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Yeah JetBrains IDEs are nice. I use their CLion IDE for Rust and also for web stuff.

Sorry, I didn’t mean to be nationalistic, I am just frustrated with the world.

It’s ironic. In the USA they freak out over the idea that someone might receive more unemployment than they are entitled to, but they will happily waste millions of dollars paying someone to do a shitty job.

This article talks about formatting and other superficial stylistic issues.

On that note though, there is one thing that people have been doing for the past 5 or so years, maybe a bit more, with the formatting when they write online. In particular I see it often on Medium.com

They use blockquote to highlight some piece of their text. But the text in the blockquote is not a quote. Neither from elsewhere nor from their own text.

This annoys me.

AFAIK, blockquote has a history in the printed press of being used to catch your eye when you flick through a newspaper, so that you would want to buy the paper and read the article on that page. And the text in the blockquote was extracted from the text itself. Often from a part of it where a person that was interviewed said something that the editors found interesting. At least, that’s how I remember it.

Another type of use it is suitable for is to distinguish something quoted from elsewhere from the rest of the text.

But the way that it is being used now, it confuses and annoys my brain every time.

I can barely get 1-2 people to briefly look at my stream, and that’s without attempting to charge them anything at all. And meanwhile even popular people stream for free. Why should anyone pay upfront to watch a stream? Much better with Patreon, Twitch subscriptions and donations while allowing anyone to come see.

I’ve experienced sleep paralysis so many times that I’ve almost gotten used to it. Usually it happens when I have been staying awake for too long before going to sleep, or if I have been getting too few hours of sleep many days in a row.

Several times it has felt like someone was present. One of the first time I can remember the feeling of someone or something being present was maybe a decade ago or two or something. It felt like a dark shadow person standing in the corner of my room, by the door just looking at me while I was unable to move. Very creepy feeling.

Recently, I thought someone was sitting on top of me and pushing me very hard down into my bed. And I was like wtf, why is someone trying to murder me and I was very scared. And then I realized that lol it’s just sleep paralysis yet again. Still felt shaken for a while afterwards.

Sleep paralysis sucks, so I try to avoid it. Sometimes I get into a bad rhythm though and then it is increasingly probable that it will happen.

I don’t watch GoT, but I have friends who have and I know that a lot of people who were fans of the series liked to talk about the latest episode together. So waiting until later would not be an option for them.

I live in a leafy Seattle suburb and am constantly smug about how lovely it is here.

Submit your window to the linked site, so others can enjoy it too if you didn’t already :)

These are good points and I think you are right. I just wish it was possible for such a dream place like I wish for to exist.

It’s not proprietary.

https://github.com/Minichan/Minichan

It’s open source and MIT licensed.

Usenet is flooded with spam to the point of being unusable, and besides, having everyone use the same interface and see images alongside is different from having people use a multitude of different clients that present binary attachments in various different ways.

With a decently sized crowd from HN, there could be a lot of interesting content on a Minichan like site. The crowd would be small enough that I don’t think there would be much point in decentralizing it. Besides, with centralization then mods still have a fighting chance of keeping the quality of the posts up to par, if they felt so inclined.

The value of anonymous discussion is that every thread is a fresh start. You can express yourself about what’s on your mind without be constrained by your own desire to make everything you say fit into some bigger picture of an identity of self. If that makes sense. But also, it is different from making throwaway accounts on sites where all other people are using identities. Admittedly on Minichan there are many people that use names and tripcodes. But the ability for threads to exist where everyone is on an equal footing is valuable.

I’m thinking not so much in terms of discussion itself actually but in terms of creative potential. At their peak, chan style imageboards can be amazingly creative.

Imagine an imageboard with people from HN, where people were producing graphics and music like in the Demoscene, but together and for no purpose other than creativity itself. No names or anything. Just pure unfiltered creativity.

I prefer image boards and posting anonymously.

For example, see this mobile friendly image board:

http://minichan.org/

I’d like to see more of the HN crowd come there. It might raise the quality of the content on Minichan.

Also, there are a lot of uses of macro_rules! in the Rust compiler and standard library repository.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/search?q=macro_rules&type=

Looking at some of those and reading https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/macros/syntax.html and https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/macros-by-example.html can potentially be instructive.

Looks neat on Desktop version of GitHub. Looks less neat on mobile version of GitHub. Still cool though.

I’m not OP but, I run a Gitea instance for myself but still use GitHub because of things like both collaborating with others on their stuff and for others to be able to discover my stuff.

Besides, I don’t know that either GitLab nor Gitea has the kind of feature with profile README that is mentioned in the submitted link.

Wouldn’t you run arm64 Debian rather than armhf Debian on the RPi 4? I haven’t used the RPi 4 in a long while so I don’t remember. But it seems weird to me that what you said would be the case.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/48954012

https://www.debian.org/ports/#portlist-released

I have definitely used software where it started lagging behind significantly while I was typing. That kind of stuff is absolutely infuriating.

