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Quiark··on Guix Further Reduces Bootstrap Seed to 25%
Oh wow that sounds exactly like the kind of problems package mamagers solve. Your complaint basically boils down to - nobody prepared a one click package of latest version for free for me.
Quiark··on Ask HN: What are your favorite developer-efficiency tips?
Have you tried powerball?
Quiark··on Ask HN: What are you learning?
Category theory

Quantum Entanglement (lectures by Leonard Susskind at Stanford)

creative building in Minecraft :)

(I already knew how to make sourdough from before)

Quiark··on Ask HN: How to self-study physics?
People can have different opinion on whether Feynman needs to be condemned or not

BUT I can stand behind recommending Susskind!

Quiark··on Past Time to Tell the Public:It Will Probably Go Pandemic, We Should Prepare Now
Yes it can. I think it's unrealistic to expect that some ordinary gear is going to save you when you get exposed to it. The focus should be on not getting exposed.
Quiark··on Stop Using Encrypted Email
You mean gmail?
Quiark··on The technology pushed into schools today is a threat to child development
Also can't find it, even if I google the label. All I can get is another study which finds the same but attributes it to distraction
Quiark··on Windows 10 is getting an easier way to update and install drivers
i love how all the way to Windows 7 (not tested any newer) it still has the same GUI for driver installation as Windows 3.1
Quiark··on Synchronous Messaging at Mozilla: The Decision
Don't get that optimistic about Electron apps security
Quiark··on Undocumented Catalina file access change
I can't get these disk restrictions to work.

1) I granted full disk access to iTerm2. Later I removed them in the UI and I can still do everything in iTerm. 2) I have "Documents" granted to a Java app. Tried opening or saving a file in various locations and didn't notice any restriction other than my ordinary UNIX user's 3) I created an app bundle containing a plain shell script that reads my firefox cookie file and curls the file somewhere. This app runs just fine with no prompt whatsoever.

Am I being stupid here or what's up?

Quiark··on Hammerspoon – macOS automation with Lua
Then you definitely should not learn about Minetest because it has open Lua API and this is how I play it
Quiark··on Big Calculator: How Texas Instruments Monopolized Math Class
Honestly that sounds like a bug to be fixed. You don't teach to drive exactly one type of car.
Quiark··on Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.?
Yup, governments always follow their own laws. Including, I don't know, Hong Kong for example. </mega_sarcasm>
Quiark··on A Walk in Hong Kong
The bill was not withdrawn. It is likely that some of the violence was from undercover cops. But yes, optics matter, that's why they apologised after the airport.
Quiark··on Chinese military entering Shenzen, just across the border with Hong Kong
~~This is basically fake news, or a hoax, a very popular one. The videos are not current.~~

EDIT: It is true China is doing some military performance in SZ to scare off the protesters. But the PLA has not entered HK as that would seem unwise.

What is happening instead is Chinese police or army likely working inside the HK police force.

Quiark··on Hong Kong’s protesters use AirDrop to spread information to mainland visitors
they've been able to identify and block these 5 years ago
Quiark··on In Defence of the Technical Interview
The high-stress environment of job interviews blocks thinking.
Quiark··on When we work out rigorously, our bodies limit our ability to expend energy
According to my Google research, "brain activity" is not a valid excuse for eating more sweet snacks.
Quiark··on Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users
If uBO changes name to for example "Ant Block", somebody will come and create "Ant Block Plus"
Quiark··on Microsoft is going to ship a full Linux kernel in Windows 10
So how will the kernel run? I guess virtualised behind the scenes using Hyper-V and accessed using the Windows Terminal? Seems that this should replace the WSL project entirely which is kind of a shame because it was pretty cool.

Also, unlike others here, I'm not a fan of a computing monoculture where everything is UNIX going forward.

Quiark··on Microsoft is going to ship a full Linux kernel in Windows 10
I don't think they care about Windows that much any more. They even dissolved the team and it's now a part of Azure team / Office team.
Quiark··on Spent 50 hours on a take-home assignment only to be ghosted
It would take at least an hour to manually test such functionality.
Quiark··on PySnooper: Never use print for debugging again
Similar principle to my project https://github.com/Quiark/overlog which has some more interactive data exploration.
Quiark··on Tinfoil Chat – Onion-routed, endpoint secure messaging system
Also see Cwtch from OpenPrivacy

https://openprivacy.ca/blog/2018/06/28/announcing-cwtch/

Quiark··on Sci-Hub and Alexandra Basic Information
DejaVu format
Quiark··on Most Wasabi Is Fake [video]
When I was in Kobe I had a hard time figuring out which restaurant sells the real thing.
Quiark··on Facebook won’t let you opt out of its phone number ‘look up’ setting
How do we coordinate outrage at facebook for this and many terrible things they've done?
Quiark··on Redesigning GitHub Repository Page
_If you feel disoriented, give it a minute._

The guy spends a very long article explaining how things could be laid out easier to orient yourself in and then asks you to give a minute to get used to his color scheme.

Quiark··on Ethereum Plans to Cut Its Energy Consumption by 99 Percent
Did you just describe Bitcoin miners?
Quiark··on Deuce: A Lightweight User Interface for Structured Editing
Amazingly, the interactive editor can edit coordinates defined as a simple formula over other variables.
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