<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: execat</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=execat</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:32:29 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=execat" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by execat in "Singapore to cane scammers as billions lost in financial crimes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> An autocratic, single party state where the government is so popular that they need to rig their elections against themselves to get dissenting voices.<p>It's not a single party state. Over 1/3rd of Singaporeans vote for the non-PAP candidates.</p>
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<p>At  risk of going off-topic, when I see comments like these, I wonder how the comment author comes up with these corrections (cross-checked, the comment is in fact true)<p>Did you have the number memorized or did you do a fact check on each of the numbers?</p>
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<p>What's their end game here?<p>What is Microsoft gaining from their push to passkeys? They knew this was going to piss off a lot of people, but they went ahead with it anyway. That makes me believe there's something else at play.<p>My experience with passkeys has been worse that my Bitwarden password auto complete, so needless to stay I'm sticking with my regular passwords on my Bitwarden (I know Bitwarden has Passkeys support. I don't want to use it)</p>
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<p>How to do the same thing with `nix shell` (The flake based command) instead of `nix-shell`?</p>
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<p>That's a wide range, isn't it?</p>
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<p>In his last lecture he mentions that the best part of teaching is when a student sends them a photo of a rainbow 10 years after graduating, saying that they remember the whole physics behind it.<p>Same for me. I think of the cones of light being formed when I see the rainbow and that amazing lecture.</p>
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<p>This is interesting. When we talk about interstellar travel in the far future, this may be another issue to consider. The handover of knowledge will have to happen over at least a few generations.
It will end up being a software application whose development and upkeep sprints/projects will be measured in multiple years instead of weeks.</p>
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<p>No. ~etc is equivalent to /home/etc.
~/etc is the same as /home/<current user>/etc.</p>
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<p>Be kind. Don't be snarky. 
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html">https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html</a></p>
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<p>A Christian Netflix exists. It's called Pure Flix.</p>
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<p>In addition to everything mentioned here, projects based on holiday dates (Christmas sale feature, Thanksgiving promotions etc) not rolling out on time means that the feature can go out only in the next year.</p>
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<p>Companies that plan on doing something like this: please make sure you are paying your candidates market wage for the interview.<p>For Leetcode style questions, there is some amount of interaction from the interviewer, so the cost to the company is that employee's 1 hour wage. If as a company, you feel like this is an efficient and superior way of interviewing, consider giving that amount to the candidate.</p>
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<p>Instagram reels have completely replaced Tiktok. No one around me misses Tiktok.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2024 01:07:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39663886</link><dc:creator>execat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39663886</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39663886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by execat in "A decent VS Code and Ruby on Rails setup"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> A single-line block uses { }, but when it's multiple lines, it has to be changed to "do" and "end" - why?<p>It doesn't have to be changed. {} work fine on multi-line blocks also. It's probably your linter that's forcing you to change them to do... end blocks: <a href="https://try.ruby-lang.org/playground/#code=3.times+%7B%0A++print+'Welcome+'%0A%7D&engine=cruby-3.2.0" rel="nofollow">https://try.ruby-lang.org/playground/#code=3.times+%7B%0A++p...</a></p>
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<p>I love this. The app is less than 4MB and with so many puzzle types!</p>
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<p>You might be over-estimating how long it takes to write a Nix config.<p>Just start with a reasonable Nix config and take it from there by comparing with nix-darwin and home-manager configuration pages.<p>I know people who did it over a weekend.</p>
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<p>You need SponsorBlock.<p>Usually people leave a "highlight" marker which tells you where you're supposed to jump to. Along with the regular "This video was brought to you by <insert>VPN".</p>
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<p>All used. Don't try these.</p>
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<p>All of these are used.</p>
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<p>Paul Graham (Y Combinator co-founder) has a lot of essays on Lisp or mentions of Lisp:<p>* Lisp: <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/lisp.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.paulgraham.com/lisp.html</a>
* Beating the averages: <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html</a><p>Other notable programmers have mentioned this. I can think of Yegge's article (<a href="http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/04/lisp-is-not-acceptable-lisp.html" rel="nofollow">http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/04/lisp-is-not-acceptab...</a>) where he mentions this:<p>> ...It's dirty laundry that needs airing. The problem: Paul Graham. I mean, the guy's a genius, and I love reading his essays, and his startups are doing great things, etc. etc. You can't fault him. But he's created something of a problem.
> Before Paul Graham, Lisp was dying. It really was, and let's not get all sentimental or anything; it's just common sense. A language is always either gaining or losing ground, and Lisp was losing ground all through the 1990s. Then PG came along with his "I'm not talking to you if you're over 26 years old" essays, each a giant slap in our collective face, and everyone sat up and paid attention to him in a hurry. And a TON of people started looking very seriously at Lisp.<p>In addition, HN itself is written in a dialect of Lisp called Arc: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)</a><p>This is why you can't trust HN as the general opinion among people or even programmers. They are a very specific subset of programmers who are more likely to be interested in things like Lisp.</p>
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