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fwr··on Poland is now among the 20 largest economies
Thank you. Many say our institutions are underdeveloped but I think it takes a certain maturity of the society to be able to execute projects successfully. It's not perfect, but I think we've come a long way.
fwr··on Morgan Spurlock has died
I just found out about the controversy behind Super Size Me a few days ago: https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1cw02ni/til_...
fwr··on [dead]
How is this obviously made up and devoid of substance l'esprit d'escalier-type story getting upvotes?
fwr··on Tell HN: Today Is Global Accessibility Awareness Day
Accessibility is easily overlooked but in my opinion provides a much more direct and widespread impact than the mentioned ESG - and often provide value to more people than originally intended - I'm thinking of subtitles in videos that immensely helped me learn English, and public infrastructure adaptations for wheelchair users which also greatly benefit others - like mothers with strollers.

I wish more things were designed with an accessibility-first mindset - enabling edge cases might seem like overkill at first, but it could bring unforseen advantages.

fwr··on My dad's resume and skills from 1980
It struck me as comforting to actually be able to post it all online without a major worry, I imagine a person of that age living with close supervision of their family can get fully disconnected of this paranoia and just enjoy actual life, sans administration and connectivity.
fwr··on Becoming a Systems Architect
Even John Carmack - an ultimate prototype for a nerd - has evolved into a CTO (and from the linked Fridman interview he sounds like a really good one). What is it about tinkerers being put into these positions as a natural progression?

It always seemed to me that people with more of a managerial background would be better managers - is software/system development the only field where masters of their craft ultimately become directors?

fwr··on Fig (YC S20) – Adds IDE-style autocomplete to your existing terminal
You mean https://www.raycast.com?
fwr··on The Uber Bubble
The driver is most likely on multiple apps, and is doing rides there while the Uber one stays open so he can accept the cancellation fee when somebody less devoted than the parent commenter gets frustrated enough
fwr··on An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email
Of course you can: https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/hide-your-email-address-mai...
fwr··on Due to failure in the IT system, it is not possible to run any trains today
This is very consistent with customer service in The Netherlands - nothing is ever the fault of service providers, and you manage to convince them otherwise - you'll get nothing more than "unfortunately (...) not possible"
fwr··on Norwegian developer job board for Ukrainian refugees
Where do you draw the line on "neighbor"? Somebody who lives in your general area, or somebody from the other side of the world?
fwr··on To avoid Finland’s tax a 1,000HP imported Hennessey RAM is limited to 55MPH
This is new to me and I've been doing this very thing for a while (though not yet with an accident) - do you have a source for this?
fwr··on Apple announces 27-inch 5K Studio Display
Any mentions of the refresh rate? I've been waiting for a 4K/5K display that supports 120 Hz to pair nicely with my 2021 MBP, but it looks like the only available options so far are funky gaming displays: https://tonsky.me/blog/monitors-mac/
fwr··on Bitcoin Price Hits All-Time High of $19,786, Topping 2017 Record
How?
fwr··on Show HN: Which DNS servers are you pointing to?
Client devices, I think - filtering that happens transparently and without an easy way to disable is just asking for problems - I couldn't deal with having to log in to the DNS management console every time when a website notices that ads didn't load and therefore doesn't display content. I don't think we're at a point where privacy can be guaranteed by technology choices - it's all about behavior of end users (like avoiding websites which block content if ads don't load ;-)

Is it possible these privacy/filtering DNS services like NextDNS come without a performance hit? Imagine setting it up and forgetting about it, and discovering later that all your DNS queries happened with a substantial lag - it's like realizing you've been driving with a hand brake on

fwr··on Show HN: Which DNS servers are you pointing to?
Neat, this helped me realize I haven't switched away from my provider's default DNS when I moved in, which is something I usually do.

How to choose a DNS server? I usually just go with 8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4, I used to always test this with Namebench (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namebench) and these always turned out as the fastest - but it looks like it hasn't been updated since 2010 - are there any better tools for this, or any considerations in general? I prefer performance over privacy here, I think privacy should be on a different layer.

fwr··on Wills of Tadeusz Kościuszko
17 days ago - effect of Americanization of Poland (or just extreme ignorance): https://twitter.com/DawidStys/status/1268097702807711745
fwr··on A lot of “idiotic” things have reasonable explanations (2011)
Is there a more powerful political position he could have?
fwr··on Show HN: An iPhone app that lets you pick colors and identify PANTONE colors
Nice! Interesting you were able to agree on licensing with PANTONE®, considering they sell a (very underwhelming) hardware device called CAPSURE™ that has a similar premise: https://www.pantone.com/products/color-control-tools/capsure
fwr··on Hacking Voi Scooters: How I Created $100k Worth of Free Rides
Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20190928130035/https://fant.io/p...
fwr··on Climate capitalists have serious money in climate-friendly investments
Caution: spammy website, and this was back in 2014: https://www.utilitydive.com/news/warren-buffett-to-keep-bett...
fwr··on Common mistakes in PostgreSQL
Each of these could be hosted on postgresql.org:

> Don't Do This: Mistakes we've made in licensing

> Don't Do This: A case for considering MongoDB

> Don't Do This: Handbook for social behavior at events & conferences

fwr··on A fraudster got $12M out of a Canadian university
Can you link to some of these materials?
fwr··on New business apps in Office 365: Connections, Listings and Invoicing
Listings looks exactly like what I was looking for - does anybody have experience with a similar tool?
fwr··on Show HN: ShakyDraw – Hand-drawn block diagrams from plain text
This is really great! Is there a way to paste/import a previously exported graph and preserve edit capabilities?
fwr··on Gordon Murray-designed ‘OX’ flat-pack truck
Is there a text version or an article about this?
fwr··on What is your phone telling your rental car?
I never thought about it, but it would make a lot of sense that since both Android and iOS ask for application permissions, the same would happen for a Bluetooth session.

My guess is that it's not done because receivers were never supposed to handle missing data for something that shows up in device capabilities.

fwr··on iPhone, iPad and Mac sales are down, but Apple only cares about services now
Have you been living under a rock?
fwr··on Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook
I couldn't help but cringe every time the word "used" was used for "user" after the first occurence.
fwr··on Slackcat – Pipe command output to Slack from your terminal
I could actually use something like slacktail -F. Does this exist?
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