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drdo··on MacBook Neo
I really dislike "tap to click" for some reason. I like the feedback of actually pressing it.
drdo··on Tell HN: Ublock Origin stopped working with Youtube
I had the same issue but updating uBlock fixed it.
drdo··on 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea
It's completely different to snip a cheap wire lock or even just pull hard on it and have the lock break versus pulling out the angle grinder and making a huge racket for a minute.
drdo··on Upcoming Rust language features for kernel development
It's not that hard to implement a linked list in Rust in exactly the same way as in C or C++, using raw pointers, and putting a safe API around it.
drdo··on You Want Technology with Warts
I don't think it's unpopular at all that bash scripts suck a lot.
drdo··on F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash
Doesn't the pilot press the button to do it himself? It's not like it's a surprise, he can tense the muscles beforehand.
drdo··on F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash
Even if the ejections happened with no fault on your part?
drdo··on The Best Line Length
The problem is that on regular 13/14" laptop screens, it becomes hard to have two code editors side by side if you make the lines too wide.

And that's before we factor in all the nonsense IDEs like to clutter the screen with.

drdo··on Age Verification Laws: A Backdoor to Surveillance
I know it's not the point but fun fact we've had big billboards advertising a specific OnlyFans account in a few cities in Portugal, with matching picture (not full nudity).
drdo··on Apple's Software Quality Crisis
Successfully replicated after trying this!
drdo··on Apple's Software Quality Crisis
What is this "Custom Color"? I clicked the "+" icon to open the color picker and did as described and I cannot reproduce this.

Sequoia 15.3.1 (24D70)

drdo··on I've acquired a new superpower
Try the second test image (the one labelled "Hard", with the snow). That one was far easier for me than the first (the cat one).
drdo··on M4 Mac mini's efficiency
My half solution is to use a keyboard that physically feels quite different to help my brain use a different mode. The Linux keyboard is a big heavy mechanical keyboard while on the macbook I just use the built-in keyboard.

It's not a perfect solution and I still make mistakes, but it helps.

drdo··on Should the richest 1% – who gained $42T/decade – be taxed more?
They can start by taxing the poor less.
drdo··on The introverts are winning
Typically real estate is extremely expensive near the places where company offices are. So it's a little unfair to call this a "choice".
drdo··on Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls
I'm not sure that I fully understood the theming aspect but one point I think is that the standard 8/8 ANSI colors are presumably picked to be readable by the terminal theme itself, independent from your application.

So if you just use those in your application you don't know the actual colors that the user will see on their screen but you know that they will be something readable.

drdo··on Libera IRC Channels Sorted by Number of Users
I've used thelounge for a while but I'm baffled by how slow searching is.
drdo··on Rust for Filesystems
That is of course correct.

The main value is that you only have to make sure that a small amount of code surrounding the unsafe block is safe, and hopefully you provide a safe API for the rest of the code to use.

drdo··on Rust for Filesystems
But unsafe blocks are available! And you should use them when you have to, but only when you have to.

Using an unsafe block with a very limited blast radius doesn't negate all the guarantees you get in all the rest of your code.

drdo··on Ask HN: ChatGPT Plus now showing captchas constantly?
I have the same experience. I never saw a captcha in the past couple months but in the last couple of days I'm getting a lot of them.
drdo··on Desktop Linux is an Untapped Gold Mine
I used Linux on personal machines for decades but recently switched to Mac because I no longer have the patience to deal with the constant jank (and these M1/2/3 macbooks are so good).

I would pay for nice vertically integrated Linux laptop where everything works well and I don't have to deal with numerous small problems that amount to a suboptimal experience.

drdo··on Ice – open source menu bar manager for macOS
I care! Does your solution involve disabling SIP?
drdo··on A love letter to bicycle maintenance and repair
This perfectly matches my experience.
drdo··on A love letter to bicycle maintenance and repair
Do you have some exotic luxury car? What kind of clutch costs 2.2k euro?
drdo··on Paris preserves its mixed society by pouring billions into public housing
Yes, that's pretty much how it works. The city has the right to become the buyer for the specified price for any property sale.
drdo··on GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide
I reinvented the wheel on this one. It does expense tracking and shopping list for now.

Just took the opportunity to use it as a personal project to experiment with rust and htmx.

drdo··on If we want a shift to walking we need to prioritize dignity
Not very relevant but I just thought it was funny how it's obvious that you don't do cycling when those are the prices you came up with as an example :)

It's considerably more expensive than that.

drdo··on GTK File Chooser Dialog gets a thumbnail view after 18 years
That's just like... your opinion man.

I find modern UIs much more aesthetically pleasing than that GTK1 pic, by far.

drdo··on GTK File Chooser Dialog gets a thumbnail view after 18 years
At least on gnome you can drag or resize a window from anywhere by holding Super.
drdo··on Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?
Do not enable channel notifications. Only direct messages and perhaps for some specific channels that you care about.
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