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animalnewbieon What is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve?

And yet neither you nor the companies selling to you have despite everone worried about the climate emergency

If you're trusting China's numbers I don't know if I shoukd trust your analysis.

animalnewbieon PostgreSQL's Imperfections

Why doesn't pg query the fs for the default scenario I wonder

animalnewbieon Valtan: Common Lisp to JavaScript Compiler

Just mutual admiration society. It's a parentheses hell and good only for self flagellation. It does have a sense of elegance and can be fun but again, the parentheses hell would be enough of a turn off once you start writing long programs.

Use a regular "functional" language, like Haskell or scala and you get the best of all worlds

animalnewbieon PostgreSQL's Imperfections

Anyone got postgres (or general db) tips for a CoW-fs? I'm using postgres on zfs.

animalnewbieon Why I'm building a new async runtime

I wonder how it would be if Rust, like Scala came with a very basic executor? For me external crates no matter how popular, seem a no-go because of them constantly changing.

animalnewbieon Windows 10 Hosted App Model

Please do something like this for Edge Linux too! (once it arrives)

animalnewbieon 3M Response to Defense Production Act Order

You haven't seen the videos maybe? People spitting in masks (in China, purportedly) and doorknobs and elevator (in Europe, purportedly). Not a proof and not directly related but I wouldn't put it past China. It shocks me when they claim they have 0 new corona virus cases. If they're lying about something as basic as this, what else are they lying about.

animalnewbieon 3M Response to Defense Production Act Order

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52092395

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3077428/ne...

Some claim the masks are deliberately faulty

animalnewbieon Apple's MacOS Server has a 1.5/5 rating on the Mac App Store

Apple underestimates the intelligence of it's professional users.

animalnewbieon Show HN: Pdf.js Express – PDF annotation, e-signatures, and form filling

> modern react UI.

What is an ancient react UI?

animalnewbieon Palantir in Talks with Germany, France for Virus-Fighting Tool

In general Java's ubiquity means that a lot of substandard programmers know java. Nothing wrong with the language per se.

animalnewbieon My story of transitioning from Mac to Linux

I'd compare with a house. A hotel is stuffy and has no room for expansion. You build whatever you want in your house.

animalnewbieon Flat HTML

Re plugging scala-tags. Type checked html where you can close and hence match brackets.

animalnewbieon Google is shutting down Neighbourly

Total cost of your extreme scenario- 2T usd.

Tot cost of a more reasonable scenario- a single employee, total cost 500K per year. For 10 years this would be 5M. Which is indeed less than 1/ten thousand cash on hand.

animalnewbieon Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code

I use it for Rust!

animalnewbieon Writing HTML with Racket and X-Expressions (2019)

Something similar (and less of a parentheses hell) is Scalatags by the amazingly prolific scala programmer lihaoyi. The good things about Scalatags is that the same code can be used both in the backend and in the frontend. (I don't use scala on the backend anymore but Scala.js is really good!)

animalnewbieon Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code

This is like hypocrisy dying a thousand deaths. If you hate MS why use their editor?

animalnewbieon Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code

Did I read/you write that correctly? "VSCode extensions in NeoVim"? (Going to be honest, haven't used either since I'm on "plain" vim right now)

animalnewbieon Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code

I prefer QtCreator- it's not written in Electron.

animalnewbieon Show HN: Gifcap, a browser based client-side GIF screen recording tool

Its not shameless, it's webm and hence smaller. Great.

EDIT: Any way to record the mouse cursor?

animalnewbieon Show HN: Gifcap, a browser based client-side GIF screen recording tool

Thanks, that solves the size problem for me!

animalnewbieon Writing an OS in Rust: Async/Await

I am no expert and I wish there were a start from 0 guide with examples not involving external crates but my sense is that you can write your own executor and do whatever you want. (Maybe I'm wrong?)

animalnewbieon Choosing Between Rust or Go?

I do quick stuff in scala because Rust doesn't have a decent repl.

animalnewbieon Show HN: Gifcap, a browser based client-side GIF screen recording tool

I know it's not really "amazing" because lots of software allow you to record screen but it's great that you made it too damn simple. That said, a suggestion to consider webm because 5.6mb for 7secs isn't probably justifiable.

side note: if you're on windows, win+g is a great new tool for the same.

animalnewbieon Resources available to co-working spaces during Covid-19

> WHO most reliable

WHO, presumably under China's pressure, discarded Taiwan's findings in December that this was human to human transmissible. Also they have a tweet in January saying the opposite. At this point WHOs reputation is same as that of OPCW.

animalnewbieon A Definitive Guide to Enabling Italics in Vim and Tmux

I have a vim snippet which highlights comments when I'm on them but fades them when the cursor is away.

animalnewbieon A Definitive Guide to Enabling Italics in Vim and Tmux

Monaco (and I'm the last guy in earth to be labelled an apple fan) is my favourite font. Its damn readable. There are a lot of other readable mono fonts.

Also code inherently has a structure whose readability is increased by monospace fonts.