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sdfzguf··on Infrastructure audit completed by Radically Open Security
If you experience something, it's already subjective. No need for the "imo" -escape. Same goes for sentiment. The sentiment is already what you observed, no need to further interprete that. Just share what you see. This is overly careful to a point where it almost lacks any content.

Edit: To make this constructive, you could add why people think so and share a related link or something.

sdfzguf··on ASK HN: What’s a small thing you’ve purchased which has made your life better?
This gave me chills for a second. I extensively have active noise cancelling on with no music playing. Several hours a day. After a quick search I couldn't find any good results on this topic. I feel like you should provide some links or anything on that topic? I'd be glad to look into this.
sdfzguf··on ASK HN: What’s a small thing you’ve purchased which has made your life better?
Why normalize it? People critizise stigmas, but I don't feel like this is the case (no pun intended) here. It may vary from where you're at, but in middle europe I'd argue, no one gives you a second look for wearing those (Edit: Or is that the problem? ;) ).
sdfzguf··on Ask HN: Do we still need SWAP partition?
> makes sense to use swap space in aiding suspend to disk if some of the allocated memory is already paged out to it.

Maybe I can learn something here. From my understanding, the RAM image moves completely to the swap space, since the RAM memory is shut down (cleared). I thought, that's why it's calles 'suspend to disk'. During hibernation most components are in a state of being almost shut down. And that would be why you need a disk that can hold data non-volatile (eg not the RAM memory). Edit: From your comment it reads like the swap space is only for assisting the process, while from my understanding that's the place where the whole RAM image resides during sleep.

> a swap partition for the purposes of hibernation, while also disabling swapping of memory while your machine is in-use.

I thought the exact same. Avoid tear of the SSD and security implications, while having the option of hibernation (including the security implications) in case of need.

sdfzguf··on Ask HN: Do we still need SWAP partition?
I'm a very beginner in my self learning journey. My understanding is, that hibernation is the same as 'suspend to disk'. If that is true, memory is cleared and put in a memory on disk (eg swap). From what I found on the Arch wiki, it works with a partition and file.

Swap space can be used for [...] suspend-to-disk support. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Swap#Activation_by_systemd

In order to use hibernation, you must create a swap partition or file [...]. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management/Suspend_an...

sdfzguf··on Think Twice Before You Use Discord for Your Community
Even with an own domain, you're not 100% save. But I agree nevertheless.
sdfzguf··on Think Twice Before You Use Discord for Your Community
If there're over 4k die-hard players, as you said, a big portion of it will follow. While I have empathy with your situation, I wonder how many times more things have to go south for you people.

Build a good project and make sure you actually own it (have complete control over it).

sdfzguf··on We can save what matters about writing
What do you mean with 'implementation of your startup'?
sdfzguf··on We can save what matters about writing
I wouldn't say it changed nothing. Take the Guttenberg incidence for example. But more often it doesn't lead to actual repercusions, I agree on that with you.
sdfzguf··on We can save what matters about writing
Edit: This turned into a rant.

"Teach the process"

Learn to learn

etc

The approach the author takes is boring and therefore will not succeed. Maybe future will prove me wrong on this - I'd be fine with it.

My take is an axiom that is omnipresent among tech bubble: Focus on what matters. Let's ask ourself every time we put more than one thought into something: "What is this really about?" "Why do I actually have to do this?" etc. Even without AI our academic systems are being gamified every day. AI just accelerates (and partly even democratize) this movement. People follow a fassade and sadly the system followed. We need to start asking general questions more again. With AI and art this is even more visible. It is often overlooked that AI can not create something new. And you do not have the right to make a living by rearranging and combinging already existing ideas. But exactly this is the metric we should focus on: the new. If you don't want to create something new, then fine, just copy and paste along. But making something new is hard and you'll need to learn the basics yourself (tech the process, learn to learn, etc). But to make this approach imposed is even another misguided junction. It has to come from the one thing that is important: the new, the actual drive, the 'doing it because I want it'

sdfzguf··on Ask HN: What problems do you have?
What you describe (act, schedule, delegate, delete) looks like 'ranking' to me. Under 'classification' I'd understand a seperation without ranking entities. And that at least falls under the request of OP (whether it satisfies it or not).

What I don't understand about your comment is the similarity to your scheme that just has the 'cost' dimention addionally. The 'cost' doesn't make the entities any more 'rankable' though. So why wouldn't I apply your critic to your own proposed system?

This comment is not in bad faith. I'm just a little confused about your point. If you have some sort of experience or qualification in this field, I'd be happy to be corrected.

sdfzguf··on Asthetic Blogs
The website you linked looks neat. Reminds me a little of HN - which I think has a great aesthetic.
sdfzguf··on Asthetic Blogs
Can you make an example on what you mean by aesthetic? Or maybe a describtion of what you mean. Give us something.
sdfzguf··on Ask HN: What problems do you have?
Alternatively - one step easier - is the Eisenhower Diagram. It looks only at the aspects of importance and urgency, which gives you four different categories for priorization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_management#The_Eisenhower...

sdfzguf··on Ask HN: What problems do you have?
It's the 30th of July and I still have not cleared an apprenticeship position (IT) for 1th September. The mental load is increasingly wearing. I'm not having a good time.

