laurent_du

Good read, thank you. It feels nice to read something that was fully written by an actual human being.

I have been a Linux user for 20 years and I have no idea what display server or windows manager I use. Every time this theme pops up on HN a lot of people argue very passionately about this and I feel I have no understanding at all of this. What are the stakes? Why does this matter? Why is there so much argument going on around Wayland, Xorg, X11 and whatever?

I have seen this happen countless times and it still baffles me.

Subjectivity is fine when it is backed by experience and knowledge. If anything, the narcissist perspective is the one where you claim expert opinion doesn't matter because it's all subjective and it hurts your feelings when people criticize your work (or your "taste").

There's nothing wrong with that. The problem is not that they were playing a childish game, it's that they were over-estimating their own abilities by a lot. It's ok to acknowledge you are good at something if you are, in fact, good at this thing.

I recently found a weird trick to motivate myself to do things I don't want to do. Instead of thinking of the outcome of this task (which I probably don't care much about since I don't want to do it in the first place), I think about the fact that doing things I don't want to do makes me better at doing things I don't want to do, which is a desirable outcome for me. Your mileage may vary.

He won't be giving any advice, they are buying his contact list.

I think development speed is merely tagging the correct causal factor which is expertise. I have witnessed development teams requiring weeks to change a single flag in a configuration flag? Were they slow? Well, yes, but I'd argue they were mostly clueless.

No, it's a different etymological root. A better translation would be to say that you give a share of your attention (делить's meaning is to divide).

I use 0.1% of hledger and that's enough for me. Thank you to the author for providing this powerful tool for free.

I think the person you are answering to was asking for a book recommendation.

I am going to piggyback and drop an interesting bit of trivia: Enid Blyton's infamous Brer Rabbit is actually an African-American. Look it up.

I am not interested in arguing so I'll just repeat that your article is beautiful and even though it's not entirely correct I think it has value and I appreciate the time you spent working on this and putting it out to help others.

Beautiful article but that's not what big O means. The author seems to be describing something that is usually called (upper case) Theta. Big O is an upper bound.

Can you really oppose "genocide" when your publication's name is literally "Jacobin"?

Yeah the reaction is weird. It's 100% optional. People just love to complain.

He's not talking about the prefix, just the beginning of the object key.

I guess the Guardian journalists believe that ethnically cleansing is an inherently right-wing endeavor, even though left-wing regimes have practiced this a lot and often with the blessings of communist intellectuals.

I didn't expect the article to conclude with a pg quote from twitter. Why did they think pg was a notable authority on the matter of human rights? I am not asking in snark, just curious.

Using taxpayers money to corrupt minors is not "free speech".

That's weird, from my perspective, allowing your employer to give you less than what you are worth would denote a lack of character.

The philosophical meditations of Claude in the cyber-competitions post are quite entertaining.

echo "sum ergo securus" > /dev/null 2>&1

We were laughing about it with my son. He was asking some questions and the voice kept prefacing every answer with something like "Without the fluff", "Straight to the point" and variations thereof. Honestly that was hilarious.

Damn Theo is really a handsome dude.

I have never heard someone say "I am bilingual" when what they meant is "I studied another language in school and can somehow understand a few sentences". To me, and I believe, to most people, being bilingual means speaking two languages fluently.

The person I was answering to literally claims people are bilingual (Swedish + Finnish).

That's entirely false. A lot of Fenno-Swedes do not speak Finnish well. And virtually no Finn speak Swedish. They all loathe it because they are forced to learn it at school. Adult Finns can at most say a few canned sentences in Swedish.

This little Finnish folk song is one of the most famous and popular meme songs of all time.

Good article but I don't understand where the HN title comes from.

The Russian alphabet is not phonetic. а can be pronounced а, и, ы; е can be pronounced и, ё, э, and so on, and most consonants can be pronounced in two ways depending on the vowel that follows, or the presence of ь. You need to know where the tonic accent lies in every word to be able to pronounce it, because the position of a vowel w.r.t. the accent modifies its pronunciation. It is more phonetic than English or French, but less than Belorussian or Finnish or Spanish.