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New comment by chipaca in "Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)"

chipaca — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:55:17 +0000

I went to https://www.keyboardco.com/ and searched for left-handed and the keyboard in the photo popped up, as well as a bunch of weirder and wonderfuler ones.

New comment by chipaca in "Show HN: FlakeUI"

chipaca — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 14:58:25 +0000

Thank you for the comment. I would not have understood "can be navigated using mouse" to mean "dragging".

Also I hate that I can't select text on this. Probably because "dragging".

New comment by chipaca in "Debugging a Golang Bug with Non-Blocking Reads"

chipaca — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 21:11:03 +0000

I seem to remember non-blocking io with named pipes was unreliable, in the sense that the test suite of whatever-it-was (memory is reeealy sketchy, this was tens of years ago) would fail randomly often enough that we had to throw the easy solution away and do actual networking.

A bit like the .signature named pipe from fortune thing, where sometimes you got two signatures and sometimes none? Anybody remember that?

New comment by chipaca in "Debugging a Golang Bug with Non-Blocking Reads"

chipaca — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 16:29:26 +0000

Step 1, create a named pipe, and open it in non-blocking mode.

...

Unless things have changed a lot in this domain in the last few years, that won't work reliably _anywhere_.

New comment by chipaca in "A Canadian payroll dependency chart"

chipaca — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 17:25:12 +0000

From the looks of it that's been generated by `circo`, which is part of GraphViz and describes itself as a “filter for circular layout of graphs” and

       circo  draws graphs using a circular layout (see Six and Tollis, GD '99
       and ALENEX '99, and Kaufmann and Wiese, GD '02.)  The  tool  identifies
       biconnected  components  and draws the nodes of the component on a cir‐
       cle. The block‐cutpoint tree is then laid out using a recursive  radial
       algorithm.  Edge  crossings within a circle are minimized by placing as
       many edges on the circle's perimeter as possible.   In  particular,  if
       the  component is outerplanar, the component will have a planar layout.
       If a node belongs to multiple non‐trivial biconnected  components,  the
       layout puts the node in one of them. By default, this is the first non‐
       trivial component found in the search from the root component.

New comment by chipaca in "Find a good available .com domain"

chipaca — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 09:02:54 +0000

    $ apt-cache search 'words for /usr/share/dict' | sed -e 's/^[^ ]* - //; s/ dictionary words.*//' | sort -u
    American English
    British English
    Bulgarian
    Canadian English
    Catalan
    Esperanto
    French
    German medical
    Irish (Gaeilge)
    Italian
    Manx Gaelic
    Polish
    Spanish
    Swedish
    Ukrainian

New comment by chipaca in "Court Orders UK Man to Pay $571m for Operating Fraudulent Bitcoin Trading Scheme"

chipaca — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 12:57:31 +0000

I mean, yes, but so does the Austral and it lasted less than Bitcoin has already.

New comment by chipaca in "Faasd – Lightweight Serverless for Raspberry Pi"

chipaca — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 12:11:03 +0000

why is it still acceptable to suggest something like

  curl -sLfS https://cli.openfaas.com | sudo sh

?

New comment by chipaca in "Fasting improves chemotherapy results and protects from side effects: study"

chipaca — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 12:42:39 +0000

In mice.

New comment by chipaca in "Desolate English path has killed more than 100 people (2017)"

chipaca — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 20:24:42 +0000

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foulness_Island#Conservation

> The island's name is derived from the Old English fugla-næss, with fugla (modern "fowl") meaning "of birds" and naess being the Germanic word for promontory

New comment by chipaca in "Ask HN: Who Is Firing?"

chipaca — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 10:46:18 +0000

I've seen nothing about a "1 hour maximum" rule; where are you getting that from?

New comment by chipaca in "Which Emoji Scissors Close?"

chipaca — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 06:05:42 +0000

why do you have male/female (primero/primera) and then female/male (1ª/1º)?

New comment by chipaca in "HTTPie – A user-friendly CLI HTTP client"

chipaca — Sun, 01 Dec 2019 23:24:43 +0000

FWIW we had to move away from python in the project I was working on because just waiting for the help took more than 15 seconds (IIRC) on a beaglebone black.

New comment by chipaca in "HTTPie – A user-friendly CLI HTTP client"

chipaca — Sun, 01 Dec 2019 23:22:04 +0000

`snap install http` gets you the latest httpie, fwiw

New comment by chipaca in "System76 Thelio: A Review"

chipaca — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 15:58:09 +0000

> I just wish PopOS was built on Debian and not Ubuntu.

why?

New comment by chipaca in "Why are tech companies making custom typefaces?"

chipaca — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 18:14:41 +0000

I assume it's to underline the "smaller" argument. Working at Canonical, none of the other companies on that list is "small". I think AirBnB is the smallest that isn't us, and it's got over a thousand.

I don't know how big it was when it made the font though.

New comment by chipaca in "25 years ago today, NCSA Mosaic 1.0 was released"

chipaca — Sun, 11 Nov 2018 23:55:28 +0000

    snap install mosaic

:-)

New comment by chipaca in "Taking Go modules for a spin"

chipaca — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 13:31:12 +0000

Given it's 18.04, you could've `snap install go --channel=edge` to get go from master.

(all praise mwhudson for maintaining the Go snaps -- `snap info go` for the whole story).

New comment by chipaca in "Juan de Fuca"

chipaca — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 07:03:32 +0000

Could somebody correct the title?

New comment by chipaca in "Pluralization rules around the world"

chipaca — Sun, 27 May 2018 09:25:19 +0000

"it's complicated"