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by akavel 5y ago
<enso-fanboi mode="on"> If you're interested in something more generic, check out if https://enso.org could be worth a look! Thanks to GraalVM, you might be able to import JS packages too, among others (Ja
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by akavel 5y ago
I wonder if there are some nice tools for "scribbling over hexdump" somewhere, and also rendering pretty output based on that. It tends to be really helpful both when synthesizing/assembling some binary formats, as well as de
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by akavel 5y ago
Ahh, you reminded me of a classic standup sketch on youtube, titled: "The Impotence of Proofreading" IIRC
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Going inside a scam call center [video](youtube.com)
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by akavel 5y ago
> it was stagnant for last 10 years Could it be because it was really good?
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Let's Encrypt root certificate expiry: hell starts to break loose(twitter.com)
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by akavel 5y ago
Sorry, service provider satisfaction not guaranteed! Also, the customer may have had a great journey with the website.
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by akavel 5y ago
Ahhh how there's nothing sacred in the world no more! One can't even trust people to provide no support! Those Internat services will doom us!
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by akavel 5y ago
But definitely not lose money, that would be a blasphemy!
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by akavel 5y ago
Some people already can and do this. See e.g.: - Steve Mann: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann_(inventor) - https://chordite.com
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by akavel 5y ago
Oh this sounds like it could be a really cool idea! This way it could also be subtly teaching users that the engine doesn't do automatic synonyms translation so it's worth experimenting; also kinda like giving the synonyms feature
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by akavel 5y ago
Thanks for linking this - reading through the thread made me discover a cool related project! -> https://github.com/tweag/nickel/ See esp.: https://github.com/tweag/nickel/#related-pro
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by akavel 5y ago
And notably, as a kinda higher-level challenge towards poka-yoke...: The improper installation apparently required some considerable physical effort, which, somehow did not raise any alarm at GKNPTs Khrunichev's assembly plant in Mosc
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by akavel 5y ago
FWIW, I do still totally use NoScript, and am somewhat picky with what I enable; quite many e.g. blogs (and news sites too) are in fact readable enough without it. And in case of blogs in particular (especially on the blogger site), I do qu
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by akavel 5y ago
Apparently, picked here: https://youtu.be/ai5Hf-wPXFE but check out this one instead: https://youtu.be/sES_Hbj92BQ - ~2h to open fully (though the author of the video claims impressioning could speed up the
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by akavel 5y ago
There's a nice trick you can use to make your map[string]interface{} code a bit easier to write and arguably also to read (less {}s), useful especially when you need e.g. to serialize some deeply nested JSON, for one-off request: f
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by akavel 5y ago
Is there a chance you might produce a fanless configuration? Since I first bought a fanless machine, I'm a total sucker for them and just stopped considering fanless computers for home use anymore (100% confirmed by my later buying cho
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by akavel 5y ago
What's stopping you from going with Nim? Honestly curious, I have my own love-hate with that one, so I have some guesses, but I'd find it fun to "fact check" those and compare opinions :)
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by akavel 5y ago
Thanks for the great reply, with some new thoughts, but also reminding me of some thoughts I kept before but apparently forgot recently, argh. In particular, that individual people are just a tiny percentage polluter, and the main offenders
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by akavel 5y ago
IMO, because admitting that climate change is reality would in consequence require massive, expensive, and hugely uncomfortable changes in one's lifestyle. Plus, not uncommonly, becoming de facto socially ostracised in at least some (t
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by akavel 5y ago
Mandatory fanboi mention, and IMO a gross omission of the article: https://enso.org/ (née Luna) - an open-source language & IDE which aims to insta-kill all the "vs. textual programming" arguments by keeping a
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by akavel 5y ago
Kinda guessing, but I'd assume from temperature - i.e. chaotic (a.k.a. brownian) motions of the particles resulting in them randomly getting close enough to the enclosure's walls that the surface tension (which from what I see on
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by akavel 5y ago
Whoah, it just came to my mind it could be an interesting mechanism to explore for procedural generation (of levels and other stuff) in games! Does anyone know of any experimental games already trying to do that?
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by akavel 5y ago
Actually, I believe it's tricky to say if even human can actually do that safely. There's the whole concept of "cleanroom rewrite" - meaning, if you want to rewrite some GPL or closed-source project into a different lic
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DIY making old Chromebook sunlight-readable(twitter.com)
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by akavel 5y ago
Could someone let me know if https://github.com/akavel/up works ok with it? (on Linux or Mac or WSL) I'd be grateful for feedback!
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by akavel 5y ago
Awesome idea! I was thinking about something like this too for a long time, though it's currently in a mental box labeled "probably not in this life" for me. As others in this thread mentioned, there are quite a few interesti
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by akavel 5y ago
I'm actually super curious - and really wish they did a deeper dive on - how they narrowed down the glibc dependency to just the 3 math functions, and then how they found the singular places where those were used, especially in a Rust
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by akavel 5y ago
(Per HN guidelines: > If the title contains a gratuitous number or number + adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" t
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by akavel 5y ago
(Per HN guidelines: > If the title contains a gratuitous number or number + adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" t

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