Ruud-v-A

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by Ruud-v-A 10y ago
Now that Urbit is not entirely vaporware any more they regret this, but reverting the decision is not worth the trouble: https://www.reddit.com/r/urbit/comments/4okcm6/were_the_core... There are more int
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by Ruud-v-A 10y ago
I find the original blog posts [1] a really interesting read. Nowadays Urbit is indeed full of buzzwords, “your personal cloud computer” and the like. But initially, Urbit was this [2]: > Urbit is a new programming and execution environm
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by Ruud-v-A 10y ago
U+1F499 BLUE HEART U+1F49A GREEN HEART U+1F49B YELLOW HEART U+1F49C PURPLE HEART U+1F53D DOWN-POINTING SMALL RED TRIANGLE U+1F536 LARGE ORANGE DIAMOND U+1F537 LARGE BLUE DIAMOND ...
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by Ruud-v-A 10y ago
I hear you. If you want pictures then use a markup language. Unfortunately it is too late now. We finally had an almost universally supported character set, and then we ruined it with levitating men in business suits. Recent Unicode version
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by Ruud-v-A 10y ago
I try to avoid citing articles that are only available behind a paywall. Even though there isn’t always an alternative source available, if enough people favour citing open-access articles over paywalled ones, that should create an incentiv
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by Ruud-v-A 10y ago
A shame they didn’t rewrite it in Elm while they had the opportunity.
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by Ruud-v-A 10y ago
It is good to see the streak go. To quote Jeff Atwood, “If I have learned anything from the Internet, it is this: be very, very careful when you put a number next to someone's name. Because people will do whatever it takes to make that
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by Ruud-v-A 10y ago
Here’s an analogy: I put a red card in one envelope, and a blue card in a different envelope. I send one envelope to Alice (but I don’t say which one) and one to Bob. Alice and Bob could be on opposite sides of the planet. When Alice opens
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by Ruud-v-A 10y ago
Wouldn’t it be possible to get this data from Openstreetmap?
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by Ruud-v-A 10y ago
From a practical point of view, the baby universe theory is no different than the “information is lost” theory. Although it might be satisfying to think that information is not “really lost”, there is no way in which we -- in our universe -
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by Ruud-v-A 10y ago
I care. I know a lot of people (here in western Europe) who are on a 1 GiB/month data plan. 2.2 MiB per page means that you can visit 15 pages per day. Better think twice before you click a link. Besides, 2.2 MiB for a page is pure blo
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by Ruud-v-A 10y ago
How about not using js at all? I think that for the majority of pages it doesn’t add any value.
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by Ruud-v-A 10y ago
Now I understand why they were begging for donations all the time
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by Ruud-v-A 10y ago
Off topic: I really like the minimalistic approach to your blog. In Minion (my default serif font) it looks better and more readable than the majority of webpages out there.
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by Ruud-v-A 11y ago
Exactly. It has the additional advantage of signing the history, not just one source dump.
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Everyday Internet Users Can Stand Up for Encryption – Here’s How(blog.mozilla.org)
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by Ruud-v-A 11y ago
I’m using Gnome and it works surprisingly well. All browsers and Gnome apps look great out of the box (apart from blurry icons occasionally). Qt or WxWidgets-based apps have clipped text and small checkboxes etc; they are usable but it is n
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by Ruud-v-A 11y ago
I’ve been running Arch Linux on the non-developer edition XPS 15, and I’ve experienced very little problems. Occasionally the touchpad does not work, and sometimes headphone audio is silent. Other than that, everything works like a charm, e
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by Ruud-v-A 11y ago
Same here. Even the fan noise is quite acceptable in comparison with my old HP pavilion. The XPS sounds like a light breeze, whereas the HP sounded like a vacuum cleaner.
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by Ruud-v-A 11y ago
I am running Arch on the non-developer edition XPS 15 (late 2015 edition). Initially the touchpad was occasionally not recognised, then having a touchscreen is really useful :) Other than that, I got it because there was no HiDPi screen wit
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by Ruud-v-A 11y ago
It is not rare at all. The features I am talking about are small. In a large project code review can take several days if the reviewers are busy, even for a small change, so it is essential to work on multiple things concurrently.
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by Ruud-v-A 11y ago
I do prefer rebases over merges because they lead to a cleaner history, but when you have a set of features in separate branches that are all dependent, rebasing becomes a pain. I like to have one local branch per CL/pull request. If I
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by Ruud-v-A 11y ago
Or when they use webfonts. (Yes, some people actually do that.)
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by Ruud-v-A 11y ago
It is a rogue CA that does not revoke compromised certificates even when presented with a proof of such compromise, unless the customer pays a revocation fee. If the customer does not pay the fee, StartCom provides trust (which is what CAs
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by Ruud-v-A 11y ago
The site is using a startcom certificate … how ironic.
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by Ruud-v-A 11y ago
Will Git for Windows ever be updated? It has been at 1.9.5 for quite a while now …
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by Ruud-v-A 11y ago
Microsoft has been doing a similar thing with [.NET Native]( https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dotnetnative.aspx ) for a while now, though MSIL is much higher level than LLVM IR. With .NET Native, you _can_ s
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by Ruud-v-A 11y ago
When I tried to write my first program in Rust, I failed miserably. With a strong background in C# as well, I tried to write a function that returns an interface (a trait in Rust), which was apparently not something you do in Rust. (With an
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by Ruud-v-A 11y ago
I think it is a mistake to license anything under a “or later version” license. If you do that, you licence your code under a license that you have never read, so how can you know that it serves your intentions? You are blindly licensing co
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by Ruud-v-A 11y ago
A while back, somebody got Cargo running on an unsupported platform, but bootstrapping was a major problem. The compiler had to bootstrap newer versions of itself tens of times, and that was only for a few weeks of breaking changes …

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