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yyxon Show HN: Alert yourself after a long-running task in terminal

I have a similar thing with telegram bot: https://pastebin.com/Ei3hjcKa Written in Go so it's static and portable.

yyxon GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked

It does on my system. Maybe firefox trick works on Chrome too.

yyxon GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked

Why don't you use DE? You can change window manager.

Had problem when GUI closed after trying to install a package. No error, no logs. (or was it defaulting to the normal state with install button and no logs, I don't remember)

Found out about package conflict only after running apt from the terminal.

yyxon Show HN: A 1000 auto-generated hexagonal SVG logos

Another logo generator: https://www.tinygraphs.com/#?name=test&shape=labs%2Fisogrids...

yyxon Hacking Grindr Accounts with Copy and Paste

More like this:

Issue #2141 - implement password reset: After answering secret question user should see password reset link.

Issue #2534 - send email with password reset link.

Issue #2743 - remove password reset link from web page

Issue #3892 - replace secret question with email address input

yyxon USB-C was supposed to simplify our lives, but instead it’s a total mess

It would have been great to have micro-USB in the shape of USB-C. Without all those new features and extra pins so manufacturer could replace the port just by soldering to the same 5 traces. This could've been over within a year.

yyxon The software engineering lifecycle: How we built the new Dropbox Plus

It's called syncthing.

yyxon Accused spy Alexander Yuk Ching Ma evidently beat the polygraph

And yet in Russia it's used when applying for a job in police.

yyxon Haiku R1/beta2 has been released

If they implement it, then it would be a hamburger menu.

yyxon Install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on MacBookPro14,1

Are these fixes experimental? There must be a reason why they aren't in the main distribution.

yyxon TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management

Valentina Studio

yyxon Show HN: Simple multiline find and replace with sed

The example is not really helpful because you can do it with

  sed s/findo/replaco/g

yyxon Apple acquires Dark Sky

In English too

yyxon Hard negotiations: why a softer approach yields better outcomes

As a man who knew nothing about negotiation, "start with "no"" is a great tactic I never thought about before.

yyxon Writing Safe Shell Scripts (2019)

>all I get are false positives

double quotes, mixing string and array, unused variables. Why is this normal?

yyxon Gitlab was down

This time it might be Consul

yyxon Alan Moore on superhero culture

Reminds me of "Super" (2010) by James Gunn

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1512235/

yyxon Microsoft Access: The Database Software That Won't Die

I wish it was this easy to connect sqlite

yyxon Looping Music Seamlessly

Also see: http://infinitejukebox.playlistmachinery.com/ https://eternalbox.dev/jukebox_index.html

yyxon US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls on its destroyers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paper...

yyxon Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home

"Under The Dome" probably

yyxon Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taught programmer look into

"start with no"

yyxon Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis

My firefox got OOM killed thanks to this.

yyxon Jerks on the Internet: what my first DDoS taught me

Can anyone recommend monitoring solutions to help identify these issues?

yyxon What's next for SemVer

New feature added!

yyxon PostgreSQL used fsync incorrectly for 20 years

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/TheLegendOfSyn...

  people were told 'do several sync commands, typing each by hand'

  But this mutated to just 'sync three times', so of course people started writing 'sync; sync; sync'

yyxon Ask HN: Is it just me, or is CSS too damn hard?

Don't compare CSS with JS. Compare it with LaTeX.

yyxon My PHP Development Setup

How do you copy dev server to prod?

yyxon My PHP Development Setup

Little things like semicolons and no "else" in for loop