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fjcp commented on Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend? · Posted by u/nishithfolly

maaaaattttt · 2 years ago

A simple game I posted here before [1].

I think it’s rather hard to finish a project in under one weekend. And we tend to easily say “I did it over the weekend” but mean “I had something working after one weekend”. Especially if the weekend is not one where you spend 48 hours in front of the computer (counting Friday evening in). So, I was quite proud to get it finished in one weekend under normal conditions.

[1] https://reach-100.com

fjcp · 2 years ago

I started and when a grasped the concept I immediately closed the page and walked away haha. I foresaw myself spending hours and hours trying to finish this game. It is like 2048 but harder.

fjcp commented on Accidental database programming sqlsync.dev/posts/stop-bu... · Posted by u/thunderbong

nusmella · 2 years ago

An old company I worked for used project management software with a check-in/out mechanism for making changes. When you "check out" a project it downloads a copy that you change locally, then "check in" uploads it back to the server. A project is "locked" while in the "checked out" state. We all felt it was an archaic mechanism in a word of live updating apps.

After 10 years of building SPA "web apps", that data synchronization mechanism feels ahead of its time.

fjcp · 2 years ago

Looks very similar to JEDI [0], an early Delphi VCS system that worked that way. It gave us the tranquility to know that no conflict would appear, as only one developer could work with a locked/checked out file at a time. There was no merge those days. In contrast, files that were frequently changed in every task would always cause a blocking between developers.

[0] https://jedivcs.sourceforge.net/

fjcp commented on Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs brave.com/vertical-tabs/... · Posted by u/czottmann

CoBE10 · 3 years ago

I've been using Firefox with Tab Center Reborn, and a config which collapses the tabs so only the favicons are visible. Using Shift-Tab, Ctrl-Shift-Tab and Ctrl-T, Ctrl-W to go around and open/close is so logical for me. First time I heard about Tree style tabs I was so against them because they occupied significant amount of space and I didn't know you could collapse them. I don't see myself ever going back horizontal tabs. Vertical is so much better, especially on smaller screen (like 1366x768), where horizontal space isn't needed that much as vertical is.

My setup: https://i.imgur.com/sZ8zdol.png

fjcp · 3 years ago

@CoBE10 Tried this extension and found it better for me than Tree Style Tab. Your config is a custom CSS? Would you mind sharing it? Thanks!

fjcp commented on Google Authenticator Updated: Slower, Mandatory Click to Reveal · Posted by u/jcfrei

fjcp · 4 years ago

Oh...sad i didn't saw this early. Already updated here and this reveal "feature" is the worst usability experience they could push to an app like that. I use this daily to login to multiple services and will migrate to something more like the old version asap.

fjcp commented on Groundhog: Addressing the Threat That R Poses to Reproducible Research datacolada.org/95... · Posted by u/snakeboy

bayindirh · 5 years ago

As I can see from the researchers in our cluster and my own academic research, most people still avoid spaces in paths and files like the plague.

YMMV of course.

fjcp · 5 years ago

As a Linux user I can relate to that. I always avoid spaces in folders and filenames as they make it more annoying to manipulate them using command line tools. Years later I carried this habit to whatever OS I am using.

fjcp commented on Emacs Symbolic Integration gnu.org/software/emacs/ma... · Posted by u/eklitzke

sillysaurusx · 5 years ago

Oh my gosh, someone please add an M-x gpt-doctor. Hmm.. I wonder how we'd build the training dataset...

How many other meme modes exist? I dug up the earliest commits I could find, and apparently one of the earliest hooks was "protect-innocence-hook": https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1327459335245422597

If the buffer's filename is "sex.6", it asks whether the user is over 18. If so, it renames the buffer to "celibacy.1".

Apparently it was in the file lisp/play/meese.el. Emacs archaeology is more fun than it should be.

fjcp · 5 years ago

>How many other meme modes exist?

Here is the manual section listing all the "Games and Amusements" that ship with Emacs by default:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Am...

fjcp commented on Google outage – resolved · Posted by u/abluecloud

zymhan · 5 years ago

Presumably there were more failures than a single engineer could've been responsible for here.

fjcp · 5 years ago

Its absolutely possible, the worst AWS outage was caused by one engineer running the wrong command [0].

"This past Tuesday morning Pacific Time an Amazon Web Services engineer was debugging an issue with the billing system for the company’s popular cloud storage service S3 and accidentally mistyped a command. What followed was a several hours’ long cloud outage that wreaked havoc across the internet and resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in losses for AWS customers and others who rely on third-party services hosted by AWS."

