Everything that uses configuration files should report where they're located — and The 'fuck you' pattern

Issue #1174 — June 26, 2023

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Everything that uses configuration files should report where they’re located utcc.utoronto.ca \| points: 1300 \| comments: 384

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The ’fuck you’ pattern cedwards.xyz \| points: 391 \| comments: 292

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Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser open-resume.com \| points: 328 \| comments: 98

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Tintin, Hergé and Chang thewire.in \| points: 251 \| comments: 115

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Zotero Better Notes – Knowledge management inside Zotero github.com \| points: 242 \| comments: 93

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Every Mastodon user has an RSS feed rssboard.org \| points: 237 \| comments: 100

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Many in the AI field think the bigger-is-better approach is running out of road economist.com \| points: 216 \| comments: 308

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Towards a “PCB Drone” – Making a PCB Motor which reaches 30k RPM [video] youtube.com \| points: 210 \| comments: 28

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Ways to say no with grace and style (2021) fs.blog \| points: 190 \| comments: 111

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Air quality reporting on iOS intergalactic.systems \| points: 181 \| comments: 82

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LastPass users locked out due to MFA resets bleepingcomputer.com \| points: 168 \| comments: 194

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The EU’s fight for user-replaceable smartphone batteries theverge.com \| points: 160 \| comments: 275

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Publishers carpet-bomb IPFS gateway operators with DMCA notices torrentfreak.com \| points: 158 \| comments: 80

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The free soloist who fell to earth outsideonline.com \| points: 158 \| comments: 146

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Eight-mile frieze of Ice Age beasts found in Amazon rainforest (2020) cnn.com \| points: 157 \| comments: 59

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On the paper “Exploring the MIT Mathematics and EECS Curriculum Using LLMs” [pdf] people.csail.mit.edu \| points: 151 \| comments: 74

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Time is not a synchronization primitive xeiaso.net \| points: 144 \| comments: 76

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Office real estate crash will be so sharp, values unlikely to recover by 2040 fortune.com \| points: 141 \| comments: 204

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NHTSA: Car crashes cost Americans $340B nhtsa.gov \| points: 132 \| comments: 178

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What are embeddings? vickiboykis.com \| points: 130 \| comments: 16

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