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thinking the japs will invade from the sea

Be mindful of using terms that are widely recognized as racial slurs.

An autocratic, single party state where the government is so popular that they need to rig their elections against themselves to get dissenting voices.

It's not a single party state. Over 1/3rd of Singaporeans vote for the non-PAP candidates.

At risk of going off-topic, when I see comments like these, I wonder how the comment author comes up with these corrections (cross-checked, the comment is in fact true)

Did you have the number memorized or did you do a fact check on each of the numbers?

What's their end game here?

What is Microsoft gaining from their push to passkeys? They knew this was going to piss off a lot of people, but they went ahead with it anyway. That makes me believe there's something else at play.

My experience with passkeys has been worse that my Bitwarden password auto complete, so needless to stay I'm sticking with my regular passwords on my Bitwarden (I know Bitwarden has Passkeys support. I don't want to use it)

How to do the same thing with `nix shell` (The flake based command) instead of `nix-shell`?

That's a wide range, isn't it?

In his last lecture he mentions that the best part of teaching is when a student sends them a photo of a rainbow 10 years after graduating, saying that they remember the whole physics behind it.

Same for me. I think of the cones of light being formed when I see the rainbow and that amazing lecture.

This is interesting. When we talk about interstellar travel in the far future, this may be another issue to consider. The handover of knowledge will have to happen over at least a few generations. It will end up being a software application whose development and upkeep sprints/projects will be measured in multiple years instead of weeks.

No. ~etc is equivalent to /home/etc. ~/etc is the same as /home/<current user>/etc.

Be kind. Don't be snarky. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

A Christian Netflix exists. It's called Pure Flix.

In addition to everything mentioned here, projects based on holiday dates (Christmas sale feature, Thanksgiving promotions etc) not rolling out on time means that the feature can go out only in the next year.

Companies that plan on doing something like this: please make sure you are paying your candidates market wage for the interview.

For Leetcode style questions, there is some amount of interaction from the interviewer, so the cost to the company is that employee's 1 hour wage. If as a company, you feel like this is an efficient and superior way of interviewing, consider giving that amount to the candidate.

Instagram reels have completely replaced Tiktok. No one around me misses Tiktok.

A single-line block uses { }, but when it's multiple lines, it has to be changed to "do" and "end" - why?

It doesn't have to be changed. {} work fine on multi-line blocks also. It's probably your linter that's forcing you to change them to do... end blocks: https://try.ruby-lang.org/playground/#code=3.times+%7B%0A++p...

I love this. The app is less than 4MB and with so many puzzle types!

You might be over-estimating how long it takes to write a Nix config.

Just start with a reasonable Nix config and take it from there by comparing with nix-darwin and home-manager configuration pages.

I know people who did it over a weekend.

You need SponsorBlock.

Usually people leave a "highlight" marker which tells you where you're supposed to jump to. Along with the regular "This video was brought to you by <insert>VPN".

All used. Don't try these.

All of these are used.

Paul Graham (Y Combinator co-founder) has a lot of essays on Lisp or mentions of Lisp:

* Lisp: http://www.paulgraham.com/lisp.html * Beating the averages: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

Other notable programmers have mentioned this. I can think of Yegge's article (http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/04/lisp-is-not-acceptab...) where he mentions this:

...It's dirty laundry that needs airing. The problem: Paul Graham. I mean, the guy's a genius, and I love reading his essays, and his startups are doing great things, etc. etc. You can't fault him. But he's created something of a problem. Before Paul Graham, Lisp was dying. It really was, and let's not get all sentimental or anything; it's just common sense. A language is always either gaining or losing ground, and Lisp was losing ground all through the 1990s. Then PG came along with his "I'm not talking to you if you're over 26 years old" essays, each a giant slap in our collective face, and everyone sat up and paid attention to him in a hurry. And a TON of people started looking very seriously at Lisp.

