Hacker News: equalunique

New comment by equalunique in "Conservatives flock to Parler, claiming censorship on Facebook and Twitter"

equalunique — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 14:47:46 +0000

Facts can be cherry-picked.

Half-truths can and slightly inaccurate statements can be construed as either hard-TRUE or hard-FALSE.

On the opposite side of the political spectrum, "nuance" in political discussion is an accepted reality.

Gatekeeping is acknowledged as a problem - we know those who position themselves as arbiters of truth are not beyond scrutiny.

It would be contradictory to know these are true but also believe conservatives are deluded in believing that fact-checking is fraught with bias.

>Indeed, conservatives have long claimed that fact-checking was riddled with anti-conservative bias and even conflicts of interest (as when PolitiFact, one of Facebook’s six United States-based fact-checkers, shot down a critique of a Clinton Foundation initiative without disclosing that one of that program’s principal funders was a major donor to PolitiFact’s parent organization, the Poynter Institute).

https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/media/310849-who-will...

New comment by equalunique in "Glenn Greenwald Charged with Cybercrimes in Brazil"

equalunique — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 20:03:00 +0000

A talking point belonging to a group one dislikes does not make it invalid.

New comment by equalunique in "Ask HN: How do those eMMC Windows laptops work?"

equalunique — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 01:19:51 +0000

A year or two ago, I freed up like 100GB of space from my Windows OS drive by deleting these files: https://serverfault.com/questions/746849/windows-temp-large-...

It was a corporate laptop, so maybe the problem exacerbated itself to that level due to frequent patches the employer was pushing.

New comment by equalunique in "Ask HN: How do those eMMC Windows laptops work?"

equalunique — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 01:19:30 +0000

A year or two ago, I freed up like 100GB of space from my Windows OS drive by deleting these files: https://serverfault.com/questions/746849/windows-temp-large-...

It was a corporate laptop, so maybe the problem exacerbated itself to that level due to frequent patches the employer was pushing.

New comment by equalunique in "Ask HN: How do those eMMC Windows laptops work?"

equalunique — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 01:13:13 +0000

In the mid-2000s I once tried installing Windows XP to a 16GB eMMC drive that was in a PCI slot adapter on my main PC. It did install successfully, just as it would on a normal hard drive. It did boot. The only problem (besides it being only 16GB) is it took forever. The PCI slot transfer speeds were slow. The eMMC card itself was slow. I can't recommend doing it, but it does work.

New comment by equalunique in "Multilingual People Have Healthier, More Engaged Brains? (2016)"

equalunique — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 17:48:44 +0000

Occam's razor is just another brand of shaving razors.

New comment by equalunique in "B-Ber: a framework for publications as websites, EPUBs, etc."

equalunique — Sun, 22 Dec 2019 23:51:40 +0000

I had the same thought. I suppose one main difference is this project's focus on importability for Adobe InDesign.

New comment by equalunique in "Rustysd – A minimal drop-in for a subset of systemd in Rust"

equalunique — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 18:30:14 +0000

Maybe a slimmed down version of systemd is what we really needed all along.

New comment by equalunique in "Show HN: HNTerm – Browse Hacker News in the Terminal"

equalunique — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 17:54:42 +0000

Thanks for this.

I love the concept, and would use it daily if there were features for adding/removing/viewing favorites. This is something that the official API doesn't support, so it's not something I'm faulting this application for. Impressive for sure.

Also +1 on wlqlwlql's dark-mode idea, although a color theme in general might be a better approach (but perhaps overly complicated?).

New comment by equalunique in "Neo.mjs – Webworker-driven UI framework"

equalunique — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 07:29:47 +0000

Any examples that work in Firefox?

New comment by equalunique in "The Cybertruck is not brutalist"

equalunique — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 22:23:38 +0000

To me the truck seems more in line with Futurism.

New comment by equalunique in "Trump vs. the WTO"

equalunique — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 15:12:53 +0000

It's a double-edged sword

New comment by equalunique in "O(n^2), again, now in Windows Management Instrumentation"

equalunique — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 18:15:07 +0000

(not) discussed previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21740589

New comment by equalunique in "Ask HN: Just survived cancer, but now disabled, need advice"

equalunique — Sun, 08 Dec 2019 16:37:52 +0000

You probably have already checked out some ambidextrous mice, but FWIW, this is the left handed mouse I use: Elecom M-XT4DRBK

New comment by equalunique in "Two malicious Python libraries caught stealing SSH and GPG keys"

equalunique — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 14:39:14 +0000

Use SELinux

New comment by equalunique in "Sherlock: Find usernames across social networks"

equalunique — Sat, 30 Nov 2019 21:09:59 +0000

Promoting yourself / your personal brand?

New comment by equalunique in "The Programmers' Stone"

equalunique — Fri, 29 Nov 2019 22:30:57 +0000

I see how this could upset some, but whether or not it is either empathetic or disrespectful is arguable.

New comment by equalunique in "Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox"

equalunique — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 15:57:31 +0000

Thank you for sharing this. I kniw I will find it useful.

New comment by equalunique in "Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox"

equalunique — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 15:56:34 +0000

I thought the reward neurotransmitter was dopamine. Aren't endorphins for pain?

New comment by equalunique in "Eternal Terminal"

equalunique — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 17:42:49 +0000

> mosh: Mosh is a popular alternative to ET. While mosh provides the same core funtionality as ET, it does not support native scrolling nor tmux control mode (tmux -CC).

I had no idea Mosh did not support tmux control mode. I was hoping to eventually use Mosh more, but not any more.

Glad to see Eternal Terminal works with FreeBSD too.