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mths··on Crows possess higher intelligence, thought a primarily human attribute (2020)
I've seen lorikeets do this outside my home. I've also seen cockatoos do a couple of screaming barrel rolls for seemingly no reason in their fly byes. I think they just like to have a little fun. Alternatively the lorikeet was looking for something to swoop down at.
mths··on Founder of $90M cryptocurrency hedge fund sentenced to seven years in prison
[Insert obligatory acknowledgement of my privilege], but I like to think I wouldn't have sold my mid to late 20s for a couple of billion USD, given the choice.
mths··on Billions in 'unknown' funds flowing into Canada's housing market [video]
I'm not sure Australia should be held as an example of a healthy housing market.
mths··on I Hacked My Standing Desk with a Raspberry Pi
Mine has a so called "active anti-collision", I've seen it in action once when I forgot my chair was still rolled under.

https://www.zenspacedesks.com.au/product/professional-series...

mths··on Raspberry Pi WiFi to ethernet bridge
What operating frequency did you use? I got the RPi4 mentioned in the article and I run OpenWrt on it as my home router. I got it configured to AC mode, 40 MHz width, and I easily hit 100Mbps.

I live in an apartment though, I wouldn't trust it to cover much of a house. Also it's struggling with keeping 10+ devices connected. But speed is not bad! I prefer it over the retail routers I got hooked up as access points.

mths··on Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?
I recently looked back on some old projects of mine, it was rather painful.
mths··on Scientists rediscover lost coffee species suited to a warmer climate
Aged coffee is a thing. I tried something in the 10-15yo range once, and for a dark roast it wasn't bad.
mths··on Coinbase Announces Listing Date of Its Stock on the Nasdaq
> If their whole business model is predicated on the success of crypto-currency shouldn't the whole world of fiat currency be completely irrelevant and a distraction?

I'm not following this line of logic, where are you getting this from? Why would the success of crypto-currency imply the demise of fiat, if that's what you're saying? Or why would you have no interest in fiat just because crypto-currency turns successful?

mths··on Why winter exercise can be especially hard on the lungs
> You can't train above your ventilatory threshold while nose breathing

Why? What about this? http://www.journals.aiac.org.au/index.php/IJKSS/article/view...

Conclusion: This study supports the ability of recreational runners to utilize a nasally restricted breathing pattern at all levels of running intensity without loss in VO2max or GXT TE, and with superior PE and VE/VO2, following an extended training period using this practice.

mths··on Rust-Analyzer Architecture
If you can please let me know how to turn this off in neovim with its native LSP support, I'd appreciate it.
mths··on Rust-Analyzer Architecture
I use cargo as my linter now, but I'd like to use analyzer on file save
mths··on Rust-Analyzer Architecture
> It also updates in realtime as I code.

If anyone knows how to turn this off in vim/ale, I'd appreciate it.

mths··on Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus
> It is why the show is so much better as both computing history and drama than all those films about Apple or Steve Jobs [...]

Loved Halt & Catch Fire

Pirates of Silicon Valley was pretty great, no? Idk about its accuracy though.

mths··on Why Learn Prolog in 2021?
> To be honest, at the moment such problems are too rare to justify learning Prolog. But I don’t believe that this has to remain so.

And then the whole following section on unfulfilled potential.. Is there any reason to believe the paradigm will somehow come into its own in the future? The way this question was addressed by the article was way too wishy-washy for my taste.

mths··on The Problem of Free Speech in an Age of Disinformation
Not to speak for GP, but I think what he's getting at is that the application of AI in this business model in order to drive engagement (for the purpose of selling ads) should be illegal. Or more generally, we need regulation around AI.
mths··on Laid Off, Now What?
> When you have 50 well qualified applicants (ie: could pass most interviews) per position then you need some way to weed out 49 of them.

Do you really? If they're all well qualified, wouldn't any of them do?

mths··on Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life
> On a lot of sites changing email is impossible.

