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theiasson··on AI has fixed my productivity
This paragraph made me laugh out loud:

>I’ve settled into an uneasy position: AI for work where the productivity gain justifies the privacy cost, strict boundaries everywhere else. It’s not philosophically clean. It’s just honest.

theiasson··on Hacktical C: practical hacker's guide to the C programming language
You'll need pandoc and xelatex

  $ pandoc --pdf-engine=xelatex --toc README.md {macro,fix,list,task,malloc1,vector,error,set,malloc2,dynamic,stream1,slog}/README.md -o book.pdf
theiasson··on Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser
I definitely remember ( and miss) both uzbl and luakit.
theiasson··on Ask HN: Can you recommend a podcast player/manager for Android?
Sorry, somehow I missed that.
theiasson··on Ask HN: Can you recommend a podcast player/manager for Android?
AntennaPod

-- Supports Searching

-- Can group subscriptions using tags

-- has got sleep timer (don't know about fading playback)

-- No ads

theiasson··on Passenger with “no idea how to fly” lands plane after pilot incapacitated
Reminds of this episode of QI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzRhDyyOlcM
theiasson··on Guess the daily Wordle in one try using the tweet distribution
That's a real bummer. Is there any way the author can prevent this? Can he generate random indexes that don't repeat while keeping this random number generator code public?
theiasson··on Egui: An easy-to-use immediate mode GUI
As a user of a keyboard driven browser, I hate it. I hope this trend of rendering the whole page on html canvas never catches on.
theiasson··on Don’t submit to conformity
I thought sociopaths were the people who don't care what other people feel. By your definition, I'm afraid, I always wanted to become a sociopath.
theiasson··on Simple, solar-powered water desalination (2020)
The paper[0] goes into more detail about how the efficiency is calculated (scroll down a bit to see the actual formula).

[0] https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2020/ee/c9ee0412...

theiasson··on Learn C and build your own Lisp (2014)
This book is on "Stuff that should be avoided" list[0].

[0] http://iso-9899.info/wiki/Main_Page#Stuff_that_should_be_avo...

theiasson··on Ask HN: Which browser do you use and why?
qutebrowser most of the time, firefox when qutebrowser fails.
theiasson··on Nina Paley's MysticSymbolic
You think expressing dissent is akin to mental abuse? I think people have every right to express their opinions or dissaproval regardless of how many twitter followers they have.
theiasson··on Ask HN: Projects for learning a language?
There is a debian package called 'bsdgames'[0] that contains several simple text-based games for people looking for some ideas.

[0] https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/bsdgames/index.html

theiasson··on Nina Paley's MysticSymbolic
>actively working to harm the lives of trans people.

That is some exaggeration, unless you have some video of Nina chasing trans people with a machete or similar. I would say she has some dissatisfaction about how transactivism is carried out nowadays and how gender-identity has become a religion.

theiasson··on Coreutils Gotchas (2015)
Nice tool. I just found that if you have fields separated by arbitrary whitespaces, piping that through xargs trims multiple whitespaces into a single whitespace.

```$ echo "words are far apart" | xargs```

Although, it does have its caveats. https://stackoverflow.com/a/12973694

theiasson··on EFF Browser Tracker Simulator
> All in all, a slanted site fit to push an agenda. What kind of agenda is it trying to push?