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New comment by brokenkebab2 in "Show HN: Feep! search, an independent search engine for programmers"

brokenkebab2 — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 21:45:40 +0000

Frankly it doesn't look like it's ready to be useful. As an example tried "Braze notifications" and the first result was about Brave, then two mildly relevant, and then a long stretch of "Who's hiring?" topics from which HN seem to mention only notifications.

New comment by brokenkebab2 in "Want to live in a van down by the river? Ford has a new vehicle for that"

brokenkebab2 — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 22:09:21 +0000

Overgeneralization detected! I live tiny, and spend less than I used to. I'm not in US though. But I think the general principle is the same everywhere: many of those who come to alternative homes do it not to save (especially from IT crowd), but for the fun of trying something different, and they happily spend a lot. But some do it to practice self-restraint. Others to keep themselves busy with DIY. Many different goals, many different compromises, all of that leading to different budgets.

New comment by brokenkebab2 in "The Restaurant Industry’s Worst Idea: QR Code Menus"

brokenkebab2 — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 18:51:21 +0000

Guests fiddling with their phones is not QR-dependent from what I experienced.

Also, waiters can be helpful, and friendly even when there's no paper menus. In my current city most restaurants are QR-enabled, and they serve food as nicely (or not) as paper-based. Absolutely the same experience except how you looking into menu. I just stopped noticing the difference.

EDIT: Maybe important note that I'm neither in US, nor an EU country.

New comment by brokenkebab2 in "Om is a novel, maximally-simple concatenative language"

brokenkebab2 — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 11:03:36 +0000

Interesting idea. Though maximally-simple claim doesn't look warranted to me. It feels more complex than most of Forth incarnations.

New comment by brokenkebab2 in "Om is a novel, maximally-simple concatenative language"

brokenkebab2 — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 10:57:53 +0000

How's this important for a project which is obviously an experiment in PLs field? You either interested in such things, or not, nothing else applies.

New comment by brokenkebab2 in "BSD-XFCE installs macOS-like XFCE enviroment on FreeBSD"

brokenkebab2 — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 01:06:32 +0000

I can easily agree that Mac's touchpad is nice, as many other pieces of its hardware. MacOS however is not as good as it used to be (comparatively), because other OSes advanced significantly while retaining better configurability.

Btw, any touchpad should be used for a limited time, say in travel conditions. If you use it so much it became a decisive factor of choice - you are voluntarily marching towards RSI.

New comment by brokenkebab2 in "BSD-XFCE installs macOS-like XFCE enviroment on FreeBSD"

brokenkebab2 — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 23:39:34 +0000

>System wide function keys (play, pause, volume up, etc.) that work everywhere

What's so special about it? The only difference between my Asus with Linux, and Mac in this regard is that on Mac I have to use touch stripe which is inferior experience compared to physical keys.

I also see no discernible difference in many other things you mention like wifi stability.

New comment by brokenkebab2 in "BSD-XFCE installs macOS-like XFCE enviroment on FreeBSD"

brokenkebab2 — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 23:25:14 +0000

MacOSX UI nowadays feels quite outdated compared to e.g. default KDE. And I don't even like KDE that much.

New comment by brokenkebab2 in "One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross”"

brokenkebab2 — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 22:41:35 +0000

It's absolutely not like that. Apple extracts profits in a lots of ways, including those which rely on gathering personal data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32539762

New comment by brokenkebab2 in "One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross”"

brokenkebab2 — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 15:15:36 +0000

I didn't like FB well before it became fashionable, but I don't understand your logic here: what is that exactly that you can't entrust WhatsApp to send, but you can trust Apple, or your mobile carrier?

New comment by brokenkebab2 in "Building a Startup on Clojure"

brokenkebab2 — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 18:18:26 +0000

I must note switching from novelty to boring phase is a crisis which every growing project will come through once it starts to expand its workforce. I saw it in teams with very average tech stack many times.

New comment by brokenkebab2 in "Lua, a Misunderstood Language (2021)"

brokenkebab2 — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 17:43:44 +0000

I mentioned history of numbers, and it starts not from PIE speaking peoples, so I'm a bit lost as for what exactly is your point.

New comment by brokenkebab2 in "Lua, a Misunderstood Language (2021)"

brokenkebab2 — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 10:38:23 +0000

I'm a member of multilingual family, and I'm inclined to insist it's not about Germanic grammar cases, because it's true for non-Germanic languages as well.

New comment by brokenkebab2 in "Lua, a Misunderstood Language (2021)"

brokenkebab2 — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 08:40:46 +0000

>If I ask you to count the number of red balls in a bag with only 3 yellow balls, then the initial count in your head is 0,

Sorry, no. Humans count from 1. That's just a basic fact reflected in the history of numbers, which at early stages often didn't treat 0 as a number, but as a special case. And if you would say "I counted zero red balls" most people around will find it an unusual wording. Normal way of saying it doesn't involve mentioning 0 at all: "It's empty", "There are no red balls" etc.

New comment by brokenkebab2 in "Open Source PC That Fits in Your Pocket"

brokenkebab2 — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 10:25:53 +0000

For example I could prepare presentations with it, or deal with long emails, and write code - all day long. While it was less comfortable compared to full-sized PC, it was normal, alright. Appearing in the same situation with any modern smartphone I would surrender immediately, because it would be literally crippling experience. Not to mention that it was technically much more flexible.

New comment by brokenkebab2 in "The Two Wings of Postmodernism"

brokenkebab2 — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 22:20:39 +0000

It's not a point if postmodernism, however. Noting that earthly life is unfair, and humans (and therefore human institutions) are inherently morally fallible predates postmodernism by millenia. The novelty of postmodernism thought was their claim that reality is not defined externally, and therefore its presumed unfairness makes it a sort of conspiracy intended to perpetuate that unfairness.

New comment by brokenkebab2 in "The relationship between plant-based diet and risk of digestive system cancers"

brokenkebab2 — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 21:25:02 +0000

"...asking the subject about their eating habits over the last period"

New comment by brokenkebab2 in "IMDB deleted all negative user reviews for The Rings of Power"

brokenkebab2 — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 13:22:08 +0000

> exist only in your imagination and in fairy tales.

I'm afraid, this argument is both wrong (maybe you just haven't been lucky with people around you), and inapplicable (the talk is imaginarium).

New comment by brokenkebab2 in "Why do some humans love chili peppers?"

brokenkebab2 — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 09:19:07 +0000

Summary: the linked text doesn't answer the headline question. It's more a literary excercise

New comment by brokenkebab2 in "Ask HN: Why is there no performant remote desktop for Mac/Linux?"

brokenkebab2 — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 08:12:04 +0000

>Were as Windows has been used to support

It's turning things upside down. Windows has been used in remote because it became dominant, not vice versa. It won in enterprise segment before e.g. even remote support, not to mention remote apps became widespread. And Win's success wasn't that much related to its technical excellence as most of admins from 90s would say