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Alan Turing Law

maddyboo — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 22:02:25 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing_law

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29324131

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New comment by maddyboo in "An intro to finding things in Linux"

maddyboo — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 19:41:56 +0000

Also = when prefixed with a space, which works basically like `command -v`, expanding to the full path of the executable. For example `echo =grep` results in `/usr/bin/grep`.

New comment by maddyboo in ".plan"

maddyboo — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 07:12:27 +0000

On plan.cat/stdin it shows just such an incantation:

    T=`mktemp` && curl -so $T https://plan.cat/~YOUR_USERNAME && $EDITOR $T && \
      curl -su YOUR_USERNAME -F "plan=<$T" https://plan.cat/stdin

It worked for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

New comment by maddyboo in "Cellular Automata in F#"

maddyboo — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 01:03:28 +0000

I don't know F#, but from what I gather it's very similar to OCaml which I do. To put it bluntly, after OCaml, most other languages feel ugly. OCaml is my idea of what programming should be: graceful, ordered, well-designed, mathematical, yet practically applicable to real-world problems.

New comment by maddyboo in "Why Tokyo Works"

maddyboo — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 00:32:39 +0000

Except for the "everything is just so great" part.

New comment by maddyboo in "Photoshop’s journey to the web"

maddyboo — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 16:41:16 +0000

This isn’t what I meant when I asked you for Linux support, Adobe!

New comment by maddyboo in "Self studying the MIT applied math curriculum (2019)"

maddyboo — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 19:33:22 +0000

Excellent intro comic, it got me really excited about your product! I would love to try it out once you release a more advanced course. I signed up, hopefully you will send e-mail updates as you release new courses.

New comment by maddyboo in "Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering"

maddyboo — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 15:58:55 +0000

Source?

New comment by maddyboo in "Show HN: I built a sonar into my surfboard"

maddyboo — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 04:38:59 +0000

Super cool!

P.s. it seems the repo with the code is private.

New comment by maddyboo in "A New Search Engine That Doesn’t Rank Sites Based on Their Authority"

maddyboo — Sun, 17 Oct 2021 20:03:48 +0000

Oops

> Connection failed: User 'u126801970_ortingo' has exceeded the 'max_user_connections' resource (current value: 15)

New comment by maddyboo in "Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files"

maddyboo — Sun, 17 Oct 2021 16:16:46 +0000

Obsidian may be Electron, but it doesn’t feel like it to me. It’s fast, smooth, and I’ve never noticed excessive memory usage. I think its quality exceeds most fully native apps, especially on Linux.

Last I heard it was built entirely by two people (and two cats). What’s a better way to build a high quality native-ish application targeting 5 platforms with a team of 2?

New comment by maddyboo in "Pursue High-Quality Leisure"

maddyboo — Sun, 17 Oct 2021 08:02:30 +0000

> chill and relax

> don’t need thinking

You seem to be seeking proxies for the effect of not thinking, putting your mind and body at ease, and letting go. Have you given meditation a try? Anecdotally, it can fulfill these needs in a way no other semi-conscious activity seems capable.

New comment by maddyboo in "Showing GUIs from Shell Scripts"

maddyboo — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 07:27:08 +0000

I like yad[0] for this. For example, I use it to present a GUI color picker to change/insert colors in Vim (via a plugin called vCoolor[1]). I also use it in some i3/sway scripts that need user input or to show a progress bar.

[0]: https://github.com/v1cont/yad

[1]: https://github.com/KabbAmine/vCoolor.vim

New comment by maddyboo in "Use Raspberry Pi as Airplay server to screen mirror on TVs, monitors, projectors"

maddyboo — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 09:56:16 +0000

Does anyone know of any similar magic for turning an RPi into a Chromecast?

New comment by maddyboo in "The Mind Has No Firewall (1998) [pdf]"

maddyboo — Sun, 10 Oct 2021 03:09:19 +0000

Down the Wikipedia Rabbit Hole we go:

> During the initial run of [A Fish Called Wanda], a Danish audiologist named Ole Bentzen died while laughing during a screening, which led newspapers to report that he had died from laughter. The official cause of death was heart fibrillation, which may have been caused by an increased heart rate due to extended laughter. Cleese considered using the event for publicity, but ultimately decided it was in too bad taste.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fish_Called_Wanda#Death

New comment by maddyboo in "Pocket P.C. – Ships first dev units"

maddyboo — Sat, 02 Oct 2021 04:52:29 +0000

Reminds me of the ClockworkPi[0]. Is there a name for this form factor?

[0]: https://www.clockworkpi.com/

New comment by maddyboo in "Footnotes now supported in GitHub Markdown"

maddyboo — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 02:40:38 +0000

It’s the “wrong element” but if the goal is to scroll to a given vertical position then it works.

New comment by maddyboo in "Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-blockers grow"

maddyboo — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 08:47:46 +0000

I mostly agree, but one really nice feature FF has is the ability to see a diff of the CSS properties you've changed in the inspector:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Page_Inspecto...

New comment by maddyboo in "Nginx Playground"

maddyboo — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 03:42:42 +0000

Absolutely. Julia is amazing. All of her work on Wizard Zines is so positive, helpful, approachable, and yet has enough depth that everyone from beginners to experts can learn something. She is an Internet Treasure for sure.

New comment by maddyboo in "Slacktyping: I'm typing when you're typing (2018)"

maddyboo — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 01:19:46 +0000

That’s not stupid, that’s really cool!