wtfrmyinitials

During a shortage:

Commodity is available. Commodity is affordable.

Pick 1.

Interesting to see this pop up now, I recently finished building an open source command line typing tutor myself! The idea of mine is you pass it an existing text file (plain text, markdown, source code, etc) and it tests your ability to re-create that file. This way you can practice typing in any syntax. https://github.com/wtfaremyinitials/monktype

I've been running it on my desktop for a while and it's been wonderful. I have a cron job set to take a snapshot of the filesystem hourly so if I ever blow a file away or a package upgrade goes wonky I'm back up and running in minutes.

Reason number n+1 why Google is bad for the open web

In terms of power usage, the best solution would probably be a passive Ethernet hub.

Now run it in https://bellard.org/quickjs

Possibly also generated. From the top of HN last week: "AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21525878

Why? There isn't much for a troll to plunder

Why did your team deem it appropriate to mess with core system components like /var?

I’m not sure I understand your point. The surgery was done in a private hospital and paid for by a private health insurance company. It certainly points out that care in the U.S. is too expensive, but I’m not sure how it indicates a single payer system is the best course of action. The doctor was also paid 3x the Medicare rate which sounds like a good thing to me. Am I missing something?

There’s still something to be said for the relative uselessness of most social media. I don’t avoid it by any measure, but I’m also very aware that a minute spent on a given social platform is usually a minute wasted. At least with something like a movie you have a shot at remembering what you saw a month ago. Do you remember what you saw on Instagram yesterday?

Keeping values small is still useful for the sake of CPU cache

These two are not mutually exclusive

Purely competitive, purely monopolistic, monopolistic-competitive, and oligopolistic are terms to describe how a market behaves, not the regulatory environment the market exists within. A "free market" is a regulatory environment and not a market behavior.

> So it’s possible that big companies are increasing their market power by using lobbying to capture politicians and regulators. If this is true, it’s very bad news for free markets and capitalism.

A market where companies engage in regulatory capture is not a free market. The word you're looking for is "corporatism", Noah Smith.

Not exactly it but Schadenfreude is pretty close

Worth noting that Maker is different than those other because there's no central authority holding fiat money to maintain the peg. Their stablecoin Dai is minted "out of thin air" and the price peg is maintained via an interest rate mechanism built into the smart contract.

Prices set by fiat cannot possibly react quickly enough to changes in the market

> anyone can send an email with any "from" address, and filtering on people/domains in the "from" field is basically pointless if you want to catch spam.

Isn’t this the exact thing that DKIM is designed to fix?

I’m gonna invoke Hanlon’s Razor[1] here and assume middle1 is a random HN user that didn’t realize you only use “Show HN” when it’s your own project.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor

Ok... and? Ownership != control on the Bitcoin network.

One thing the author missed about htm is that you don’t necessarily need to parse it at runtime— there’s a Babel plug-in to compile it to plain js function calls. This way you can develop without a transpiler and add one later when (if) the extra performance becomes necessary.

Congress hasn’t cared about the constitutionality of new laws for a long time

We've already lost count of the number of federal laws in the U.S.

https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2013/03/frequent-reference-questio...

So called "open-faced sandwiches" are not sandwiches.

206 is for downloads, not uploads.

Looks like somebody listened to Ungeniused this week

> they're (stablecoins) are issued from a centralized authority.

Nitpick: there is at least one decentralized stablecoin: Dai https://makerdao.com/

The javascript specific bit is that errors and out-of-range values are handled according to js semantics