In addition, HN itself is written in a dialect of Lisp called Arc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)

This is why you can't trust HN as the general opinion among people or even programmers. They are a very specific subset of programmers who are more likely to be interested in things like Lisp.

Unrelated to Disney but related to mosquitoes: Singapore's Wolbachia-Aedes suppression technology is very interesting, but specific to Aedes mosquitoes. The government releases male Wolbachia-Aedes mosquitoes that suppress the Aedes aegypti mosquito populations.

Male Wolbachia-Aedes mosquitoes are released regularly at NEA’s study sites to mate with female urban Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Their resultant eggs do not hatch and no offspring are produced. Continued releases lead to a decline in the urban Aedes aegypti mosquito population, and therefore less dengue transmission.

https://www.nea.gov.sg/corporate-functions/resources/researc...

That link shows me two completely different things on incognito and regular browser.

Incognito shows me the actual page, regular mode Rickrolls me.

EDIT: Oh, later in the thread they're talking about this.

I want to get into a zone solving interesting problems.

I know this question is about macOS, but you could consider how to have this method implemented in your Mac. I recently installed FreeBSD on my MBP 2015 since it was quite dead anyway. The wifi on it doesn't work, I haven't tried to see if Bluetooth works, but it feels like my computer in 1998-2005. This has become my primary driver to learn new technologies.

I have a USB wifi adapter that I can use to get temporary Internet connection. I usually use it to download PDFs of books I am using to learn, or to load a full HTML formatted book, and disconnect the adapter. This has also made me a more structured learner because I have to think of all the sites I need open before I disconnect the adapter. My learning process has never been this efficient in so long. Also, keep your phone away, or check once every 25 mins using Pomodoro app.

In the first 2-3 days, I instinctively used to open a new tab and just try visiting Twitter (I am also not logged in to any of my accounts on this machine) only to be greeted by a "no connection" screen.

Also, going through the solutions in other comments, I think the easiest thing to control is to turn off Internet access -- no additional software required.

constantly check email, messages, read toxic forums

I think no Internet during the phase of learning is the perfect solution for this. I had very little issue with this on (non-Internet) computer applications but websites/forums are much more addictive in nature as opposed to applications IMO.

Since the original post is about OpenBSD and the parent is about FreeBSD, just some addition:

1. ZFS is not supported in OpenBSD. Here's why OpenBSD doesn't have ZFS (pretty much every other BSD does): https://old.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/7xsx8u/why_doesnt_... (There's probably a better link out there)

2. Jails are not supported in OpenBSD. AFAIK, they are a FreeBSD-only feature.

I'm caught in a strange situation where my MacBook Pro wireless is supported by OpenBSD (and not FreeBSD) but I really like ZFS and Jails. Some features like those about trackpads, sound, wireless "just work" in a basic Arch install but not on FreeBSD. So I'd take "FreeBSD does everything that Linux used to do for me" with a grain of salt, because that has not been true for me.

launcher for video games

Probably not, otherwise there would be a lot more panic regarding SteamDeck, SteamOS, and Proton within Microsoft.

I think this opens another Pandora's box of fake posts from nominated accounts.

Someone nominated their spouse, they are splitting and the spouse makes a fake demise post. Can legit get people to panic if the person in question is famous enough.

Also, if you are careful with your accounts (random 30 character length passwords, 2FA etc) and your nominated successor has not, that's an additional attack vector.

Personal anecdote: The LinkedIn thing happened to me. My skip level manager died in a freak accident (He was 44-45 yrs old at that time) and I noticed his profile until as recently as about a year ago. It still showed him employed at the company. I am sure people got "Congratulate <person> for completing his 5th year at <company>" while his profile was around. His profile has now been deleted. Not sure who did it or how it happened.

Is their plan to have the login screen on landing or is it just a beta thing?

If I have to log in to an account only to search, that'd be a no-go for me.

Tokyu Hands is all over SG too.

My life became so much better when I activated EasyList. Makes me wonder why is it not activated by default.