That, and the "you need to change companies frequently (at most one each year)" are the two things I always say to people on a computer science career.

This. This is the big distinction. If you like something and/or want to improve it, you do it yourself. If not, you pay someone else to do it. And I think that's ok.

But I guess some people either choose a wrong job or had no other option. I'm happy to not be in that group.

The only common thing between the two is that the fn key is only used for the special modifiers under F1-F12.

I was given a magic keyboard, and my plan was to replace it with a standard one, but then I found about the keys mapping from Karabiner, and the fn key is exactly at the control position...so I started remapping.

Now, I can do almost everything with fn+key. Fn+c=command+c, fn+s=control+s and so on.

Maybe I've had bad luck, maybe I need to search more, but still...the situation seems to be similar everywhere.

Although, the good part, is that the personality doesn't seems to be genetic and doesn't come from your parents either, otherwise we would be extinct (literally).

Unfortunately, this situation makes me think about genre issues in an different way, not only sort of understanding why they happen, but surprised that it's not more common. I've met very horrid persons, that have achieve what I haven't, just because women doesn't seem to try to see past them. Is like they gave up...

It doesn't seems...fair...and, again, says a lot about society.

The size requirement was basically impossible, but I switched it to a width requirement instead, and I found the Sony Xperia 10 III.

Pros: One of the smallest widths, no notch, jack, and a minor modified android (no stock, but pretty close).

Cons: too tall (but at least the small width makes it a easier to use with one hand), medium-bad camera (for some reason, although I don't care) and some preinstalled apps (like Facebook, but you can remove/disable them with adb).

Overall I'm pretty happy with it, and I'm considering another Xperia as a replacement if this one starts to fail (more than 4 years now, but still fine)

Imagine someone going to a local gym and using an exosqueleton to do the exercises without effort. Able to lift more? Yes. Run faster? Sure. Exercising and enjoying the gym? ... No, and probably not.

I like writing code, even if it's boilerplate. It's fun for me, and I want to keep doing it. Using AI to do that part for me is just...not fun.

Someone going to the gym isn't trying to lift more or run faster, but instead improving and enjoying. Not using AI for coding has the same outcome for me.

I learned this when a coworker mentioned this to me. Turns out I was doing it without knowing it was a thing! Of course I continue doing it, but it's good to have a short and clear name to give others (specially those that only seem to follow concepts if they have a flashy name)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46492711

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If you have the expression 1+2*3 you have three elements with two operands. You need to choose a rule to pick one of them first.

In mathematics, the rule is "*/ then +-" and then from left to right. This means that usually first you do 2*3, then 1+.

But what if you do want to make 1+2 first?

There is another alternative, parenthesis. Those mean "do the thing inside first" so (1+2)*3 changes the precedence and now you do 1+2 first, then *3

The post is asking: with parenthesis you can increase the precedence of operations. What if you could decrease it?

Let's use «» as another operand (the blog uses parenthesis, but that makes it really confusing) this operand means "do the thing inside last". So the expression 1+«2*3» means "do 1+ first, then 2*3.

The issue is...this doesn't make sense, what the blog is really saying is to reduce the precedence of operators. Think the expression 1+2«*»3 or 1+2(*)3 and now the rule is "the parenthesized operators have one precedence less" so 1+2(*)3=(1+2)*3

I even have it connected to a google sheet and google scripts, to send me emails for entries matching some patterns.

Heavily depends on Google, yes, but for something free that honestly I won't care if stops working (like a prototype) I'm ok with it.

I like icons (and colors, but those are still mostly missing) to quickly find a frequent action. If the menu is always the same you can learn the position, but with dynamic entries it's way more difficult.

If I write actions/setup-python@v1, I'm expecting the action to run with the v1 tag of that repository. If I rerun it, I expect it to run with the v1 tag of that repository...which I'm aware may not be the same if the tag was updated.

If I instead use actions/setup-python@27b31702a0e7fc50959f5ad993c78deac1bdfc29 then I'm expecting the action to run with that specific commit. And if I run it again it will run with the same commit.

So, whether you choose the tag or the commit depends on whether you trust the repository or not, and if you want automatic updates. The option is there...isn't it?

But to be honest, other similar dangerous permissions like "view network connections" and "receive data from internet" are also there, categories are for "camera", "microphone" etc.

I suppose that the average user is more concerned about specific features, and since basically almost all apps require internet it may be there to avoid noise. Still, an "internet" category would have been nice...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45553643

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Such a shop will not get the surge of "oh look a discount, let me buy it" consumers, but people will probably realize that this way when you need something you can buy it on the spot, and it will always have the best price no matter when.

Does a shop like this exist, or existed?