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zwarag

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zwarag··on Why am I excited about WebAssembly?
How did you find out? Just by profiling or did you read some book/article about that topic?
zwarag··on Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?
Thanks a lot for compiling this list. There are a lot of interesting boat styles there. They kind of look funny but seem to be fully functional and some even quite comfy.
zwarag··on It's quite hard to lose a Duolingo streak
I wish the streak thing could be turned off completely. I have no interest in being pushed to use an app more than I want to.
zwarag··on Germany’s move to legalise cannabis expected to create ‘domino effect’
Are there any European weed stocks?
zwarag··on Dokku – Free Heroku Alternative
How does it differ from portainer?
zwarag··on Supabase Edge Functions
Congratulations on the launch Supabase-team! Can't wait to try it out. I love that you went with deno for that.
zwarag··on Square is now called Block
I'm going to predict that at some point in time, this company will name itself Tesseract.
zwarag··on Caddy – Open-source web server with automatic HTTPS
Anyone switch from traefik to caddy and can describe why they did it?
zwarag··on Ask HN: What extensions/packs of VS Code are must for web/developers to install?
1. Auto Rename Tag (for xml tag renaming)

2. Conventional Commits

3. Git Graph

4. IntelliJ IDEA Keybindings (as someone who uses both it's a blessing)

5. Path Intellisense

6. Peacock (changes color of vscode instance when it's in the background, usefull when multiple are open)

zwarag··on NFT's aren't the answer to the problems of digital art
I'm not sure, but I think the trust part (münchhausen trilmma) is handled differently between pgp and blockchain. In pgp you have the web of trust and you choose your "entry" point and who you trust. With nfts you're on blockchain, and have the hole network have a consensus. Therefor the "entry" point for trust is different.
zwarag··on The Zen of Weight Lifting
That is interesting to hear. After I started climbing, my RSI was also eliminated within weeks. I found that quite unintuitive and thought that maybe I did not have "real" RSI but just the symptoms of overburdened tendons.
zwarag··on Pop OS – System76
chromium can be installed through flathub (which is setup by pop os by default)

However, one thing that speaks against it for me as a replacement for Windows users, is that is uses Gnome. I personally love gnome, but I think it is not a good Windows replacement. But If your peers are fine with Gnome I think Pop_OS is a good candidate.

zwarag··on A USB Fan Controller that now works under Linux
I know it is not the main topic but. Is this just a funky fan setup or what is happening here? I have the same cpu cooler and I’ve build mine horizontally to blow out of the back. This setup looks like it is pulling from the air from the GPU.
zwarag··on Currying in JavaScript
Who is this Qc Na master? Is that a story from a book or a legend from a forum board?
zwarag··on EU Funding for Developer Tools for the Decentralized Web
I guess http://gun.js.org/ goes into that direction.
zwarag··on Handling 100 Requests per Second with Python and Django
> There was also a strong desire to use a similar setup to Read the Docs as that's what our small team (of 5 at that time) knew well.

Just read the article...

zwarag··on British right to repair law excludes smartphones and computers
If history is an indicator for anything, we’re talking about when. Not if.
zwarag··on JavaScript Is Weird
Could [,,,] be used to optimize an array allocation? Say I'll need an array of fixed size. Could this method be used to help the interpreter to allocate an array more efficiently?
zwarag··on OBS Studio 27.0
It sounds awesome but also kinda hard on the network. How much bandwidth do you need to make that work?
zwarag··on Ask HN: How can I, as a web developer, learn about compilers?
Hi speedgoose, thanks you for your answer. I really like the gist that you've posted.
zwarag··on Ask HN: How can I, as a web developer, learn about compilers?
Thank you for your reply. I should have pointed out that with JS I also mean TS. We write everything in TS which gets transpiled into JS.

