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www.bbc.co.uk 1y ago

Reddit starts verifying ages of users in the UK

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www.nushell.sh 1y ago

Nushell Object Notation

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: Pipes in Programming Languages

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: How bad is the xz hack?

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www.livescience.com 2y ago

Poisoned AI went rogue during training and couldn't be taught to behave again

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Ask HN: Comprehensive course/book data analysis

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www.bbc.co.uk 2y ago

Scientists at Fermilab close in on fifth force of nature

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gomakethings.com 3y ago

Ditching a Database for a JSON File

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Ask HN: Managing a Simple Website, Advice

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Ask HN: What did you learn in 2022

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Ask HN: What are you going to learn in 2023?

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Ask HN: Why don't you like Dart?

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www.theguardian.com 3y ago

Major investor calls on Google owner to ‘aggressively’ cut staff and pay

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Hybrid App Framework

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github.com 4y ago

April: APL in Lisp

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www.bbc.co.uk 4y ago

Scientists claim hairy black holes explain Hawking paradox

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www.bitdefender.com 4y ago

Take Your QNAP NAS Offline

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www.theguardian.com 4y ago

Do smart supermarkets herald the end of shopping as we know it?

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www.theguardian.com 4y ago

Global spread of autoimmune disease blamed on western diet

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Ask HN: What are you learning in 2021

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vanillajstoolkit.com 4y ago

The Vanilla JavaScript Toolkit

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old.reddit.com 4y ago

My 5-year getting paid for doing nothing is over. I'm heartbroken

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Best ELI5 Resources for Elastic Stack

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www.bbc.co.uk 4y ago

Home car chargers security breached

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I love reading about this sort of thing. My personal solution to the issues with the app and the wait for it to work (if it worked) was to memorize the pin. I believe I'm still quicker getting in than even the OPs solution, and with less hassle too since I don't need a device or any services.

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Interesting article for a sales pitch. Nicely done.

In which format? As a list of 1s and 0s; in hex? TCP or IP if I just pasted the textual version of any binary data id captured without some form of conversion it's not good to look at. Especially if it's not accompanied by the encoding schema so you can actually make sense of it.

I've been using iwr for years and didn't know that the progress bar added latency! Much appreciated.

My main point to the OP was more that it's just an alias, you can remove it and use real curl if you want.

I feel like I keep harping on about Nushell but as scripting languages go it's right up there for me. Built with rust too and comes with a ton of stuff built in.

What's the niche this fills? I came across roc-lang recently which seemed interesting too, again built with rust, and opinionated on certain things common in older languages.

It doesn't have to, and obviously it's your project, but what is this offering over other languages. Why would I reach for it?

I don't think it's fair to say Microsoft hijacked the curl command. It's just an alias for a powershell cmdlet. Powershell is definitely not perfect but theres less pitfalls than bash (string quoting, etc; there's loads: https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls). I think powershell was/is a step in the right direction, but in that respective I also think Nushell is a massive improvement on top too.

All of this is opinion though, I just prefer the stuff you get out the box you don't with bash.

Why I do programming 12 months ago

Why I do programming, as a non professional programmer, is to make my life easier; to have the computer do my work for me. I program to automate manual tasks.

I've stitched disperate corporate systems that don't communicate together with autohotkey. I've used powershell to complete jobs in minutes that take other people hours. I've even used MS Access for data analysis.

As a non professional programmer I learn to use what I have access to, which you can likely see from some of the things I've used above, is not much and stuff you probably wouldn't chose.

However in my personal life where I can follow my interests I struggle with choosing which technologies to learn. I want to learn what's going to last, like SQL for example. An example might be when I went with dart and flutter for cross platform app development, despite it constantly being said that Google will abandon. There were just too many we'd frameworks to chose from, flutter seemed like a no brainer, and it's been pretty great.

This is a bit of a ramble so tl;dr, I learn was useful and hopefully long lasting.

I like my privacy. I'm not using grapheneOS yet because I've not bought one of the limited number of devices it can run on.

But honestly, of course criminals are gonna use these devices with grapheneOS, for the same reasons any one interested in their privacy would. And if the police notice a trend towards it why wouldn't they state so and look to use that as an indicator. Why is there a probkem with this?

Org tutorials 12 months ago

What lead you to choose that over say obsidian, notion, Joplin, and the many others that pretty much do the same thing?

No I don't agree. Bash is fine unless you're designing something really complicated. But if you're going to be installing something you'd be better just installing a better shell. I prefer Nushell, but am quite partial to powershell too.

All digitized books ever written/encoded compress to a few TB. The public web is ~50TB. I think a usable zip of all english electronic text publicly available would be on O(100TB).

Where you getting these numbers from? Interested to see how that's calculated.

I read somewhere, but cannot find the source anymore, that all written text prior to this century was approx 50MB. (Might be misquoted as don't have source anymore).