes out the car and not just the kangaroo as well.
cptn_brittish··on Fantastic DSLs and where to find them
Loop in Common Lisp is a good one.
cptn_brittish··on Fantastic DSLs and where to find them
I think another difference at least for Common Lisp DSL's are embeded into the language (look at loop) and so people are comfortable with using them and somewhat how to write them.

This doesn't mean there isn't people who hate stuff like loop being in cl but it does go someway to showing why it's okay. I think the design of lisp encourages them as well (as the previous poster said) by the fact that the entirety of lisp is built up from a extremely limited amount of instructions so the entire language can be argued to be a DSL on top of a DSL on top of a DSL etc.

cptn_brittish··on Apple’s AR is closer to reality than Google’s
Some of the higher comments go into this and it appears that ARKit only implements some of a full AR Stack (Visual Inertial Odometry) while Tango supports it all (SLAM) so it can also have persistence between device reboots and be useful in bigger applications.

I will note I am just repeating the comment and you can see it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14640682

cptn_brittish··on Turn any link into a suspicious-looking one
My experiance with symantec web protection (which I assume will use the same blocklists they are talking about) is that it has a ridiculous false positive rate and when I was still in High School they had blue-coat installed and it had a worse false positive rate. I would be very careful about running blacklists from those companies aside from anti-ad blocklists.
cptn_brittish··on Turn any link into a suspicious-looking one
In what way are you more secure then when someone uses a .com domain? In both cases it is easy to register a url and turn into a malicious site. It really seems you are blackholing parts of the web for no good reason except to exempt yourself from actually performing a security check on the sites on the assumption all other tld's are safe.
cptn_brittish··on Show HN: Sudo for Windows
By adding extra complexity to a shell command instead of offloading the process to small programs with a defined api?

I can see a lot more maintainability and portability of a implementation using FUSE to mount these systems as filesystems (so the abstraction is complete across the entire system instead of just in the command). Also the ease of having a abstraction which does not require special capabilities to be added to a program before it is useful is a reason that no system has properly supported these models before in this manner. On a UNIX system the same techniques could of been implemented sometime between the 70's and now to interact with environment variables and it has probably been implemented before but it has not gained mindshare as that approach is not scalable.

cptn_brittish··on AsusWRT sends network traffic data to Trend Micro if certain features enabled
On the other hand some ruters use url's like http://routerlogin.net and from my perspective that seems dodgy since that could mean all the routers are centrally configured somehow.
cptn_brittish··on Lego Saturn V
In my family Lego is something passed down to the parents kids as it just doesn't die.
cptn_brittish··on Genius laid off a bunch of its engineers
I think its because outside of rap there isnt many songs with the lyrical density and complexity required for anotations to work. Even most rap songs are very up front about what they are talking about.

Their only other major play is annotating things like scientific papers but I cant see the market for that being big enough to make money.

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