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bpeebles··on Show HN: Loqbooq – A decision log with Slack integration
> Even we cannot see your decision contents.

Reads to me it's impossible for you to see them, as if you used client-side encryption of some sort. It's good to hear it's well protected as is, but I'd reword it.

For the later messaging, I'm just trying to think about what situations one would be in that this would need to be immutable and verifiable in this way. Like something would have had to have gone very very wrong so having that be a big part of your sell feels vaguely blockchainy/scammy (to me). Keep it sure, but make it a smaller part of your pitch and focus on the common path of helping a long-lived team documenting and referencing decisions, which was what I was mostly looking for.

Thanks for the reply!

bpeebles··on Show HN: Loqbooq – A decision log with Slack integration
> Even we cannot see your decision contents.

How? I read through few other pages and don't see this described.

On "How It Works"[0], everything after the first "step 3" seems mostly worthless for every team I've ever worked on and feels like it's more like something that isn't for me? Like who gets something out of those when it's a product (that heavily pushes their slack integration) for "teams" to record decisions?

[0] https://loqbooq.app/how-it-works

bpeebles··on Quarter-dose of Moderna Covid vaccine still rouses a big immune response
The current phase 2/3 trials Pfizer is doing for children under 12 is using a 1/3rd dose for 5-11 year olds and 1/10th dose for 6 months to 4 year olds, based on an earlier phase 1 trial.
bpeebles··on Don't encode POST bodies like GitHub Copilot, use URLSearchParams
The Python version is also goofy since it doesn't support keyword arguments for the wrapped function:

  def memoize(func):
      cache = {}

      def wrapper(*args):
          if args in cache:
              return cache[args]
          else:
              cache[args] = func(*args)
              return cache[args]
      return wrapper
and why wouldn't you just use

  # or @functoolscache (3.9+).
  @functools.lru_cache(maxsize=None)
  def f(*args, **kwargs):
      pass
bpeebles··on How to make a Python package in 2021
Do you mean

> Other unethical or unprofessional conduct

from https://jazzband.co/about/conduct ? Or something else?

bpeebles··on Annie of Annie's Mac and Cheese
The make and sell a version of their Mac and Cheese that includes organic milk, along with most other of the ingredients.[0] It normally costs about double (or more) as their normal one which only has organic pasta.

[0] https://www.annies.com/product/organic-classic-cheddar-mac-c...

bpeebles··on Full text search on 400M US court cases
I'm not sure why I didn't expect them to be in this database, but this also has like traffic tickets and similar.
bpeebles··on Zig 0.7.0 tagged
It doesn't matter if you're right or wrong about Jai. I just don't understand what it had to do with a ziglang release.
bpeebles··on Zig 0.7.0 tagged
I don't really understand why it makes sense to spend most of a newsletter about zig 0.7 complaining about another language, instead of the cool stuff about ziglang. They're similar in that they're both "better Cs" but their targets seem pretty different.

> Does everything we write on the internet have to be investor-friendly? Fuck I hope not.

I don't see it at all reflective about "investor-friendly" but more the existing community around the language. It's great that zig's is active, but if some of the major community members spend seemingly equal/the majorityu of something like a newsletter about a fairly big development release being incredibly negative toward another project while pretending to be respectful, eh.

I'm not saying you have to cater to me, since I'm a nobody, but this and a few other things about the zig community have made me less interested in spending my limited free time playing with it.

bpeebles··on Managing your hosts file with a CLI
I've needed to do it to test with external SAML/OpenID Connect providers since pretending to be the hostname they expect is sometimes the only way to test, depending on the partner.
bpeebles··on What you could steal from the Kakoune code editor, and get away with
One shouldn't really care what npm did/does outside npm projects unless that aspect of npm becomes widespread beyond their eco-system. And it seems the Unlicense predates npm by at least 11 days (1 January 2010 vs 12 January 2010, but it seems like npm didn't start that word for this meaning until much later anyway).

I wonder how much the Unlicense's name was inspired by 7-Up's long-running "The Uncola" advertising campaign or other similar pop culture usages of "un-" as a joke-ish like that.

It's not a perfect use of the word, perhaps, but it's cute without being offensive so I like it (this is ignoring any actual concerns about its content, which would be a distinct discussion).

bpeebles··on First Evidence of a Planet in Another Galaxy
The first possibility of a planet outside our solar system was discovered just over 300 years after the first telescope but not confirmed until 1992, almost 400 years after telescopes.

