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Yes, I would consider HN as social media/networking site

Is there a name for oft-repeating content/post and the overall discussion on a given topic (dotfile management in this case) on HN? I am not complaining about the repeat. It’s just…

We’re just looking at the manifestation of one of the hardest problems in software engineering - naming things. There’s no one good answer. Instead we must design our system to be …

Note that the design of the experiment needs to be able to disprove theory. That is to say if the results don’t match calculations then their theory is falsified and we make progre…

All of these incidents remind me of episodes from House MD. I swear they made one on this Antartica where House did a “zoom call”. The airplane guy had more complications than rupt…

I don’t understand how an anti-proton can orbit a nucleus without annihilating into pure energy with a proton from the nucleus. What am I missing here? Honestly speaking I am reall…

> git branch blah_branch_backup Don’t forget to commit your changes if you’re going to `reset --hard` later!

Don’t worry, he can edit it ;-)

Not controversial at all! Most linux distributions come with python installed. Anything more than invoking a binary and redirecting the output? Just write it in (pure) python I say…

> Bit of a spoiler :( I get your sentiment but this is really exciting news in the chess community. A win after so many years!!

Vishy Sir during the end game commentary said that the engines say it’ll be a draw. Where/which move did Ian make the mistake? Anyways, hats off to everyone involved. Magnus, Ian, …

I have read far too many ssh tunneling articles and all of them either forget about the bind address or just pretend that the only host that can be tunneled is localhost. The fact …

Very interesting though it’s just reinventing the database wheel

I can’t make sense of this. Are you telling me that any Android user with “default” pixel setup will use my SSID for location tracking? And that if my WiFi shouldn’t be part of Goo…

Heck, even today it’s the polite way to communicate with drivers and maids. Don’t answer the call, but immediately call back and ask them if everything is ok. They won’t call you i…

The company ceased operations in 2016 as per the article

Personally, I learnt my bash by reading a lot of Gentoo EBUILD scripts and config files. I can recognize other Gentoo users just by how many curly braces and double quotes I see in…

Indeed but the operator is useful beyond fprint

PoE is probably Power over Ethernet. With that you don’t have to worry about laying down electrical line to power the APs. The APs draw power from the Ethernet line itself

I believe the walrus operator `:=` was introduced in Python 3.8. So keep that it in mind.

It was “recently” introduced in Python 3.8. See sibling for link to issue tracker

Cash enables tax evasion, sponsoring terrorism, all kinds of … Should we ban cash?

it's also quite possible to design and implement this one the server side. I mean one can implement Circuit breaking, exponential backoff etc. at network level (e.g. istio) based o…

Didn’t know this existed because I rely heavily on Caffeine when I am presenting or doing something that requires no interaction with the mac for long periods of time. And the caff…

OR perhaps the issue that the same people who are in the clique of the said field are also evaluating the research proposals. So the funding doesn’t run dry? Not that that’s a good…