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knoebber

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About knoebber

My email is my HN username at gmail dot com.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #46905708

    Grinnell 17' here. At first I didn't enjoy intro with Racket. But by the end I changed my mind and it ended up being one of my favorite courses. In retrospect that class easily had…

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    Comment #40970272

    I assume 'work life balance'

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    Comment #40927736

    Like any good yakshaving programmer, i built/use my own note taking / TODO app. Now I want to implement a feature where I can send a SMS to my app, and it will save the text/media …

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    Comment #40911276

    the act of writing it down probably makes them remember it.

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    Comment #40503230

    I’m surprised they weren’t doing this already . This is standard for CC companies afaik.

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    Comment #40015538

    Fair criticisms, but at the end of the day, Kagi offers a better search experience then all the alternatives for a fair price, so I pay for it. I don't really need to have 'faith' …

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    Comment #39448579

    I live about 180 miles north of silicon valley. The only utility I get here is high speed internet via a radio receiver in a redwood tree[0]. I just tested and I'm getting 20mb dow…

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    Comment #39448499

    Yeah, I believe they send DSL through the same lines that they don't want to support anymore.

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    Comment #39448289

    > *90% of all internet traffic goes through Erlang controlled nodes (Cisco) (source: https://erlangforums.com/ ) Seems like a pretty good outcome to me?

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    Comment #39332590

    Not useful for people who live in areas without cell service. These folks will have no way to make calls from home if ATT pulls out.

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    Comment #38061276

    I think the main use case today is the dom traversal API. It makes operations like "add the 'error' class to all elements in the form" simple: $('#some-form').find('input').addClas…

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    Comment #37744432

    Please drink a verification can

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    Comment #37649120

    from the README: > Currently it only supports Golang's pprof dump, I am working on supporting more formats

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    Comment #37397754

    Anecdote: I had serious wrist/hand pain after using a mechanical keyboard for years. I changed to a low profile keyboard, and I don't have pain anymore. Who knows, maybe it was coi…

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    Comment #37014005

    Lol, if you say so.

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    Comment #36301138

    two reasons: 1. you prefer functional style languages, such as elixir 2. you want to avoid `pip install` ing dependencies

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    Comment #35446943

    Has anyone made a "cat" like tool that uses treesitter under the hood?

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    Comment #35075941

    I'm a happy paying user... I almost never have to !g. I tried DDG before kagi, and it just seemed like a worse version of google to me. I definitely prefer the kagi results.

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    Comment #34533337

    https://dotfilehub.com No JS, and easy to self host. It’s a place to put your dotfiles. It comes with a CLI loosely based on git for editing, versioning, pushing, and pulling.

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    Comment #34355444

    we don't want to: 12 is more divisible than 10

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    Comment #34023155

    Up here in Northern California quite a few of us live off grid with just solar/batteries. What law says that a grid hookup is required? Is it at the county level?

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    Comment #33711884

    > How do they efficiently update everything on each tick? The player is responsible for some aspects of keeping their game running efficiently. See: https://dwarffortresswiki.org/i…

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    Comment #33629180

    A postgres database that is managed by a custom app that I wrote in Elixir / Phoenix / LiveView. Hosted for free on fly.io. it stores: - My TODO list (items -> entries -> checkboxe…

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    Comment #33400751

    No, the authors state it takes more inspiration from django: https://martenframework.com/docs/the-marten-project/acknowle...

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    Comment #33096112

    I wonder how many folks chose Expresso.js + coffee script because it was the 'hot new thing'.