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mrpotato··on Ask HN: 6-hour workdays more important than 4-day workweeks IMO
> You will still want an Uber after 5pm, or a shop or restaurant to be open on a public holiday.

No one says this change doesn't apply to people in those industries or in shift work. You have to remember that the idea is more to reduce work from 40 hours per week to something like 32 hours per week (30 in OP's case).

In this case, you can still have restaurants open late, it would just mean the schedule would be shorter for all staff.

> But all of these initiatives are focused on the wealthier office workers and sometimes factory/shift workers who are non-customer facing. But it totally ignores the service industry which is a huge part of our society (and arguably even more so if we end up working less!).

The service industry could make up for the lack of coverage by hiring another person. Giving jobs to more people.

I do believe that the question of having a livable wage (supplemented or not by UBI) is a separate issue that should not impede giving people their time back.

mrpotato··on Show HN: 1,900 remote company profiles with tech stacks and employee benefits
More feedback:

- Order your dropdown alphabetically, it makes them easier to read and find information you care about.

- (On jobs page) Type of work has a select all button but all values are selected by default. Change Select All to Select None otherwise you have to click a bunch of times to get just the one you care about. Actually, now that I look at it, make it like the other dropsdowns. Have a Clear button, have nothing selected (with selects everything).

- Searching for a tag in Job title or keyword (like C#) pulls up irrelevant jobs

- Searching companies by country would be great (I think someone else mentioned this)

- Also consider adding more filtering dropdowns for companies to help people determine available values for example: Primary Industry, Benefits, Job Type (ie list all companies with openings for DevOps)

mrpotato··on Penmanship
I've never really looked into speed-writing before now and after a quick google, it looks like you have to learn a whole new alphabet!

I wonder how long it takes to learn and be productive with one of the systems.

mrpotato··on Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal
Kitty is cool, I use it on debian, but it is not cross-platform. So I hesitate to compare it to alacritty.
mrpotato··on Cloudflare have made it impossible for me to unsubscribe from marketing emails
Made a little mistake (can't edit). CASL is Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation and not Canada Anti-Spam Law.
mrpotato··on Cloudflare have made it impossible for me to unsubscribe from marketing emails
If you live in Canada, you can report a CASL (Canada Anti-Spam Law) violation to the CRTC here[1].

The FAQ[2] shows an example of a CASL violation for requiring multiple steps to unsubscribe.

[1]https://www.fightspam.gc.ca/eic/site/030.nsf/frm-eng/MMCN-9E...

[2]https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/com500/faq500.htm#wb-auto-28

mrpotato··on Fastmail vs. ProtonMail: A Comparison
A nice comparison. The tipping point for my choosing fastmail over protonmail was that protonmail limits custom domains to a single domain. I have multiple domains and want(ed) the ability to setup email for all the different domains in a single place.
mrpotato··on Latest build of Windows 11 has ads inside File Explorer
I have personally never seen an ad in windows even after all the articles posted about ads in windows 10.

Anyways, after a quick search, I found this

> Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13903519

-- edit, I realize that this is an article on windows 11, but I remain skeptical that there will be ads shown in window 11.

mrpotato··on DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks
Didn't know (but should have) that they had a grid guide! Thanks

flexbox https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/

grid https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/

mrpotato··on Vim Reference Guide
Neat stuff! Nowadays, I mostly use Cheatsheet[1] to quickly look up things I want to do, but resources like this are always nice for learning new stuff you didn't know about.

One piece of feedback is that I would include "+p and "+yy in the copy and paste section. I feel like that's the first place where people will go to look for "How to copy and paste using clipboard".

[1] https://github.com/sudormrfbin/cheatsheet.nvim

mrpotato··on Don't ask to ask, just ask (2019)
haha, when I read OP, I thought exactly of "Hello".
mrpotato··on Ukraine asks ICANN to revoke Russian domains and shut down DNS root servers
ICANN's response https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30540188
mrpotato··on Write plain text files
I was also interested in the answer to your question. Here's[1] why AsciiDoc thinks it's better than Markdown.

[1]https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/asciidoc-vs-mar...

mrpotato··on MDN Redesign
I was looking around to get a feel for the changes when I noticed that the colour scheme is different on some pages, I'm not sure why?

Red and black (darkmode) https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/bo...

Blue and black (darkmode) https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Cont...

Both pages are under the "References" section.

mrpotato··on Lagging behind? New study highlights weaknesses in open source patch process
> The researchers found that the median security release comes within four days of the corresponding fix. But in some cases, security releases are delayed up to 20 days.

I am not really surprised. The people making the security fixes are likely not the ones who find and report the issue and the devs are then stuck playing catch up. (Assuming there's not "ethical disclosure").

> To improve the security of open source software, the researchers recommend that package maintainers keep security fixes private until their release.

Keeping the fixes private is a good idea but is only effective if the vuln. isn't already make public by a third party (like the guy who found it).

