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pyhtelon What “work” looks like

non-coffee drinker here, never been able to nap during the daytime. I reckon it's mostly just differences between people.

pyhtelon Removal of Heroku free product plans

Is there? When I open it there's only the whatsapp logo while it loads, both on android and web

pyhtelon Launch HN: CodeCrafters (YC S22) – Practice writing complex software

From the course: "In this challenge, you'll build a barebones SQLite implementation that supports basic SQL queries like SELECT. Along the way you'll learn about SQLite's file format, how indexed data is stored in B-trees and more."

So yes for B-trees, but it seems to end with SELECT and a basic WHRERE query, no joins or anything like that

pyhtelon How to Do a Handstand

Or maybe a single data point does not make a model

pyhtelon Germany to Introduce Bill to Accelerate Wind Energy Expansion

I do live there, they look cool. Greetings from the Netherlands. Seriously though, what is this comment supposed to achieve?

pyhtelon Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content

He's using usenet, I highly doubt he's seeding the data he holds

pyhtelon Browser in the Browser (BITB) Attack

Vast majority of people tend to stick to the default theme. And of course, those also tend to be the most vulnerable to phishing attacks

pyhtelon U.S. eliminates human controls requirement for fully automated vehicles

I'm guessing because fully automated vehicles don't exist (yet).

pyhtelon Tell HN: 1Password shares passwords you don't want shared

You can make them appear with View>Conceal passwords, but I'm fairly sure it hides them by default.

pyhtelon The Manga Guide Series

Membership to ACM (acm.org) comes with access to the o'reilly learning platform along with some other benefits and costs $99, so that's a pretty good deal. Have to admit I don't read enough to make it worth it though

pyhtelon It’s not still the early days of blockchain

Care to elaborate?

pyhtelon RSS is wonderful

The first time I scroll to the bottom it doesn't actually keeps the footer in the view, with a little bit of extra space to scroll. If I scroll further it starts infinite scrolling. So it seems they sort of tried to deal with this, but it should really be on top. Also when I first got to the site it was the Japanese version, which doesn't have intite scrolling for some reason

pyhtelon Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k

Between Keepass, 1passwword, and lastpass I've never seen a password manager that just shows the password without the user explicitly choosing to reveal it

pyhtelon Null

I would assume most simulations would be more academic/business related, like how we have tools that simulate a wind tunnel, rather than for entertainment purposes

pyhtelon Facebook being investigated in Germany for tying Oculus use to Facebook accounts

He didn't say FB shouldn't be hit with an antitrust probe, in your analogy it would be actively tracking thieves down instead of waiting for the thief to voluntarily turn himself in

pyhtelon AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology

Assuming the AI isn't a distributed system, sure

pyhtelon 1Password for Linux beta

I started off with keepass, then moved to lastpass for better sync, then moved to 1password because I didn't like how lastpass works. Each of them support various forms of exporting/importing logins, so there's not much risk of vendor lockin with those. I'd assume it's the same for other managers, but you'd have to check.

My biggest issue has been that I only saved passwords when I started with keepass instead of username+passwords, which lastpass all imported as secure notes instead of logins.

pyhtelon Seeing Theory: A Visual Introduction to Probability and Statistics

"2) He opens all the doors except 1"

How is this a given exactly? In the original problem he only opens 1 other door. Now that also happens to be all doors except 1, but from just the 3 door problem that seems more coincidental than a fundamental part to the question

pyhtelon Noita – roguelite where every pixel is simulated

One I remember: Going off to the far right of the map of the first level, you'll hit a lava lake, followed by a deep pit. If you jump down the pit, it's a shortcut to the second level. There's also a bunch of rewards for exploring to overworld (you start at a cave entrance and are generally expected to go underground immediately)

pyhtelon The global fertility rate is falling

That assumes there is such a thing as a "I want kids" gene, which I personally have never heard of.

pyhtelon Time to Upgrade Your Monitor

Depends on the games you're playing, honestly. That "massive" latency is about 30ms from what I can find, which you're not really going to notice when playing a game like civilization or hearthstone.

pyhtelon I shipped a word processor that formatted the hard drive every 1024 saves

Oh man, I did something similar once. Folder with customer files also had a temp folder that needed cleaning, so I wrote a program that went into the temp folder and deleted everything recursively. For some reason, the temp folder had a folder named ".." (no reason how anyone managed to create that). So I ran the script, and upon hitting the ".." folder, it started deleting regular customer files. Good times...

pyhtelon Users hate change

Perhaps not shovels, rental cars/excavators and such aren't too different from a subscription model

pyhtelon Demetrification: Removing the numbers of likes and retweets from public view

It's a loss of potential revenue that advertisers and content creators can make advertising deals directly, without depending on instagram as a middleman.