Hacker News: mclehman

New comment by mclehman in "Why Johnny Won't Upgrade"

mclehman — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:39:47 +0000

I was just able to create a new google account with no phone number.

New comment by mclehman in "How to delete all your files"

mclehman — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 01:58:11 +0000

I have absolutely no clue what I've done to make it work this way (if anything), but in zsh running a command with !$ (last word from the previous command) I get the opportunity to edit the interpolated version first.

New comment by mclehman in "Turning the Raspberry Pi 4 into a Mini Server"

mclehman — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 06:41:22 +0000

I was able to swing $230 total for two x230s with the base i5 and ssds last fall/winter (actually three, but the third doesn't really count (arrived damaged, seller initiated a refund then ghosted, got a full refund from ebay)). If you're really lucky, you can find a computraced one for super cheap ($85 in my case) and then coreboot it.

That said, x220s and x230s seem to have gotten more expensive since then, I haven't seen any similarly good deals lately.

New comment by mclehman in "Buffer overflow when pwfeedback is set in sudoers"

mclehman — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 04:11:33 +0000

Reminding people that this is a viable threat model is why sudolph.in exists, albeit for the drive-by someone-left-their-laptop-unlocked case rather than regular local privilege escalation.

I should probably add a check for catching someone within the sudo timeout and give them a hard time if so.

New comment by mclehman in "Luis von Ahn, co-founder and CEO of Duolingo"

mclehman — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 18:43:25 +0000

I'm not sure exactly what you're after, but the Hiragana Pro/Katakana Pro apps (android only, I believe) have two practice modes: choice from three pronunciations as you mentioned, as well as typing romaji with no hints. The latter makes it abundantly clear which kana I'm shaky on.

They're also each a dollar to unlock voiced/combined readings and remove ads. My pihole did block the ads while I was just trying them out.

New comment by mclehman in "Language Learning with Netflix extension"

mclehman — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 15:31:38 +0000

I could see this as a reason to keep "you might also like ____" lists short, but for languages/subtitles I'm going to seek out one of the four languages that's even slightly useful for me to switch to.

New comment by mclehman in "Undocumented Catalina file access change"

mclehman — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 09:50:06 +0000

At least recently, HSTS failures could still be bypassed if you really wanted to (if, say, you made the bad choice of using the .dev tld for private domains). It's just completely undiscoverable for good reason.

New comment by mclehman in "Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack"

mclehman — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 22:34:47 +0000

Team discovery could be a pain, but channel discovery within a team is pretty much everything I would expect it to be.

New comment by mclehman in "Ask HN: How to easily transfer files between devices"

mclehman — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 18:11:31 +0000

This is pretty much* how the Keybase filesystem works, with the added benefit of using more identities than just emails/usernames. Even if you only know someone's Twitter handle or reddit account, you can have this same workflow.

*Except for the "unless they don't want to receive files from you" part.

New comment by mclehman in "Podman and Buildah for Docker Users"

mclehman — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 21:42:33 +0000

I ended up writing a mostly-declarative tool for managing my mix of docker-composed and init-system-ed services at home when that got too unmanageable.

New comment by mclehman in "The 80/24 Rule"

mclehman — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 05:47:05 +0000

My monitor may be widescreen, but my editor typically isn't.

New comment by mclehman in "Multiple ways to compute e in Raku"

mclehman — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 01:50:28 +0000

Raku is not the direct successor to Perl, active Perl development continues.

New comment by mclehman in "Understanding Docker Container Escapes"

mclehman — Sat, 20 Jul 2019 21:47:52 +0000

On the other side of things, my favorite demo for people new to docker who aren't yet aware that sudoless docker ~~ root access is:

    docker run -itv /:/host ubuntu chroot /host

New comment by mclehman in "You Only Need to Test with 5 Users (2000)"

mclehman — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 00:39:26 +0000

I have a friend who does this for free. Every single thing I've ever shown him (both my software and that of others) breaks as soon as he gets his hands on it.

He's the sort to dig as far into the internals of things as he can and then start messing with it (he implemented partial function application for C, for example [1]).

My poor prototypes never stood a chance.

[1] https://github.com/zwimer/C-bind

New comment by mclehman in "Apple kills the non-Touch Bar MacBook Pro"

mclehman — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 17:28:58 +0000

Agreed. I don't use them often but I made sure to program discrete volume/media/brightness controls into my keyboard.

New comment by mclehman in "Apple kills the non-Touch Bar MacBook Pro"

mclehman — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 17:26:58 +0000

You could have both, I've never needed to hold down escape or tap control.

That said, I've had caps lock bound to backspace for years, so I'm not advocating for something I do myself.

New comment by mclehman in "Myths about Perl 6"

mclehman — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 23:11:19 +0000

Thanks, I'll definitely keep it in mind.

MAIN is probably what I should point to as P6's killer feature for things of this scope. I tend to get sidetracked by math/functional features when I demo things even though stuff like this is a bit more practical and likely to get traction.

I just got around to cleaning up that tmux wrapper I mentioned above (https://gitlab.com/0xFORDCOMMA/sessions) and that might be worth writing something about. It's a miniscule project, but I think it highlights a lot of useful features.

One result of that clean-up that relates to this is the new usage output. It's still automatically generated [1], but adding purpose annotations to the multi-dispatch MAINs in `session` and using a P6 enum as a type constraint in the MAIN in `sessions` resulted in what I consider quite useful documentation pretty much for free.

    λ | -> session --usage
    Usage:
      session -- Create or enter default session 'misc/dev'.
      session   -- Create or enter session '/'.
      session  -- Search all categories for matching session, switch to result if unique.

    λ | -> sessions --usage
    Usage:
      sessions [--style=