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New comment by cptn_brittish in "Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024?"

cptn_brittish — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 07:32:07 +0000

My brother has coined the term Depression Olympics between this and The Stormlight Archives for what the characters go through and Farseer makes Stormlight look like childsplay

Bitburner: A programming and hacking idle game

cptn_brittish — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 19:18:55 +0000

Article URL: https://danielyxie.github.io/bitburner/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29071607

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by cptn_brittish in "PipeWire: The Linux audio/video bus"

cptn_brittish — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 18:40:49 +0000

It has a jack and pulseaudio api wrapper. I use it because it means I don't need to muck around with configuring pulse and jack to work nicely together.

New comment by cptn_brittish in "PipeWire: The Linux audio/video bus"

cptn_brittish — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 18:38:22 +0000

I can confirm that a issue causing my audio to completely drop at random points resolved about 1 month ago and now everything works perfectly.

New comment by cptn_brittish in "AMD Reports Q2 2020 Earnings"

cptn_brittish — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 08:55:46 +0000

Theres this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dev47apps....

Its a little tempermental but works without to many issues.

New comment by cptn_brittish in "Ask HN: How often are you on call?"

cptn_brittish — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 01:08:07 +0000

Company the size of about 10.

I am the only person on call 24/7.

New comment by cptn_brittish in "Ask HN: How do you organize and manage database migrations?"

cptn_brittish — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:39:46 +0000

I can second Dbmate.

The process of a sql migration management is pretty simple and like other comments it's not hard to write something yourself which works well I just prefer to use something a little more battle tested in the deployment process.

Also it's a go app so you don't need to pull down a stupid amount of dependencies for it to work just pull from it's github release and mark it as executable.

New comment by cptn_brittish in "Setup VS Code for Efficient PHP Development"

cptn_brittish — Sat, 20 Jul 2019 00:35:00 +0000

So does Emacs. Emacs also has multiple webrowsers and email clients out of the box. Those features do not make Emacs not a text editor though.

New comment by cptn_brittish in "Smooth Video Game Emulation in Emacs"

cptn_brittish — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 21:24:13 +0000

By default M is Meta or Alt not esc

New comment by cptn_brittish in "U.S. government seeks Facebook help to wiretap Messenger"

cptn_brittish — Sat, 18 Aug 2018 06:51:36 +0000

The War on Drugs is considered a failure and in parts of the world like NSW, Australia made prostituion legal in 1979 in both cases because criminalising things most people use generally doesn't work and all you do is randomly jail people for doing the exact same thing as a large proportion of the population.

New comment by cptn_brittish in "The Hacker News Habit"

cptn_brittish — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 21:10:14 +0000

4G is quicker then fttp for me it's getting ridiculous.

New comment by cptn_brittish in "Michael Pollan reluctantly embraces the 'new science' of psychedelics"

cptn_brittish — Thu, 17 May 2018 11:51:06 +0000

It wouldn't be science but at the same time those conditions are horrible in order to study the effects of psychedelics.

The conditions are almost a sure fire way to make someone have a troubling experience if they were given the doses knowen to be taken in those times and did not have prior experience dealing with the reality altering effects of those substances.

New comment by cptn_brittish in "Parsing JSON is a Minefield"

cptn_brittish — Sun, 22 Apr 2018 21:34:47 +0000

You use p-lists instead so that {"foo":"bar"} becomes ( :foo "bar")

New comment by cptn_brittish in "Caffeine and Cannabis Effects on Vital Neurotransmitters in Rats"

cptn_brittish — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 13:45:01 +0000

Cannabis seems to bridge the gap between all major drug types with it simultaneously acting as a stimulate, depressant and psychedelic with the depressant being the most obvious to a user.

New comment by cptn_brittish in "Caffeine and Cannabis Effects on Vital Neurotransmitters in Rats"

cptn_brittish — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 13:41:55 +0000

Been smoking for a long time and a massive coffee drinker to the point work thinks something's wrong with me and Ive never felt the effects some of my googling describes regardless of my then Cannabis and Caffine intake.

New comment by cptn_brittish in "The Nature of Lisp (2006)"

cptn_brittish — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 20:54:55 +0000

The issue is these days everytime I hear optional I think of semicolons in JavaScript where they are optional except for one or two edge cases I can't remember off the top of my head. Optional is good as long as its a complete you can do it this way or that way like gradual typing in some languages.

New comment by cptn_brittish in "Fnl: zero-overhead Lisp syntax for Lua"

cptn_brittish — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 22:52:35 +0000

In regards to lisp a large amount of lisp editors are written in lisp so they do already do exactly that'

New comment by cptn_brittish in "Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values for 3rd parties"

cptn_brittish — Sat, 03 Feb 2018 07:58:19 +0000

Except spelling is a popularity contest with the one in largest use being considered the way to spell it.

New comment by cptn_brittish in "Punk science: a growing movement wants to make scientific tools available to all"

cptn_brittish — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 09:56:40 +0000

Turn off js

New comment by cptn_brittish in "How Facebook has used Instagram to beat Snapchat"

cptn_brittish — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 14:01:50 +0000

From the younger demographic (22) most of the people in this area I know have simply growen up with ads on the internet and know to just ignore them even if they do not use a ad blocker that may be a issue for you. On Facebook at least from what I read there is a larger demographic to target (ala parents trying to keep track of their teenagers) who may not be used to filtering out ads so that may account for the better conversion rate.