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yubiox··on A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to ‘find’
How does it run faster than find? Can I manually implement that speedup using standard unix tools? I need to run find a lot on many machines I don't have access to install anything on.
yubiox··on How did Tropicana lose $30M in a packaging redesign?
Usually they change the packaging when they cheapen the ingredients of stuff and ruin it. It is a good indication that you should stop buying it (Ortega taco shells is a good recent example). But who cares what the Tropicana package looks like? Their OJ is sour so I don't buy it unless I am really craving OJ and I can't find Minute Maid. I will drive to 2-3 quickie marts first to look though. All juice is just sugar water anyway. I mostly avoid it altogether.
yubiox··on Ask HN: Who decided copy+paste should copy styling/formatting?
I keep a terminal with vim open, almost every time I copy I paste there and recopy. So stupid and annoying.
yubiox··on Ask HN: Why can't I host my own email?
Google still marks some of my mail as spam even though I have jumped through all the spf/dkim/dmarc hoops. Yet I still get tons of actual, obvious, previously-marked spam in my gmail inbox. F google.
yubiox··on Apple introduces new version of iMovie featuring Storyboards and Magic Movie
iMovie is impossible to figure out (it was easy many years ago then they ruined it). How about a simple app to let me trim and splice video and add audio? And a simple way to export, but not so simple that the choices are youtube and something else. Just export at whatever resolution I choose. And don't put stupid intros, outros, and transitions unless I ask for them.
yubiox··on We decided to move 90% of our workload from the cloud to on-prem infrastructure
It is on-premises not on-premise. Why is this so hard?
yubiox··on Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' to every Google search
I actually want the opposite. Reddit has the forced login thing now, I don't want it to show up in results at all.
yubiox··on I stopped advertising and nothing happened
I am blown away that online ads work at all. I just assume every ad is a scam.
yubiox··on What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week
Well crap. The first hit on google with "Oculus Quest version 2 mac" is recent and completely wrong apparently. Sorry.
yubiox··on What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week
Sounds great until you find out that it requires windows.
yubiox··on Bye CUPS: Printing with Netcat
Plain ascii worked but a pdf printed garbage, on an old samsung laser. I use the generic PCL laser printer driver on mac with it.
yubiox··on I Was Robbed in San Francisco While the Cameras Rolled
Insurance is just a loan that you prepay small amounts for until you make a claim and then repay larger amounts for.
yubiox··on Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy
In 92 I needed two 5.25" floppies to run linux (thanks Ted Ts'o).
yubiox··on Companies may be punished for paying ransoms to sanctioned hackers
Companies should be punished for choosing windows for mission critical applications. Everyone knows by now that windows is just for games and malware.
yubiox··on Why I Work on Ads
You don't address the issues that most ads are scams and it is possible to accidentally click ads. I recently asked google for directions to a new (to me) dentist while on vacation in Hawaii. As I started driving to the other side of the island I realized maps not taking me to the right town. Turns out apparently another dentist somehow made a scam ad so if you search for directions to the correct dentist it takes you to the scammer dentist instead. This is just one example of many. Screw ads and those who enable them.
yubiox··on Blizzard has lost almost 29% of its overall active playerbase in three years
Screw blizzard. Years ago they threatened Wow addon authors with legal action for asking for donations. Addons made the game much more fun and playable. Let them die.
yubiox··on LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online
Well for police shootings at least, PoliceActivity on youtube is the place to go for uncensored, no-commentary bodycam video.
yubiox··on Amazon acknowledges issue of drivers urinating in bottles in apology
The big question is, why do people completely destroy public bathrooms? Go to any bathroom in a park or at a beach. I dare you to use it.
yubiox··on VPN over SSH? The Socks Proxy
I did this for years until recently. Now I use wireguard instead. Now I don't need a giant ssh config with stuff like:

  Host myhouse.net
        LocalForward 5902 foo:5900
        LocalForward 3393 bar:3389
        DynamicForward 8083
  Host baz
        ProxyCommand=nc -X 5 -x localhost:8083 %h %p
yubiox··on The Big Vitamin D Mistake (2017)
Is this what you are referring to, the lady taking 130,000 IU per day? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33030138/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24734774
yubiox··on Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux
It has been a couple of months since I messed with it, but I don't remember there being a way to do source based, weighted, or blackhole routes on freebsd.
yubiox··on What happened to Mint?
I tried it out after seeing all the glowing reviews in this thread and it couldn't connect to ally.com.
yubiox··on What happened to Mint?
I'd love to find an app that supports my use case. I already know my consistent monthly bills (house, electric, gas, water, sewer, internet, cellphone, student loans, etc etc etc) and I know how much I have left over for varying costs which are basically food/booze/entertainment. I'd like to make a budget for just that and have it let me know how much money I have left to eat/drink/play today, this week, this month. I already use mint and a spreadsheet to see the big picture, I don't want to connect to anything.
yubiox··on The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor
> FWIW, I've used IRC, AIM, MSN messenger, and other proprietary messaging clients and platforms and none have been as sluggish and unintuative to use as Slack.

You think slack is bad, wait until they force you to switch to teams.

yubiox··on Ask HN: How was life for a regular dev during the dot com burst?
I went to law school, which was a huge mistake. It was fun, but working as a lawyer sucks - depressing situations plus no matter how good a job you do, some random judge can ruin your client's life. Went back into tech and I do a tiny bit of law on the side. Still paying for it. Oh and now I make about half what I was making before the crash and pay much more in taxes.
yubiox··on Ultraprocessed Foods – A New Theory of Obesity
10 weeks vegan here. Easiest diet ever, no cravings. I'm down 19 lbs (193-174, 6' tall). Dropping the chips and oreos took a few weeks, I just thought anything vegan was ok until I realized junk food is junk food. I cook twice a week and make enough to last a few days. It takes about an hour to cook. I sautee vegetables and put them on rice and quinoa or pasta. For breakfast I have a banana and a Larabar. For dessert I have grapes or watermelon. Before this I rarely ate healthy food. Chipotle is decent fast food when you aren't cooking.
yubiox··on A Tarahumara woman won a Mexican ultramarathon in sandals (2017)
7 hours to run 31 miles? Is that right?
yubiox··on Show HN: Chart.xkcd – Xkcd-styled chart library
I see how to provide the Y axis data for the labels but is there a way to use X labels like 1 2 3 but then provide (X,Y) coords for minima and maxima [(1.1, 3.2), (4.8, 7.5), (6.3, 2.4), (8.2, 7.3)] and get a curve?
yubiox··on Support for right-to-repair laws slowly grows
Ford car tire was replaced by a Walmart employee hired a week ago. The car could have a blowout and crash. The story will become - Fords have blowouts and crash. Tires should only be replaced with factory original tires by Ford authorized service centers, right?
yubiox··on Let's start using DuckDuckGo more often
I hate having to use a prefix at all. I set up my own custom search in chrome that points to my app that does specialized searches based on the first letter and then defaults to a regular DDG query. For example, e foo searches ebay for foo, a foo searches amazon, m 123 main searches maps.
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