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monster2control··on Show HN: Coi – A language that compiles to WASM, beats React/Vue
I like it. Here’s hopping it continues to grow
monster2control··on Police Chief Says Cops Have a 5th Amendment Right to Leave Body Cameras Off
Simple response. Nope. They don’t. They are employees, and the body camera's falls under employee/employer contract law. They don’t have to be a cop. But if they want to be, they have to follow the rules of their employer.
monster2control··on Scientist Wants to Block the Sun to Cool the Earth
Literally the start of the robots taking over in the Matrix
monster2control··on Don't dry your iPhone in a bag of rice, says Apple
Ive set my my oven to 125 - 175 degrees, then turn it off and put my phone, watch and even a PC in there to dry them out and dehumidify them for up to an hour. I then wait a day and then put them back to power. I’ve restored all non water proof devices this way so long as the battery doesn’t swell it seems to always work.
monster2control··on Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly
And now they are all adding ADs on top of it
monster2control··on Sourcehut and Codeberg are both currently experiencing a DDoS attack
It would be epic if the DDoS was from a swarm of KnightOS infected calculators. Even more if they were able to do it because Drew made a workable network stack. lol
monster2control··on Sourcehut and Codeberg are both currently experiencing a DDoS attack
More likely Drew. Lol
monster2control··on GitHub 404 errors
They have been having more and more issues lately. It's a productivity killer
monster2control··on macOS Subsystem for Linux
I just don’t see why this is needed.

Almost everything on Linux has a homebrew version available.

Perhaps it could be helpful for pure development needs. I guess.

monster2control··on Jeffrey Snover claims Microsoft demoted him for inventing PowerShell
Demoted him and yet it still exists? Personally not a fan of it. It’s not intuitive, but maybe it is if your a windows guy. But being a Linux guy, nothing about it is familiar to a shell experience.
monster2control··on TurboTax to pay $141M in agreement reached by all 50 states
141 million, is a minor footnote in their profits.
monster2control··on Ask HN: Do you pull and run code as part of code review?
I almost never run the code locally unless I see something questionable and can’t reason about what it will do because I’m unfamiliar with something in it. For that, I tend to use a REPL for just the snippet of questionable code.

However, if the code is a large enough change, and it needs testing anyways, I will run it.

monster2control··on The 90-9-1 principle: 10% of HN users decide on what the other 90% see
This is essentially how life works. Ever do a group project, volunteer, anything that involves a group of people? It almost always devolves into about 10% of said group doing all the work.
monster2control··on Tesla tells customers it will not honor retroactive Full Self-Driving pricing
That’s some fucking bullshit!
monster2control··on Cancel Mainstream Media
This is kind of dumb.

Sticking your head in the sand and ignoring all sources of good and bad information is just a recipe for leaving you ignorant

monster2control··on Ask HN: Do you tell your salary to people/family/friends outside your industry?
All the time. Pay transparency has as a far outreaching effect. I tells students, friends, anyone. Sometimes I feel like I am bragging, but most of the time it's just to highlight what you can make in the tech field and I still feel like I'm paid on the lower end.

$118,000 a year in the greater philly area.

monster2control··on A Year of Contradictory CDC Guidelines Destroyed Its Credibility Forever
None of these arguments in this article contradict anything if you understand basic logic and reasoning in a time of crisis and learning.

What don’t people understand about the word novel? It’s unknown. Every bit of guidance was presented in the form of “from what we understand right now”.

Literally the article “dont wear mask” quote points out that they were making the recommendation based on concerns of shortages, for healthcare professionals.

We spent the first 3 months of more hearing of shortages of everything.

Science isn’t absolute, it’s based on observations. It was a new virus with little known, so of course the guidance was going to continually change as more information was gathered and confirmed.

monster2control··on Awk is the coolest tool you don't know
* Replace all `_` with `::` => sed 's/_/::/g'

* Append line number: `cat -n FILE`

monster2control··on PEP 563, PEP 649 and the future of pydantic and FastAPI
I agree with this pretty much 100%.

Stop adding new features for features sake. I can’t actually think of anything since 3.6 that I yearn to use.

If you can’t add something without breaking backwards comparability, time to release Python 4 and wait another 15 years for adoption.

monster2control··on Ask HN: DigitalOcean destroyed all my data while I was sick. Any recourse?
Well at Linode you would have had an opportunity to pay your balance for at least 60 days.

It would surprise me that DO is worse in policy than Linode, what good would it do them to delete your stuff if you owe them money? Who's going to pay a past balance for deleted content?

Are you sure you weren't WAY longer overdue than 45 days?

Are you sure your droplets aren't just turned off?

Snapshots make no sense to delete so soon, they are in cold storage essentially.

Do they not have a customer support number to contact someone higher up?

monster2control··on Ask HN: What websites do you visit every day?
You’re all a bunch of liars if you don’t include something like pornhub.com.

