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New comment by egwynn in "setBigTimeout"

egwynn — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 17:04:34 +0000

I agree it’s not the prettiest, but I had no trouble clicking on “tree” to get to the folder and then “mod.ts” to see the code.

New comment by egwynn in "B-Trees and Database Indexes"

egwynn — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 12:25:26 +0000

This goes pretty deep in English. I'd argue that the semantic intention behind the colloquial usage of "vulgar" is nearly inseparable from the "class distinction" baggage it carries. Consider these common synonyms and their etymologies:

- Rude: "coarse, rough, unfinished, unlearned" (https://www.etymonline.com/word/rude#etymonline_v_16610)

- Mean: "shared by all, common, general" (https://www.etymonline.com/word/mean#etymonline_v_12495)

And even synonyms like obscene, indecent, or disgusting, which don't evoke this distinction directly, still almost always ultimately rely on separating things based on what is "good" and "clean" according to class distinctions.

New comment by egwynn in "B-Trees and Database Indexes"

egwynn — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 19:25:58 +0000

Note that, in the abstract, “vulgar” means “common” (as in “vulgar latin”). Indeed, its negative connotations come from that same sense: “common” people are unrefined.

New comment by egwynn in "Big (O)Notation Every Developer Should Know"

egwynn — Sun, 26 May 2024 12:56:28 +0000

Am I missing something about the O(logN) section? Why is there a graph of O(n^3 logN) under the text Here is how logarithmic complexity look like?

New comment by egwynn in "Why Don't I Like Git More?"

egwynn — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 15:17:10 +0000

I know this isn’t truly the point of the article, but I’d encourage anyone/everyone to give https://fork.dev a try. Unlimited free trial but well worth it to support the great devs. It solves basically all of the ergonomic gripes I have with the `git` CLI.

New comment by egwynn in "End of Life for Twilio Authy Desktop App"

egwynn — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 18:32:09 +0000

I had some good luck with https://github.com/token2/authy-migration

New comment by egwynn in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

egwynn — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 16:17:01 +0000

At the risk of correcting the primary source, I was able to load https://www.ebiester.com/ but not https://ebiester.com/

EDIT: I see you’ve already updated your comment. Thanks!

New comment by egwynn in "Distcc: A fast, free distributed C/C++ compiler"

egwynn — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 12:07:07 +0000

Xcode used to have native support for this, long ago. And it had mdns support too!

New comment by egwynn in "TWM − Tab Window Manager for the X Window System"

egwynn — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 21:34:48 +0000

The wikipedia page[0] has screenshots.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twm

New comment by egwynn in "Yapsl: Yet another Python SMS library"

egwynn — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 13:11:19 +0000

This is cool. Although when I looked through the code I thought, “surely there must be a general-purpose Hayes command library for Python”, so I searched around, and didn’t find anything. Kinda wild.

New comment by egwynn in "PayPal Demonetises the Daily Sceptic"

egwynn — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 14:08:49 +0000

The first amendment is mostly about what the US government can/can’t do, and even then it’s not 100% protection.

New comment by egwynn in "The sooner we accept RCS is dead, the sooner we can choose the next platform"

egwynn — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 13:42:11 +0000

Just want to add that I make extensive use of “tapbacks” with pretty much everyone I use iM with.

New comment by egwynn in "LibreRPi – open source replacements for RPi firmware"

egwynn — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 12:13:16 +0000

I’m not an expert, but iirc banana-pi and beagleboard are SBCs with more of an open source bent.

New comment by egwynn in "“It’s time for Apple to fix texting”"

egwynn — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 17:38:33 +0000

Thanks for this link! This is a great explanation which clears a lot of things up to me.

New comment by egwynn in "“It’s time for Apple to fix texting”"

egwynn — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 18:59:13 +0000

I’m curious about how this works, can you link me someplace where I can read more about it? I tried searching for “cellular over wifi” but wasn’t about to find anything promising.

EDIT: I searched harder and found “VoWiFi”. It looks like this can support SMS and is supported by iOS. TIL.

New comment by egwynn in "“It’s time for Apple to fix texting”"

egwynn — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 16:41:40 +0000

> definitely sent/received SMS over wifi using my iPhone

Are you certain? From what I understand about how SMS works, I don’t see how that’s possible. Apple’s own docs also appear to suggest that SMS-over-WiFi won’t work: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207006

New comment by egwynn in "The Upper Middle Class Is Getting Squeezed"

egwynn — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 19:16:51 +0000

I didn’t read “conservative” or “liberal” as US political identifiers so much as synonyms for “risk averse” and “risk tolerant” respectively.

New comment by egwynn in "The Great Tech Salary Crash"

egwynn — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 16:17:10 +0000

I always roll my eyes a little bit when people use the "FAANG" acronym because Netflix never really seemed like a good fit and it leaves out Microsoft which seems like a better fit. Nevermind that "Facebook" is actually "Meta" now and "Google" is actually "Alphabet" now. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Tech#FANG,_FAANG,_and_MAMA...

New comment by egwynn in "Code to flood Kellogg with bogus job applications after strikers sacked"

egwynn — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 16:20:19 +0000

Yes IP, and also User Agent doesn’t look like it’d be hard to filter against using the posted code.

New comment by egwynn in "Honey, Please Shrink the Touchpad"

egwynn — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 14:40:28 +0000

I suspect the commenter is using “tap to click” which would cause the drag operation to be terminated once they lift up off of the trackpad.