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Jack of all trades, master of none.

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1_player··on Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker', breaking thousands of apps
There is no default license. You are the one to pick and choose and commit it to your repo.
1_player··on FX: An interactive alternative to jq to process JSON
I agree that jq's query language is very obtuse and probably my biggest barrier towards learning it. I have found great mileage using gron [1], which is very different from jq, but its goal is to promote exploration of a JSON file through common unix tools such as awk and grep.

1: https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

1_player··on Intel completely disables AVX-512 on Alder Lake after all
They didn't get flipped off for having bad drivers. They got flipped off for having closed source off-tree drivers.

The NVIDIA driver on Linux is extremely good and in my experience of better quality than AMD, but sorely lacking in modern features such as Wayland support. We still don't have decent hardware encoding nor raytracing support on AMD, the champions of free software, while DLSS and NVENC have been running on Linux for a while now.

I run AMD GPUs now but I'm quite done with the NVIDIA hate boner the Linux world has.

1_player··on Kazakh president gives shoot-to-kill order to quell protests
I explicitly said any type of revolution, for and against democracy. It is just an observation based upon history.

Please do not use my words to mark me as a, and I quote, supporter of the storming of the Capitol. It is not appreciated, and your comment sounds like flame bait.

1_player··on Kazakh president gives shoot-to-kill order to quell protests
What should they do, light candles, fast and hold silent protests to revolt against decades-long autocratic government based on nepotism and systemic corruption? Perhaps a couple viral Twitter hashtags might help?

History teaches that revolution is paid in blood, every time. It's quite naive and first-world to assume any extreme political change can be done peacefully.

You need blood to create democracy, and you need blood to tear it down.

1_player··on Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies into effective propaganda
Perhaps you think the US propaganda is more subtle because it's very similar to your world view, as a member of the Western world. I bet a Chinese citizen would find the Hollywood propaganda hilariously over the top, though don't forget that the US propaganda is so widespread it already has infected everybody, including the common Chinese citizen, for decades.
1_player··on Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies into effective propaganda
Or just the fact that whenever there is an alien invasion, worldwide apocalypse or destruction, the effort to rebuild always starts from the USA. Every time I watch any of those movies I think "I wonder how Europe is faring..."
1_player··on Ask HN: My boss doesn't think I'm doing good work, how to proceed?
Indeed, I got promoted to a managerial position, which seemed a nice career opportunity for me, but my productivity and happiness tanked so much that when I had the opportunity two years later to go back to just being an engineer with no one waiting for my input, I just took it. This is how I learned that while I think I can be a decent manager, the skillset of managing people are totally different than being an engineer and it's very hard, at least for me, to context switch effectively between the two. And in that case I'd rather be an engineer.
1_player··on Nude pictures on early retro PCs – was it possible?
Never heard of it before.
1_player··on Elixir and Machine Learning: Nx v0.1 released
Oh yes, it's not the first time I've caught them trolling whenever someone posts about Elixir: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27215633
1_player··on Psychogenic death, the phenomenon of “thinking” yourself to death
In that case it seems giving up instead of panicking might save what precious little oxygen you have left.
1_player··on Psychogenic death, the phenomenon of “thinking” yourself to death
Or they have just given up, and turn into mindless Hollows. The overarching philosophy of the series being that you will become forgotten dust in a world even the Gods have abandoned, yet you keep fighting with every ounce of your what little soul remains in you.

This oppressively nihilistic atmosphere has given many players solace during difficult times.

1_player··on Psychogenic death, the phenomenon of “thinking” yourself to death
Reminds me of the documentary film Last Breath, telling the story of deep sea diver Chris Lemons.
1_player··on Nobody Pronounces the 'B' in 'Debt'
> So how far back do you want to go for 'original' and 'correct'?

As far back as the pronunciation guide from modern English dictionaries. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aesthetic

Yours is a nitpick over the nature of æ that doesn't invalidate my point that most people mispronounce that word.