I have this problem on Steam of all places. Way back when, I guess you had to sign up with your email as your username. I've long long since left that email behind, but it's still my username for logging onto Steam.

mths··on Rust and C++ Interoperability in Chrome
> If you really want to reduce the unsafe keyword from being seen in most regular code, you create and interface that maps the C++ function and exposes it as a rust function, and you've hidden away your unsafe usage to one spot per function.

Isn't that what they did? Through the use of https://github.com/dtolnay/cxx

Agreed the article expressed the concern in a rather clumsy manner, but they seem to have a point for their particular use case, and they addressed it appropriately.

mths··on Tuna sells for $1.8M in first Tokyo auction of 2020
I won't argue where the "best" sushi is, but have you tried shutoku honten? It's pretty great.
mths··on IRS issues additional guidance on tax treatment for cryptocurrency
Quickly, what's X*0?

I'm aware that there's situations where a CGT event occurs even without selling your asset, but this shouldn't be one of them.

mths··on Apple is evaluating new keyboard mechanisms to make thinner MacBooks
MacBook Pro 2025: The entire keyboard/touchpad area is now a screen with configurable controls. The touchbar was a tease of what's to come. People rejoice over the ability to swipe rather than type out a word.
mths··on Neovim v0.4.0
OSX. Plugins: ale, bufexplorer, nerdtree, rust.vim, vim-airline, vim-airline-themes, vim-colors-solarized

I generally start vim in my src folder on Monday and exit it on Friday. Occasionally, just on a whim, I run nvim instead. Mostly its fine. But the times I've experienced crashes or other hickups like rendering bugs forcing me to :qa!, it's been on nvim.

Edit: Oh and I run it in the terminal, iTerm2 to be precise.

mths··on Neovim v0.4.0
> Otherwise it is pretty much a drop-in replacement without issues.

Except for the crashes. The crashes are an issue.

Don't get me wrong though, I like nvim. I use it occasionally.

But the crashes are an issue.

mths··on Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat Chrome
Many years later, still nice to come across this kinda comment. :)

It had actually been taken out of scope when I unwittingly started working on it. I had enough success within the first week or so that I managed to convince my manager that we should bring it into scope again for the initial release of the Chromium-based browser.

mths··on Bitcoin Trends in the First Half of 2015
> The results were not favorable for bitcoin and highlights key design problems

Some would disagree, considering the system kept functioning exactly as intended under the circumstances imposed on it.

Personally I agree that the whole thing is troubling, but was anything really discovered here?

Considering that the price has been rising, if you believe in prediction markets, these design problems could likely be overcome. After all, people have been working on it since long before any of these stress tests were performed.

mths··on Show HN: Rim – Aspiring Vim-like text editor written in Rust
It's been a few months since I first presented my little project here on HN [1], I hope a new thread is justified after the changes that has been made since then.

When posting my last thread, you could basically have a buffer loaded and view it in multiple split windows by moving the caret around.

Since then the following functionality has been added:

* Proper key handling: Commands can be bound to key strokes such as Ctrl-W followed by V, with a timeout between keys.

* Different modes: Basically binds different key-to-command mappings to support say "normal" and "insert" mode.

The two above are arguably one feature, and they combine by binding modes on different "levels" in the key handling module. Putting this together, you can have one mode partially overlap key strokes in another, and have the timeout force keys to be handled by a lower mode.

* Multiple buffers: More than one file can be loaded at a time, and each window will keep state sane for every buffer it has viewed.

* Deletion: Last time there was functionality for inserting text into a buffer but it wasn't "hooked up" for the user, now you can also delete text.. (woo)

* Editing: All this is finally tied together and hooked up so that you can start rim and edit a file. (not by your choosing!) While doing so in the focused window, hopefully scrolls and carets and whatnot is kept sane in the other windows whether they're currently viewing the buffer being edited or not.

All in all, it should hopefully feel a bit like a very primitive Vim.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8965608

mths··on Show HN: Rim – Aspiring vim-like text editor [Rust]
Thanks, you're right. I did add a readme the other day. Maybe too little too late. :)
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