<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: bobbyi_settv</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bobbyi_settv</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 10:59:21 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bobbyi_settv" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bobbyi_settv in "New in Git: switch and restore"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's not just --help.<p>When you checkout a specific commit and are now in detached HEAD state, you are by default given the message<p><pre><code>    If you want to create a new branch to retain commits you create, you may
    do so (now or later) by using -c with the switch command. Example:

      git switch -c <new-branch-name>

    Or undo this operation with:

      git switch -</code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 17:31:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28028182</link><dc:creator>bobbyi_settv</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28028182</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28028182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bobbyi_settv in "Google broke a conditional statement that verifies passwords on Chrome OS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That technique doesn't work (as well) when you want a single "else" block that is used when either of the conditions is false, which I think is pretty common for this sort of conditional</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 18:32:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27934089</link><dc:creator>bobbyi_settv</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27934089</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27934089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bobbyi_settv in "Everything useful I know about kubectl"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How is this command from the page:<p><pre><code>  # Lint a Helm chart
  # Good to put in pre-merge checks
  $ helm template . | kubeval -
</code></pre>
different/ better than "helm lint" (<a href="https://helm.sh/docs/helm/helm_lint/" rel="nofollow">https://helm.sh/docs/helm/helm_lint/</a>)?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2021 17:54:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27740288</link><dc:creator>bobbyi_settv</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27740288</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27740288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bobbyi_settv in "A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Worse, the klein bottles did nothing to remove my black heads</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2021 16:52:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27690765</link><dc:creator>bobbyi_settv</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27690765</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27690765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bobbyi_settv in "Bash PS1 Generator"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Mac equivalent of xclip -i is pbcopy</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2021 20:44:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27623493</link><dc:creator>bobbyi_settv</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27623493</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27623493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bobbyi_settv in "What it's like to be cancelled"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Whats the difference between having sex and being a sexual predator?<p>I don't think it's necessary to answer this because "sexual predator" was literally Noah's description of himself and his behavior (in those words) in the apology post that led to Wizards no longer wanting to work with him.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2021 19:45:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27583441</link><dc:creator>bobbyi_settv</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27583441</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27583441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bobbyi_settv in "Safari 15 on Mac OS, a user interface mess"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If I CMD+R on Hacker News, it reloads the page. If I do it on outlook.office.com, it starts drafting a reply to the email I have selected. Reload button does the same thing everywhere.</p>
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<p>I guess they're going for technically correct since 100% is indeed "a portion"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2021 06:51:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27547988</link><dc:creator>bobbyi_settv</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27547988</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27547988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bobbyi_settv in "Bear plus snowflake equals polar bear"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's somewhat ambiguous because Unicode has a code block for actual runes which are not the same as the "runes" you're talking about<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_(Unicode_block)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_(Unicode_block)</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2021 23:51:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27534796</link><dc:creator>bobbyi_settv</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27534796</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27534796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bobbyi_settv in "I still like C and strongly dislike C++"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Microsoft's compiler did not support C99 for a long time because they did not really think of it as a C compiler or a C/ C++ compiler; it is a C++ compiler. Its support for C90 was explained as being maintained "for historical reasons" ( <a href="https://herbsutter.com/2012/05/03/reader-qa-what-about-vc-and-c99/" rel="nofollow">https://herbsutter.com/2012/05/03/reader-qa-what-about-vc-an...</a> ), but they had no reason to add support for new standards of a language that was outside the scope of the project.<p>It's odd for the author to complain about the commingling of C and C++ in compilers and then complain about Microsoft specifically not doing that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2021 00:14:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27297799</link><dc:creator>bobbyi_settv</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27297799</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27297799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bobbyi_settv in "FDA Moves to Ban All Menthol Cigarettes and Flavored Cigars"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As the press release says, menthol was "the last allowable flavor".<p>It's not the government banning one specific flavor because it is popular with black people. It is the government first banning every flavor <i>except</i> the one popular with black people and now circling back to make the rules uniform.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2021 21:14:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26986811</link><dc:creator>bobbyi_settv</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26986811</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26986811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bobbyi_settv in "iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new privacy controls, and more"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The fact that it can be unlocked with a picture doesn't mean it has no security.