Hacker News: badjeans

New comment by badjeans in "Using GroupBy on an array of objects in JavaScript"

badjeans — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 18:12:26 +0000

Hardly shorter than just writing the for loop, i.e. the example in python

    groupByAge = collections.defaultdict(list)

    for person in people:
        groupByAge[person["age"]].append(person)

New comment by badjeans in "GNOME's Wayland Shows Potential for Better Battery Life"

badjeans — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 18:49:49 +0000

Would be more interesting to see i3 vs sway.

New comment by badjeans in "Go 1.18 will embed source version information into binaries"

badjeans — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 10:08:39 +0000

I found Nim's gorge command really useful. It runs a command at compile time and stores the output in a variable, so you can simply do things like:

    const compile_version = gorge "git describe --tags --always --dirty"
    const compile_time = gorge "date --rfc-3339=seconds"

New comment by badjeans in "Fairphone 4 has a five-year warranty and aims for six years of updates"

badjeans — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 13:18:29 +0000

> Surprisingly, there isn't a headphone jack, which seems like something Fairphone's demographic would really have wanted. Wired headphones last indefinitely, while Bluetooth buds turn into garbage after a few years when the batteries die.

Every wired headphones I've had started to break down after a year or so, including ones with a detachable cable.

BT headphones are much more reliable. If you buy something like the Sony's you can probably get replacement batteries.

U.S. needs to work with Europe to slow China’s innovation rate, Raimondo says

badjeans — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 08:51:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/28/us-needs-to-work-with-europe-to-slow-chinas-innovation-rate-raimondo-says.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28691596

Points: 9

# Comments: 5

New comment by badjeans in "Ask HN: I feel trapped in my job and city"

badjeans — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 19:21:02 +0000

Unfortunately, a CS PhD doesn't even guarantee mediocrity.

New comment by badjeans in "Lenovo Selling Linux Laptops Directly in the US"

badjeans — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 08:33:30 +0000

I have a Huawei matebook x pro and I would highly recommend it. Great build quality and 3:2 screen.

New comment by badjeans in "What to expect after the eviction moratorium"

badjeans — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 19:42:38 +0000

> I see all these calls for "cancel rent", as if housing grows on trees and landlords are all some kind of Ebenezer stereotype, instead of being a lot of small-time folk just trying to get by.

So letting property should just be risk-free profit? Being a landlord is a business and businesses fail all the time.

Lo2: Simple YouTube-dl web front end

badjeans — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 22:31:16 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/dvolk/lo2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28110755

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by badjeans in "Don’t Let Police Arm Autonomous or Remote-Controlled Robots and Drones"

badjeans — Sun, 18 Jul 2021 18:26:44 +0000

I guess a drone can just land on a roof (or even street-level)?

Basically a battery powered camera that can be deployed very quickly to an area of interest.

New comment by badjeans in "A journey through the troubled former Yugoslavia"

badjeans — Sun, 11 Jul 2021 14:51:06 +0000

I get "We were unfortunately unable to place the cookie that is necessary for the use of our site. Is your computer connected to the internet through a company network? We recommend that you ask your IT department for an exception for DER SPIEGEL content. Have you configured a browser extension or the browser itself such that cookies are blocked? Please add DER SPIEGEL to your list of exceptions. Should you continue to have problems, you can find more information here."

I only have ublock origin and a minimum of config changes.

New comment by badjeans in "Using IceWM and a Raspberry Pi as my main PC, sharing my theme, config and some"

badjeans — Sun, 11 Jul 2021 02:19:53 +0000

https://www.google.com/search?q=gnome+3+memory+leak

https://www.google.com/search?q=gnome+3+cpu+use

sure...

New comment by badjeans in "Beetle walking upside down under water surface filmed in Australia"

badjeans — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 11:45:17 +0000

Down and Out by Ken Wharton?

https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2017/02/science-fi...

New comment by badjeans in "Human use of high-bandwidth wireless brain-computer interface"

badjeans — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 18:04:20 +0000

What's so dsytopian about that?

New comment by badjeans in "533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online"

badjeans — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 18:49:08 +0000

> I don’t have FB or or WhatsApp but my Insta account (using a separate email address and no personal details) keeps recommending my therapist to me.

So what? What's the harm?

People sure like to write emotionally charged posts arguing for privacy, but they're always suspiciously low on details on what bad things (actually) happened.

Even in this case with phone numbers and other data leaked, so what? What harm do data leaks cause?

Seems like making a fuss about nothing.

> How are we still ok with this shit?

We're ok with a lot of shit. I think if we were to make a list of shit this would rank pretty low.

Cataclysm DDA – turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world

badjeans — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 04:10:38 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26668953

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by badjeans in "Coinbase valued above $100B, ahead of direct listing"

badjeans — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 18:42:53 +0000

They don't have to torture you, just hold you in contempt of court until you give it up. e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Beatty_Chadwick

Works the same as with bank accounts or scamcoins.

New comment by badjeans in "Coinbase valued above $100B, ahead of direct listing"

badjeans — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 17:31:33 +0000

> People need and want something like that to exist where they have complete control over their assets without any worries about government or institutions.

The government can always just make a law and take whatever it wants from you (or imprison you). Doesn't matter if it's from a bank account or bitcoin cold storage on planet Musk.

New comment by badjeans in "EU privacy agency urges more safeguards to curb U.S. tech giants"

badjeans — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 16:11:44 +0000

A lot of those can be blocked with e.g. ublock (the "annoyances" filters, not on by default)

New comment by badjeans in "“I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure”"

badjeans — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 15:35:32 +0000

Why Canonical? Isn't this a Microsoft feature?