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New comment by yung_steezy in "Human writers have always used the em dash"

yung_steezy — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 10:31:18 +0000

I use the em-dash quite often but tend to forget that I need to hit `-` twice to get it to appear in markdown. Used to be an oversight on my part but now I stick to it so people can tell I'm personally writing to them.

New comment by yung_steezy in "DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome"

yung_steezy — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 11:01:30 +0000

Apple are creating a walled marketing garden with their new privacy features too. If a person pays for iCloud storage of any time they get placed onto the Apple VPN and their IP address resolves one of two or three different values for any given country.

This makes web tracking and attribution impossible to anyone who is not Apple. Users might be happy with it but I think it is similar anti-competitive behaviour to what Google are doing.

New comment by yung_steezy in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

yung_steezy — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:19:27 +0000

Growth can be achieved with productivity gains where you produce the same amount with fewer resources.

New comment by yung_steezy in "wxHexEditor — a Free Hex Editor / Disk Editor for Huge Files or Devices"

yung_steezy — Mon, 20 May 2024 16:56:09 +0000

I'm a fan of nhexl-mode in emacs. It does take a while to open large binaries (dozens of gigabytes), however I've managed to use it to do some rudimentary swapping out of video files on a modern computer game.

New comment by yung_steezy in "Amazon's "Just Walk Out" checkout turns out to be 1000 workers watching you shop"

yung_steezy — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 17:48:55 +0000

I suppose there is meant to be a tipping point where the humans should be able to step back after the AI has learnt enough from watching them. Perhaps they were struggling to reach that point and the failure rate was remaining stubbornly high.

Outsourcing to India/Mechanical Turk is always going to be cheaper than creating a sophisticated AI model. I could see them dropping it if the "learning" had started to stall.

This whole thing seemed like a branding exercise anyway. Like how Apple stores are in every major city despite relatively few people buying their products in-store.

New comment by yung_steezy in "Gentoo goes Binary"

yung_steezy — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 14:14:35 +0000

They've had a binary version of the full fat linux kernel available for a few years now. Other packages like firefox-bin have been available since before I started using gentoo in 2017.

Edit: Actually looking into this more the headline is accurate. This is the first time they've provided official binaries aside from stage3s when doing the initial installation.

New comment by yung_steezy in "Gentoo goes Binary"

yung_steezy — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 14:12:32 +0000

I use gentoo on my desktop and debian on an old refurb thinkpad I got for £100. Both of them are amongst the last of the large independent linux distros and I think both approaches are valid.

Never had a bad experience with Arch but the way they use the AUR as a crutch is a bit off-putting. It's a little bit like a giant gentoo overlay but pushes all the complexity onto the user.

New comment by yung_steezy in "Unix as IDE (2012)"

yung_steezy — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 13:47:56 +0000

tmux defaults don't play nicely with the Apple Terminal. Resizing split panes for example collides with switching workspaces in macOS finder.

New comment by yung_steezy in "Gentoo Linux Goes Binary"

yung_steezy — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 13:40:22 +0000

This is partially true but I believe that the only component ChromeOS uses from Gentoo is the portage package manager during some of its bootstrapping protocols.

New comment by yung_steezy in "Gentoo Linux Goes Binary"

yung_steezy — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 13:23:53 +0000

I think this is unfair - Arch is also meme'd by linux enthusiasts and 4chan.

Additionally, Gentoo is the largest distro with the source-based package manager USP. I suppose you could take issue with that approach for reasons like the systemd maintainer does where he claims it wastes CPU-cycles and time. Personally I disagree with that assessment since reproducible builds are a vital part of FOSS.

New comment by yung_steezy in "Write more "useless" software"

yung_steezy — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 22:26:05 +0000

That's it! You've all been holding me back too long. I'm going to clown college!

New comment by yung_steezy in "Five Kinds of Friends (2022)"

yung_steezy — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 13:38:28 +0000

This is very similar to Aristotle's views on friendship in Nichomachean Ethics.

He has a final category of 'true friend' that refer to someone who reflects part of your being back at you. Given that this is possible with another person he is able to resolve the question of "why should we behave morally?" by pointing out that every other human is potentially a true friend who may instantiate an aspect of you. In this case acting without considering the interests of others is acting against your own interests.

New comment by yung_steezy in ""About 67k” sites are banned from submission on HN, the list is kept secret"

yung_steezy — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 21:47:48 +0000

Makes sense in retrospect

New comment by yung_steezy in ""About 67k” sites are banned from submission on HN, the list is kept secret"

yung_steezy — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 17:16:46 +0000

I believe archive.org is one of the sites because I tried to post an economist link using it to circumvent the paywall once and the post seemed to be shadow deleted

New comment by yung_steezy in "A video game where you are an operating system"

yung_steezy — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 16:04:25 +0000

Human Resource Machine is great! My wife ended up having a career change into coding after finishing it and the sequel

New comment by yung_steezy in "Canonical’s recruitment process is long and complex"

yung_steezy — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 14:21:34 +0000

Really appreciate posts like these. I think this post specificaly might have saved me from embarking on a colossal time-sink application process.

New comment by yung_steezy in "The BBC on Mastodon"

yung_steezy — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 21:14:49 +0000

Product owners eventually do this to every tech platform to justify their existence

New comment by yung_steezy in "The BBC on Mastodon"

yung_steezy — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 18:17:27 +0000

I actually quite like BBC sounds but it is completely possible to circumvent it. You might need to look the URL of a show up on there but you can play any show on sounds using `mpv `

I also use that method to listen to live radio:

    alias bbc1='mpv http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_radio_one.m3u8'

    alias bbc1x='mpv http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_1xtra.m3u8'

    alias bbc2='mpv http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_radio_two.m3u8'

    alias bbc3='mpv http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_radio_three.m3u8'

    alias bbc4='mpv http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_radio_fourfm.m3u8'

    alias bbc5='mpv http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_radio_five_live.m3u8'

    alias bbc5x='mpv http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_radio_five_live_sports_extra.m3u8'

    alias bbc6='mpv http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_6music.m3u8'

New comment by yung_steezy in "Ask HN: Which recent research paper blew your mind?"

yung_steezy — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 14:34:57 +0000

Is this an example of reference rot or did it never exist?

New comment by yung_steezy in "Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rather than break encryption"

yung_steezy — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 00:50:10 +0000

I think you might have inadvertently revealed why he was so toxic to the electorate here