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i work on neo-tree.nvim, among other things.

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/pynappo; my proof: https://keybase.io/pynappo/sigs/o7FKnRYdMitdvhOHGFPOejihel7IdjkrR_Lc9NuaotE ]

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pynappo··on A Single Div
maybe you're referring to the demo from pwnfunction?

"This Site Has No Code, or Does It?" https://youtu.be/msdymgkhePo

pynappo··on A steep rise of Hacker News in Google rankings
one can always fall back to regular search queries as needed. i find that searching"<query> reddit" and falling back to "<query>" is usually going to get me an answer faster than the other way around.
pynappo··on Neovim v0.9.5 Released
I believe neovim follows semantic versioning. https://semver.org/
pynappo··on Mic Test
By cheapest alternative, do you mean the ATR-2100x recommended as the budget option? I'm in the US and searching Google shows $80+ for the Blue Yeti and $30+ for the ATR-2100x
pynappo··on Why aren't motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (2021)
i think the GP was talking about wired peripherals that plug into usb-a ports on the computer side, not wireless mice/keyboards which use usb-c to charge

my current wireless mouse/wired keyboard have usb-c on the peripheral end but I still use usb-a to connect them to the computer

pynappo··on Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update
Artifact (2018) released to terrible reception, and DOTA: Underlords (2019) eventually just died off. Half Life: Alyx (2020) is one of the highest-rated single player VR games. Counter Strike 2 released 2 months ago, and has very active development.

Valve also allegedly has a game named Neon Prime in development and apparently slated for announcement soon(tm) [1]

[1]https://youtu.be/Fm1VUo6NYaw

pynappo··on HHKB Studio: The New Happy Hacking Keyboard with TrackPoint
I largely use it to switch layers, eg. caps + hjkl turns into arrow keys
pynappo··on Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss
the original post is about people near-blinded from the very bright/intense lighting, and therefore using "not the brightest bulbs" is funnier.
pynappo··on Create a shortcut for even lower phone brightness
I've used the Automate app for doing exactly this, adjusting brightness to slightly above minimum if I set it too low

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.llamalab.a...

pynappo··on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.0 release
bg3 runs very well on Linux for me through proton, fwiw. Definitely a great feature though, especially if you can't be bothered to dual boot.
pynappo··on “Most notorious” illegal shadow library (LibGen) sued by textbook publishers
> For it to be saleable to departments I bet most assignments are already in the system and you just check off which one to issue.

Yeah, think of Khan Academy but paid.

The pricing I've seen so far in my classes (1 math textbook, 1 history textbook) is 100ish per semester for each textbook's accompanying service, 180ish for a yearly pass (eg. if you take 2+ math classes in consecutive semesters).

pynappo··on Learn AutoHotKey by stealing my scripts
On a daily basis, i paste into programs that aren't wysiwyg (terminal, reddit, browser omnibar, etc) much more often than stuff that is (google docs, powerpoint). for the former programs it doesn't matter if i paste with or without formatting.

for the latter programs having the default be paste with formatting seems fine. yes, i'll paste stuff from the web without formatting. But copying/cutting/pasting within the same document is also a pretty common interaction and if i'm cutting something non-trivial (eg. google docs table/nested lists), i don't want to paste it back into google docs as a bunch of regular, separate lines.

pynappo··on Temptations of an open-source Chrome extension developer (2021)
that was hover zoom (the original) not hover zoom+ (the fork by GP)
pynappo··on IRC is the only viable chat protocol (2022)
discord makes hosting a real-time online place for most communities of all sizes very easy. it also doubles as a free cross-platform messaging app with a massive userbase. as the top-level GP posted, it mostly has a superset of the features of other community/messaging platforms (at the cost of searchability and data ownership/privacy).

as a student, I'm in discord servers for friend groups, school clubs, unofficial classroom servers, game communities, fanbases, etc - anything that can benefit from conversations organized into different channels is usually turned into a discord server.

when I think "how can I take this group of people interested in the same thing to gather together online?", the alternatives that come up are:

- facebook (too linked to real life identity, also not really great for separating conversations into specific channels to my understanding) - reddit/forums (which can compliment a discord server in being more searchable/async, but in no way rival Discord's real time text/voice chat) - mumble/teamspeak/skype/matrix (largely just has a subset of discord features) - slack/microsoft teams (pretty much solely designated for work and not at all marketed as a general purpose communication solution)

pynappo··on LazyVim
there is a somewhat hacky way to accept just a word, to my understanding, since copilot.vim allows you to access the raw text that's being suggested. try out the snippet in the linked comment:

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/12426#discussi...

