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loa-in-backup··on Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal (1982)
Then there are monk programmers:

http://www.mit.edu/~xela/tao.html

"The Silent Void

Thus spake the Master Programmer:

When you have learned to snatch the error code from the trap frame, it will be time for you to leave."

loa-in-backup··on Open-plan office is the worst. Why can't we kill it?
You're lucky.

I automated my deployments and test analysis, which were the most time consuming tasks (sequential process, with few quirks along the way) as a developer. This gave me reliably 30-40 minute forced breaks.

Soon I got notices that there were complaints that I do not conform to the office norms, and that apparently I "sleep instead of working", and people "ask if they can work like I do" (never got any further explanation). I got passed the slip and I'm moving on to a different job next week.

loa-in-backup··on Krita 4.2.0: First painting application with HDR support on Windows
> you can export your animations to mp4 and H.265. You need a version of FFMpeg that supports H.256

I believe author meant 265 not 256. Typical programmer typo.

loa-in-backup··on Elon Musk Tried to Destroy a Tesla Whistleblower
That reminds me of one point: I highly respect that Elon Musk doesn't wall himself off from the mind of the internet (aka the populace). It's something you won't see other CEOs do, unless it's a PR stunt meant to achieve some positive PR statistics.
loa-in-backup··on The ‘secretary problem’ is so unrealistic it can't inform our decisions
It doesn't mean that it's true
loa-in-backup··on Could an Eye Doctor Diagnose Alzheimer’s Before You Have Symptoms?
> Some Genetic Tests Apparently Can’t Tell If You’re Dog Or Human

We do share a lot of genetic code, so checking for a specific aminoacid sequence could very unsurpisingly detect it in both

loa-in-backup··on What is it like working at a company after releasing a negatively-received game?
Your comment seems almost tautological, especially the last part.
loa-in-backup··on Firefox Experiments I Would Have Liked to Try
There's a Firefox addon called Tab Session Manager.

It's fully functional and does exactly what you say you want. It could use some UI improvements though.

loa-in-backup··on Ask HN: Is it just me, or is CSS too damn hard?
Sometimes the target is a known browser version on a known OS (eg. intranet sites). Those are a lot simpler and (arguably) fun to make.
loa-in-backup··on Mockingbirds show heightened aggression after lead exposure
It's not something that originated here. These hypotheses are based on correlation. That does not imply causation though.

Disclaimer: my educated guess is that there is probably a real connection between lead and functioning of nervous system. Element particles/molecules probably have very high ability to diffuse through complex systems due to their small particle sizes.

loa-in-backup··on Ask HN: How do I stop caffeine intake without losing productivity?
What's nice about this is one can prepare dosage and pills ahead of time, making it easy to go with it without much hassle
loa-in-backup··on Fever effect
That's a very good counterpoint. Human species did evolve to be social "pack" creatures already.
loa-in-backup··on A 4 year old boy trapped in a teenager’s body
And so, the martian race would be born. Different genes, upbringing, environment and even gravity strength.
loa-in-backup··on This is what Google says search will look like under EU copyright laws
5 or 6 links news does not make. Now to condense it to: list of news sources and we have more incentive for people to actually vet what they read, why and when.
loa-in-backup··on Curious Case of a 99.9% Latency Hike
Nice, easy read. Light but to the point.
loa-in-backup··on Mobile customer location data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters
Indeed this is what I meant. I pondered my informal phrasing afterwards.

Also I entered single carriage feeds between sentences, forgetting that they're going to get stripped on HN anyway.

loa-in-backup··on Maze-solving algorithm implemented in sed
It would seem the site suffers from hug of death.
loa-in-backup··on Mozilla Announces Deal to Bring Firefox Reality to HTC VIVE Devices
Firefox from what I gathered will be used as the de facto browser in in-VR web browsing. If you read the VIVE promotion article on VIVE homepage you'd know that they are planning a kind of VR metaverse as an interface to the games you play - instead of picking an option from a flat surface you'll "walk" into the app/game. But of course this doesn't change the facts that web is flat so any in-app or in-game web will be displayed in some fashion using the Firefox Reality engine.
loa-in-backup··on 9999999999999999.0 – 9999999999999998.0
There are currencies that have the lowest value coin as 1/20 of main coin.
loa-in-backup··on Bash 5.0 released
Hopefully Bash 6.0 then
loa-in-backup··on Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of crashes and tickets
There are few reasons: - they most of the time run embedded in a DAW - they are usually computationally intensive themselves - they are meant to be instanced as far as memory/CPU can go

ad to the third point: Music producers already require and use pretty powerful rigs: 32-128GB RAM is not uncommon, CPU as good as it gets. There's great benefit when you can run 100 instrument synthesizer instances parallel vs 14 instances - it's a difference between a differentiated orchestra and a rock band.

loa-in-backup··on Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of crashes and tickets
Unfortunately DAW and VST plugins are not something you can make in Electron
loa-in-backup··on Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of crashes and tickets
Some binaries are meant to be linked statically
loa-in-backup··on Cigarette butts are the single greatest source of ocean trash
Yeah, see - I've had a great deal of experience with smokers, including my close friend past me. People who smoke get high on tobacco, which makes them feel good. Right? Well, it makes them feel good even when they're crapping all around them and then they're all surprised.
loa-in-backup··on Diagnostic Overshadowing
w.r.t the quote: I wonder if this kind of treatment would pass as defamation in court, given that the supervisor did not have expertise to assess the student's mental state and disseminated his assessment to his peers.
loa-in-backup··on New Office Hours Aim for Well Rested, More Productive Workers
Here in Europe lessons start as early 7:15 to 8:00, so that's really a good scenario. On the other hand, some other days of the week start as late as 11:45
loa-in-backup··on Winnipeg ‘chocolategate’: Does a box of treats come with strings attached?
Unfortunately this would have an added effect of allowing malicious gifts.

On the other hand if someone were to inspect the gifts, that person could (but wouldn't have to) be eager to disclose the identity of the giver.

loa-in-backup··on Offline voice AI within 512 KB of RAM [video]
That's a great opportunity to implement a throat microphone. Unfortunately GoPro's don't have configurable audio input AFAIK
loa-in-backup··on Firefox desktop market share now below 9%
The only thing I use Chrome for is deeeep.io . It works better in Chrome. Everything else is Firefox

E: too many e's

loa-in-backup··on Show HN: Share one-liner command snippets
Since you are making tool argument syntax highlighting a challenging but nice feature would be to be able to switch between command separators. For example in sed you can make a dense one liner with semicolons or expand it to multiple lines. Would be nice to read it expanded and copy as a one liner
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