[0] - https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2017/03/02/aws-...

fjcp commented on Ask HN: Most hassle-free Linux distro? · Posted by u/brundolf

fjcp · 5 years ago

I would suggest Linux Mint. I have been using the same installation since 2015 without problems. I'm currently one version behind the latest and I only upgrade when its absolutely necessary (e.g. a new GPU doesn't have drivers). I do keep it updated too, due to the LTS nature of the distro. Its a very stable distro to use if you don't need bleeding edge software from the repos. I use it for all my stuff, including gaming (mostly Steam) and development.

Just something you need to know tho, these little issues/teaks you describe, I consider that they are part of the Linux experience and no distro will be completely free from them. Sometimes things will break and you'll have to fix them, that's not a problem, its just different from what people are used to on other Operating Systems (as things break differently). With time and experience using Linux their frequency will drop (you'll know what parts of the system are more prone to break and how to avoid it) or will be less annoying (you'll know how to fix stuff without losing hours searching on the net).

Good luck, I think its worth the time spent learning, as Linux gives you a great amount of power over the system and what you can do with it.

fjcp commented on One in five Covid-19 patients develop mental illness within 90 days – study reuters.com/article/healt... · Posted by u/MKais

JSavageOne · 5 years ago

> 13.3% of influenza patients also have the same spectrum of diagnoses

I recently got and recovered from COVID-19. By far the worst part about having COVID-19 for me was the psychological toll and anxiety of having a virus that the governments and media make out to be as if it's as deadly as the bubonic plague, when in reality at least anecdotally for me and my friends who've gotten it, none of us experienced more than mild sickness, and all of us recovered within a week or two.

When I first got COVID19, I remember telling my girlfriend, and her breaking down in tears, having told me horror stories of young healthy people who died from COVID. I mentioned "hey at least I'll have the antibodies / T Cells", and she responded that there have been cases of people getting reinfected, which may be true - but is certainly not the norm. You're just more likely to see these horror stories being paraded around the news than the vast majority of patients who only experience mild symptoms and recover with no lingering symptoms.

I don't mean to dismiss the suffering of those who've fallen seriously ill and died from COVID as that is obviously tragic, but at least in my experience, none of my 20+ friends I've spoken to (mostly in their 20s / 30s) who got COVID got more than mild sickness, and all recovered after a week or two.

Were we all lucky? Maybe. But my point is, there seems to be an enormous discrepancy between how the governments and media are portraying this disease, and the reality of this disease. Dishonest alarmist journalism like this that tries to paint a narrative of a deadly disease without putting numbers in proper context, calling "anxiety" a mental illness during a pandemic, not properly controlling for the general context of the fact that we're in a global pandemic with government lockdowns, travel bans, and people out of work is a serious problem that only exacerbates the general anxiety and depression of the public.

Of course people should know about the horror stories too, but we're really not getting a balanced perspective here, which is a huge problem and has serious mental consequences.

fjcp · 5 years ago

I got the virus too and I agree with you 100%. My symptoms were just fever in the first day then I lost all my sense of smell (which is still recovering), but what scared me the most was the psychological effects I had to deal with.

I tried to get myself busy, did my workouts everyday, worked from home, that helped a lot. But was mostly at night when I was doing nothing that bad thoughts would try to take control. Some days I would think that I was having difficult to breath, start to get dizzy, but it was all in my mind. I then would calm down, take some deep breaths and watch all the "symptoms" disappear.

I blame that on the apocalyptic coverage the media gave to this disease, every day on every channel, if you tuned in, all you would see were patients in respirators, people dying and mass graves.

Now what I try to do is be very optimistic when talking to people about the disease. I say to them that although it can be a dangerous disease, the majority of those infected will recover without trouble and that I was one of them, so they can have a good case to remember against all the bad news they already have heard. It may help them when they had to deal with it too, as sadly I think everyone will have at some point.

fjcp commented on The Tao of Programming (1987) mit.edu/~xela/tao.html... · Posted by u/jasim

hanche · 5 years ago

I have to say I also enjoyed The Codeless Code. A search reveals that stories from there have been submitted to HN several times, though hardly ever commented on. There have been no new stories since 2016.

http://thecodelesscode.com/contents

fjcp · 5 years ago

The Codeless Code is great and very entertaining, and sometimes one can learn some lessons from the stories. One that I remember to this day and always consider when building an application is the The White Pearl[0].

[0] http://thecodelesscode.com/case/73