About your approach. I'm not sure if this is applicable to our situation. The problem is not only the complexity but also a cost and human resource matter. If some updates could be done automatically, the cost could be held down. However I totally agree with you on the reduction complexity.

zwarag··on WyHLL: The most accurate 3-bits HyperLogLog
For anyone wondering what HyperLogLog is:

HyperLogLog is an algorithm for the count-distinct problem, approximating the number of distinct elements in a multiset. Calculating the exact cardinality of a multiset requires an amount of memory proportional to the cardinality, which is impractical for very large data sets. Probabilistic cardinality estimators, such as the HyperLogLog algorithm, use significantly less memory than this, at the cost of obtaining only an approximation of the cardinality. The HyperLogLog algorithm is able to estimate cardinalities of > 109 with a typical accuracy (standard error) of 2%, using 1.5 kB of memory.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperLogLog

zwarag··on Ask HN: How do you prevent eyestrain with daily computer use?
What works quite well for me is to just take breaks. (I have +7 diopters with astigmatism and all the packages)

On MacOS there is an app called "Time Out" that dims the screen every 20 minutes for 20 seconds. It forces you to just relax for 20 seconds (you can set it up as you like). In the meanwhile you can either look at something that is far away (several meters or a good reason to learn metric), or just close your eyes and lean back.

There might be other Apps for other OSes but if you're into Arduino you can just smack a LED on the board and let it light up every 20 Minutes for ~20 seconds to have a reminder.

Additionally, I take a break every 4 hrs for at lest 20 minutes and go for a walk in the park, cook something, cuddle the cat or whatever.

zwarag··on “I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interviews”
Could it be that this is a very SV problem? I'm from a European state, I know some people doing programming in Asian regions. What you are describing to me sounds like a bubble. Or I am in a bubble, IDK.

Yes devices can do less than 10 years ago (less arbitrary thing), but they can also do more than 10 years ago. Of course the market in this segment might give you the feeling that everything is dumbed down. These devices are not used solely by very smart people. The most basic of all humans has a phone nowadays. And If apple decides to make MacOS only run singed binaries. That shows that they are targeting people who do not know how to run arbitrary code safely. I am a programmer and when I have to do that I have to think really hard. If my main PC runs stuff that I would rather not like to leave my house. I have to set up a VM and check it beforehand. You still have Linux to do whatever you want.

If people in the job market and Open Source community are getting exploited, it is only a matter of time until something develops to create a force against the exploitment. There are unions (at least there should be) and there are multiple ways to fund Open Source nowadays (Patreon, Gitcoin, Bountys,...).

It doesn't seem to me as everything is moving backwards. It is getting harder to live out the freedom of the individual. But on a macro level, I think things are moving forward.

zwarag··on The blockchain/cryptocurrency space is mostly fraudulent
> I'm not seeing a single BTC enthusiast who's out for the utility of it.

Isn't that the point of BTC. If you could see them, it would not be `pseudoanonymous` right?

zwarag··on imgcat: higher resolution
iTerm2 is only available for macs right? imgcat can work with any terminal that is able to display colored characters.
zwarag··on Privacy Badger Is Changing to Protect You Better
There are several digital newspapers that you can view with and without ad blocking.

Here are some Austrian examples https://kurier.at/ https://www.diepresse.com/

zwarag··on Why I stopped reading HN (2010)
I'd like to express interest. I really like your take on how to group the information available and think that you design is very pleasant.

There is even a movement that thinks building a HN reader is "A spiritual successor to TodoMVC".[1] I don't know if that is of any interest to you but I thought leave that here.

[1] https://hnpwa.com/

zwarag··on On not choosing WordPress for the W3C redesign project
IMO they are doing only HTML+CSS.

Using a generator to build the HTML+CSS from a headless CMS is exactly how a content-rich site should be build today.

That is because writing content is a different task to structuring and styling a page.

And the end result is still only HTML+CSS.

zwarag··on Mouse found atop a 22,000-foot volcano, breaking world record
22000 foot are 6705.6 meters.
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