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GGfpc··on Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2020?
How did you learn? I do index funds, but I'd like to trade a bit for fun
GGfpc··on 12-year-old boy genius accepted at Georgia Tech, has dreams of going to Mars
I understand the social aspect, but I don't see anything good stemming from forcing a kid to stay in a class learning about things he's way ahead of.
GGfpc··on DwarFS: A fast high compression read-only file system
What are the use cases for a read only file system?
GGfpc··on Dev Fonts
I keep wanting to change but nothing beats Monaco for me. Perfect font.
GGfpc··on DDR5 Is Coming: First 64GB DDR5-4800 Modules from SK Hynix
The PS5 can play PS4 games so it would be a worse financial decision I guess
GGfpc··on Jacksonpollock.org (2003)
I tend to think that art should be admired because it's beautiful and not because it's difficult to reproduce
GGfpc··on Linux Touchpad Like a MacBook update: progress on multitouch
I force click to Ctrl-Click in my IDE and makes it much more confortable to navigate one handed when combined with gestures for forwards and backwards movement.
GGfpc··on Initial Impressions of WSL 2
What makes windows better than osx for VR?
GGfpc··on Show HN: How many miles do you think you've scrolled today?
Sounds like my professors, except they refuse to open the email at all.
GGfpc··on How do I learn to think better? (2019)
Which is the easiest to start with?
GGfpc··on Conventional Comments
I get the ones where you're suggesting alterations to the code, but having "praise: You did great here" or "chore: Could you run the tests" sounds weirdly robotic to me
GGfpc··on I3wm and Ubuntu 20.04 server without any useless packages
Maybe I'm missing something but there's no option for i3 in that Manjaro URL.

I currently use Regolith but I'm looking for something lighter but still doesn't force me to configure every single thing like battery or wifi.

GGfpc··on Ubuntu Deepin Desktop Environment
Wow this is ugly
GGfpc··on My Favorite Shortcuts for JetBrains' IDEs
One of the best things I did now that I work on a Mac was use the force touch trackpad to ctrl-click whenever I push harder and a custom gesture for forwards and backwards.
GGfpc··on Lies, Damned Lies, and Averages: Perc50, Perc95 Explained for Programmers
I tend to use cumulative distribution functions when comparing distributions.

Histograms also tend to be quite easy to manipulate

GGfpc··on Immune discovery 'may treat all cancer'
The fact is that research at this level results in such specialized knowledge that not a lot of people would be able to contribute. Additionally, the pressure of academia would probably prevent scientists from disclosing publishable results.
GGfpc··on Machine keeps human livers alive for one week outside of the body
Can a person survive without a liver for 1 week?
GGfpc··on Apple Developer Documentation Is Missing
To be honest, while documentation is extremely important in the real world, interviews are time-constrained, and it makes no sense to write documentation when you have 45 minutes to implement something like that.
GGfpc··on Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine)
I love that someone in the comments decided to change to Kubuntu because they took away the color picker for the wallpaper.
GGfpc··on Teaching Rats to Drive Tiny Cars
Stuart Little?
GGfpc··on Vim 101: How to Start Using the Text Editor for Developers
I tried, but I missed a lot of thinks like being able to click a random line instead of down down down down. Or selections. Commands are good but I pretty much just use find and replace in vim.
GGfpc··on Stack Exchange deletes most downvoted post on Meta (gender pronoun FAQ)
I still don't understand why using people's request pronouns is a problem, or even why some feel the like they need to walk on eggshells because of these issues. Just be respectful.
GGfpc··on My transition to an Ubuntu workstation
I tried getting into i3 but having to use the command line for things like selecting wifi, changing screens and battery saver modes is so cumbersome.
GGfpc··on The share of Americans not having sex has reached a record high
Could this be related to less manual labor and less exercise in consequence?
GGfpc··on Tutorial: How to Scrape Amazon Using Python Scrapy
Is there a way to get access to Amazon's API without making three affiliate sales?
GGfpc··on Why older people should be allowed to change their legal age
But if they legally change age, the legal age is what would count for retirement.
GGfpc··on Unsteady income in young adulthood linked to thinking problems in middle age
Why do I feel this will be used to discriminate people with poor backgrounds?
GGfpc··on Show HN: I give you the most suitable outfit to wear depending on weather
For simplicity you could have people select categories of items they have (bomber jacket, trench-coat, t-shirt, sweater) and qualifiers for each (warm, waterproof), that way you can create outfits based on the qualifiers and the item type.
GGfpc··on Apple expected to adopt keyboard with scissor mechanism for 16-inch MacBook Pro
Same. I did that because of tmux
GGfpc··on I was a 10x engineer and I’m sorry
But it was that genius coding ability that made him famous in the first place. You could do it if you worked at a company that needed those types of "hacks" like he did.
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