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A question for people who have already switched to the fish shell: What is the biggest drawback of using fish? For example, you get accustomed to it on your system and then have to…

How is that different from Apple Pay or Google Pay, where you click one button and provide all your card details to a new merchant?

For me, the Dark Forest hypothesis is very probable. However, the whole book series assumes that interstellar travel is possible for advanced civilizations. What if no new physics …

What do you think about the dark forest hypothesis from The Three-Body Problem book? It seems reasonable to me. Are there any sociologist or math papers that describe the game theo…

It looks like russian hypersonic missiles do not work as expected and what was promissed to Putin.

Serbia is not a part of Russia. It wasn't even in Soviet Union. Yugoslavia was an independent country.

I would love to see a keyboard with an ortholinear layout [1] for the Framework Laptop. After switch to a dactyl manuform keyboard it is really painful to go back to a typical stag…

How a such hypersonic missile locks a target? Does it use a radar or some optic system? I guess that plasma around the body might disrupt conventional guiding systems.

How this is different from what Apple is going to do with that on-device image hash algos? The other big story on HN last few days is that a Google Drive account was blocked [1] be…

Every time I mention this here on HN I am down-voted. But I really think that in a next few decades sending (dangerous) cargo to (deep) space will become cheap and reliable. Space …

It is worth to add the Joseph Conrad was a Pole whose family fought against Russian colonialism.

In two decades we’ll be sending nuclear waste into deep space.

You can have two keyboards. A first ergonomic split keyboard for the alpha keys. A second keyboard _only_ for function keys (placed between the split keyboard), an ortholinear plan…

Kudos for Microsoft for that keyboard. Compared to the previous 4000 model they made the 2019 model more ortholinear. Notice the offset between the A key and the Z key. It is not p…

> I’m glad that I don’t have a direct relationship with shady 3rd party developers. To enable background locations update, a sales rep has to open a check-in screen, wait 10 second…

I run a small company and offer an app to monitor sales reps work. Managers use it also to see how much time employees spend in the field. To count how much time is spend in some s…

Ruby started as a shell scripting language so I agree that it is good for that purpose. However the question is how much time one spends writing shell scripting code for personal u…

Only if you are going to use Rails. It seems that in all other domains Ruby have lost to Python, Kotlin, Go and others. Personally I love Ruby and Rails, I prefer clean Ruby syntax…

Apple car is a terrible idea. Apple is good at selling luxury products to ordinary people. An ordinary person can buy a good enough headphones for $40 or spend $550 for the AirPods…

Lattice C occupied two 3.5 disks so when I was compiling a program I had to switch the disks many times. Then I bought a second external disk drive and it was 10x improvement. As f…

The price is very disappointing. Similarly spec'd Xiaomi Mi 10T Lite 5G will cost about $300.

> Actually, just people in general these days This is how people almost always behaved. In the Middle Ages the term "heresy" was used, today only slogans have changed, the social m…

It is also a good solution for the US. The blue states are much more richer and should block money transfers to the red states. Punish financially until the red states will vote fo…