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tectec commented on Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo blog.mozilla.org/en/mozil... · Posted by u/recvonline

The job was always very easy, fire all of the pure managers and sock the google money into an endowment before it runs out. Then focus on privacy as you mentioned.

They’ve taken in several billion dollars by now. Let that sink in. They're supposedly a non-profit, so this plan is the well-trodden playbook.

But of course no Manager instance could imagine such a thing. Cue Upton Sinclair quote.

tectec · 5 days ago

What's the quote?

tectec commented on Interview with gwern dwarkeshpatel.com/p/gwern... · Posted by u/synthmeat

cpp_frog · a year ago

There is a comment on the r/slatestarcodex subreddit with supposedly true information about him (which I found googling 'who is gwern'), but it left me with even more questions.

EDIT: grammar

tectec · a year ago

Can you link the comment here?

tectec commented on Show HN: Foosbar – My autonomous foosball-playing robot github.com/misprit7/foosb... · Posted by u/misprit7

ano-ther · 2 years ago

Impressive!

Are there always three players in the goalie position? I seem to remember playing with one goalie (1-2-5-3 players), but that’s a while ago.

tectec · 2 years ago

The tables I've seen with one goalie have raised corners so that the ball doesn't get stuck there. You see it more on budget tables in my experience.

tectec commented on Do It Yourself Blind Repair fixmyblinds.com/... · Posted by u/nsajko

antiquark · 2 years ago

No, my version doesn't have strings to pull, you just grab the top or bottom of the blind itself and raise or lower it.

tectec · 2 years ago

Does it use two sets of lift tape? https://fixmyblinds.com/collections/cellular-honeycomb-pleat...

tectec commented on Seven Years of Factorio Friday Facts (2020) spieswl.github.io/blog/20... · Posted by u/davikr

LordShredda · 2 years ago

What's more fascinating is how they've found things to talk about every week for 10 years. Shows how detailed and complicated the game can be

tectec · 2 years ago

They took a long break from them after 1.1, the first version was finished. They started again recently in preparation for the 2.0 release, which will hopefully be sometime next year.

tectec commented on Show HN: Personalized Meal Plans to Suit Your Lifestyle assistant.tnx-solutions.c... · Posted by u/pat_hacks

tectec · 2 years ago

I can’t see prices without filling in my email? And there are so many recipes out there for free, why would I pay for more?

tectec commented on Ask HN: How to handle Asian-style “Family name first” when designing interfaces? · Posted by u/evolve2k

paulmooreparks · 2 years ago

Even in England, you would have to consider King Charles III's name. His given names are Charles Philip Arthur George. No family name. Of course, now his name is even a bit longer: "Charles the Third, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of His other Realms and Territories, King, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith". So, if you think he might sign up for your app, make sure your name field is long enough, and that the "Preferred Name" field can accommodate a space: "Charles III" or "Charles Rex"

tectec · 2 years ago

He's from the house of Windsor so wouldn't he use that as his last name where it's needed?

tectec commented on Lacros on Chromebooks transition plan won’t be quick aboutchromebooks.com/news... · Posted by u/billybuckwheat

faust201 · 2 years ago

I believe this would a great thing.

Make IETF standard for cloud notebooks

- If there is an username/password then

- Login from the screen

- If the backend (dropbox or MS or nextcloud or webdav) supports

* Drive(or storage) then it is loaded into a file manager

* Password manager -> it is loaded

* Bookmarks etc

This would mean they can claim that chromebooks are

- NOW UNIVERSAL

- No lockin

- No monopoly

- if other OEMs want they can replace the browser and ship it

(I discussed this with Firefox management that they should build this cloud notebook instead of boot2gecko-firefoxOS but...)

tectec · 2 years ago

Do you think there are many sales lost of chromebooks because there is lockin? I think most people care way less about that then you would hope.

tectec commented on LEGO Building Instructions archive.org/details/lego-... · Posted by u/micah_chatt

mrweasel · 2 years ago

Now if someone would just make an app that can figure out which set my bricks belong to. I have at least two sets that I can't find the instructions for, because I have no idea what they're called or which number they have. The bricks are fairly unique, they can't be in more than 10 sets.

tectec · 2 years ago

Brinklink has list for each brick of the set it belongs too. I was able to use that to discover a set I didn't know my older brothers had.

tectec commented on Magit magit.vc... · Posted by u/swatson741

imiric · 2 years ago

I'm surely in the minority here. I've been using Emacs for almost a decade now, but I just can't get into the Magit workflow. I've tried several times, but always end up going back to Git on the command line. I have dozens of aliases, shell integrations, a nice diff viewer[1], etc., and interacting with Git has become muscle memory. I can commit, cherry-pick, rebase, bisect, fix conflicts, etc., in a fraction of the time it would take me to navigate Magit's UI. I'm sure with enough practice, a Magit user could do this more quickly and efficiently, but honestly, with some custom-built porcelain, Git's UI is not so bad. Though this could very well be Stockholm syndrome after using it for such a long time...

For whatever reason, Magit's opinionated workflows never clicked with me. A part of it is the concern that it will do something weird to my repo that I'll then have to waste more time undoing manually. I usually don't trust sugary wrappers around tools. And another is the fact I don't use Emacs on all machines, and setting up Git on a remote system is just a matter of copying over my config and some shell integrations.

Also, on a more personal note, I find the cultish fanboyism whenever Magit is brought up slightly offputting. Does anyone have anything bad to say about it? No software can realistically be this infallible. :)

[1]: https://github.com/dandavison/delta

tectec · 2 years ago

I mainly use magit for reviewing changes, staging and committing. I haven’t found an interface that compares for staging and discarding hunks. But checking out branches I do on the command line and I use Meld for resolving conflicts.