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ajdude
5,682karma·879submissions·January 6, 2021
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Programmer, archive hobbyist, worked in ITSM.
Creator of GetAda.dev and a bunch of other stuff on https://github.com/AJ-Ianozi
I also have a blog: https://aj.immo
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I wonder how this compares to porting kit and wineskin. That's what I've been using for Windows gaming on Mac and it's been running well for me on my m3 air- this is the first time I…
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The title is clickbait. Most of openai's comments were about their desire to have access to google's index. They also discussed how open AI is thinking about creating a chrome Fork to compet…
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A few years ago I had a .us TLD. I eventually decided that I probably shouldn't be reliant on a country code for my domain, it's the same reason why I don't use .io I'm not saying…
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Unless you're David Taylor apparently, then it's anywhere from 42 to 63 days ( based on https://www.capitoltrades.com/trades )…
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> I have hopes that maybe Orion can get there with a paid-for model
I'm hopeful. I stopped using firefox last week and switched fully to Orion (I was already using it on my iPhone f…
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It looks like it's available on homebrew, so that may be a good workaround.
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Several of them seem to be 404ing for me
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I don't understand how they could be pulling in half a billion a year for a decade and still have financial problems... even if they just put that money in a low risk money market investment acco…
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Tooling is pretty good; Ada has a package manager similar to Cargo (Alice: https://alire.ada.dev ), and you can install it pretty easily via GetAda ( https://getada.dev ), whic…
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I almost exclusively work in Ada for my hobby projects these days; It's great for doing both high level and low level programming.
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WebKit is also used in Orion, but that browser is macOS/iOS only.
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I made the same decision earlier today. Migrating to Orion as we speak... It's frustrating because I've used Firefox since 2006 and have stuck by them and defended their decisions for deca…
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There's never been a time where I have not gotten a response from hn@ycombinator.com It's much more effective than doing what you're doing.
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Related discussion: U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts (washingtonpost.com)
762 points by Despegar 14 days ago | 1070 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/it…
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A breakdown was actually just posted on that thread an hour ago: And in terms of numbers, out of the $1.2M annual costs we mention there, here's the rough breakdown:
* $360K/yr – T…
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My grandmother would tell me stories about how when she was growing up, they had backyard chickens. Unfortunately my state has laws preventing anyone from even having a hen unless you have over an acr…