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shorsher··on I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases
The article mentions Ascension Island, a small island in the south atlantic. There's a really great spy novel that takes places there, Ascension by Oliver Harris.
shorsher··on Superlogical
One of the cofounders is formerly from poolside (poolside.ai), where they produce open-weight coding models. One of their recent models, Laguna, got quite a bit of attention here on HN.
shorsher··on The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader
As someone who has resisted buying an e-reader for years because I "prefer physical books", I finally purchased a Kobo Clara BW and love it. Even though I usually only read one book at a time, having my whole library in a small form factor is really wonderful.
shorsher··on Gooey: A GPU-accelerated UI framework for Zig
GPUI is written in Rust, so in this specific case the decision is already somewhat made for you.
shorsher··on Modern C++ Programming: Busato
Do you have any recommendations for books/materials that do include these topics? I've never used c++ professionally, but have been starting to learn it and would appreciate a modern reference on these items.
shorsher··on Legit – Dockerized git server for agent interaction
I was listening to the Two's Complement [0] podcast and Ben mentioned he was trialing using a git server for agent interaction. Not having to worry about accepting claude tool requests really and just pushing/pulling code really resonated with me.

[0]: https://www.twoscomplement.org/

shorsher··on A new C++ back end for ocamlc
I believe they already work for Jane Street.
shorsher··on Beginner-friendly, unofficial documentation for Helix text editor
If you don't have one already, here's an autocmd I use for that https://gist.github.com/shorsher/93b747bf5c4209f45ef0304aa50...
shorsher··on The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release
It really is brilliant. The screenwriter is Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton, Bourne Trilogy).
shorsher··on Why Is There a Bucatini Shortage in America?
If you have a wegmans in your area, they might have it. I found some last night actually :)
shorsher··on Mutt releases version 2.0
Always thought about it but never followed through, thanks for reminding me to try it.
shorsher··on Mutt releases version 2.0
As someone who just joined a small startup using google accounts, do you have any good recommendations for desktop/email clients? Prior company used outlook.
shorsher··on An interesting mistake with Go's context package
Here's a question from someone who is recently out of school and somewhat new to Go. Is it OK to use Context for request-scoped values? i.e. passing data between middleware? I have started doing this, but is there a better alternative?

Peter Bourgon's blog post[0] about context made me think it is fine. After reading the comments here, I am not so sure. Especially since his post was roughly 4 years ago.

0: https://peter.bourgon.org/blog/2016/07/11/context.html

shorsher··on Thoughts on macOS Package Managers
In a recent podcast I listened to on The Changelog [0], I’m almost positive Mike McQuaid (homebrew creator/maintainer) talks about how they use that money when they cover Homebrew governance.

0:https://changelog.com/podcast/337

shorsher··on What Winning $250k at Poker Taught Me About Money
One book that I have really really enjoyed that is somewhat recent (2016) is The Grinders Manual [1]. It gives fantastic advice that is still relevant and is extremely readable. Covers a wide range of topics and came widely recommended to me. It’s helped my game a lot as I just started playing seriously about 5 months ago.

It’s geared toward online cash playing, but I ignore most of the HUD stuff and can use all the concepts in my live games.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Grinders-Manual-Complete-Course-Onlin...

shorsher··on What Winning $250k at Poker Taught Me About Money
Right, totally agree with you. Very situational and dependent on the skill level of others, whether you need to play GTO or not, tournament vs cash, how deep you are in a tournament, how many BB you have left, etc.
shorsher··on What Winning $250k at Poker Taught Me About Money
I would disagree with the blanket statement that folding 90% of the time is optimal, and can be discouraging to new players who are interested in learning poker.

Good players generally play around 20% of their hands, but even that vastly changes based on how aggressive the player is. Also, there is much more to factor in than just the hand you are dealt. You might want to play a tighter range (play less percentage of hands) in early position (let's say first or second to act in a betting round), compared to being last to act (where you might want to play a higher percentage of your hands). This is because being last to act in each betting round extremely useful in poker (If you want to know why, there's a lots of great articles on the internet who could explain much better than I [1]).

[1] - https://www.tightpoker.com/position.html

shorsher··on Has Chrome fully taken over yet?
Am I missing something or is Brave not on this list whatsoever?
shorsher··on iPhone X Teardown
I don't think Android market share is enough of a metric to determine the quality of iOS. There are so many different cheap android phones to choose from, and people do not buy them because Android is a better mobile OS.
shorsher··on Wall Street Banks Warn Downturn Is Coming
As someone who is graduating college in December and currently looking at starting a Roth IRA with money I saved from internships. Should I wait to invest until this downturn actually happens? Or does that not matter and the sooner I start investing the better?

Not well versed in this subject, appreciate all advice:)

shorsher··on What I've Learned So Far as a Programmer
Check out something like locust[0]. It's a web load testing framework in python.

[0]:http://locust.io/

shorsher··on [dead]
There's a great podcast by the changelog [0] where they talk to Will about much of the same topics. I would recommend.

[0]:https://changelog.com/podcast/245

shorsher··on Twitch nabs exclusive streaming deal with Blizzard for e-sports events
I'm 22 and have been watching twitch very regularly since I started college in 2013. I think my age group is the main demographic twitch targets, and I can say myself and many of my friends watch for the streamers and community more than the games themselves. Lirik, a streamer I have watched for years, is someone I would watch play literally any game due to how entertaining his personality is.

May be anecdotal, but many of my friends have the same mindset. Besides watching competitive eSports tournaments for specific games, usually someone will have a few streamers they will watch play anything.

shorsher··on Sublime Text 3 Build 3132 released
Is there any info on when the new dev builds will be released as beta?
shorsher··on Terraform 0.9
In my internship this past summer, I used terraform to easily describe the infrastructure and deploy my application on AWS. I.e, what type of EC2 instance I wanted. I really enjoyed my time using it.
shorsher··on Why are whitehouse.gov web pages disappearing?
Agreed. This seems to be true for many pages besides civil rights and climate change, such as education. [0]

0:https://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/education

shorsher··on Show HN: Teleport: Simple command line app tutorial written in Haskell
There also this SSH management software named teleport[0].

[0]:https://github.com/gravitational/teleport

shorsher··on Caddy – HTTP/2 Web Server with Automatic HTTPS
Matt Holt, the creator of Caddy, was recently a guest on the Go Time podcast where he talks quite a bit about Caddy as well as TLS and ACME protocols[0]. I really enjoyed this episode and recommend others check it out.

[0]: https://changelog.com/gotime/14

shorsher··on Learn Node.js: A free interactive course for Node beginners
Thank you!!