I see a similar sentiment all the time where people say things along the lines of "Nobody really feels like an adult, we are all just muddling through" etc etc.

To me, when I used to feel like this a few years ago, it was not about the fact that I didn’t have my stuff sorted (which is also true that I hadn’t), but rather that it turned out that what I thought adult life was about when I was little turned out to not be true.

Since then I have been able to reconcile that, and to work out a direction that I am pursuing.

One footnote to that though, is that I am still not an adult in the traditional sense of having financial security and a spouse. But I am working towards that.

Haha, touché :)

It is known :p

But Goblins, Wikipedia says, “are almost always small and grotesque, mischievous or outright malicious”. Thus support is found for a connection between Coronus Goblin and COVID-19.

The graphical user interface components of macOS are proprietary software, as are a bunch of other libraries included in macOS that software packaged for macOS is likely to use.

So if this was a goal of PureDarwin then they’d have a lot of work ahead of them in order to implement those APIs.

This wiki page on the repository seems to indicate that they are not intending to do that:

https://github.com/PureDarwin/PureDarwin/wiki/Graphics

While Darwin is the operating system underlying Mac OS X, the graphical environments of PureDarwin and Mac OS X are very different. This is because most graphical aspects of Mac OS X (especially Quartz and Aqua) are proprietary, closed-source software and are not available for PureDarwin. Hence, PureDarwin uses a more traditional UNIX-like graphics system (X server), waiting a better alternative.

There’s a Coronus Goblin there, posted Dec 18 2018.

Maybe the Corona virus did not start with bat soup in China after all :O

And how about the psychological effects on these people of being bullied by a large group of people online?

I don’t know what I’d do if it happened to me, but I know it would leave me in an even worse state mentally than I am in, because I know how it feels like to feel that other people don’t want you around.

Writing a book is not just adding pages, it’s also revisiting and revising what you’ve already written.

So it’s entirely possible that at some point the author ends up capturing what they wanted to capture and the total number of pages then is lower than they are today even.

Email is a dumpster fire. I run my own mail server and I don’t have any spam filtering. My inbox is full of spam and “helpful tips” and other garbage. Because of this I rarely read my email.

I would set up spam filtering but I don’t trust SpamAssasin to actually be useful rather than just another headache, because last time I was on a system where it was in use it routinely marked non-spam things as spam while simultaneously letting through a whole lot of spam. Admittedly this was years ago.

I did find Paul Graham’s essay on spam filtering inspiring and thought about doing something like that for myself. But although I have a huge corpus of spam, I don’t have a whole lot of non-spam because I don’t receive a lot of non-spam.

Spam is also annoying and uninspiring to do anything about because it is just yet another of the billions of problems that we have that were caused by other people being inconsiderate dicks :(

It currently feels like almost all problems that I could work on should not have existed in the first place and are only there because of us all being the way that we are.

The event test at the end seemed to target people older than someone in their early thirties at least. So I don’t know that this article would have anything with being in their thirties to do?

Also, I’m about to hit 30 this year so there’s that.

And also also, when I got to the question about Jurassic Park, my immediate thought was 1993. But then I became unsure whether that was for the first or the second movie so I guessed that the first one actually came out in 1984 or something. Shouldn’t have second guessed myself on that one, d’oh!

But that kind of underlines the point about age, and what they were saying also. If I were older I probably would’ve seen it in the cinema when it first came out and I’d be like “oh yeah, I remember when I went and saw that movie that was the same year that I did such and such so it must have been then”.

I don’t have a stake in this but the page does say

delivers microsecond performance at any scale

and then

a very large hash table that is distributed across multiple machines

So the way that I read it, the network will be involved when they said “at any scale”.

I’m on iOS too. I see why you might think there are two different j there but what’s actually going on is that since the quoted text is in italics, and the text is wrapped on our iPhones so that the second italic j is on the next line of text, part of it is outside of the “bounding box” of the text of sorts, and is clipped off in rendering.

I think this has led to the US educating many persons who later leave the country for visa issues

I’ve never been to the US but, if this is the problem then wouldn’t it be better to make it easier for people to stay also after they have finished their degrees? If the goal is to have a lot of highly educated people in the US I mean.

I wish HN had a top nav link and a mechanism like it has for “Show HN” posts, but for demoscene stuff. The prefix one would use could be “Demoscene HN” or something, and the rule would be the same as for the “Show HN” prefix – that using it is “allowed” only when the submitted of the link was involved in making the thing :D

I was not aware that Steam had changed their policy on sharing sales data. That is great! Are there any other indie devs that have shared the data about their Steam sales in a similar fashion? Better yet, is there a good list of links gathered somewhere for that?