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joobus··on Atuin – Magical shell history
This is exactly why I'm considering using atuin also. My zsh history on my mac will sometimes just completely disappear and then I have to go lookup what I was trying to do again. It is driving me crazy.
joobus··on Commercial property deals in the US are starting to pick up at deep discounts
They can, with enough money. The problem is that these will need to be sold at an even steeper discount so that throwing enough money at the renovation makes sense. That means whoever currently holds the loan will eat a huge loss, whether there is a conversion to residential or not.
joobus··on Ask HN: Where Are All the Jobs At?
My Fortune 500 employer has been in a hiring freeze for the last 1.5 years.
joobus··on Amazon Prime Video content to start including ads next year
Agree, and I do the same. So many books, so little time.
joobus··on “This Is a Disaster:” Game Developers Scramble to Deal with Unity’s New Fees
Unity has lost $455 million dollars in the first 6 months of the fiscal year 2023. They lost $919 million in 2022. I don't think they have ever made a profit. Companies are not charities; they exist to make money, and Unity doesn't by a mile.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1810806/000181080623...

joobus··on Chrome now tracks users and shares a “topic” list with advertisers
I would think Google would want this in Brave and Edge also. Google will want to advertise to the users of these browsers even though they aren't using Chrome.
joobus··on Chrome now tracks users and shares a “topic” list with advertisers
I wonder how Brave and Microsoft Edge will handle this change. Are they also going to ship this "feature"?
joobus··on How to stop the “login with Google” pop up window?
I worked these out a while ago. I think on some sites, an iframe will still show, but will be empty. My second rule and this one probably do the same thing.
joobus··on How to stop the “login with Google” pop up window?
I have these 2 custom filters in Brave, and haven't seen this popup since:

##iframe[src^="https://accounts.google.com/gsi/iframe/select"]

||accounts.google.com/gsi/iframe/select^$third-party

joobus··on Emacs 29.1
I think the mailing list flow is a hindrance to attracting the next generation of contributors.
joobus··on Emacs 29.1
I am an Emacs enjoyer. My biggest issue with Emacs is that development is still done via a mailing list and patches. I wish they would adopt a Git front-end (web UI) workflow.
joobus··on Reddit Strike Has Started
The third-party apps shutting down on July 1st will be the real test. If Reddit notices a significant drop in traffic on that day, they will probably start walking back the change. I agree that this boycott, while the intention is good, won't do much.
joobus··on Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls
> Most annoyingly, a lot of websites have custom keyboard shortcuts, so you have to blacklist them in the Vimium config.

No, you just need to enter insert mode. Hit `i`, then all the keyboard shortcuts for the site work. Exit insert mode with escape or ctrl+[.

joobus··on Acceptance of evolution by high school students: Is religion the key factor?
There are no reproducible scientific experiments proving evolution. Evolution is as much a religion as all the others.
joobus··on Forgejo
It is not a well-picked name.
joobus··on Ask HN: What do you think when companies ask for gritty people?
Long hours, low pay, and tolerates verbal abuse from a boss with a filthy mouth.
joobus··on USDA ignoring the science on low-carb diets
You're missing a very key point of this work:

> Carbohydrate restriction is currently the only whole-foods approach that can reverse a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes.

Carbohydrates break down to glucose in the bloodstream, the same as pure sugar. For a large and growing number of people, low-carb diets are not simply a means of weight loss.

joobus··on New(ish) command line tools
There is a cli tool to run postman collections: https://github.com/postmanlabs/newman

You still have to create the collections in Postman, however.

joobus··on Salesforce completes acquisition of Slack
Slack is better than Teams, imo.
joobus··on Ask HN: Threated with legal action if I don't remove deep links to another site
Weev went to jail for publishing data AT&T left on the open internet.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev#AT&T_data_breach

The reality is lawsuits cost money, whether the defendant is right or wrong. In America, the process is the punishment.

joobus··on I Want a New Duck (2020)
> With Mypy, you get all the benefits of high-level dynamic typing for rapid experimentation, and all the benefits of rigorous type checking...

Except that most typed languages are far faster than python. Retrofitting existing python projects with types makes sense for reliability, but starting a new project with python and types makes less sense, imo.

joobus··on Based Cooking
I like the idea of a simple recipe site generally, but I also like reading the user feedback on recipe sites. Is a recipe any good? Are there improvements? There is no way to tell on this site.
joobus··on Why asynchronous Rust doesn't work
> AFAICT, tokio is basically going to become the default assumption

I've noticed this as well. And then there are the libs that don't support async, like diesel. I lost time trying to find the right combination of libraries for a web project. There are a lot of things I don't like about Go, but this part is easier.

joobus··on Even If It's 'Bonkers,' Poll Finds Many Believe QAnon, Other Conspiracy Theories
The Russian collusion conspiracy theory lasted for years, was broadcast on all the MSM news channels, and included many sitting congress members, without any evidence that it was true. Millions of wasted dollars later, and Mueller came up with nothing. The Russian collusion conspiracy theory was the most prevalent conspiracy theory of the last 4 years.
joobus··on A Month of Terraform
But he did mention Terragrunt:

> Terraform: Up & Running is excellent, and Terragrunt makes it even easier. Huge thanks to their team for providing the duct tape we need.

joobus··on Dev Fonts
Same. I added nerd fonts and ligatures to the version I use.

https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts https://github.com/ToxicFrog/Ligaturizer

joobus··on Google users locked out after 15 years' use
Fastmail.
joobus··on Mailchimp outlines right to ban users for “inaccurate” content
They wanted to ban SGTReport and Press for Truth, so they came up with a new reason.
joobus··on My Resignation from the Intercept
And HN just removed this from appearing on the front page...
joobus··on Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo
What is "Google's search preference menu"? Where does it exist?
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