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Rotten194

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    Comment #25754451

    I think they're referring to this?: https://twitter.com/kuschku/status/1156488420413362177 disclaimer: found on Google, unsure of context / if these people are core developers, jus…

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    Comment #25616852

    Iirc it’s moving the reference to answer, not the value.

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    Comment #25591056

    Actually being able to find your photos, especially if you have friends and family who share photos with you and aren't willing to adapt to your organizational scheme. Google Photo…

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    Comment #25308140

    The long-arm sewing machines to do the actual quilting (where the top gets sewed to the backing over the whole face of the quilt) are pretty expensive and not really the domain of …

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    Comment #25049232

    rustdoc has the ability to embed usage examples in the doc comments, and automatically test them. also module-level documentation is doable via doc comments in the module main file…

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    Comment #25010563

    Is it possible to use on a private repository? It says "Free for public repositories" but I can't find any information about a non-free option, the github page seems to only list t…

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    Comment #24844935

    Is this signed? Is it possible the website got hacked and someone is trying to phish? Seems strange that this person would have all their coins in one wallet, or that the wallet wo…

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    Comment #24637246

    What is "it"? Things that are controversial? Where do we draw the line on that? Most people would agree that talking about your flight "around" the world is OK, even if it takes a …

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    Comment #24576621

    I wrote a more detailed answer to GP: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24576616 , but basically: yes that's totally natural, but in edited writing / speech sometimes should be …

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    Comment #24576616

    I read it as "it" being the situation. e.g., "was it a child who painted this?" it isn't bad grammar, though you could argue it's poor writing because it's confusing. it's using a …

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    Comment #24574443

    If you're interested, I wrote a blog post a few years ago about how to implement a syscall (getcwd) on Xv6: https://vgel.me/posts/pwd_command_xv6/

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    Comment #24507919

    Nitpick^2: You are probably saving a few cycles due to loop overhead around pointer offsets and bounds checking, + not having to load the items into cache twice, if the sequence is…

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    Comment #24499955

    Yeah I tried to use Emacs, but the LSP had way worse performance than in VSCode and was very glitchy. I was disappointed because I really enjoyed Emacs in other ways, but I couldn'…

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    Comment #24485201

    Tax dollars go vastly more to dropping bombs on civilians in the middle east and ICE and the NSA than they do to any positive social program (ignoring things like social security t…

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    Comment #24477242

    The problem to me with that approach seems two-fold: 1, companies all expect you to work in the traditional way with local repos etc. All their tooling is geared towards that. If e…

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    Comment #24458151

    from the end of the article: Take small checks. People writing small checks is something that's very common in Silicon Valley. I love having a bunch of founder/operator investors t…

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    Comment #24440372

    You should look into the English Resource Grammar: http://moin.delph-in.net/ErgTop Online demo: http://erg.delph-in.net/logon It has all that information in the generated feature s…

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    Comment #24335367

    You don't have to sideload if you don't want to. Why is this so hard for people to understand?

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    Comment #24335179

    Can you enable hcaptcha with a whitelist for known-good accounts? Not ideal but might annoy them enough to give up.

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    Comment #24241913

    Yay, we can reproduce the worst part of physical art on the internet now... art is interesting because it's art, not because rich people can speculate on it. In an ideal world ever…

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    Comment #24240913

    This blog is great, highly recommend. Along with this series, he has some really interesting ones on medieval warfare illustrated via Lord of the Rings: https://acoup.blog/category…

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    Comment #24218877

    GCE uses this tool to allow a central metadata server to manage users: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/guest-agent#account-m... The host VM had this running. Since they had …

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    Comment #24218612

    Cool product! I wouldn't worry about the HN naysayers too much (very "just use rsync to a VPS"-esque vibe here). I think you should clarify on your site that the app is only requir…

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    Comment #24213749

    Source on harmful effects of polyunsaturated fatty acids? Had trouble finding it through Google (maybe was searching for the wrong thing)

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    Comment #24149248

    itch.io allows developers to set the take, down to 0% if they want. Patreon allows users to adjust the take in exchange for less / more features. There's lots of alternative models…