Hacker News: distcs

New comment by distcs in "Sustain Open Source, sustain the planet: A new conversation"

distcs — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 10:08:35 +0000

For those like me confused how opensource.net is related to opensource.org from their about link:

> OpenSource.net launched in response to the halt of Opensource.com operations by supervising entity Red Hat, which supports the move. This includes facilitating the republishing of selected, previously published material from Opensource.com for the archives of OpenSource.net with the project’s community manager Seth Kenlon continuing to play an advisory and supporting role.

New comment by distcs in "Sustain Open Source, sustain the planet: A new conversation"

distcs — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 10:06:28 +0000

From the HN guidelines:

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

New comment by distcs in "Things to commit just before leaving your job"

distcs — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 11:10:47 +0000

It isn't mysterious. It just doesn't match the vibes of HN. I don't come on HN to see silly jokes. And as you can see by the number of flags this post has received to kill it, it looks like most HN readers agree with me.

New comment by distcs in "Things to commit just before leaving your job"

distcs — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 11:08:21 +0000

Still it is not clear why a silly joke needs to be on the front page of HN!

New comment by distcs in "Everything will be alright in Iceland"

distcs — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 15:13:41 +0000

> Iceland was a very poor country for most people other than a few well off in the fishing industry.

Very insightful. I had no clue this was the case.

Is there any published list somewhere that measures the relative richness between the countries? I am just curious to see which countries come out at the top and which ones at the bottom. Anyone knows any such list?

New comment by distcs in "An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)"

distcs — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 13:08:11 +0000

Tell us more about your project! Did you start it from scratch? Or did you use another opensource app as starting point and developed it further for yourself? What language is your app written in? Where do you run it? In CLI? or desktop GUI? The more you can share about it the merrier. I am sure others want to learn more about this too.

New comment by distcs in "An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)"

distcs — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 12:52:26 +0000

Thanks for clearing up my confusion! That comment makes total sense now and not as baffling as it first looked.

New comment by distcs in "An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)"

distcs — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 11:36:21 +0000

> What if you have never cooked at home but all the time in a commercial kitchen? That's the reality for most of us here so it is a bit difficult to relate to this article.

Really? I'd hazard a guess that the majority here (> 50%) have never worked at a commercial kitchen!

I'm honestly curious to understand why you think most people here must have worked at commercial kitchen and never cooked at home?

An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)

distcs — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 10:03:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38877423

Points: 1051

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Hazard distances for selected consumer laser types

distcs — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 18:51:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lasersafetyfacts.com/resources/FAA---visible-laser-hazard-calcs-for-LSF-v02.png

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38870752

Points: 2

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FXYT pattern drawing language with 36 commands

distcs — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 12:43:29 +0000

Article URL: https://susam.net/fxyt.html#XYoTN1srN255pTN1sqD

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38866294

Points: 1

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New comment by distcs in "A new blog for 2024"

distcs — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 15:44:52 +0000

But the OP is talking about creating a new blog (a website that has a collection of blog posts).

New comment by distcs in "UK becomes first G20 country to halve its carbon emissions"

distcs — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 12:09:49 +0000

> As noted in another comment, some of this can be attributed to manufacturing being done elsewhere

This is an excellent point. Are there reports similar to TFA that accounts for this? I mean a report that calculates the total demand a country is putting on carbon emissions (directly or indirectly) will be more insightful.

New comment by distcs in "Serendipity is too important to be left to chance (1996)"

distcs — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 16:24:41 +0000

> The current Remembrance Agent uses the Savant information retrieval system developed in-house by the Jan Nelson and Bradley Rhodes. The Remembrance Agent runs through emacs, a popular text editor. The user interface is programmed in elisp, and the results are presented as a three line buffer at the bottom of the window.

There is a nice retro screenshot of Emacs after this. Looks like a really old version of Emacs. A nice window into the history of computer stuff!

Ask HN: How do HN posters find interesting links?

distcs — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 10:59:27 +0000

The post about The Borsuk-Ulam Explorer made me ask this question. If someone had not posted that link I'd have never discovered that cool link. But thanks to HN now I know it exists.

How do HN posters find these cool links? How do you stumble upon these things?

It never ceases to amaze me how much cool stuff people post here, stuff I could have never found myself if HN did not exist.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38652943

Points: 3

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New comment by distcs in "The Borsuk-Ulam Explorer"

distcs — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 10:43:03 +0000

> Who made this?

> Colin Cotter (Imperial College, London) and Julius Ross (University of Illinois at Chicago, supported by NSF-DMS 1749447). You can provide feedback, or access the source code here.

I'd really like to know how these two people from different parts of the globe came to collaborate with each other. I know we live in the age of Internet and all but I'd really like to know how such people find each other and collaborate.

I missed out on this kind of collaboration when I was in college. But learning the answer to this question might be helpful to others who might want to do such collaboration but do not know how to get started.

New comment by distcs in "Deleting 50k Lines of Code in 3 Days"

distcs — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:53:41 +0000

Is it a common practice to commit dependencies into the project repo? If so what type of projects do that?

New comment by distcs in "You Don't Batch Cook When You're Suicidal (2020)"

distcs — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 17:20:37 +0000

> still don’t have contents insurance (a hangover from poverty, I just wasn’t in the habit of insuring things and now keep putting it off, because paperwork terrifies me)

The author seems to be from UK. Is contents insurance a thing in UK? How many renters really do buy contents insurance? Genuinely interested to know how many think that contents insurance is worth it?

New comment by distcs in "Ask HN: Examples of nice open source software that are written as single file?"

distcs — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 16:50:11 +0000

Anyone has got a similar list for single file software tools that are not libs? Something end users can use directly?

Ask HN: Examples of nice open source software that are written as single file?

distcs — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 14:42:55 +0000

Are there examples nice open source software or tools that are written as single file?

These could be big or small projects but it needs to fit in a single file of source code.

Like if it is a C project, then it should be a single .c file. Or if it is Rust project then only single .rs file.

Why do I care about this? Just pure curiosity. I hope to discover some interesting projects in the answers.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38446235

Points: 2

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