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febed··on Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?
„Death of Yugoslavia“ - about the fall of Yugoslavia and the subsequent genocide was pretty riveting. It had interviews of many of the key figures including Slobodan Milošević.
febed··on Germany pushes for ‘pay as you fly’ model
Please name the airline. Did you book the ticket directly on their website or through an agent?
febed··on Ask HN: Who do you talk to about system architecture and design?
May I ask what was the online architecture course?
febed··on Strange new phase of matter acts like it has two time dimensions
You need to get out more
febed··on The case for bad coffee (2015)
I know my own interest in good coffee is fickle, which is why I limited myself to a Melita pour over. Sacrilege, in know but I use instant most of the time and the pour over occasionally.
febed··on Modern CSV Version 2 Beta is now available
Ron’s CSV Editor is also worth a look for easy CSV editing.

[0] https://www.ronsplace.eu/Products/RonsEditor/Download

febed··on Consumer electricity prices in Germany climb to record high: 45-80 Cents/kwh
Wikipedia says it’s 1 trillion yen not $.
febed··on Ask HN: EU devs who moved to the States for work, has it been worth it?
Could you elaborate on why you found the German schools lacking?
febed··on DownThemAll (2019)
Your extension is one of the only reasons I keep Firefox installed, thank you.
febed··on FastText is the best text classification library for a quick baseline
Do you have an example of this?
febed··on Overcoming Tab Overload
This is one of the things that annoys me about Chrome. Last I checked, there wasn't a solution for this. Opera had it as a feature a long time ago.
febed··on Enigma: GPT-2 trained on 10K Nature Papers: Can you spot the difference?
You don't even really need to know the terminology to detect the fakes.
febed··on My First Kernel Module: A Debugging Nightmare
How did you pivot from kernel programming to designing chips? Did you already have a background in embedded electronics?
febed··on Ask HN: Are you depressed?
Congrats on the job! Hope things work out for you on the personal front too. Tip: I finally managed to overcome my multi year Reddit addiction using Cold Turkey on my PC and Adguard + Applock on my phone. Adguard blocks the URL and Applock restricts access to Adguard itself.
febed··on Google users locked out after 15 years' use
I'm scarily dependent on my Gmail account. That's why I backup my emails locally and to the Backblaze every day.
febed··on Ask HN: How do you deal with chronic illness?
I developed vitiligo a few months after moving into a new apartment which had a mild sewage leak. I'm pretty sure the apartment caused my condition as there is no other case of vitiligo in my family and it is known to be triggered by chemical irritants.
febed··on To Understand Jio, You Need to Understand Reliance
> The client made millions from this bank's operations alone. The client? Reliance.

That's a huge revelation, why wasn't this news? Reliance is the perfect example of crony capitalism.

febed··on Writing and the narrative fallacy (2018)
I'm reminded of what U.G. Krishnamurti said - "cause and effect is the shibboleth of confused minds"
febed··on "Pwned Passwords" V2 With Half a Billion Passwords
But Troy could still very easily guess the complete hash. It's the one with the 47,205 hits.
febed··on Firefox 51.0
I thought this was the case too, so I tried letting Firefox stay in memory using the Minimizetotray extension but it was still lagging. I had e10s enabled with just ublock origin enabled. I quit trying to optimize it further and switched back to Chrome.
febed··on Loading Chrome Extensions in Brave
Why not just root your Android and install Adaway? That way you wont see ads system-wide, not just within the browser.
febed··on Standard Notes – A notes app with a focus on longevity, portability, and privacy
After being a heavy SimpleNote user I finally migrated to Onenote. Simplenote is excellent for basic notetaking but having used Onenote I'm spoiled by it's ability to search within images. This is a lifesaver if you have to quickly search for a scanned receipt or a screenshot.
febed··on Nylas Mail is now free
The download page is blank for those of us who disable javascript.
febed··on Cartography Comparison: Google Maps and Apple Maps
Mapbox allows you to customize tile sheets as per your fancy. You can even select what symbols will appear at a given zoom level.

[1] https://www.mapbox.com/help/customizing-map-colors/

febed··on Opera Neon concept browser
So should one be concerned about private data ex-filtration since Opera is now owned by a Chinese consortium [0]? This is a major reason why I gravitate towards Vivaldi inspite of being an Opera power user back in it's heyday.

[0] http://tech.eu/brief/group-chinese-firms-acquire-opera-softw...

febed··on Opera Neon concept browser
Yep, this is exactly my experience with Vivaldi. The feature set is really good, but I wish the performance was as good as Chrome.
febed··on Update on Multi-Process Firefox
Vanilla Firefox with multiprocess was sluggish for me as well. I had no such issues with the latest Firefox Developer edition - give it a shot.
febed··on Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
SnadBoy's Revelation
febed··on Being a Developer After 40
I have seen developers threatened to have their work visas not renewed if they did not work faster

That was an eye-opener. For some reason I thought Switzerland was a worker's utopia with the relatively higher salaries.

febed··on Kite – Programming Copilot
Great idea! But doesn't it work by intercepting keystrokes? What prevents Kite from reading keystrokes in other applications like a browser?
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