We need self driving cars and VR so people can get high with their friends without having to drive
There are Uber, taxi and other public transportation. You can get high with your friends and don't drive. Just plan ahead.
Readit NewsPerizors commented on Nearly half of drivers killed in (Ohio County) crashes had THC in their blood sciencedaily.com/releases... · Posted by u/pogue
Is there any RSS reader that is also able to subscribe to newsletters in some way? There are lot of contents that are only provided as newsletters nowadays and I wanted to be able to read my feed and newsletters in the same app, without going into my mail inbox.
Personally, I think the nicest thing I can do, for my users, and for the engineers who come after me, is to write code that works, and write it in such a way that other people can figure out what it does without wanting to gouge their own eyes out.
Clearly, we do not have the same goals.
It is not mutually exclusive tho
Perizors commented on Vim Language, Motions, and Modes Explained (2023) ssp.sh/blog/why-using-neo... · Posted by u/sebg
I use vim & vim bindings for most editors I have (VS Code, Obsidian) and I think there's one thing always missed in this conversation (at least on HN): The changes that happens in your thinking when you start using a tool. Instead we get stuck on pros/cons of tool A vs tool B.
I got in to vim in college for two reasons (the real) one was just that I wanted to look cool, and the second one was to relive my hands of discomfort. It was also around the same time I started to look in to QWERTY vs Colemak vs Dvorak, although I didn't go further with that, I quickly realized that the keyboard layout of my country (Sweden), while similar to US/UK QWERTY placed brackets in absolute garbage positions that caused strain in my right hand a lot. Then also the excessive pressing of left/right arrow + moving right hand between mouse & keyboard caused further strain.
Vim alleviated that with the word/Word/sentence navigation being more spread out, and "stick to home-row" philosophy.
But there was an additional "shift of thinking": editor as a (limited) programming language. Being able to store macros, navigate depending not just on line/character but chunks such as word & sentences made me realize I could do things such as:
"In this XML/URDF file, replace all elements with the name=X with the logic Y, which might including adding/removing xml elements/attribute"
without having to use some scripting (python + parsing etc). The process of figuring that out is also interactive. Try out a bunch of commands, stitch them together as "macros" and then make macros that calls macros that use copy-paste registry.
If I stuck with Sublime, or VS Code, I don't think I would've had that epiphany. It even helped me (non-CS guy) to understand programming better.
Are you using qwerty still?
Perizors commented on Vim Language, Motions, and Modes Explained (2023) ssp.sh/blog/why-using-neo... · Posted by u/sebg
One of the problems is that vim is so entrenched with the QWERTY layout that any shortcut is too cumbersome in colemak
Perizors commented on Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant economist.com/the-america... · Posted by u/jcartw
While I agree cryptocurrencies don't stand a chance, my experience with qr systems has been a mixed bag. The country I live in has a fairly good qr code payment system. But there was one day when the largest bank went down and that was chaos (cash very much has a role to play). We also supposedly have linkage with India's UPI. Unfortunately, it was impossible for me to actually use that linkage thanks to the way upi works (I think only some subset of banks are supported).
In the case of Brazil, besides QR codes, you can also make payments using the user unique key, which can be its phone number, social security number, email or a random generated key.
Perizors commented on Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age manuel.kiessling.net/2025... · Posted by u/lamp_book
The premise might possibly be true, but as an actually seasoned Python developer, I've taken a look at one file: https://github.com/dx-tooling/platform-problem-monitoring-co...
All of it smells of a (lousy) junior software engineer: from configuring root logger at the top, module level (which relies on module import caching not to be reapplied), over not using a stdlib config file parser and building one themselves, to a raciness in load_json where it's checked for file existence with an if and then carrying on as if the file is certainly there...
In a nutshell, if the rest of it is like this, it simply sucks.
How do you properly configure a logger in application like that?
Perizors commented on Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features blog.system76.com/post/ha... · Posted by u/pantalaimon
I've been using linux for some 15-20 years depending on how you count. The last 3 i've been using PopOs! as a complete windows replacement. Gaming works great (with the usual caveats) and everything has been a pleasant experience.
I've never been a gnome fan almost always switching to xfce but on PopOs! its alright!
I'm very much looking forward being able to drop Gnome and use Cosmic instead - having thumbnailsupport is going to be an improvement.
Afaik thumbnails have already been fixed in gnome
Perizors commented on Ask HN: What's the worst that could have happened had xz gone unnoticed? · Posted by u/nomilk
All of the above, stealing of money, secrets, AI model weights, destruction, access to crypto passphrases, spam, impersonation, blackmail ... maybe not directly to systems with good security, but its like picking a lock, every bit of progress helps, security exists in layers, and one weak layer compromises the next... ssh is a pretty fundamental technology, and highly trusted.
There are wonderfully colorful podcasts about this. Darknet Diaries is pretty decent, and entertaining, for public consumption.
Any other podcast recommendation? I usually listen to darknet diaries and recently discovered hacked.
Perizors commented on Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020) kevquirk.com/is-dark-mode... · Posted by u/eBombzor
Look, darkmode, and the bluelight fear is not really based on that much science.
Yes, UV and top end blue does cause cataracts in people, but thats from the sun, not monitors.
There are at least two strands to darkmode, one is the "It stops me from sleeping" and the other is eye strain.
the sleeping part is almost certainly nothing to do with the colour temperature of the light coming out of your device. If you go outside at dusk, you will note that its overwhelmingly blue in most places, most of the year (in london its orange for an hour in april and october.) yes, sunset tends to be orange, but the long bit after (again depending on longitude) is overwhelmingly blue.
The moon casts blue light.
You can't get to sleep because you've been hooked on twitter/instagram/ticktok and are revved up because that's what they do. "YOU NEED TO DO THIS NOW" or "THE SITUATION IS REALLY BAD, BECAUSE YOU DIDNT X" and "OMG THEY ARE SO HOT" finally "YOU ARE FAILING BECAUSE YOU DIDNT DO THIS ONE OLD WEIRD TRICK"
You have tension headaches because you've been frowning at a screen for many hours. Or you've not blinked, looked up moved your eyes, or generally changed position.
Now, there are some people for whom this doesn't apply, and that blue light is the cause of their woes. But for 99.5% of you, it won't be.
Blue wavelength does have an effect on sleep. The photoreceptors linked to the suppression of melatonin are most sensitive to blue light. And melatonin is associated with the sleep-cycle regulation.