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Antonio Garcia Marquez’s employment history includes quanting at Goldman Sachs, founding an advertising startup, and working at Facebook. I don’t feel as if I can take the argument…

I use AdGuard, a content blocker that supports the major ABP lists like EasyList, Fanboy’s, etc. I wish there was a content blocker that support automatic translation of ABP lists …

I’m with you. Maybe it’s something specific to being a techie and having a ton of peripherals, but being able to connect power, display, keyboard, mouse, webcam, backup drive, Ethe…

I had the exact same experience, but I feel grateful since it’s what got me into programming. I first learned C in order to customize the dwm tiling window manager on Linux. Over t…

I agree, I’ve often found smaller or less “online” businesses (e.g. a local car stereo shop) on Google that Maps doesn’t surface. But I usually just search for these in a browser a…

I walk past PETA’s west coast headquarters in Los Angeles every week, and they have inset windows behind a small ledge that’s raised from the street and protected from the weather …

> Emacs is a computing environment that happens to revolve around text. And it’s usually embedded in another computing environment that happens to revolve around text called UNIX. …

None of those messengers were tied to expensive hardware like iMessage.

I grew up nearby in Washington, Maine, and we burned our fields using this method. It was always fun seeing the firemen in their hazmat-like suits; very Cormac McCarthy-esque.

It’s a bit clunky, but Graphviz and its DOT language[1] might do the trick. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphviz

Location: Los Angeles Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Can relocate next year if necessary Technologies: Go, C, Rust, Swift/iOS, JavaScript, HTML/CSS Résumé/CV: Hosted on my Linked…

Meanwhile, you can still use youtube.com/tv to control playback on your PC from your phone—but only if you spoof your User-Agent to that of the Nintendo Switch [1]. Sounds like the…

Oh wow, you’re right, at the very top. Skimmed right over that. Thanks for pointing it out. I guess SwiftUI exacerbates the problem since expressions are necessarily very deeply ne…

I’ve noticed that when editing the ContentView in SwiftUI, errors will sometimes be attached to a totally unrelated line (OTOH, forgetting to unwrap an optional returned by NumberF…

When I was young my parents installed a system-wide child filter for OS X called Safe Eyes that had tons of false positives (and more importantly, blocked online games). I didn't k…

When working in a kitchen in California, I had to take the ServSafe Food Handler course online, which consisted of long, patronizing, unskippable videos explaining basic food safet…

The “Volvo effect” refers to standardized testing mostly reflecting the income and education level of one’s parents. I can’t find any research showing that Volvo owners drive more …

Off-topic, but this is the first time I’ve seen a colleague’s name show up in a random academic setting. I worked on a group project with Ronald Yu as an undergrad at USC. A smart …

As other comments have pointed out, it seems like the author is looking for PowerShell. I have used a fair amount of PowerShell and it always leaves me feeling like I should just f…

I used to do something similar when I ran my own mail server. Whenever I created an account for a new service, I would add an entry to /etc/aliases e.g. news.ycombinator.com: stirn…

> Ultimately I suppose you’d be able to zoom out to the world and see its Google review score. “Music, a mode of creative expression consisting of sound and silence expressed throu…

> “Perhaps surprisingly, in practice it turns out that the special case is the main use of the program.” This is, in fact, a Useless Use of Cat [1]. POSIX shells have the figlet [1…

> When deep space exploration ramps up, it’ll be the corporations that name everything: the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks. (Fight Club, 1999)