pynappo··on LazyVim
you can also use $NVIM_APPNAME if you want a more "full" switch between configurations. especially helpful for trying/switching between distributions (i use it for switching between my own config and lazyvim). basically, it modifies the paths where neovim looks for config and data files on startup:

config path: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/nvim/ -> $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/$NVIM_APPNAME/

data path on Windows: $LOCALAPPDATA/nvim-data/ -> $LOCALAPPDATA/{$NVIM_APPNAME}-data/

https://neovim.io/doc/user/starting.html#%24NVIM_APPNAME

pynappo··on The Password Game
you can just use switch to XXXV. No I needed.
pynappo··on The Password Game
You need to keep updating the password. It's time zoned. Basically you have to plan ahead as to what time you want your password to be submitted at and get every other rule satisfied before that time.

In my case it was 8:20 and I had a sum of 15 so I fixed my password in the next 20ish minutes and set the target time to 9:01 at the earliest and spun up an auto hotkey script to paste the food for Paul every 20ish seconds (in reality I think it eats faster than that)

pynappo··on The Password Game
yeah, just lost at that point too, didn't have my password copy pasted anywhere :(

I guess I should have been wary of a confirm password phase. i even wrote a tiny auto hotkey script to keep feeding that stupid chicken for 40 minutes while I waited for time to tick from 8:20 (I didn't have the password ready yet) to 9:01...

pynappo··on Reddit App – Suspicious high number of recent 5 star, one word reviews
Honestly as someone who's tried a bunch of android 3rd party apps, I think the official one is good for browsing the site. Customization/feature set is very limited, and the TikTok-vertical-video mode is annoying, but you can swipe between posts horizontally which I use a lot to browse through posts and read comments. That flow isn't present on a lot of third party apps. Also, some other apps don't vary post layout by post type which means if I'm scrolling down through reddit and want to see full size images, it inevitably means link posts have enlarged thumbnails which takes up feed space.

If someone made the official reddit app have customizable colored comment depth lines and added a toggle for the video mode I would be very happy with it.

Obviously I'm just being picky here, I'm very used to the official app. Also, people can patch out ads on Android with revanced anyways.

pynappo··on DeArrow: Crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube
It affects watch time depending on how long the blocked sections last, which should affect money received by ads.
pynappo··on Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark
There are definitely sponsored ads that pop up in a feed by default. Downvoting them doesn't change their placement.

There's also reddit premium (no ads, customizable avatar, reddit coins) along with a award system where people can give awards that cost reddit coins to exceptional comments. These awards cost reddit coins which can be gained through either getting awards on comments, or subscribing to reddit premium.

pynappo··on YouTube Is Killing Stories
Generally I like YouTube shorts (at least compared to my tiktok feed which is not tailored to my tastes at all) but I'm really annoyed by the lack of a volume slider in the desktop shorts player.
pynappo··on Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never combine app icons
By labels I believe they just mean window titles in the taskbar.
pynappo··on Godot Arrives in the Epic Games Store
I'd also recommend https://playnite.link/ which is an open source launcher that does the same stuff.
pynappo··on GPT-4
Here's how I've explained it: Choose randomly between 3 doors. 1/3 of the time you end up with the door with the car, and switching loses. The other 2/3, you pick a door with a goat, the other door with the goat is eliminated, and switching wins.

Basically, P(lose when switching) = P(choosing correct door at first), and P(win when switching) = P(choosing any incorrect door at first).

pynappo··on Learn Vim (2021)
This issue is only cosmetic as the other commenter explained. vim won't insert the character until you indicate you're not invoking the keymap (either by waiting or by typing other characters).

If you want a plugin that makes it so that the j appears immediately regardless of whether you're trying to invoke the keymap or not, you can use something like https://github.com/nvim-zh/better-escape.vim

pynappo··on Tell HN: MS forcing Edge shortcut on desktop
There are still big games with BE or EAC which either don't launch still, or will sometimes allow you to play offline on Linux but won't allow you to join servers with Proton. Some examples: PUBG, Dead by Daylight, Ubisoft games such as R6 and For Honor, and Destiny 2.

Extra links for those who want to look:

https://www.protondb.com/explore?selectedFilters=antiCheat&s...

https://areweanticheatyet.com/

pynappo··on Ask HN: Why is on-device search terrible?
I've seen flow launcher recommended but haven't personally tried it out yet
pynappo··on Replit's in-browser coding AI
GitHub Copilot Labs (a VSCode extension meant to be installed with GitHub Copilot) seems to have an explain code feature.

ref: https://github.blog/2022-09-14-8-things-you-didnt-know-you-c...

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