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aesyonduon How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard drive is genuine

Not sure why you're so antagonistic. I don't know you or how you live your life, but as an unsolicited advice, perhaps you could have a moment of introspection. Cheers!

aesyonduon How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard drive is genuine

For what it's worth, I've never owned a console of any kind in my life, but I would really like to own a Steam Deck.

Though I could buy the Steam Deck now, I am eagerly waiting for Steam Deck 2 just to see if there are lessons-learned-improvements from the first iteration.

aesyonduon Run programs in Emacs buffer, seeing their output inline, interactively

Org+babel is probably my favorite thing about emacs, magit being a close second.

I tried doing Literate Programming using this blog as my guide http://fgiasson.com/blog/index.php/2016/06/21/optimal-emacs-..., but I got burned out pretty quickly. I think my problem was I put literally everything in a single README.org file, and it was so taxing scrolling up and down. I might try again but with multiple org files.

aesyonduon TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML

Hmm, I don't get it. In the site you linked I see

"It appears @capture is not supported and @accept is supported." for Safari, Firefox and Chrome on MacOS.

I see two buttons, Choose File and Upload. Upload is just a placeholder that shows a 405 error so I'll ignore that. Choose File just lets me choose a file, but there's no option to take a picture.

What am I missing here?

EDIT: nvm I see that it only works on mobile:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes...

aesyonduon Static site hosting hurdles

Shoutout to Gitlab as well, which is what I use for personal sites.

aesyonduon Mysterious holes on the seafloor

I'm not sure if I have it, but when I searched for image examples it looked extremely gross to me.

EDIT: I seriously regret searching it now. Please don't while you still can. It is absolutely grotesque.

aesyonduon Automation is the serialization of understanding

Thanks for the summary. I read the article and to me this is more about creating appropriate abstractions than automation.

aesyonduon Russian Ruble just lost ~30% of its value

Millions are already miserable on the slim chance that they'll overcome the people with all the guns and power and retain their sovereignty and freedom (i.e., Ukraine if that wasn't clear).

aesyonduon How a middle aged CS major debunked a classic positive psychology finding (2013)

Agreed. I read through two sections (chapters?) before internally screaming "Get to the point".

Immediately went to the comment section to find a TLDR. This one helped me.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30247456

aesyonduon Ask HN: Gmail account security

It would be interesting if this becomes a monthly hackernews post like the monthly hiring, where people with problems with their Google or Facebook or "insert Tech Giant here" account with intentionally no human customer support, would post their account problems and whatnot.

It would never happen of course, but it would be interesting.

aesyonduon Ask HN: Gmail account security

I'm a bit confused as well.

> he paid Google something for some service and was entitled to phone support and he demanded someone help him

This does not support the conclusion about free users being the product, since the customer was paying based on the statement above.

aesyonduon Awesome Functional Programming

Oh okay. So what I'm understanding from your post is that, a monad is just a way of applying the return value of one function as a parameter for another function.

Sorry if I misunderstood. I've been reading many explanations for monads, but insight seem to elude me.

aesyonduon Awesome Functional Programming

> These laws can be illustrated with simple examples, and don't require any deep mathematical knowledge to comprehend.

If you could share some of these examples, or perhaps a link to those examples, I'd greatly appreciate it.

aesyonduon The time might come when we add some JSON specific command line options

I wish I knew about this feature sooner. I've been using:

``` echo { "my": "json" } | http post localhost/endpoint ```

aesyonduon The time might come when we add some JSON specific command line options

I use jq exclusively for parsing output. Didn't know you could craft JSON with jq as well. Thanks for the tip!

aesyonduon Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network

Not in my case. I watched Overlord and immediately recognized it. Didn't know it was from Norse mythology.

aesyonduon Books that changed my career as a software engineer

Interesting. This is the first time I've seen Robert Martin to be referred to as a fraud. I'd like to read an elaboration of this.

I looked around and found this video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb9VPWbrqmE][Uncle Bob (Robert Martin) is a Fraud!!!]] but most of the comments are dismissive of the review.

aesyonduon Books that changed my career as a software engineer

Same. What I did was to limit (minimum and maximum) myself to 1 chapter/section per day of a singular book that I decided to focus on. That way it becomes a habit.

Minimum means that I need to finish it that day no matter what.

I put a maximum because I found through trial and error that if I push myself too hard, even if a topic is interesting, I burn out quickly and procrastinate, sometimes for months, before continuing reading said book. And that is worst case scenario for me.

aesyonduon Automatically detecting and replying to recruiter spam

Well? Did the recruiter's perseverance work or not?

aesyonduon Pursue High-Quality Leisure

I started meditating when I was in university and have done it on and off since then. However, I've stopped a couple of months ago and haven't had the will to do it again. I find other activities more compelling, like reading everylayout or about rails performance.

aesyonduon Pursue High-Quality Leisure

After switching careers to software engineering, I find that I appreciate high intensity / action oriented video games less (DMC, Monster Hunter, etc.).

My browser history is now filled with "chill or relaxing games", "games that don't need thinking" or something to that effect.

aesyonduon Premortems will keep your code alive

Yep, getting 404 on the css files.

aesyonduon What if performance advertising is just an analytics scam?

I purposely click the non-ad link when searching in Google (because I'm too lazy to type the full url). Does that help at all, i.e., prevents unnecessary ad spend from bidding?

aesyonduon When Facebook went down this week, traffic to news sites went up

I thought you were kidding.

Link for reference:

https://www.pornhub.com/insights/facebook-instagram-outage-2...

aesyonduon Terraform is currently not reviewing community pull requests

For those curious apart from myself:

Cathedral -> centralized control Bazaar -> decentralized control

https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/511/whats-the...

aesyonduon About 90% of Animators Quit Their Jobs Within 3 Years

I think it depends. The problem solving aspect of software engineering is definitely exciting to me.

aesyonduon Migadu – No-nonsense multi-domain email at a flat price

About page says 2014.

aesyonduon Rival weightlifter speaks out on transgender Hubbard's Olympic place

This depends entirely on each individual. Mike Tyson referred to his championship belts as "garbage".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgcHBcQRlpw

aesyonduon On 'Biweekly' and 'Bimonthly'

savedyouaclick:

1 : marked by unruly or aggressive noisiness : clamorous obstreperous merriment an obstreperous argument. 2 : stubbornly resistant to control : unruly obstreperous behavior an obstreperous child.