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gdoptimizer··on Vim Clutch – A hardware pedal for improved text editing (2012)
For me, I would reduce the functionality to just one key: ESC. I always pressed ESC key mindlessly when thinking of the next thing to write. I pressed too many useless ESC like fidgeting. If I can offload it to the foot...
gdoptimizer··on On navigating a large codebase
Sourcetrail?
gdoptimizer··on Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
I highly recommend this book. The chapters were "bite sized". Compared with the dinosaur book, it was easier to finish one chapter after I started on it. The chapters on concurrency made me cry with "so this is how XXX works" a lot. I also found the references near the end of each chapter were full of gems.

I self-taught CS, so not surprisingly there were lots of "void" and "dots" in my knowledge space. This book connected lots of dots together.

gdoptimizer··on US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days
This is just wishful thinking in the current situation. Don’t expect Chinese government to reverse what it has been doing for years in this political shitshow. Chinese living in US are unfortunately sandwiched in the between and helpless.
gdoptimizer··on A Close Call: How a Near Failure Propelled Me to Succeed [pdf]
Well said
gdoptimizer··on [dead]
Indeed it is a dupe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23890465

gdoptimizer··on Neural programmer better than Quicksort
Jim Keller once said randomness was baked in the modern computer chip design. The execution routes were almost always different even if you ran the same deterministic code for multiple times. But in the end you got the same result almost every single time (“almost” has many 9s after the decimal point). But this layer of operations has been abstracted away from most of us. So don’t feel too sad... maybe the world has been like this for a long time
gdoptimizer··on SUVs parked on cargo ships reveal scope of U.S. auto market glut
Can you give reference that AWS was after car selling business? I only know there was AWS engineering platforms for automotive industry.
gdoptimizer··on Germany tries to stop U.S. from luring away firm seeking coronavirus vaccine
Why might doing this to a Chinese firm feel justified? (I understand this question doesn’t matter to Trump’s true believers.) Finding the vaccine had better to be international teamwork. China is the ground zero in this pandemic. It has a lot offer and lose. I would argue China is a big ally in this case.
gdoptimizer··on Signal is finally bringing its secure messaging to the masses
> I see “no backups” as a feature

I will appreciate the “backup” feature. You don’t have to use it but users are better off to have such an option after understanding the risks.

gdoptimizer··on Signal is finally bringing its secure messaging to the masses
I second this. I like Signal and appreciate all the efforts people put in. But I don’t really care how Signal added cute stickers or optimized image showing. I just need a privacy app and keep my data. The only reason I didn’t recommend Signal to my non-tech friends was not being able to migrate/export chat history on iOS. This seems to be such a basic (not necessarily easy) thing to do but they just didn’t do it.
gdoptimizer··on Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?
I second that. A few years ago, I began reading the first book of the trilogy after lunch to kill time, and got so bored and nearly gave up nearly 1/3 ~ 1/2. And then suddenly the idea became clear. I couldn't put it down and skip the dinner to finished it.

And the second and third books got even better. Especially the third one was mind-blowing beyond description at that time for me. I was sad when I finished them all because I didn't know when I would have a similar experience on another book/series.

gdoptimizer··on China’s Millennials
The article has already said it. It was not the millennials supported the government 100%. Many of them were just indifferent to politics.
gdoptimizer··on Setting Up an Ad-Blocking VPN with WireGuard and Pihole
I did something similar by installing Wireguard as part of Streisand and then PiHole on a VPS. One caveat was this combination accepted public DNS queries by default. You would need to block it on your own. Otherwise the experience was good for various connection scenarios and adblocking was a breeze.

Now I am using Algo + Steven's hosts files for the similar idea. No complaint thus far yet.