1_player··on Nobody Pronounces the 'B' in 'Debt'
If they've collapsed, neither AmE nor BrE speakers got the memo, as I've heard it mispronounced by both. Non-native speakers on the other hand tend to pronounce it correctly, as it's a common diphthong in other languages, such as French.
1_player··on Nobody Pronounces the 'B' in 'Debt'
My life is pretty boring at the moment, we all need something to pass the time.
1_player··on Nobody Pronounces the 'B' in 'Debt'
It's not just a matter of beautiful, it is correct.

Ah-stetic on the other hand is wrong, widespread and the reason of my crusade.

1_player··on Nobody Pronounces the 'B' in 'Debt'
Oh this is the place where I can finally rant about _aesthetic_, the favourite word for most music/art/movie content creators I've watched in the 2020s, one everybody mispronounces and reads it as "asthetic" which annoys me to no end, because it is totally WRONG. And I keep hearing it daily, which is maddening.

"Ae" is supposed to be one sound, like the vowel sound in "egg". The "a" is silent.

I'm terribly afraid everybody will learn the wrong way of saying it, and the correct way will go extinct.

Sorry for the off topic rant, but I had to try something to stop this asthetic epidemic.

1_player··on Analysis of the overhead of a minimal Zig program
It's fast and simple but not a good heuristic. It's like judging a car by how expensive it is. It has nothing to do with how the thing performs.

Optimising for size is such a waste of time in this day and age. I know I would rather choose a 5 MB statically linked binary than a 5 KB dynamically linked one, because they take pretty much the same amount of perceived time to transfer over the internet, yet the smaller file might take more of my time because I need to find and install missing dependencies.

On the list of priorities for language developers, size optimisation is towards the bottom, unless we're talking about embedded but we aren't.

1_player··on Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories
It certainly _promises_ to be private like DDG does, but AFAIK none of them have been audited.
1_player··on Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories
Brave Search is actually quite good, and better than DDG in my opinion. And it's their own index, not piggybacking on Bing or Google.
1_player··on text/enriched
This looks like HTML, but completely different. What's even the point?

  <color><param>red</param>hello</color>
This is an abomination. No surprise it hasn't been adopted by anyone.
1_player··on The Dissolution of the Nutrition Science Initiative
I find it fascinating how this comment with no explanation whatsoever other than "he's self-deluded, look for yourself" is voted to the top.
1_player··on Poll: Did you know that HN allows you to make polls?
To be fair, I've never had my comments censored in any way. I sometimes get the "you're posting too quick" message because I did upvote a couple comments in the previous few seconds, but trying again after a minute works for me. So I honestly haven't seen any automated censorship system you're talking about in my 11 years on this site.
1_player··on Fastmail search is better than Gmail
I haven't used GMail in years, but if it's the same search that runs google.com I'm not surprised it doesn't find anything. I've already talked at length on how Google Search has gotten progressively bad over the past 5 if not 10 years, and I still don't understand how they're failing at their core technology.

I use Fastmail and I'm generally pleased with their search as well. It hasn't failed me yet.

1_player··on Vim9 Script Feature-Complete
Mouse support isn't enabled by default, on any terminal. You need set mouse=a
1_player··on Poll: Did you know that HN allows you to make polls?
In my experience, it works beautifully on HN. It's not censoring, it's giving everyone a timeout and a chance to walk away from the keyboard.
1_player··on Ask HN: Is it still worth learning Kubernetes in 2022?
> Lots of companies run large scale services without k8s.

Lots more do so using k8s.

The question is "is it worth learning it?" And the answer is yes. It's not wasted time or energy to learn the most popular and du-jour orchestration system.

1_player··on United States IPv6 adoption over 50%
Any decent network stack supports mDNS and you don't need to enter an ip address to access your gateway or any other hosts in your lan.

I don't even know what's my workstation's IPv4 address. I just connect to desktop.local and my NAS with nas.local

1_player··on iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo
I didn't know that, but it makes a lot of sense.
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