Lol

monster2control··on How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler
OK. This guys an idiot. Just like the developers of Parler are.

If you rely completely on third party vendors and don’t understand and know their TOS then you only have yourself to blame.

But calling Amazon a monopoly of the cloud is ridiculous. They could use A litany of other providers. Oracle, 1to1, Microsoft, linode, digital ocean, vulture. The list is almost endless.

Diversity of hosting is key to uptime and scaling.

Also, with a little bit of work, they could deploy open stack on their own servers in a matter of hours to days if they weren’t complete noobs.

monster2control··on Switching from Apple to Lenovo
Couldn’t agree more about everything said here and there is still so much more you could complain about.
monster2control··on Ask HN: Most hassle-free Linux distro?
For me, I just spent the last week trying the latest Distros.

* Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon * Linux Mint 20 MATE * Manjaro Latest * Ubuntu 20.04 (Gnone) * Ubuntu 20.10 (Gnone) * Solus Bungie

I ended up with Linux Mint Cinnamon for one major reason. The rest all had weird issues with my Graphics on my ThinkPad P52 with has a Nvidia Q2000 Pro Mobile.

They all used the native Nvidia driver, but for some reason Linux Mint Cinnamon is the only one that works correctly with my Thunderbolt dock and two monitor setup.

As for usability, I found them all mostly the same though I did like the MATE's customizability a little more.

Good luck.

monster2control··on Ask HN: Do you miss Linux after switching to MacBook
I'll give you my personal experience.

I miss using my Mac day-to-day since I started using Linux day-to-day at work. I still have a MacBook Pro, but I barely use it any more as I've tried to limit the amount of time on a computer outside of working hours.

I use Linux Mint with Cinnamon and for the most part, there is a lot of similarity. I use Guake for my drop down terminal like I have with iTerm2 and I use Chrome as my browser just because I've never bothered to transfer my stuff to Firefox.

But I do miss Safari. I truly find it better and faster. I use Bitwarden for password management and it works for both.

But for the most part, they are the same experiences. The true miss is the hardware, the battery life and the keyboard comfort of the MacBook.

I'm on my MacBook now and I get 8 plus hours on a single charge, I can type comfortable on a couch for hours and the trackpad just works perfectly so I never yearn for a mouse.

For work I have a ThinkPad P52 and the Linux support is lacking. Poor Power management allows me to get maybe 3-4 hours of battery, the trackpad sucks and needs a hack to work after kernel 5.4.26 for some reason, sound works but not well and the Nvidia driver sucks (official) glitches all over the place and waking from sleep requires a log out and log in to fix artifacts.

But in all honestly, I'm not sure what I would miss of linux if I only had a MacBook again. There just isn't anything I can do on Linux that I can't do on Mac, but there is plenty I can't do with Linux that I can with a Mac, simple things like airdrop and copy-paste sync with my iPhone, text messages on my laptop. I'm sure if I had an android I might regain some of those things, but it's just all so seamless on Mac OOTB.

I use docker and an Ubuntu image when I need linux to test things. Brew gives me access to almost every linux app I can think of and there is just a better amount of top quality paid and free app on the Mac in comparison to Linux.

Anyway, not sure any of that helps, but that's my 2 cents.

monster2control··on Ask HN: Has anyone else just gotten bored of the Internet?
I agree. The Internet has become boring and yet I constantly am on things like HN hoping to find the diamond in the rough. Something that’s interesting.

Used to be, everyday there was at least 5 or more interesting stories that just got me excited about something new to try or learn.

Now, I’ve become so complacent with relying on sources like HN that I can’t find things on my own anymore.

Google does suck now. It’s mostly marketing.

Websites like Lifehacker used have fun information, now it just “hey buy this deal” shit.

Reddit sucks. I don’t find that fun at all, I miss digg.com but that sucks now too.

The Internet used to be full of fun things like diggnation. Even MySpace was better than Facebook.

Ugh. All the shitty things have taken over.

monster2control··on Ask HN: What do you think about “The Social Dilemma”?
wt.social ?
monster2control··on Ask HN: What do you think about “The Social Dilemma”?
I think everyone should watch it. I think there can be a lot of good done on a platform like Facebook, if it's goal wasn't to get you hooked. If it had real moderation of content.

The proliferation of fake and misleading information has clearly caused a lot of harm to the United States and I'm sure other countries as well.

monster2control··on Show HN: Alt-tab-macos – Windows-style alt-tab on macOS
I’m not sure what your talking about alt-` switches between app windows. The windows switcher is dreadful, it clumps all your windows in sorted and you can’t easily swap back and forth between two apps. On macOS, command tabbing nicely flips back and forth between the last used window. Windows never seems to make it easy to switch in my opinion.
monster2control··on Show HN: Alt-tab-macos – Windows-style alt-tab on macOS
This is awesome. I’ve been wishing for something like this on Windows!!
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