<p>The main use case for phone locking is that you leave your phone in a cab, a bar or wherever else in public and someone picks it up later. That person isn't going to know who you are and have a picture of you. They're still prevented from being able to take the phone they just saw laying around and go through your emails, etc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2021 18:50:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26946430</link><dc:creator>bobbyi_settv</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26946430</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26946430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bobbyi_settv in "Apple sued for terminating account with $25k worth of apps and videos"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Could this lead to people intentionally violating terms to try to get their account terminated so that they can get money back for every in app purchase, etc, they've ever made?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2021 23:28:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26937722</link><dc:creator>bobbyi_settv</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26937722</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26937722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bobbyi_settv in "From WinZips to GIFs, Jacob Ziv’s Algorithms Have Powered Decades of Compression"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Did the word "compression" get cut off due to title length? Or  is it intentionally being compressed in the original title as a meta-joke? Turns out it's the former</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2021 19:04:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26906774</link><dc:creator>bobbyi_settv</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26906774</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26906774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bobbyi_settv in "Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> One of the big open questions is "are APIs copyrightable?" The court skirted that question, and instead focused on whether it was fair use:<p>Doesn't deciding that it's fair use specifically mean that they think it <i>is</i> copyrightable? The fair use doctrine specifically refers to the use of copyrighted material.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2021 20:50:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26704534</link><dc:creator>bobbyi_settv</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26704534</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26704534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bobbyi_settv in "Vim Clutch – A hardware pedal for improved text editing (2012)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I need to get in the habit of using those. I tend to do ct<space></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2021 07:45:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26433205</link><dc:creator>bobbyi_settv</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26433205</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26433205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bobbyi_settv in "Vim Clutch – A hardware pedal for improved text editing (2012)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>ci also can take a number for nesting level. For example, c2i( will change within the second level of surrounding parens rather than the innermost</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2021 07:43:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26433193</link><dc:creator>bobbyi_settv</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26433193</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26433193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bobbyi_settv in "Wing Commander III"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Tom Wilson later gained some internet fame for this song:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwY5o2fsG7Y" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwY5o2fsG7Y</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2021 02:49:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26364779</link><dc:creator>bobbyi_settv</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26364779</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26364779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bobbyi_settv in "Git's list of banned C functions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It doesn't just buy safety. It also makes it possible to include null bytes inside of strings.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2021 23:11:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26349831</link><dc:creator>bobbyi_settv</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26349831</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26349831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bobbyi_settv in "Scientists talked to people in their lucid dreams"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Keep a dream journal. Meaning, when you wake up each morning, immediately write down everything from your dreams.<p>Everyone says they can't do this because they don't remember their dreams, but if you start trying to do it, you will probably find that when you have just woken up, you remember a little, and as you start writing, more comes back to you. Over days of doing this, you will get better at it.<p>After doing this for a while, try to recognize patterns, particularly specific things that show up with some frequency in your dreams that are indications you are dreaming. For example, there is someone you went to high school with that you encounter semi-often in your dreams, but never see anymore in real life. If you are talking to that person it means you are dreaming.<p>Try to brainwash yourself, really drill into your head over and over, that when you see this person, you are in a dream, and you should start trying to activate your mind and be conscious of what is going on. Also, really drill into your mind the idea that if you every find yourself vaguely wondering "am I dreaming right now?" the answer is ALWAYS yes.<p>With luck, the next time you encounter this situation in your dream, there will be a nagging feeling that there was something you were supposed to remember, and then you'll realize what it is and start to wake up your mind within the dream. After a few times, your mind will start to recognize when it is in a dream and become lucid sometimes without the specific trigger.<p>This is the technique I read in a book decades ago in my early teens and didn't expect it to actually work, but it did. I don't get there regularly (and never did), but I still get to full on lucid maybe once every month or two and it is amazing. It's so incredible to be able to look at the world around you and realize that everything you are seeing is created by your mind.<p>It gives a deep appreciation for how powerful your mind is and how much more there is to it than just what you are conscious of, since in the dream your conscious mind feels the same as when you are awake, but you know that all of the seemingly external stuff around you and even people that you speak to are also "you". If your conscious mind and everything that seems external to it are really part of the same connected whole when you are dreaming, could the same be true when you're awake?<p>Even if this approach doesn't work for you, keeping a dream journal for a while can be super interesting anyway.<p>FWIW, this was the book:
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805025006/" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805025006/</a><p>I haven't seen it in decades, so can't really vouch for it too much. From what I remember, it explained the approach I've outlined above in not much more detail than I just did and most of the rest was filler talking about what dreams are.</p>
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