But aside from that small nitpick, I agree with the study's recommendations as described in the article.

mrpotato··on A new wave of Linux applications
I followed those as well but changed to whats in the gtk-rs book A word of warning: before you start, if you choose to go down the MSVC path, you have to uinstall msys2 and remove msys from your environment paths. If the Meson build find msys2 in your environment path variable, it will try to build using msys2.
mrpotato··on A new wave of Linux applications
gtk-rs has a book[1] which has setup information for windows. The install was easy on windows following the instructions. I have yet to build an app with GTK4 so I can't comment on the writing and building of apps just yet.

[1] https://gtk-rs.org/gtk4-rs/stable/latest/book/

mrpotato··on Chess Minigames for Enjoyable Learning [pdf]
A year or two ago I bought my nephew a chess board/game and since then I've been struggling figuring out how I can teach him the game effectively. He seems to prefer playing on ipad/phone because he can see the legal moves.

I'm going to use these mini games the next time we play to help him learn the piece movements a litle better. This is great!

mrpotato··on Understanding UUIDs, ULIDs and string representations
> This entire idea of using random IDs assumes that your computers can generate random numbers that are random and unpredictable — this isn't an easy problem, and there's a lot of research being done in the field.

Can anyone here provide some hints as to how you can verify that the randomness is actually random?

If I was to create some blackbox and I claimed it generated 100% random numbers, is it possible to disprove my claims?

mrpotato··on Ligatures in programming fonts: hell no (2019)
I agree with the author. I only ever look for fonts that will help add contrast to visually similar characters (ie: i, l, 1, o, 0, etc)
mrpotato··on Chess.com vs. Lichess
> This is simply because chess.com pays streamers with the money they receive from premium users, whereas Lichess is free.

Not only that but they also hold tournaments (ie: PogChamps which was a great success IMO) and they also have tournament analyses (ie: 2021 World Championship). They even have good production value! (outside of covid related limitations).

That being said, I agree with your diss of chess.com and will mention that I only play on lichess.

mrpotato··on Show HN: Lazy Words – Learn Spanish on Autopilot from Your Phone
This is a neat idea, I can see someone learning to recognize words and associate meaning to those words in a language they don't know.
mrpotato··on Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer
> 1. I still don’t know very much

> “How can you not know what BGP is?”

I learned a while ago that answering someone who asks you "What is X?" and replying with a phrase similar to the above is probably one of the worst ways to broach the subject. It comes off as questioning the person's intelligence/knowledge.

Instead try to see it as a teachable moment. If it is something you think is cool and/or you are passionate about, you should be excited that you can show your friend/coworker something really cool. ie: "I've never seen Rick and Morty", "You are absolutely going to love that show. I know what you will be binge watching this weekend!"

Anyhow, to put it bluntly, don't be a dick about it.

mrpotato··on Default disappearing messages
I thought the same as you until I checked how it worked in the app. Maximum is 4 weeks, there is no higher option.
mrpotato··on Firefox Public Data Report
I would have thought the share of ad block users would be higher. That being said, it is pretty telling that 6 of the top 10 add-ons are ad blockers.
mrpotato··on RemotelyJobs – Find a remote job on IT
A couple of notes:

- When I first loaded the page (FF 87), the page was blank and I had to reload the page to see anything.

- Looks like the site is scrolljacking. Dont do this... using mousewheel scrolls the page like 3-5 lines per scroll and scrolling quickly doesn't increase the scroll speed, this is _way_ too slow. (Yes I realize that you can click+hold to scroll, but that's not intuitive for PC).

- It's nice/refreshing to see a new job site showing results for more than just US jobs

- Seems like it is missing important features like filtering or searching

Overall, nice aggregater which I could see saving me some time.

mrpotato··on A deep-dive into the future of subscription gaming
Playstation Plus is what lead to my eventual move to PC Gaming. I didn't (and still don't) see the benefit of having to pay monthly just to play games that I want to play. At the time (ps3/4 era), most if not all the free games were all indy games and games I had no interest in playing. That meant that I was paying full price for games I wanted to play and I had to pay a monthly fee just to play online multiplayer (and internet of course). Moving to PC saved me something like 30$/month for something that gave me little to no value.

If the future of gaming is a subscription model, I'd rather just stop gaming.

mrpotato··on Xfce 4.16
I like the xfce look and the xfce specific apps unfortunately I tried using xfce on a dell xps 15 laptop and had problems with screen tearing while scrolling up/down. I never found a fix so ended up on KDE.
mrpotato··on The Few, the Tired, the Open Source Coders
I think that would have a negative effect on individuals and open source developers. Have a dependency on npm, 10$/m. Have a dependency on Nuget, 10$/m.. I'm at 20$/m for my project which may or may not be a commercial product.

With this model, the fees could increase with each distribution platform your project depends on.

mrpotato··on UI design for software developers. Part 1, Colors
I like it, site looks great. I just wish it had a How section with resources for dummies like me
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