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Good read, thank you. It feels nice to read something that was fully written by an actual human being.

I have been a Linux user for 20 years and I have no idea what display server or windows manager I use. Every time this theme pops up on HN a lot of people argue very passionately a…

I have seen this happen countless times and it still baffles me.

Subjectivity is fine when it is backed by experience and knowledge. If anything, the narcissist perspective is the one where you claim expert opinion doesn't matter because it's al…

There's nothing wrong with that. The problem is not that they were playing a childish game, it's that they were over-estimating their own abilities by a lot. It's ok to acknowledge…

I recently found a weird trick to motivate myself to do things I don't want to do. Instead of thinking of the outcome of this task (which I probably don't care much about since I d…

He won't be giving any advice, they are buying his contact list.

I think development speed is merely tagging the correct causal factor which is expertise. I have witnessed development teams requiring weeks to change a single flag in a configurat…

No, it's a different etymological root. A better translation would be to say that you give a share of your attention (делить's meaning is to divide).

I use 0.1% of hledger and that's enough for me. Thank you to the author for providing this powerful tool for free.

I think the person you are answering to was asking for a book recommendation.

I am going to piggyback and drop an interesting bit of trivia: Enid Blyton's infamous Brer Rabbit is actually an African-American. Look it up.

I am not interested in arguing so I'll just repeat that your article is beautiful and even though it's not entirely correct I think it has value and I appreciate the time you spent…

Beautiful article but that's not what big O means. The author seems to be describing something that is usually called (upper case) Theta. Big O is an upper bound.

Can you really oppose "genocide" when your publication's name is literally "Jacobin"?

Yeah the reaction is weird. It's 100% optional. People just love to complain.

He's not talking about the prefix, just the beginning of the object key.

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I guess the Guardian journalists believe that ethnically cleansing is an inherently right-wing endeavor, even though left-wing regimes have practiced this a lot and often with the …

I didn't expect the article to conclude with a pg quote from twitter. Why did they think pg was a notable authority on the matter of human rights? I am not asking in snark, just cu…

Using taxpayers money to corrupt minors is not "free speech".

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That's weird, from my perspective, allowing your employer to give you less than what you are worth would denote a lack of character.

The philosophical meditations of Claude in the cyber-competitions post are quite entertaining. > echo "sum ergo securus" > /dev/null 2>&1