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throwamonon Go runtime: 4 years later

Still yearning for an Ocaml-like language that uses the Go runtime.

throwamonon Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI

Is it feasible to use this for Talon-like voice-driven computer usage?

throwamonon The Ethereum merge is done

You must be new to trading

throwamonon Show HN: AutoHotkey for Linux

Oh no. I guess it's my ESL showing.

throwamonon We want to make Nix better

Although it's debatable, it's very common for functional languages to be categorized as declarative.

throwamonon Ask HN: How do you plan to archive all your digital content?

> a secure cloud storage service that costs hardly anything

Which is...?

throwamonon Show HN: AutoHotkey for Linux

If someone "is ESL", it's less likely that they will know what "ESL" means, so it's another layer for them to parse.

throwamonon Show HN: AutoHotkey for Linux

Pretty ironic to write "esl" instead of the expanded form.

throwamonon DuckDuckGo email protection beta now open

> Wouldn't that require making and maintaining separate versions of the app for every possible subset of permissions?

No: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...

> Use the `optional_permissions` key to list permissions that you want to ask for at runtime, after your extension has been installed.

throwamonon Spiders seem to have REM-like sleep and may even dream

spiders aren't insects

throwamonon I was at Woodstock ’99 and it destroyed my innocence

They didn't consent to photos of themselves smoking a joint either, so why not censor the joint? The other shirtless men probably didn't consent either, so why not censor their breasts? Etc. As far as we know, they didn't consent to anything, so why publish it at all then?

throwamonon We're improving search results when you use quotes

I can't tell if it's incompetence or malice, but this happened after the redesign. I think it's caused by the presence of recent posts from the "more posts" section.

Another consequence of the redesign, much worse than useless dates, is that you get completely useless results just because the same "related post" (the title of which Google happens to deem "relevant") appears over and over again at the bottom of different pages.

To get around this you can search for "site:old.reddit.com" or "site:i.reddit.com". One downside is you get fewer results.

throwamonon Cut the cutesy errors

> "Greetings," "Salutations"

And this is why HN shouldn't be taken seriously for user-facing design decisions.

throwamonon Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?

If I'm not mistaken, Clojure's data structures are (or used to be) implemented using finger trees.

throwamonon Learning The Elite Class

That's survivorship bias. I get tired no matter what I do, fun or not. In fact I get tired faster if it's too fun. But maybe I'm just an anomaly.

throwamonon Woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent

How do you determine if someone is "the center of attention"? Could someone record ultra high res video using an ultra wide lens, then privately crop the video at will?

throwamonon Functional programming is finally going mainstream

Clojure

throwamonon How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself (2014)

Aside from the blind acceptance, how can you be so confident in "it" if Japanese Buddhism is so different from Chinese Buddhism? Haven't the other major religions existed for almost the same amount of time and gone through just as much "research and development"? Doesn't that give you confidence in them? Have you practiced them and seen what happens?

throwamonon Love Song to Costco

> Why aren't their countries desirable as well?

Yup, that would be pretty nice. If only America would let them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

throwamonon Ultra-flat timepiece, the RM UP-01 Ferrari, is 1.75 millimetres thick watch

Apparently that's also how much you have to pay to get a device that won't choke on their website.

throwamonon Irwin – the protector of Lichess from all chess players villainous

> nice to see something happening

the latest ("real") commit is from 3 years ago

throwamonon The world needs a non-profit search engine

Afaik that's how https://lobste.rs works.

throwamonon A more advanced wxErlang Hello World

It's not just Erlang either. The example uses Elixir which (afaik) is helping increase the ecosystem's popularity.

throwamonon Microrobots can brush and floss teeth in a proof-of-concept study

> most of our ancestors didn't live to be old enough to need delicate dental hygiene

They also didn't consume so much tooth-destroying garbage as we do.

throwamonon Microrobots can brush and floss teeth in a proof-of-concept study

> Phillips Sonicare

Which of them? There are many models, right?

throwamonon The Swerve

Maybe a better analogy is a bus moving into a desert rather than out of it, while some people desperately try to tell the driver everyone's gonna die of thirst while others insist there's an oasis nearby and others still believe they're heading towards a city. Some also know they're going into the desert but believe there's enough time to go back when they run out of water.

throwamonon The Saint of Mathematics

TLDR: He did maths for love and declined a prize and never had a woman. Mathematicians are more ethical than other people blablabla he's a saint.

throwamonon Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)

Maybe if you read the right books you would cultivate a worldview where you don't "need to consider these questions" so much. Maybe if more people died that we would even help build a world like that.