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New comment by sudo_rm in "Do your own writing"

sudo_rm — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:24:58 +0000

Second this. After having a chat with some coworkers, I've been attempting to write more thoughtful and longer commit messages. I had this exact experience yesterday after I had staged my commit and was writing the message. I realized that there was a better way to do this change and redid the whole thing.

New comment by sudo_rm in "Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format"

sudo_rm — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 12:41:07 +0000

I've learned recently at my new job that ePubs are just a giant zip file of html, css, etc. Sometimes you need to rezip them if they are not working quite right and I imagine that is what converting them from ePub to ePub is doing.

New comment by sudo_rm in "Productivity porn"

sudo_rm — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 14:05:41 +0000

> (a) work is effectively infinite and (b) the things worth doing or seeing exceed the capacity of a human life.

These are some of the main ideas in the book 4000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals. I think it is one of those rare self help books that are actually worth a read.

New comment by sudo_rm in "'Children of Men' is happening"

sudo_rm — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 17:48:16 +0000

> ‘While it cannot be said that youthfulness “causes” war,’ he writes, ‘or that maturity “causes” peace...

An Interview with 100 Rabbits

sudo_rm — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 14:10:03 +0000

Article URL: https://sourcehut.org/blog/2021-12-08-100-rabbits-interview/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29539685

Points: 2

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New comment by sudo_rm in "Your Computer Isn't Yours"

sudo_rm — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 15:09:40 +0000

The title of this article really captures the feeling I had when I decided to ditch my iPhone. My mobile device was the last piece of tech that I owned that did not truly feel like I owned it. I've recently switched to an original Pixel running LineageOS. There are only a handful of pain points for me that make the switch difficult, most notably navigation. The feeling of actually having control of my device seems to be worth it so far.

New comment by sudo_rm in "Less screen time and more sleep critical for preventing depression"

sudo_rm — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 15:05:19 +0000

Lately I have been doing my best to limit my "optional" screen time (optional meaning anything that is not for work and school). I fingered though Cal Newport's "Digital minimalism" [1] about a month and a half ago and decided to try out the 30 days tech fast in the book. The idea is to use this time to reset your relationship with tech and to really figure out what you value and what you are trying to accomplish with your tech habits. If other people are like me and struggle with compulsiveness with using the internet and computers, I recommend giving it a shot.

[1] https://www.samuelthomasdavies.com/book-summaries/business/d...

New comment by sudo_rm in "Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal"

sudo_rm — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 16:11:03 +0000

How much experience do you have in OS dev before you jumped into this project?

New comment by sudo_rm in "This Page is Designed to Last"

sudo_rm — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 15:56:10 +0000

I started a recurring donation through your link. Thanks for posting this.

New comment by sudo_rm in "Chrome extension manifest v3 proposal: comment from uBlock Origin author"

sudo_rm — Thu, 30 May 2019 12:52:31 +0000

I think add-ons only work on Android though, not iOS.

New comment by sudo_rm in "Activision-Blizzard layoffs after reporting record results"

sudo_rm — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 14:01:04 +0000

It's not the worse thing to monetize. They started releasing skins, announcers, etc for players to purchase.

New comment by sudo_rm in "Bye, Bye, Google"

sudo_rm — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 13:39:31 +0000

Does anyone have a good alternative to Google Maps? I recently purchased a Nexus 5X and installed LineagosOS with no Google Services. The one thing that I am having trouble with is finding a good navigation application.

New comment by sudo_rm in "DeepMind – StarCraft II Demonstration"

sudo_rm — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 21:23:42 +0000

That's a 12 pool though. Little different. The article was talking about an immediate worker rush, not building some army and then going over.

New comment by sudo_rm in "DeepMind – StarCraft II Demonstration"

sudo_rm — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 20:50:40 +0000

Not a worker rush. Worker rushes only really work against lower ranked players that panic and do not know how to respond.

The reason is that while the attacking player sends over their workers to attack, the defending player is still constantly making workers. By the time that attackers get there the defending player should have more workers. He simply has to command all of them to fight the opponent's workers.

Learning from the FIRE Movement

sudo_rm — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 18:21:06 +0000

Article URL: https://financeandpurpose.com/financial-independence-retire-early-work-attitudes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18630094

Points: 1

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New comment by sudo_rm in "I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me happier"

sudo_rm — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 15:07:56 +0000

Around January of this year, I took the plunge and deleted all of my social media accounts. It's been great, and I am pleasantly surprised with how easy I was able to cut cold turkey.

What I can not seem to quit, however, is excessively watching YouTube and Twitch. I spend so much of my time everyday on these platforms and I find it difficult to pull myself away from them. If anyone has any tips or advice on this, I would appreciate it.

New comment by sudo_rm in "Programming Quotes"

sudo_rm — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 18:41:16 +0000

I think this has to do with the fact that things like XML are not Turing complete, even though it is a language in its own right.

New comment by sudo_rm in "Ask HN: How can one be educated, smart, and believe in God?"

sudo_rm — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 19:32:08 +0000

>... for thousands of years the Church said we should interpret it literally.

This is completely false.

Source is the Catechism of the Catholic Church:

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p1s1...

In Sacred Scripture, God speaks to man in a human way. To interpret Scripture correctly, the reader must be attentive to what the human authors truly wanted to affirm, and to what God wanted to reveal to us by their words.

In order to discover the sacred authors' intention, the reader must take into account the conditions of their time and culture, the literary genres in use at that time, and the modes of feeling, speaking and narrating then current. "For the fact is that truth is differently presented and expressed in the various types of historical writing, in prophetical and poetical texts, and in other forms of literary expression."

New comment by sudo_rm in "Ask HN: What do AAA games use for their chat and other “real time” stuff?"

sudo_rm — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 12:44:11 +0000

I found this book [1] as a good starting point in understanding how XMPP works. It was written almost a decade ago, but it is really good for walking you through examples of how the protocol works to accomplish something.

I also recommend using Gajim. It's a really solid XMPP client that has a feature that I found super helpful. In it's advanced feature, it has something called the XML console. You can see the stream of XML between the client and the server to see a real example of what is going on in the background. You can even send your own XML and see how the server will respond to it.

I'm pretty new this stuff as well. At my work, I'm helping build a chat solution for one of our products. XMPP seemed to make the most sense for us. I'm not an expert or anything, but I found these super helpful.

Good luck to you!

[1] https://oriolrius.cat/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Oreill...

New comment by sudo_rm in "Ask HN: What do AAA games use for their chat and other “real time” stuff?"

sudo_rm — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 18:51:04 +0000

I know that Fortnite [1] and League of Legends both use XMPP. Eve just moved to XMPP [2] somewhat recently. There is a Hackernews thread that talks about the Eve article already too. [3]

[1] https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/news/postmortem-of-...

[2] https://blog.process-one.net/eve-online-chat-is-moving-to-ej...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16445365