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The fact that my perfectly valid comment was down voted like this shows that HN has a pretty dysfunctional community. I think that is my last comment here ;)

I appreciate the article, but it would be really nice if the author could add a timestamp to his blog posts. Without timestamps, it's impossible to know if any issue described in t…

> Sure, there's a whole slew of crap being grafted onto it like systemd, Wayland, Chromium, etc... But... you don't have to use any of this (in fact, I can't even use Wayland at al…

Where did you get this from?

People who train themselves to reliably induce lucid dreams call themselves oneironauts (Oneiros = Greek god of dreams). I was actively interested in this topic when I was younger …

> If you think this approach is wrong, could you articulate the reasons why you think it is wrong? Because later if you want to reuse parts of the code in a continuous environment …

> As an implementation strategy, we do not care about memory leak because we really can't save that much memory by doing precise memory management. It is because most objects that …

I wait for the day that chess will be banned in USA, or some fork of chess will emerge, because obviously chess is racist: white is always first.

https://www.wykop.pl is probably the biggest Polish site that gathers best experts from most of the industries, to provide comments on the newest political, religious, science and …

> Scala just has implicits which can be used for method extension. I don't think it's fair to say it like this. Scala's implicits can mean different things, depending on where they…

Using scalac is not a standard use case. Standard use case is to use sbt (well, or mill, since we're in lihaoyi's thread :D). Sbt starts up slow, but with bloop, or sbtn (native cl…

You're right, I missed that.

> When I hit the start menu, it’s because I want to launch an application. I don’t need to see the rest of the desktop. So why is the Start menu by default only occupying a small p…

hate speech?

So many comments and I have no idea what monkey.org is and why I should care.

> I’ve written four short books and they have literally grossed hundreds of dollars. I hear this argument pretty often. A book is not a binary thing: there is a book, and there isn…

I thought that software development was about finding solutions to problems, not escalating existing problems and demanding changes so we don't have to adapt.

That's part of what I'm talking about. Giving a 'f you' sign on a public conference is not professional at all. I mean I know that it's Linus who did it, and we all like Linus, so …

Wayland doesn't even work for me, so I guess I don't have such problems. I'm not really into the actual arguments between NVidia and Wayland folks, but I suspect it's something lik…

Generally I agree with the article, but it would be nice for the author to enable dark mode of the website for dark mode users :) (it's possible in CSS to detect if the user is usi…

Direct link instead of some trashy proxy: https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/parler-not-working-of...

Oh, I thought it was about VHS video for some reason. I guess I'm old enough to rant that this should be named 'how video streaming works', not 'how video works' :/

I think this blog post should be taken down or at least mostly censored, because it promotes depression. I don't want to see posts like that on the internet. Children can stumble u…

I'm using uMatrix and by default all javascripts are blacklisted until I explicitly enable it for the site. The downside of this is that lots of websites are broken, payment sites …

Funny thing is that this site itself uses fonts from Google Fonts