Readit Newstemeya commented on The Prophet of Cyberspace (2016) filfre.net/2016/11/the-pr... · Posted by u/cybersoyuz
As someone who has spent their fair share of days in Vancouver, it blows my mind during some wet early mornings, that this city was where cyberpunk's cradle could be considered, where Gibson wrote Neuromancer. The rain, the grit, the grey, all shared across time and space and pages, and in between each of them, glimpses of the future. It's something about the genre that delights my sense of wonder, of who we as a species have come from and where we're going.
temeya commented on Ask HN: What old video games did you love that haven't left a large footprint? · Posted by u/romanhn
Spider - The Video Game [1] - a little PS1 platformer that had you playing as a cybernetically enhanced spider that could replace its limbs with various weapons, as it tried to save its creator. Its 90's charm, old-school cinematics and it being the first time seeing what could be called "nanotechnology" still blew my mind as a kid. I still go back sometimes and listen to its 'Level Select' theme. [2]
[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider:_The_Video_Game
[2] - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tzn-eNeq6w&pp=ygUoc3BpZGVyIHR...
temeya commented on Essential Terminal Commands Every Developer Should Know trevorlasn.com/blog/10-es... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
My most used keystroke in bash is control-r. The number of folks who don’t know that amazes me. My go to shell command is tmux.
As someone who was also recently taught this, it's amazing. Props to the GNU Readline library [1] as well as Tmux as they are certified game-changers for the occasional context swap.
temeya commented on Is modern mass media a mind prison? jasonpargin.substack.com/... · Posted by u/Michelangelo11
Another opportunity on Hacker News to recommend Niel Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death". Best book I've read in the last 5 years and goes deep on this issue as it presented ~40 years ago with televised mass media. The books has aged pretty flawlessly - still 100% applicable to the internet age.
A few comments here revealing a core point: It is a feature, not a bug, that people don't consciously realise it's happening to them.
Seconding Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death," for its prescience, and I would also recommend Alfie Bown's "Candy Crush and Capitalism," as it makes a connection to how our notions of distracting ourselves acts as a way to emphasize the importance of our work, whatever it may be.
temeya commented on I summarized my understanding of Linux systems github.com/lsc4719/MyView... · Posted by u/lsc4719
This is one of my favorite books. A true classic. There are follow-ups in that style for Linux and FreeBSD as well. I think Robert Love wrote the former.
And Marshall Kirk McKusick wrote the latter, "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System"
On the one hand, more power to helping people get free information, but my only concern would be the quality. Say, for example, I want to learn Perl. Should I take the "Perl Programming" Wikibook, or a PDF copy of "Programming Perl, 4th Edition"?
temeya commented on Indians are unwittingly recruited into the Russian army lemonde.fr/en/internation... · Posted by u/Michelangelo11
I've personally dealt with groups of ... probably hundreds who are wrong about something that I could prove technically. 28 upvotes is not persuasive to me. You'll need an argument.
HN has some pretty reasonable guidelines about what it is for. This isn't it. And it also isn't a powerful story on its own, we need to know what India's response is. Unless maybe there is something meaty behind the paywall?
The guidelines state "What good hackers find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups " If a Wikipedia page about a cinder cone volcano[0] can be posted, then this can too.
With a two-week vacation coming up, I am greatly looking forward to jump into this for the first time! Any tips for someone on their first go-around? (I've already got 'Be Patient' memorized)
2) Get better at Git.
3) Study and pass the RHCSA.
4) Get better at troubleshooting Linux servers. I can actually feel my skills improving when I can find the actual root cause of an issue, and not just a symptom that is irrelevant. (Thanks, sadservers!)