It's not that I get declined, but I struggle sending out applications in the first place (because of reasons).

sdfzguf··on Ask HN: Who/what introduced you to Hacker News? How long have you been here?
It is, isn't it? I'm waiting for an AI tool that translates the text that I enter into the text field into a de-personalized text with the same context. It has to be possible to identify indentifiers and change the text while maintaining the coherent argument/ thought of the text. Would have to be computated locally, before interacting with anything online. But I'm not aware such a tool exists as of now.

Needless to say, this takes something away from the communication. A sacrifice I might be willing to make. Idk yet

sdfzguf··on Ask HN: Roast My CV
I'm not an expert. Please go through a guide about the topic. Also look at sample CVs. Here are a few short ideas that come immediately:

- First paragraph same font size as the rest.

- Split your content into different categories and make the distinction visible. Name, personal info, technical info, experience, education, etc. Now split each of those categories again. For example: experience - firm, duration, role, bullet points about learnings. Now list these entities within a category

- Again, you don't have to do it in LaTeX, just go there and see what differences you find in terms of your own document. https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/tagged/cv

- I want to make clear, that I am not talking about implementing design elements or making your CV more fancy. Plain and rudimentary formatting is fine!

sdfzguf··on Ask HN: Who/what introduced you to Hacker News? How long have you been here?
Every few month I make a new one. That's because I like to share personal information when I discuss certain topics. I don't have secrets to hide, but I just don't feel comfortable having it all in one place. I want to stay as anonymous as I can. I try to avoid an account that paints a comprehensive picture of my thoughts, interests, job situations, hopes, whatever, you name it

There is a bullet point in the guidelines about exactly that. It's not desired behaivor. But I don't feel bad about it, because I don't intend to misuse it.

Kind of related: I'm worried about the new language recognition tools of today and tomorrow. Last time I've seen a post about HN users, they needed 10k (?) words from an account to make a connection between accounts.

Edit: This is the mentioned post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016

sdfzguf··on Ask HN: Who/what introduced you to Hacker News? How long have you been here?
2019 and I don't remember how. I don't even do anything computer related, but I'm interested in it. I remember seeing the design of the forum and imidiatly fell in love with it.
sdfzguf··on Ask HN: Roast My CV
Layout. I'm not even going to read this. You don't need to do it in LaTeX, but you really have to add structure to it. I want to glace over it and make out distinct areas of different contents.
sdfzguf··on Ask HN: What's your favorite thing about Hacker News?
Also (additionally to my other comment), I want to say, that I am cautiously optimistic about communities that are rising on the Fediverse right now. What HN brings to the table for its selection of themes, can do other channels for different topics there.

With the recent Reddit controversy, we see a drift of high quality contributers away from reddit. They've been sharing / discussing their knowledge for free before and I assume they're looking for places to continue doing so.

sdfzguf··on Ask HN: What's your favorite thing about Hacker News?
To expose myself to things I don't understand. This can be a topic or a view point on such. It constantly challenges me and I enjoy that very much.

Edit: Not that I'd understand so many things ... probably the opposite, but I only have a few people in life that share interests with me. So naturally, I'm not exposed to a high quantity of new ideas in fields that interests me. That's what I get from HN.

sdfzguf··on Ask HN: Who is the happiest person you know?
I don't know a person that I'd consider happy. They might, but from my perspective they aren't happy. I have been wondering for a while if this depends on (A) how I view the world or (B) the selection of people I know.

As far as I can look back, I've never met a person that I truely admired / marveld for the life they're living. At some point I got to the cognition, that this might be a problem for me, because I can't follow along someone elses path. But I'm not sure yet how important of an observation this is ...

sdfzguf··on Share some insights on how to kickstart Hacker News journey
Insight 1: Give as much context as possible. Otherwise no one can help you.

In this case, I can only assume that you are new to HN and want to ask: How do I get the most out of HackerNews?

Edit: If so, let me refer you to this comment. You won't get a better answer than this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36847460

sdfzguf··on Ask HN: How will AI impact porn and men's health?
For me personally it is important that the actors are human. I haven't introspect much about it and what implications this gives. But I do wonder how I would react, if it isn't clearly distinguishable anymore.
sdfzguf··on Ask HN: My country is undergoing a coup, which encryption software should I use?
I didn't knew about it when I commented. About the .io page: Affiliate links are always a no-go. You can't trust a source that profits from you buying into their recommendations.

Edit: I didn't check if anything OP says is correct. Just asuming and following along ...

sdfzguf··on Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
I mean, it'd be already pretty simple ... Make an app that covers several areas of peoples lifes and bring it all under one hood.
sdfzguf··on Ask HN: Is it the end of the ChatGPT hype?
I'd assume the hype is over. Now people don't play with it as much as before - they only use it now. Which is a decline in numbers, but far from the end of the tool.
sdfzguf··on Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
Thanks for the explanation of the 'direct message' aspect. I didn't know that, but it's interesting
sdfzguf··on Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
It's a calming thought, that once you have too much power, there is no one left to question you and stuff like that is the result. Fortunately there are no actual lifes of people involved here, opposing to some similar political situation of the past.
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