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philjackson··on Figma Slides
I'm the CTO of Pitch, so obvious bias here, but have you tried our product? Would love to know what you miss from Impress when using Pitch.
philjackson··on Cloudflare blocking my IP (2023)
All of a sudden I'm seeing loads of "are you human" checkboxes from Cloudflare too. One of the better captchas, but I'm not sure why it's a recent thing for me.
philjackson··on Cobalt – lightweight HTML5 application container from YouTube
Anyone know how this compares to Electron? Is that even the market this tool is in?
philjackson··on ICQ will stop working from June 26
"Uh oh"
philjackson··on Show HN: A CLI tool that enables you to remove files easily and safely
If I remove a file which is on mount1 and my home directory is on mount2, will I have to wait whilst it's copied, or will it pick somewhere on mount1?
philjackson··on Breakdown of faults by car brand: Tesla has replaced Dacia at the bottom
Fallacy of relative privation.
philjackson··on Breakdown of faults by car brand: Tesla has replaced Dacia at the bottom
4 cars in 10 years is 3 cars too many.
philjackson··on LastPass breach gets worse
`pass` is lovely, but don't you need your passwords on your phone when you're out-and-about?
philjackson··on Paredit 25 released, after 8 years
I can't live without smartparens-strict-mode - how do people edit lisp without it?!
philjackson··on Minecraft content creator Technoblade has died
"No dead brother pressure"
philjackson··on Gimp 3 Beta Released
> I’ve come to the belief that the existence of GIMP is doing more harm than good.

This just seems like such a poor take. Can you imagine being a gimp dev and reading this?

philjackson··on Ask HN: Chrome says I have 83 compromised passwords. How do I fix this?
You probably don't want your identity taken on them either - that might open up some attack surfaces. Best advice is just take the hit and change the passwords for everything.
philjackson··on Tell HN: Gnome on Wayland Is Amazing
FWIW, I'm using Sway with Nvidia right now and it's as smooth as silk with no white flashes. The wlroots-eglstreams package is key to avoiding the artifacts. The only issue I have is Zoom - but that's hopefully being solved by the Zoom guys themselves. Arch:

lib32-nvidia-utils 510.54-1 lib32-opencl-nvidia 510.54-1 nvidia 510.54-7 nvidia-utils 510.54-1 wlroots-eglstreams-git 0.16.0.r5388.0558b203-1 sway-git r6897.1e79088a-1

Good luck!

philjackson··on Bitwarden is now in Arch Linux community repository
How did you reduce it?
philjackson··on Helvetica Now Variable
Ah, apologies.
philjackson··on Helvetica Now Variable
> [0] though I prefer not to use that word, perhaps a better word would be 'entitled'

Then why not use that word?

philjackson··on Dead Startup Toys
> but was criticized for not solving more pressing issues

Sounds very much like a fallacy of relative privation to me.

philjackson··on Dead Startup Toys
It it actually selling something? It takes me to a shopify link...
philjackson··on Netanyahu is out as new Israeli government survives confidence vote
> Since Israel has to spend the money on US hardware, that money actually goes to maintain Jobs in the US military industry.

What a shitty cycle.

philjackson··on Tips for Interviewing over Zoom
Please tell us how exactly the candidate insulted you!
philjackson··on Stripe Payment Links
What would the compromise be?
philjackson··on “They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”
I mean, it's the linux kernel. Think about what it's powering and how much risk there is involved with these patches. Review processes obviously aren't perfect, but usually patches aren't constructed to sneak sketchy code though. You'd usually approach a review in good faith.

Given that some patches may have made it though with holes, you pull them and re-approach them with a different mindset.

philjackson··on M1 Macs have another hidden boot mode
> How did things progress so far backwards in stability?

Not a software engineer then?

philjackson··on ReactOS Updates
Lofty goals.
philjackson··on Factorio Future Plans
38,000 might be me. :(
philjackson··on Show HN: Leet Resumes – a free technical resume-writing service
A better way to phrase it would be "if you have an active GH profile, share it". The benefits seem obvious to me, at a glance, one can:

* See what your interests are.

* See what the general quality of your code is.

* See how you interact with other devs.

* Potentially see how you write issues and/or deal with PRs etc.

philjackson··on Setting User-Agent Field? (1996)
Pet project. It'll amount to nothing.
philjackson··on GNU Units
Useless use of echo there.
philjackson··on Simulating the PIN cracking scene in Terminator 2
The Atari Lynx was even worse, if I remember...
philjackson··on GNU Units
So long as those with disabilities are also accounted for, using gifs are a great way to demonstrate usage. I always appreciate running across them when I hit a readme.
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