adamch

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by adamch 8y ago
Ligatures make Haskell, Rust and JS roughly 18 times more readable, I've gotten so used to them that I hate reading code without them.
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by adamch 8y ago
I wanted to try a new terminal, so I looked up the terminal latency comparison article that was making the rounds a few months ago. Of the ones that ran on OSX, Kitty seemed to be worth trying.
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by adamch 8y ago
I've been using Kitty for a month now. I really like it. It's slightly less usable out of the box than iTerm 2. The default shortcuts are very counterintuitive (no CMD T for new tab or CMD W to close tab). But editing the preferen
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by adamch 8y ago
1: Diaspora (Greg Egan). Brilliant sci-fi where computer science concepts like cellular automata, computation complexity etc are major plot points. Starts with a highly detailed explanation of AI personality creation. Super geeky and a bril
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by adamch 8y ago
Excluding the datetime RFC in the name of minimalism would make the language much worse (coughjson). I feel like this is as simple as it could be, but no more.
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1.1.1.1 outage explanation(blog.cloudflare.com)
459 points by adamch 8y ago|84 comments
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by adamch 9y ago
I suspect Google engineers have more important tickets to work on than "do a bunch of complicated VM analysis to slow down Maps on Firefox."
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Point Free: Videos about Functional Swift(pointfree.co)
1 points by adamch 9y ago|0 comments
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by adamch 9y ago
From 1910-1945, each country's richest 1% lost a lot of their wealth, all falling to (somewhat) similar levels. But in the time since, different countries 1% have built up wealth at very different speeds. This suggests that a country&#
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by adamch 9y ago
This is an extraordinary essay. I read it on an hour-long bus ride, expecting a history of undersea cabling to put me to sleep. Instead, I devoured it. The history of undersea broadband is the history of human civilization - it requires ama
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Down the Swift associated type rabbit hole(medium.com)
4 points by adamch 9y ago|0 comments
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Operation Luigi: How I hacked my friend without her noticing(defaultnamehere.tumblr.com)
728 points by adamch 9y ago|162 comments
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India’s National ID Program May Be Turning the Country into a Surveillance State(buzzfeed.com)
1 points by adamch 10y ago|0 comments
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The Disappearing Women of DriveCo (satire)(medium.com)
1 points by adamch 10y ago|0 comments
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The Disappearing Women of DriveCo (fiction)(medium.com)
4 points by adamch 10y ago|0 comments
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Stalking your Facebook friends on Tinder(defaultnamehere.tumblr.com)
315 points by adamch 10y ago|102 comments
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8-bit “guess the correlation” game(theatlantic.com)
4 points by adamch 11y ago|0 comments
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Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake(defaultnamehere.tumblr.com)
1302 points by adamch 11y ago|189 comments