6ue7nNMEEbHcM

Born on October 09, 2017•162 Karma

on Dec 2, 2022

5mg melatonine, headphones with podcasts which I don't find irritating (curating such list is harder and harder) and a facemask. It works irrespectively of stress level on a given day.

6ue7nNMEEbHcM•

on Oct 1, 2022

•on: Ask HN: What did Linux not do right?

This, a thousand times. But apparently it's much more difficult than it seems.

metaltyphoon•

on Oct 1, 2022

Isn’t this what windows does?

simfree•

on Oct 1, 2022

If you call changing APIs every other major release of Windows, then sure.

Having your drivers in tree allows the developer changing said API to update everything in tree that depends on said API which they are changing.

tredre3•

on Oct 2, 2022

> If you call changing APIs every other major release of Windows, then sure.

Yet here I am, on windows 10, using printer drivers designed and released for windows vista.

NGRhodes•

on Oct 2, 2022

On Windows 11, I am not able to use my finger print reader using the Windows 10 drivers from my oem, this is reported by device manager.

m00x•

on Oct 2, 2022

tbf, HID is much easier.

6ue7nNMEEbHcM•

on Oct 1, 2022

•on: Ask HN: What did Linux not do right?

There used to be something like apt-build which downloaded sources of whatever you need using your distros source repositories. I don't know if i remember the name right. I don't think this is related with Linux only, but more cpp oss dev problem.

6ue7nNMEEbHcM•

on Sept 30, 2022

•on: Putin annexes four regions of Ukraine in major esc...

No it didn't, they don't want to officially deny it but it's clear they are not going to make exception to the normal process for the Ukraine. There was a press conference recently.

avmich•

on Sept 30, 2022

> they are not going to make exception to the normal process

Unlike some smaller republics in the Europe, the Ukraine has to wait. No normal process reference is necessary.

Edit: those who say Ukraine is less deserving the de-jure membership in NATO - de-facto Ukraine almost have it already - than e.g. Northern Macedonia seem to be losing touch with reality. Let's remember how, when and why NATO was created...

6ue7nNMEEbHcM•

on Aug 8, 2022

•on: Technical Writing Courses from Google

Or you could just take a look at the linked course and learn something. It's pretty good and worth working through.

6ue7nNMEEbHcM•

on Aug 8, 2022

•on: Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people ...

> This support has been directly responsible for the excess deaths of Russians and Ukrainians alike numbering in the tens of thousands.

No. It's Russian invasion on Ukraine directly responsible for the deaths.

6ue7nNMEEbHcM•

on Aug 6, 2022

•on: CudaText: Open-source, cross-platform text editor,...

The amount of work put into this from single person seems astonishing. Per a forum post the author doesn't even care about the donation page working. I wonder how people get to this point in their life that they can spend all days just coding their oss projects for fun. It seems so out of reach for me.

Alexey_Tor•

on Aug 6, 2022

You are exaggerating, I develop it for 6-7 years, and not every day is coding.

6ue7nNMEEbHcM•

on July 25, 2022

•on: Ask HN: I'm in a rut. How did you get out of yours...

(Self)Discipline isn't either. From one of self helping courses i learnt that you have to embrace your dopamine addicted inner monkey and make it do useful stuff. I.e. split things into smallest chunks and convince yourself that finishing each of those is rewarding.

6ue7nNMEEbHcM•

on Oct 9, 2021

•on: The Ć Programming Language

Any hints of where that part of the world is to avoid it? I suppose Czech Republic?

gregopet•

on Oct 9, 2021

It is Slovenia, as others have guessed. It's just one way people find to express their predjudice, I'm sure others exist in any other part of the world. My last name ends with a C and it sometimes gets written with a Ć and I don't lose my mind because I'm not a bigot. Also, I'm happy to see more and more people standing up for their identity - as in, please put Ć on the form because that's how it's properly spelled; yes, my ancestors come from the south and no, I don't care what you think about that, just do your job properly!

NotOscarWilde•

on Oct 9, 2021

It is remarkable that this exact border (although without the proverbs on Ć) manifests also between Czech Republic and Poland -- in the Czech language there is exactly one hard "Č" and no soft version, whereas Polish has both "cz" (the hard variant) and "Ć" (the soft variant).

smcl•

on Oct 9, 2021

It seems we are talking about Slovenia. It’d be a shame to skip a country for something small like this, particularly one as nice as Slovenia

DonHopkins•

on Oct 9, 2021

It's not a matter of a programming language skipping a nice country, but of some stupid bigots in a nice country self-owning by skipping a programming language, of their own free will.

Discouraging bigots from joining a programming language community is a good thing for that community.

smcl•

on Oct 10, 2021

You’ve misunderstood my comment and the one I’m replying to. This person is talking about chalking off an entire country because of a comment they read on HN, without giving it much more thought. Not really my business but IMO they’d be missing out and to be honest you could use this line of reasoning to eliminate basically every popular destination

DonHopkins•

on Oct 10, 2021

Anti-immigrant bigotry is "something small" in your opinion?

smcl•

on Oct 10, 2021

The existence of people who are anti-immigration would prevent you from visiting the UK, the USA, Italy, Germany, France, Japan ... so yes in this context it is a weird place to draw the line and is pretty small in the context. I'd be curious what country passes this particular purity test ...

pndy•

on Oct 9, 2021

Č is present in Czech, Slovak and South Slavic languages of Balkans, as well in Lithuanian, Latvian. It was created by Jan Hus who worked on Czech orthography in 15th century.

The written representation of this sound might vary - Polish Czeski and Czech Česky but the sound mostly remains same.

shp0ngle•

on Oct 9, 2021

No, something on Balkans

6ue7nNMEEbHcM•

on Oct 1, 2021

•on: Internal emails show Zuckerberg and Facebook execs...

I find it disturbing that everyone acts like it's normal that private correspondence gets leaked and now is discussed in public.

What gives you the right to read those emails?

stinkytaco•

on Oct 1, 2021

These emails are part of the public record [1], subpoenaed on behalf of the House Judiciary Committee's Investigation of Competition in Digital Markets [2].

[1] https://judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/0006754900067553.p...

[2] https://judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/competition_in_dig...

6ue7nNMEEbHcM•

on Oct 1, 2021

Thanks for providing this background. Still somehow it feels not right to read it. But I suppose it may be some cultural difference. In country I live in correspondence secrecy is a constitutional right, so maybe people value it differently.

stinkytaco•

on Oct 1, 2021

I don't know that American's don't value it, it's not like everyone's emails are part of the public record after all. The HJC has (probably good) reason to believe that large companies are engaging in anti-competitive practices and it's their responsibility to investigate that and this is one of the major tools to do so.