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rootshelled··on Stack Overflow Is Down
Isn't it udp, because y'know, it doesn't confirm, while tcp does.
rootshelled··on Ask HN: Password manager with best experience on Linux?
Google chrome has a nice feature for that. Yeah I know it isn't an efficient workflow but to lazy to change at the moment.
rootshelled··on Ask HN: How difficult (or possible) is it to get into low level development?
https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs216/guides/x86.html

https://wiki.osdev.org/Expanded_Main_Page

There, all for free on the web no need to go back to school.

As for the type of work; most of it is writing the 1000th driver, making sure some mainframe doesn't keel over on a new version.

Also even the lower level stuff often escape to higher level languages after initial setup.

You'd still be writing code to make the hardware do stuff, just more work to achieve the same. So it might not be that exciting after a while.

rootshelled··on Ask HN: Password manager with best experience on Linux?
I'm lazy so I use FF's built-in for anything web.

Then gnome keyring with PAM auth upon user login.(again, lazy)

rootshelled··on Ask HN: I have an idea for an app / game – how to know if they're serious?
Either you spent years just for them to nab the 50% whilst being utterly useless, or you make them do stuff too and before long they'll realize it's a lot of work and leave(though may come back to sue for that 50% if it ends up working well)

Either way they probably should be avoided.

If you really want to see if they are serious let them draft up a business plan, the amount of requests I've had from friends/family has made me very skeptical of all this though.

rootshelled··on Gender in “What People Do All Day”
Is this one of those cases where you probably should have checked if you should instead of if you could.

There are plenty of books out there that do fit into your narrative. Why can't you leave an book of the past in it's time framing? Heck, I might even call this deceptive if you teach children stuff like this as they will not know the road of general acceptance of women in jobs.

rootshelled··on Ask HN: Which websites do you use to explain your open source project?
TL;DR: Some way of generating an manual alongside the normal docs of exposed functions (API bindings).

Depends on the project and what is needed, generally a README.md for the big picture and an /docs for the generated API docs, hosted on github pages & friends or an webserver hooked up to the CI.

Which is often enough for coders but we also have a lua-jit running on top of the C++ where we have a plugin/module system where people can create extra functionality but some of those are rather new to code. I've written the API docs in LDoc (the only functional lua doc generator that works with the same version as lua-jit's lua version) but there currently isn't a nice way to implement a more of an manual which would solve a lot of redundant questions.

rootshelled··on Ask HN: How Do You Sleep?
Also if it's becoming bad you might just want to ask your local doctor.

Might also be worth to check if it's not due to too much stress.

rootshelled··on Ask HN: How Do You Sleep?
Things that help me when I'm feeling tired or just struggling with keeping a normal sleeping pattern: 1. try to cut coffee for a month. You'd be surprised how much it affects your sleep/eating habits. Or atleast it does for me.

2. If you can find the time, work out

3. Most people need between 7 and 9 hours of sleep. While it's also recommended to atleast get 1 block of 5 hours during sleeping.

4. Water, get an healthy amount of water in a day (though don't start chugging like a mad men, I said an healthy amount)

5. Having an balanced diet that is maintainable.

6. Having a cold shower in the morning wakes me up, so does taking a dump

7. Drop sweet drinks they're sugared water and hold more calories then you should drink

I'm not an doctor so take everything I say with an pinch of salt

rootshelled··on New York City considering legislation to ban cashless retailers
I don't get how this is racial discrimination or even how they get to this conclusion.

Example: We have 3 groups: Group 1 Group 2 Group 3

There are 2 types of services: Service A Service B

3% of group 1 can't use Service A 14% of group 2 can't use Service A 13% of group 3 can't use Service A

Does Service A racially discriminate against any of these group? No, it does not. It just can't accepts business from people who use Service A. So people who can't or won't use Service A have to go to another business that does accept Service B.

But okay let's play pretend. Let's say it is discrimination then it's only potentally more effective against certain groups by 10%. I say potentially because how many in this group would go to a this specific chain? probably less then that 10%. I'd wager the actual percentage affected falls in the area of margin of error. AKA sucks to be you but it's a free country so cross the street to somewhere they do accept your cash.

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