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Hard disagree, people are paying GitHub a lot of money.

If they are facing an influx of commits from bots maybe they need to start metering commits from those accounts and charge them money.

This is a self imposed problem.

armSixtyFouron Don't Wait for Claude

I'm not slacking off, Claude is shmorgalizing.

armSixtyFouron Ask HN: Share your personal website

https://www.adammelnyk.ca/ - my personal site

https://www.arm64.ca/ - my blag

armSixtyFouron Top Programming Languages 2025

huh. This seems to suggest there are more Rust jobs than Ruby. Wild considering how insanely popular Ruby was 10 years ago.

armSixtyFouron Women rely partly on smell when choosing friends

This is true of most people. If you meet someone and they don't smell very good, you're unlikely to become friends. Science.

armSixtyFouron Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

I would have agreed with you 3 years ago. But now not so much.

Spotify "Radio" feature just tends to want to give me music I've already listened to over new music. Whatever algorithm they are using has waaaay overfit to what I have already liked.

There used to be curated playlists done by humans, now almost everything is "made for you by Spotify" playlists which, have the exact same issue as the radio stations, suddenly it's all the same music you've already been listening to, very little new music. If you want new music, you need to find a playlist made by a user instead.

armSixtyFouron Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto Win 2024 Turing Award

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/ai-guru-rich-sutton-dee...

He gave up his US citizenship years ago but he explains some of the reasons why he left. I'll also say that the AI research coming out of Canada is pretty great as well so I think it makes sense to do research there.

armSixtyFouron How people get rich now (2021)

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armSixtyFouron Show HN: Doom (1993) in a PDF

Cool. This is a great project!

I've been playing around with the version that was up yesterday. I managed to get my DOOM Resume running in the PDF https://github.com/adamrmelnyk/thisResumeRunsDoom.

Is it playable.... eh? that's another matter. I think I'd need to modify it a bunch. Right now the doors don't seem to open when playing the PDF. I could just remove them all though.

armSixtyFouron Show HN: Doom (1993) in a PDF

The build wgets the wad from elsewhere.

armSixtyFouron Show HN: Doom (1993) in a PDF

Now how do I add another WAD file to this. Someone needs to play sigil on this.

armSixtyFouron Qubes OS: A reasonably secure operating system

Unless there's a zero day in Xen in which case the entire security model falls apart. With all these cloud providers using Xen, I have no doubt that there's already one out there.

armSixtyFouron The chocolate of the future will have less cocoa or none at all

We have kind of already moved where it grows, it's indigenous to south America but most of it is grown in Africa. My assumption is that we'd see indoor / vertical farms for many temperamental plants if it becomes more cost effective, but that might be impossible for cacao which is a tree. Or perhaps someone will find a way to cross breed it with something that will help it grow elsewhere.

armSixtyFouron A Raycaster in Bash

Sadly I can't get this working. It just throws up the view into a file called buffered for whatever reason and exits immediately :(

armSixtyFouron Ask HN: What would you do with a 130 ton locomotive?

With enough land and disposable income you could build a 1:1 scale model railroad.

armSixtyFouron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)

This link just gives a " You don’t have access to this content. " Error.

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3798186325/ is the link you want.

armSixtyFouron Tesla owners in deep freeze discover the cold, hard truth about EVs

A lot of things stop working at -45C. Many gas, diesel cars won't start at that temp. Even block heaters fail to keep up at these temps. When I lived in Canada, it was pretty normal for heavy industry workers who were on call to just leave their vehicles idling constantly when it was extremely cold because there was no guarantee it would start again if you shut it off.

Even arctic grade diesel will gel at -45C.

armSixtyFouron Fake it until you automate it

In general I find this concept pretty helpful. I've found it really helpful to make functions in my bash profile that have TODO statements for things that I have yet to completely automate, but still want an easy way to look up.

My only issue is that not automating the deploy is probably the worst thing to need to do manually. Having worked at a company that had a rather large and ever changing list of steps to complete in order to deploy (which took a 1-2 hours), it's something I find myself prioritizing now.

armSixtyFouron Feds order Google to track people searching certain names or details

That's not just something from the movies though. Part of the patriot act compels libraries to provide information about who is checking out what books. SF public library has a page dedicated to how they will comply to those demands but also cannot inform people who's records they provide:

https://sfpl.org/about-us/confidentiality-and-usa-patriot-ac...

armSixtyFouron Internet of Snitches

It's right to be critical of the slippery slope argument, except that you can take a look at history and see how even in western governments in "free" societies have spied on those who challenge the status quo. I think we're right to be skeptical of surveillance as there is a proven track record of this kind of behavior from governments and corporations.

Take a look at a law that's being proposed in Canada right now. It includes allowing the government to request take downs for a broad number of reasons including otherwise legal speech that they consider to be offensive, data retention, what essentially amounts to a national firewall etc.

Cory Doctorow, who is from Canada originally, has a good write up on it: https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/11/the-canada-variant/#no-ca...

armSixtyFouron Show HN: I made a community sourced fitness routine database

100%, showing up and making yourself go is the hardest part when you're starting.

I've always thought body building is one of the hardest habits to start because your body punishes you when you do it the first few times. It's hard to feel motivated after it hurts to go up or down the the stairs. If you make it over that hurdle it's easy to keep up.

armSixtyFouron There are no results for tank man

Qwant also shows no results. https://web.archive.org/web/20210605040421/https://www.qwant...

armSixtyFouron Scottish Café

Thank you!

armSixtyFouron Scottish Café

It's unfortunate that it's so hard to find a pdf of the "The Scottish book", it looks as though any copy of it is over 150 USD.

armSixtyFouron Why Rust strings seem hard

This was one of the more confusing parts of Rust when I first started using it. I find that I don't necessarily run into it a lot. After a while you sort of change how you organize your code and you find that you're not fighting strings or the borrow checker very often. I'm not really sure how I got to that point however, it's more just practice than anything else.

armSixtyFouron 84% of Waterloo Software Engineering undergrads move to the US upon graduation

It's not too surprising. They pay is better and there are more opportunities for more interesting work. I didn't go to Waterloo, but I've met a number of other Canadians who, not unlike myself, made the move south. That being said I do miss living in Canada sometimes, just not enough to take a two thirds paycut.

armSixtyFouron Linux Command One-Liners

The list contains a few different password generators, but I'm a little disappointed they didn't mention https://linux.die.net/man/1/apg

armSixtyFouron Show HN: Which DNS servers are you pointing to?

It would be neat if this also recognized that you're hosting your own dns, instead of spitting your own IP back at you. I didn't recognize my IP at first.

armSixtyFouron Rust: The Error Handling Project Group

Great post!

armSixtyFouron Tutanota aknowledge being under attack

They've been down most of the day in North America. I've been using the service for about a year or so, without any problems but they have had at least some down time almost every day for the last few weeks. How common is it for botnet attacks like this to last so long?