EvilTerran

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by EvilTerran 9y ago
There's a bug (at least on mobile) that makes the "you are not authorized to view these tweets" message sometimes appear when it shouldn't. Have you tried reloading the page a couple of times? (I'm guessing there&#x
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by EvilTerran 9y ago
I'm reminded of David Langford's "basilisks": http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm [edit] more in the series: http://ansible.uk/writing/c-b-faq.html http:/&#x2F
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by EvilTerran 9y ago
> I think 100% of the sites I visit use third-party cookies only for tracking. You probably use sites that rely on 3rd-party cookies for single sign-on, too. Stack Overflow, for instance: https://nickcraver.com/blog/
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by EvilTerran 9y ago
Seems to me the right approach would be for sites to embrace the HTML5 semantic tags (<nav>, <article> and so forth), and browsers to offer a way to view just that semantically-marked-up content - without scripts, with restricte
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by EvilTerran 9y ago
I unpinned everything, and just operate it entirely by keyboard: hit the windows key, type the first few characters of the program name, hit enter. I find I don't even need to look at it most of the time.
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by EvilTerran 9y ago
Most likely there's just something hosted on the same IP address that makes legitimate use of the "client certificates" feature of TLS. In order for that to work, the server has to express an interest in client certs, and tha
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by EvilTerran 10y ago
Well, you could do arbitrary loop unrolling - with Duff's Device: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duffs_device
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by EvilTerran 10y ago
BTW, your scatter plots aren't colourblind-friendly - they just look like boxes of indistinguishable dots to me, I had to ask a friend if I was missing something. You seem to have accidentally made an Ishihara test[0], thanks to the pa
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by EvilTerran 10y ago
> Honorable mention for industrial vacuum cleaners. It's not quite industrial (although the manufacturer does also make shop-vacs in a similar style), but I'm a huge fan of my Henry[0] - I bought it on the principle of "ev
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by EvilTerran 10y ago
I can think of one advantage - lexical closure: when your callback's body is defined inside the calling scope, you can use variables from that scope inside the callback; and the callback can assign to those variables & have the cha
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by EvilTerran 10y ago
I suppose that could be referring to "John/Jane Doe" situations - when someone turns up who may have a name, but you have no way of ascertaining it (because they're not carrying ID, and are unresponsive, dead, or otherwi
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by EvilTerran 10y ago
Did you report the possible side-effect? Depression doesn't seem to be recorded for Mucinex DM, so it might be worth flagging that up with your country's drug regulator, especially considering you know you weren't the only ca
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by EvilTerran 10y ago
Bluntly, because when we still had such things as sodomy laws and the "gay panic" defence[0], society wasn't ready to deal with that nuance in a productive way. You need to keep your message simple when you're trying to
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by EvilTerran 10y ago
Incidentally, you may find GMail's "basic HTML view" works better when your connection's throttled: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/15049 And as for reddit, their old mobile view is stil
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by EvilTerran 10y ago
This should do it: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10s... They've had similar tools since at least Windows 7 IIRC, if not XP - you've just always had to download them separately,
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by EvilTerran 10y ago
Yeah, agreed. My multiline strings (docstring or otherwise) almost always look like """\ This line starts at the start. And so do the following ones. """
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by EvilTerran 10y ago
For the record, the Templeton Foundation aren't their only source of funding, and the rest appear to be entirely secular: http://nautil.us/about (heading "Nautilus has received financial support from") Seems
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by EvilTerran 10y ago
The minimalist scene is still out there, it's just a niche within a niche. For instance, here's a demo from 2015, done in immediate mode and 256 bytes - I've got a feeling you'll enjoy it as much as the live audience cle
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by EvilTerran 10y ago
People don't have to build their own coils - there's plenty of devices on the market that take factory-produced cartridges with a coil & wick all set up for you, you just swap out the cartridge when it gets old. Most casual &q
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by EvilTerran 10y ago
Well, yes... okay, maybe that was a poor choice of example, :grep is probably more ergonomic for that particular use case. The trick I described is more for when you're dealing with some unusual program that wouldn't work with :gr
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by EvilTerran 10y ago
This is also useful for iterating on a throw-away script - something too long to type on one line in the shell, but not significant enough to be worth saving to a file. Put it together in an unnamed buffer, and ":w !" it to the re
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by EvilTerran 10y ago
My personal favourite trick with ":r!" is, in a new buffer, running :0r! grep -rn $pattern $path_to_directory or any other command that outputs lines containing "$path_to_file:$line_no" (eg most linters). With t
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by EvilTerran 10y ago
If you're going to deliberately make your computer run full pelt for the surplus heat, you might as well do something useful with it - eg, you could run Folding@Home or some BOINC project, burn those cycles for a good cause. Or, if you
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by EvilTerran 10y ago
+3%? Well, that's less inspiring news than I'd hoped. Still, it's something, I suppose. Anyway, that's another very interesting link you've got there - I knew about SSL Labs, but hadn't come across that report
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by EvilTerran 10y ago
Great article! Just the sort of thing I come to HN for. I note it's a year old, though - has much changed since then? OCSP stapling sounds like a Very Good Idea, I hope it's been catching on.
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by EvilTerran 10y ago
To take an example that's already happened... How? By being the user's ISP. Why? To inject adverts. What are the chances it affected nytimes.com? Almost certain. Behold: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014
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by EvilTerran 10y ago
Or this: def to_strings(seq): return map(str, seq) Generally, when the operation I'm applying to each element happens to already be a named function, I find "map(f, seq)" preferable to "(f(x) for x in se
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by EvilTerran 10y ago
Yeah, "general practitioner" in the UK = "primary care physician" or "family doctor" in other countries, more-or-less.
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by EvilTerran 10y ago
> you can draw a straight line from that to the anti-intellectualism that dominates our social discourse today Really? Could you elaborate? From my perspective, the two groups you connect seem more opposed than anything. The prevailing s
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by EvilTerran 10y ago
In terms of video games - the first time I saw it, I spent a good chunk of the opening cut-scene of Halo 4 trying to figure out if Dr Halsey was live-action or CG: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3zcO28JbHxI I wouldn't g

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