Alekhine

I'm a college student. Relationships among a lot of young people work differently than they did for previous generations.

For most of us, I think it's generally accepted that unless both parties explicitly say they want to be in a relationship, they aren't in one. Sex by itself means nothing with regard to the actual status of the relationship.

I and a lot of my friends have been in/are in open or semi-open relationships.

Depemda on your definition of those words. for example, Hollywood aggressively pushes their movies overseas. is that an intentional concerted effort, or the market moving organically?

Same thing with the Internet. People from all over the world are on the English Internet, absorbing American/British/etc memes and values. Is that 'intentional' in the sense there's some shadowy cabal behind it? No. It's just a consequence of communications technology.

A .vimrc is literally one file, and we've come up with lots of solutions for moving dotfiles around easily. Some jank, some not. But it is a hundred million miles out of scope for vim to implement some kind of sync. That would require accounts, databases, all kinds of tedious details an OSS project does not have the resources or volunteers to do.

I don't know much about firewalls. I wasn't aware they could alter traffic, for example. What do you mean it can be leveraged for evil?

As for organization, I just dump everything I learn in a markdown file on that topic, then look for structure later. So I would just open a file, call it `firewalls.md` and write that down in there. You can accrete a lot of written knowledge over time this way.

I think you probably have a lot of valuable knowledge that should be written down.

What knowledge about networking do new hires lack? How does one get comfortable with networking? I'm an undergrad, and my plan for that topic was to learn how to read pcap files and also learn to use wireshark to monitor my network.

> This... is what I do

How do you do that? When I used Mastodon, I could only see my own instance's local timeline and the federated timeline. Basically, how do I Mastodon?

No, you likely won't. I read that book and personally found it extremely dull. It's just a series of anecdotes about some historical heists and some more about some time the author spent with the FBI's break-in team. The author is an architecture blogger, and I think he thought there was some profound insight into the nature of buildings we could glean from unconventional uses of them, but he never actually arrives at any kind of point. He just says "Hey! Look at these burglars cutting through walls and using fire escapes and roof entrances in ways they weren't intended! Isn't that cool? Wow, I bet we could learn something from this!"

The point of the book was to learn something from it. He didn't.

I am on the market for books about heists and burglars in the 19th century. So far I have Ben McIntyre's The Napoleon of Crime, about Adam Worth. If anyone else has recommendations, I would appreciate it.

I do the exact same thing. Its been very effective. Looking at something I wrote myself refreshes my memory a lot more than any other kind of resource.

I personally use markdown files in the event I want to publish one of my notes. It also let's me inline images and see them if my editor supports previewing.

I occasionally read about piracy groups, console hackers, but I never seem to find where they hang out.

I'm the author. I'll add this in a minute, but all those enhancements can be turned off. According to a developer on the Discord I just spoke to, there's a set of options that makes the game very closely resemble vanilla morrowind.

Is that right? I haven't done any testing.

I second this. Most stressful experience I've had playing a video game. You will most likely find yourself shanking some random person in the middle of the night for food, despite negative consequences. The game makes you desperate, very fast.

Marginalia works pretty good for finding smaller blogs.

Damn right I don't have the patience for C. Writing anything in C properly takes a long time, and even then bugs are usually found after.

Compare and contrast Rust, where the code I write will usually just work. I don't need to be extra careful with it because the compiler is strict. You can say that this is indicative of some flaw in my character or whatever, but, uh, I don't care.

And go where? How many countries do you think will not turn him over to the US?

There's a popular youtube channel called "Lockpicking Lawyer" where a guy reviews locks. He's an incredibly skilled picker.

I dunno man, I knew I liked girls when I was four.

> As long as you're not engaging in homosexual sex

I think most would agree this is 'being gay'. The most important part, for some. So yeah I think it's fair to say GP would be arrested unless s/he actively hides who s/he is, which is a gay person.

It just takes the last ten lines of a log file, then passes that input to a program that basically lets you search each line. I don't really see the usefulness.

Edit: Ah, I see. According to another comment you see the output of the file as it changes.

See, I never got this experience. The computers I had growing up were Windows boxes I was deathly afraid of breaking and locked-down consoles. I never got an easy-to-use programming environment.

I've done a little hobby work in Haskell, which I'm now remembering I enjoyed.

Are there any easier to use C debuggers than GDB? All I really need to do is watch my variables change with each line.

You know, this might be the most horrific and evil reply I've read on HN. You actually have the fucking nerve to call the murder and oppression of women and gays something that is only bad when you're 'biased'. How can a person's understanding of ethics become so warped as to actually believe that?

Damn it. And I spend so much time making fun of people who can't hear sarcasm.

Uh, no. 'Alpha' as in before 'Beta'.

In the grand scheme, those things are more important. But coming up with an idea or solving a puzzle does not make a person better than another. Getting an Olympic medal could take equivalent effort to making a major scientific breakthrough. Its just that the kind of effort being made is different.

I used to be critical of athlete worship, as many nerds are, until I actually started becoming athletic.

I still don't like sports culture, but I appreciate athleticism much more now. Intelligence, while important, is not the sole measure of a persons value, and its not a bad thing for a culture to value physicality. It's a very human thing, just like curiosity or creativity. Of course it would be nicer if we valued intellect to the same degree, but here we are.

Point is, its not just kicking a ball. Its a lifetime of work and passion. A scientist does not have greater moral worth than an athlete or artist. These aren't worthless pursuits only idiots focus on.

The book is a Kunstlerroman. It tracks his development from infancy to adulthood. I admit the first part of the book isn't nearly as interesting as the later parts. It's still my favorite novel ever, and I'm convinced Joyce might be the greatest English writer.

"Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo."

I don't think this is even a Haskell criticism as much as it is a software engineer criticism. You can be ignorant about hardware in most languages, especially Python.

Going by what you've said, it sounds like you want the industry to return to C/C++ for everything.

As for Haskell, I'm not experienced enough to make a real defense of it, but I've been told the compiler is pretty damn good. It's a decently fast language. I don't know how it compares to something like Go, and of course for very high-performance needs you probably shouldn't use it, but letting it take over isn't the worst thing in the world, and you can still use knowledge of hardware to make it faster.

But if that's not enough, just use Rust or something. It's basically Haskell-lite anyway.