Finding the first planet outside our galaxy just 28 years later is pretty good!

bpeebles··on TikTok’s Chinese parent is scrambling to hang on to its hit app
Assuming archive.vn is the new archive.is (and it seems so), they are returning intentionally bad IPs back to cloudflare DNS users, so if you're using 1.1.1.1 or one of their other resolvers, that's why. See earlier discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317
bpeebles··on Dutch adopt controversial ‘herd immunity’ strategy
The specific question I asked was about the test case you mentioned since I couldn't find it with a quick search. Also, I haven't really seen anyone saying it's the end of days, but more to use the US as an example, we're trying to reduce the likely death toll of millions (330M). It's heartening that it looks there's evidence that's some natural maximum coming out of China, but some US hospitals are already close to their capacity so we're trying to avoid a medical system breakdown here.

From another comment, you said why "aren’t all dead" in existing regions, when literally no one has ever said they'd all die. The most pessimistic studies I see are like, 50% of population gets it and ~5% die after the hospitals run out of capacity (and another 10% have a really, really scary few weeks), so 2.5% of the population

bpeebles··on Dutch adopt controversial ‘herd immunity’ strategy
What "1000 person test case"? Every thing about what is actually happening in many places is the reverse if what you're saying.
bpeebles··on Tell HN: All Tweeting stopped 20 minutes ago
And on one of their status sites now: https://api.twitterstat.us/incidents/r4qbz7c69np0
bpeebles··on Boeing whistleblower raises doubts over 787 oxygen system
"bbc.co.uk" vs "bbc.com" in this case.
bpeebles··on Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods
A lot of Burger King locations, in America at least, sell a veggie burger using a Morning Star Farms patty: https://www.bk.com/menu-item/veggie-burger
bpeebles··on Git 2.19.0 released
A simple one, but learning that -p works for checkout as well as add.
bpeebles··on The Art of Assembly Language (1996)
I haven't seen your videos before, but they look neat. I glanced at one of your repos and was surprised to see .8 extensions! a86 was definitely my favorite flavor of x86 assembly in that era and d86 was pretty remarkable.
bpeebles··on Firefox is on a slippery slope
Mozilla bought pocket early this year. The pocket integration was before that in mid-2015.
bpeebles··on X-Men: The Animated Series – Unlikely Story of the '90s Cartoon Hit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o33jp47tOAM is a fairly fun, if low production value, two person discussion/watching of Pryde of the X-Men (just 10 minutes long).
bpeebles··on Famous Logos Optimized to Be Eco-Friendly
Brands change/tweak their logo fairly often. It'd probably make sense to incorporate eco-thinking (if it actually does make a difference) when you're otherwise doing a brand/logo update to avoid duplicating those costs.
bpeebles··on Iqaluit man uses free Amazon shipping to fuel food charity
It's not sold at all. Accepting donations, buying something, and then giving it to a third party is not selling in any way.
bpeebles··on Iqaluit man uses free Amazon shipping to fuel food charity
Maybe I'm not seeing it but I don't see a generic non-personal term, closest is this:

> Prime members are not permitted to purchase products for the purpose of resale, rental or to ship to their customers or potential customers using Prime benefits.

Which seems to not apply here. I've never heard of a non-profit disallowing its members from using prime to benefit the charity, even if they're otherwise careful.

bpeebles··on A Lincoln High teacher gets all his students to pass the AP Calculus exam
Trans* people have been bullied pretty much forever. The tide is finally shifting to be able to force places like schools to change their polices to help reduce/end the bullying. It's clearly the correct thing to do.
bpeebles··on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)
My understanding is that HTTP2 support in Apache was held out of Xenial but may be included later.[0] nginx in Xenial does have HTTP/2 support but no SPDY.

[0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes#HTTP.2F2_su...

bpeebles··on Why is there a screen that says “It is now safe to turn off your computer”?
The Symbola font[0] which is included in the Debian (and Ubuntu) package ttf-ancient-fonts[1] have that glyph and lots of other emojis--which is a very useful install if you want to see them in Linux. (So, I can see the crescent moon in Linux.)

[0] http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ [1] https://packages.debian.org/jessie/ttf-ancient-fonts

bpeebles··on A Conversation with Arthur C. Clarke (1999)
Speaking of the frenemy aspect, in Clarke's introduction to Clarke-branded "Venus Prime" (which Clarke didn't write), he writes:

> It is also an interesting challenge combining the two genres of crime and science fiction, especially as some experts have claimed that it’s impossible. (My sole contribution here is ‘‘Trouble with Time’’; and though I hate to say so, Isaac What’s-His-Name managed it superbly in his Caves of Steel series.)

Which made me chuckle.

bpeebles··on 37 rental cars – 2 days – 185,000 miles earned
My reading is that he was able to donate nearly all of the $3,000 worth of pudding, which means if his marginal tax rate had been about 27% that year, he'd get about a $810 reduction in his taxes.
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