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egwynn··on setBigTimeout
I agree it’s not the prettiest, but I had no trouble clicking on “tree” to get to the folder and then “mod.ts” to see the code.
egwynn··on B-Trees and Database Indexes
This goes pretty deep in English. I'd argue that the semantic intention behind the colloquial usage of "vulgar" is nearly inseparable from the "class distinction" baggage it carries. Consider these common synonyms and their etymologies:

- Rude: "coarse, rough, unfinished, unlearned" (https://www.etymonline.com/word/rude#etymonline_v_16610)

- Mean: "shared by all, common, general" (https://www.etymonline.com/word/mean#etymonline_v_12495)

And even synonyms like obscene, indecent, or disgusting, which don't evoke this distinction directly, still almost always ultimately rely on separating things based on what is "good" and "clean" according to class distinctions.

egwynn··on B-Trees and Database Indexes
Note that, in the abstract, “vulgar” means “common” (as in “vulgar latin”). Indeed, its negative connotations come from that same sense: “common” people are unrefined.
egwynn··on Big (O)Notation Every Developer Should Know
Am I missing something about the O(logN) section? Why is there a graph of O(n^3 logN) under the text Here is how logarithmic complexity look like?
egwynn··on Why Don't I Like Git More?
I know this isn’t truly the point of the article, but I’d encourage anyone/everyone to give https://fork.dev a try. Unlimited free trial but well worth it to support the great devs. It solves basically all of the ergonomic gripes I have with the `git` CLI.
egwynn··on End of Life for Twilio Authy Desktop App
I had some good luck with https://github.com/token2/authy-migration
egwynn··on Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
At the risk of correcting the primary source, I was able to load https://www.ebiester.com/ but not https://ebiester.com/

EDIT: I see you’ve already updated your comment. Thanks!

egwynn··on Distcc: A fast, free distributed C/C++ compiler
Xcode used to have native support for this, long ago. And it had mdns support too!
egwynn··on TWM − Tab Window Manager for the X Window System
The wikipedia page[0] has screenshots.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twm

egwynn··on Yapsl: Yet another Python SMS library
This is cool. Although when I looked through the code I thought, “surely there must be a general-purpose Hayes command library for Python”, so I searched around, and didn’t find anything. Kinda wild.
egwynn··on PayPal Demonetises the Daily Sceptic
The first amendment is mostly about what the US government can/can’t do, and even then it’s not 100% protection.
egwynn··on The sooner we accept RCS is dead, the sooner we can choose the next platform
Just want to add that I make extensive use of “tapbacks” with pretty much everyone I use iM with.
egwynn··on LibreRPi – open source replacements for RPi firmware
I’m not an expert, but iirc banana-pi and beagleboard are SBCs with more of an open source bent.
egwynn··on “It’s time for Apple to fix texting”
Thanks for this link! This is a great explanation which clears a lot of things up to me.
egwynn··on “It’s time for Apple to fix texting”
I’m curious about how this works, can you link me someplace where I can read more about it? I tried searching for “cellular over wifi” but wasn’t about to find anything promising.

EDIT: I searched harder and found “VoWiFi”. It looks like this can support SMS and is supported by iOS. TIL.

egwynn··on “It’s time for Apple to fix texting”
> definitely sent/received SMS over wifi using my iPhone

Are you certain? From what I understand about how SMS works, I don’t see how that’s possible. Apple’s own docs also appear to suggest that SMS-over-WiFi won’t work: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207006

egwynn··on The Upper Middle Class Is Getting Squeezed
I didn’t read “conservative” or “liberal” as US political identifiers so much as synonyms for “risk averse” and “risk tolerant” respectively.
egwynn··on The Great Tech Salary Crash
I always roll my eyes a little bit when people use the "FAANG" acronym because Netflix never really seemed like a good fit and it leaves out Microsoft which seems like a better fit. Nevermind that "Facebook" is actually "Meta" now and "Google" is actually "Alphabet" now. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Tech#FANG,_FAANG,_and_MAMA...
egwynn··on Code to flood Kellogg with bogus job applications after strikers sacked
Yes IP, and also User Agent doesn’t look like it’d be hard to filter against using the posted code.
egwynn··on Honey, Please Shrink the Touchpad
I suspect the commenter is using “tap to click” which would cause the drag operation to be terminated once they lift up off of the trackpad.
egwynn··on The most vaccine-hesitant group of all? PhDs – The Post
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28153814
egwynn··on U.S. prisons mull AI to analyze inmate phone calls
You are capable of more productive discussion than this.
egwynn··on An Ugly Truth“ gives sneak peek as Zuckerberg becomes wartime leader
Agreed. "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
egwynn··on GitHub Desktop 2.9 includes squashing, reordering, amending, and more
+1 on Fork. As a person who does almost _everything_ from the command line, all of my colleagues think I’m nuts for using a GUI for git, but Fork makes basically everything I want to do with git feel effortless.
egwynn··on GitHub Repo with the Most Commits
And here I was thinking matching compensation to LOCs was silly. Clearly more employers need to pay based on commits per second!
egwynn··on Why are there so many people in prison in America? (2017)
My understanding is that programs like these work on the hypothesis that violent crime is often a symptom of an underlying public health issue (often mental health, in particular), and so should be addressed by public health resources more than by enforcement resources.
egwynn··on Analytics suggest 96% of users leave app tracking disabled in iOS 14.5
It’s opt-in. You need to go digging around to find the setting to turn it on.
egwynn··on Ask HN: Are you still using Keybase?
Wasn’t that always optional?
egwynn··on NYC Spent Half a Million Dollars per Inmate in 2020, Report Says
Better yet, let’s try to find cost-effective means of keeping people out of cages in the first place!
egwynn··on [dead]
Probably talking about the Wine Is Not an Emulator project: https://www.winehq.org
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