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> thinking the japs will invade from the sea Be mindful of using terms that are widely recognized as racial slurs.

> An autocratic, single party state where the government is so popular that they need to rig their elections against themselves to get dissenting voices. It's not a single party st…

At risk of going off-topic, when I see comments like these, I wonder how the comment author comes up with these corrections (cross-checked, the comment is in fact true) Did you hav…

What's their end game here? What is Microsoft gaining from their push to passkeys? They knew this was going to piss off a lot of people, but they went ahead with it anyway. That ma…

How to do the same thing with `nix shell` (The flake based command) instead of `nix-shell`?

That's a wide range, isn't it?

In his last lecture he mentions that the best part of teaching is when a student sends them a photo of a rainbow 10 years after graduating, saying that they remember the whole phys…

This is interesting. When we talk about interstellar travel in the far future, this may be another issue to consider. The handover of knowledge will have to happen over at least a …

No. ~etc is equivalent to /home/etc. ~/etc is the same as /home/ /etc.

Be kind. Don't be snarky. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

A Christian Netflix exists. It's called Pure Flix.

In addition to everything mentioned here, projects based on holiday dates (Christmas sale feature, Thanksgiving promotions etc) not rolling out on time means that the feature can g…

Companies that plan on doing something like this: please make sure you are paying your candidates market wage for the interview. For Leetcode style questions, there is some amount …

Instagram reels have completely replaced Tiktok. No one around me misses Tiktok.

> A single-line block uses { }, but when it's multiple lines, it has to be changed to "do" and "end" - why? It doesn't have to be changed. {} work fine on multi-line blocks also. I…

I love this. The app is less than 4MB and with so many puzzle types!

You might be over-estimating how long it takes to write a Nix config. Just start with a reasonable Nix config and take it from there by comparing with nix-darwin and home-manager c…

You need SponsorBlock. Usually people leave a "highlight" marker which tells you where you're supposed to jump to. Along with the regular "This video was brought to you by VPN".

All used. Don't try these.

All of these are used.

Paul Graham (Y Combinator co-founder) has a lot of essays on Lisp or mentions of Lisp: * Lisp: http://www.paulgraham.com/lisp.html * Beating the averages: http://www.paulgraham.com…

Unrelated to Disney but related to mosquitoes: Singapore's Wolbachia-Aedes suppression technology is very interesting, but specific to Aedes mosquitoes. The government releases mal…

That link shows me two completely different things on incognito and regular browser. Incognito shows me the actual page, regular mode Rickrolls me. EDIT: Oh, later in the thread th…

> I want to get into a zone solving interesting problems. I know this question is about macOS, but you could consider how to have this method implemented in your Mac. I recently in…

Since the original post is about OpenBSD and the parent is about FreeBSD, just some addition: 1. ZFS is not supported in OpenBSD. Here's why OpenBSD doesn't have ZFS (pretty much e…