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comradesmith··on Easy Python CLI with Click
Wow argh looks great! I'll definitely try swapping one of my tools to argh
comradesmith··on What Do You Call the Corner Store?
Yep, only ever called them dairies, and in NZ every residential neighbourhood in towns big and small has one. It's not just a big city thing as the artical suggests it may be for other nations.
comradesmith··on Object-Oriented Programming – The Trillion Dollar Disaster ️
Wow, this was not an exaggeration.
comradesmith··on Debian GNU/Hurd 2019 Released
But you are still using 32 bit registers so your load and save instructions can't really make use of compressed addresses
comradesmith··on I Charged $18k for a Static HTML Page
Earnest and Young placed contractors?
comradesmith··on Popular Google Play store apps are abusing permissions and committing ad fraud
Installing f-droid and using more simple and open source apps is one of the best things I've done lately.
comradesmith··on Chinese tech giant Huawei has developed its own operating system as a 'plan B'
No mention of Linux in the article, but if I was trying to urgently replace Windows and android I would consider using something like Ubuntu mobile as a starting point for my plan.
comradesmith··on Cheese exposed to hip-hop tastes better, finds Swiss experiment
Surely the article is midtoane when it used the unit kHz for the frequencies, the sine waves used were

> Low frequency: 25kHz

> Medium frequency: 200kHz

> High frequency: 1000 kHz

All of which are very high and well above the range of human hearing, so I think the units should be Hz instead.

Do we have a paper source for this?

comradesmith··on Suspend for the X1 Carbon 2018 on Linux
Seconded. I have a 9360 and I've had everything work out of the box with Ubuntu 17.04, 17.10,and 18.04. As well as Linux Mint 18.3.

Only downsides are Linux's generally patchy support for hidpi, some programs scale and others don't (opt for 1080p version or set resolution to 1080p). And also the placement of the webcam is a bit strange.

Battery life is good in Ubuntu, between 6 and 10 hours depending on use case.

comradesmith··on Cool Retro Terminal
ln -s, or alias it
comradesmith··on A sad update about a scissors maker that went viral
I'm in New Zealand here, I used to think they were from here too
comradesmith··on What do Unix command names stand for?
On some systems more is synlinked to less; so less isn't more, but more is less!
comradesmith··on Gitea: Open source, self-hosted GitHub alternative
Perhaps its like gitty, rhyming with giddy?
comradesmith··on Ask HN: Chinese spam-calls, anyone know what's going on?
I received one yesterday and I live in New Zealand.
comradesmith··on Vim Clutch – A hardware pedal for improved text editing (2012)
What if we mount a foot switch upside down above our toes so we just flip our feet up and hit the switch? + sticky keys on the foot switch modifiers
comradesmith··on Merriam-Webster Adds 850 new words and definitions
I personally don't like the inclusion of mutli-word phrases such as dark chocolate and dumpster fire. I feel like some of the new words don't yet have solid enough meanings to warrant a dictionary definition.

I may be quite wrong..

comradesmith··on Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s
This brings back memories, I found my site: (http://mypollsorelse.iwarp.com) and my friends site I did the markup for: (http://steaksteaksteak.iwarp.com)

Honestly I'm amazed these are still up, it's been almost 20 years and I don't think there's a chance I'll remember the password or email I used.

P. S. I was 12 when I wrote it, just ignore the ridiculous content

comradesmith··on Ask HN: What's the recommended method of adding authentication to a REST API?
A quick Google suggests you're right, as in either case you must run SSL/TLS.

Appypolylogies.

comradesmith··on Ask HN: What's the recommended method of adding authentication to a REST API?
HTTP Basic authentication should never be used, it is very vulnerable to traffic analysis attacks. HTTP Digest authentication however, would be a perfectly fine solution.
comradesmith··on Remacs – A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust
What we need next is Rim to start the next phase of the holy wars.
comradesmith··on SpaceX Successfully Launches and Lands Second Reused Rocket
Try keeping a solid satellite connection while holding your dish in your hands.

Now do it on a boat, trying to compensate for waves and exhaust gases from a 27.4 tonne rocket.

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