EvilTerran

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by EvilTerran 8y ago
I use outline.com to get past these attempts to block the EU: https://outline.com/BF9AaC It almost always works. As does archive.is, if you want to see more of the page's original layout.
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
They almost certainly track accident data for internal use, but I can't imagine they'd ever want to share it.
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
The author also neglected to mention that this Gary Null is a stablemate - a regular contributor to the very site this essay is published on, in fact: http://prn.fm/category/archives/gary-null-show/ That&#x27
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
> what is libcurl's URL parser implementing, what is its goal? I get the impression the goal would be "parsing whatever users expect to be able to use as a URL in practice". He's written before about the difficulty of
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
Qubes OS ( https://www.qubes-os.org/ ) seems relevant: that sandboxes every application into its own VM. It's a hell of a brute-force approach to application isolation, but I guess it's the most robust strategy avai
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
It's commonly used that way, but it's a slightly informal use: being rigorous, "strict" and "non-strict" describe semantic models; whereas "eager" and "lazy" describe evaluation strategies w
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
One trick I came up with recently: I found myself needing to add up a column of numbers, but there were so many that I started losing precision to awk's use of floats for all numbers. I wound up augmenting with `dc`[0] - something like
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
Note that's the same Kernighan of "Kernighan & Ritchie" fame. Very influential feller.
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
Yeah, I usually start with `cut` - it makes the easy cases very easy - then only reach for awk if it turns out I need more power. Thinking of recent cases from my own experience, that tends to be needs like: - outputting my selected field
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
> there’s no “DOM transaction API”, so every DOM mutation causes a reflow Perhaps there should be. Has there been any discussion on standardizing such a thing?
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
It's not about monitor size or resolution - text just gets hard to read once lines exceed a certain width, because the eye starts losing track of which line it's on as it sweeps from the end of one line to the start of the next. T
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
WSL's kinda the mirror-universe Wine, but not quite - AIUI, it doesn't translate Linux syscalls into Windows ones, it's an alternative Windows kernel ABI that bypasses the normal one entirely. That makes a big difference wh
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
If the newest version of a secure communication protocol includes some way to negotiate down to an older version, that opens the door to downgrade attacks - you risk ending up with a protocol that, in practice, has all the vulnerabilities o
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
> What about space? Great in principle, but sending nuclear waste hurtling through the upper atmosphere strapped to a tank of rocket fuel seems like a really bad idea in practice. You'd be one mishap away from spreading radioactiv
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
A real-life example of the risk of automatic updates: about a decade ago, the maintainers of the Shareaza multi-protocol p2p client lost control of their domain, and the new owners of the domain pushed their own (sleazy, commercial) softwar
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
And all that's without even getting into things like swap, or memory-mapped files. Or, to really go all-out, mmap() an NFS file - and you could find your mere pointer dereference waiting for the network.
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
Also, the EU didn't invent the idea of quality classes for produce - they already existed in most EU countries, because they are genuinely useful (primarily for wholesale buyers, who benefit from knowing more exactly what they'll
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
There's also this formulation, which I'm quite partial to: --- \ / --- i∈[1,n]
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by EvilTerran 9y ago
Randall Munroe's done an edition of "What If" on a similar question: "Which has a greater gravitational pull on me: the Sun, or spiders?" https://what-if.xkcd.com/136/ The main conclusion is
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by EvilTerran 9y ago
> relatively cheap This is a surprisingly big factor: we get bitumen from refining crude oil whether we want it or not, and the endless demand for the lighter fractions of crude means we're gonna do a lot of refining regardless, so
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by EvilTerran 9y ago
> once you do a `rmdir` you are not allowed to add any new files to the directory Ah, go figure. I had a feeling you'd run into something like that. As for your tmpfs idea... you could do something with autofs to get automatic clean
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by EvilTerran 9y ago
I wouldn't say so: any pipe only allows strictly linear FIFO data transfer, but anything you could call "directory-like" surely allows random access - at least jumping to the start of any of the contained files. I think, if y
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by EvilTerran 9y ago
Amen to that. It's a solved problem in statistics, too: https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating...
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by EvilTerran 9y ago
If you're in a position to use uBlock Origin on mobile (eg, I'm using Firefox for Android), you can use its custom filters to inject arbitrary CSS. Looks like this (from my own filters): news.ycombinator.com##.comment pre:st
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by EvilTerran 9y ago
I believe you can define a <symbol> in one inline SVG, then <use> it in another, so that'd be a way to achieve icon reuse. Not sure how good browser support is for that, though - there's probably quirks.
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by EvilTerran 9y ago
Knock-offs are a particularly big problem in the electronic cigarette industry, so many of the device manufacturers already do something like this - usually a code on the device or behind a scratch-off panel on the box (ie somewhere you can
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by EvilTerran 9y ago
http://fortune.com/2016/09/12/trump-foundation-bondi-florida...
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by EvilTerran 9y ago
If you have uBlock Origin installed, you can tweak styles with its "My Filters". I have these in there: news.ycombinator.com##.comment code:style(white-space:pre-wrap) news.ycombinator.com##.comment pre:style(max-width:none!
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by EvilTerran 9y ago
Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that." https://news.ycombinator.com/news
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by EvilTerran 9y ago
I can vouch for TaPL - I can see it on my bookshelf from here. It's a great overview of the foundational concepts in PLT; Pierce's style is remarkable, he writes the most readable academic text I've ever seen. (I also own &am

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