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New comment by rthkljlkrj in "Why I Like Obsidian"

rthkljlkrj — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 13:59:40 +0000

The plugin ecosystem for obsidian is insanely large, and I say that not in a good way.

I agree, just ignore all of that. Plain files and internal links, that's it.

New comment by rthkljlkrj in "Amazon R&D spending is more than that of all companies and government of France"

rthkljlkrj — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 23:06:25 +0000

Not sure. The D in R&D stands for, I imagine, development of the business, whereas the one in software development stands for development of software.

New comment by rthkljlkrj in "Ask HN: What is the current driver of tech layoffs?"

rthkljlkrj — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 22:29:57 +0000

Counterpoint: This doesn't apply to Google, because Google has _always_ amortized their developer comp, but Google still layed off a thousand people. So, maybe this is just an excuse?

New comment by rthkljlkrj in "Israeli group claims it’s using back channels to censor “inflammatory” content"

rthkljlkrj — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 21:56:02 +0000

Of course they are. Anyone who's seen that documentary about Israel meddling in UK politics know that these people have a lot of power that isn't just military.

New comment by rthkljlkrj in "CEO video: back to the office now, or else"

rthkljlkrj — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 21:31:20 +0000

The thing to realize is that the map between illnesses and symptoms is many-to-one. Given some symptoms, doctors assume the most common thing (because then they're right most of the time) and WebMD assumes the scariest thing (because it benefits their traffic).

New comment by rthkljlkrj in "MozillaSocial"

rthkljlkrj — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 14:59:52 +0000

Firefox already does some syncing. If they added rss, it's likely that they'd add it to the syncing (as optional).

New comment by rthkljlkrj in "Ask HN: Any felons successfully found IT work post-release?"

rthkljlkrj — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 19:38:27 +0000

> Previously I worked in Information Security as a SecOps Eng, most recently at Tinder. Between lack of recent job experience, and my record, I have been through a series of offer reneges, recruiters ghosting me, or going into HR resume black holes.

I "look good on paper" and recruiters ghost me too.

New comment by rthkljlkrj in "Julia 1.10"

rthkljlkrj — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 19:25:47 +0000

For those wondering what Chris is talking about, I just tried this:

    using Plots
    plot(sin)

from fresh start, and it's about 2 seconds on my Dell Latitude 7400 (Core i7).

New comment by rthkljlkrj in "UK plan to digitise wills and destroy paper originals "insane" say experts"

rthkljlkrj — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 19:34:34 +0000

I was just commenting a couple of days ago how ridiculous that the British library melts down when their computers fail. Turns out these people don't learn.

New comment by rthkljlkrj in "Firefox 121 defaults to Wayland on Linux"

rthkljlkrj — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 15:25:56 +0000

> The setting is exposed through the XDG Desktop Portal.

Is this something I can use if I'm using i3wm?

New comment by rthkljlkrj in "The Hidden Secrets of Alien Resurrection on the PS1 [video]"

rthkljlkrj — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 15:22:00 +0000

On the video he mentions the youtube channel of the guy who told him about this cheat code.

That code has been running a youtube channel for 4 years and had at that time 529 subscribers. 2 hours after the shout out from a channel with 777k subscribers, he has 1000 subscribers.

New comment by rthkljlkrj in "Firefox 121 defaults to Wayland on Linux"

rthkljlkrj — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 15:10:20 +0000

Sorry for the OT but this is driving me crazy.

How does "dark mode" work in desktop linux?

I'm using i3wm and I haven't been able to find a way to "press a button and every app turns into dark mode". To be clear, all my apps are already configured to take the theme from "system theme", I just haven't been able to find how to change this system theme.

On android this is pretty well integrated, what's the deal with desktop?

New comment by rthkljlkrj in "Lessons from a never-ending personal project"

rthkljlkrj — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 13:52:19 +0000

> keeping yourself busy' should not be confused with procrastinate or simply passing time

Could you clarify - what's the difference?

New comment by rthkljlkrj in "Lessons from a never-ending personal project"

rthkljlkrj — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 10:35:37 +0000

> is it to solve a problem, is it to learn something, is it to achieve a target, is it to keep yourself busy to wind down and because you like doing it, or is it to promote yourself.

Is it because you feel the need to keep yourself busy, but too lazy to plan what you're trying to achieve.

New comment by rthkljlkrj in "Ukraine forced to cut military operations as foreign aid dries up"

rthkljlkrj — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 20:16:47 +0000

This is the weak aspect of democracies my friends. The enemy can put out propaganda, ignorant people will believe it, and representatives will vote in the interests of the enemy.

New comment by rthkljlkrj in "The British Library URL has been offline due to cyberattack for 10 days"

rthkljlkrj — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 16:49:44 +0000

Of course, I wasn't making an argument that we should make hospitals more fragile...

New comment by rthkljlkrj in "The British Library URL has been offline due to cyberattack for 10 days"

rthkljlkrj — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 16:13:49 +0000

Isn't it ironic that a library of all places completely melts down when you damage their computers? It's not like a hospital for example who could reasonably argue "of course if you manage my systems my business melts down, it's not like managing paper records is part of my core expertise, I'm busy with other things".