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petersjt014

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About petersjt014

SE student, currently learning Elixir in my spare time.

my public key: https://keybase.io/petersjt014; my proof: https://keybase.io/petersjt014/sigs/sw6t4Q2eJulSqhxUcjV4lwBOpps1YZEEbqDBtgMkfwc

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    Comment #22166578

    I just found one for events that actually looks good: https://joinmobilizon.org/en

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    Ask HN: Is Powershell Any Good on Linux?

    I just found Powershell in my distro's package manager. I was turned off to it for awhile (some of the Weird-Syntax made me uneasy)--but from what I've been told it's both better t…

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    Comment #22143009

    Yep. The Financial Times: https://github.com/Financial-Times/tapper Discord: https://blog.discordapp.com/using-rust-to-scale-elixir-for-1... Pintrest, who seems to really like it (…

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    Comment #22142849

    If you want a _really_ lightweight matrix client, I'd say https://gitlab.com/meutraa/mm/tree/master

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    Comment #22115840

    My guess--based on my singular experience--would be obscurity. I've never heard of it. Looks really nice though, A StackOverflow/Discord hybrid is a fascinating idea--could easily …

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    Comment #22115823

    I should also say that Matrix has a lot of other really nice aspects to it that give Discord and friends a run for their money: - Open source. Self-explanatory. - Federated. Sure, …

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    Comment #22115722

    A closer equivalent would be riot.im's servers, which are free in the same way as Discord/IRC's public rooms are. If you wanted custom integrations or the like you'd have to pay ou…

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    Comment #22115622

    Voice chat is apparently harder to implement, but it's still possible to do right now with Jitsi [1]. And even without it, Matrix supports an 'opt-in' style of voice channel that s…

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    Comment #17403988

    I've personally had no problems with them (save for one near heart-attack where I lost multiple keys), but I'd suggest looking at their documentation too [1]. It's also worth notin…

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    Comment #17403912

    Probably not the answer you were looking for, but one of the best ways is to simply just _make_ something of your own. At the very least it's good practice, and you just might make…

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    Comment #14673979

    Nice to see him finally at terms after that one 1997 game--he seems to have been touchy about it even as recently as 2014: "I think we'll never know unless Kasparov says himself, b…

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    Comment #14673891

    I know these guys understand quantum anything more than I ever will, but is having a larger radix specifically a practical way for increasing performance? If a binary device has a …

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    Comment #14673753

    > All it does is mechanically keep on steering the game towards positions that are evaluted as best by the function. I wouldn't say so entirely--It's possible to predict multiple m…

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    Comment #14572528

    Well... http://theconversation.com/preservationists-race-to-capture-...

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    Comment #14572492

    I certainly understand where you're coming from and what you're probably thinking of (Eternal September is the name I know it by)--but I did try to make my comment both relevant an…

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    Comment #14566483

    Of course, we all know what they would have used if they were real pros: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorial_number_system