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What position do you assume? Cross-legged, kneeling, squatting, side-lying?

Or use Vim; it has built in support for zip files, so you can just type something like `vim my_file.docx` and it will open the files in netrw (the built in file explorer). Move to …

There are two issues here: 1. The threat of war 2. Anxiety about the threat of war The first relates to the actual facts of the situation, whereas the second relates to your though…

Brilliant! The hackerweb.app site seems very good for accessibility. It uses nested lists as others here have suggested. hn.premii.com is a little more difficult to use (in terms o…

That's fair, but if you might have blind users wanting to use your publicly-facing site, just making it do what you want isn't enough. For visual use, I would agree that the site i…

How do you "find" this? The NVDA "find" function can't seem to find it. What screenreader are you using?

I'm on a PC and don't currently use a smartphone, but thanks for the suggestion and I will bear it in mind, and give you some feedback if I do use it. I'm sure others on hear could…

Just to avoid any confusion, I'll preface this comment by saying that I'm not blind, but in the last few months have mostly been using a screenreader to avoid the migraines I was g…

Sorry for the tangent, but as a blind user, how do you manage to use HackerNews? I can't get a screenreader to pronounce indentation as the indentation of the comments is done with…

Something I learned the other day is that on Linux you can type `man hier` in a terminal to get a description of the filesystem hierarchy

These are all good points. I guess what I'm getting at is that if you have to have multiple identities to ensure privacy, then you somewhat defeat the point of having your own doma…

I've been considering getting my own domain for email for some time -- the benefits are obvious. But I have one concern. If I use the address `mail@my-real-name.com`, does this pos…

> Matching { } is also supported, which is all one needs for a tree-style database. Could you elaborate on this; maybe give an example?

This is so true, and makes me so sad to think about. I regard formal education as a form of emotional abuse for this very reason.

While I was in general agreement with the article, I think the examples are extreme; the author has swung from wanting to learn every Java GUI framework to reading books about soft…

Thankyou for this. I've often thought of learning in terms of "learning trivia" vs. "understanding concepts", but had never applied the word "trivia" to learning programming facts.…

My comment may be lost on you, as I feel we are looking at life very differently, but I'll try, and perhaps you can think about it. I would be interested if others have experiences…