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deroanth··on Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing
Just in case you're not joking: if that were the case, there would be few-to-no questions with no responses, but there are plenty of those. I won't deny it's possible there is some of that, but I doubt it's all that common.
deroanth··on So you've installed `fzf` – now what?
Was really trying to figure out why you would name a fork of a project that skims the filesystem two_percent. "What, is it invoked using %% or something? That seems unw... oh. Nice." Well done.
deroanth··on Maybe treating housing as an investment was a mistake
I keep wanting to think this way as well, but then I am reminded that there are more costs for a position than just the salary most of the time. Lots of administrative overhead. I don't know actual numbers, but it's probably more of a conversion of one position into two for 30-40% of the salary at best.
deroanth··on Ask HN: Do you hate software engineering but love programming?
I'm surprised you've never heard of a woman being unhappy because her husband wants her to do/be one thing, and she wants to do/be another. "Nagging" isn't always the stereotypical annoyance.
deroanth··on UnifiedPush: A decentralized, open-source push notification protocol
> A police unit parked outside a guy’s house and confirmed it was him in the real time chatroom, by cutting his internet and seeing him drop off.

I guess I'm going off of too few details probably, but this doesn't seem like a very sound strategy to me. It's certainly not impossible that the real criminal lost internet around the same time as some suspect's was cut by the police. I know I've shown up as online to other people for up to several minutes after losing internet in real-time situations (e.g. games). I suppose police just need "reasonably likely" to take action though, not definite reasons.

deroanth··on Mastodon.technology Shutdown
I don't know that I'd agree that it's a "very, very poor choice" but I can see how it would prevent Mastodon from seeing more widespread adoption. If widespread adoption isn't their goal, then it really doesn't matter though, and as you said, they made a tradeoff. I can definitely see the benefits of both ways of handling users.
deroanth··on Arm China Has Gone Rogue
Very curious where the US is commiting genocide or ethnic cleansing. Honestly want to know.
deroanth··on The Emacs Lock-In Effect or the Emacs Sunk Cost Fallacy
Maybe it's just me, but 4.4 GB does feel like a not insignificant amount of space for something I don't have to install locally. Or for people that use it rarely.

I'm not a huge fan of Overleaf, mind you, but I agree with those that say it does have its uses. The easy collaboration for people that don't like -- or don't get how -- to use git. I wish everyone I collaborate with liked git...