bitofhope

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by bitofhope 8y ago
Would take a lot to make me abandon trusty irssi, but I welcome this. The image of IRC seems tied to mIRC-era UI design and some attribute the current state with competing proprietary chat programs to perceived user unfriendliness of IRC, a
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by bitofhope 8y ago
I'm afraid I'll have to be one of the curmudgeonly naysayers, too. The nice thing about Markdown is that the source file is just as readable as the output. Haml and hamdown fail at this. If I'm gonna have a computer parse &qu
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by bitofhope 8y ago
It's a simple mechanism, but the writing and diagrams deserve an A+ for clarity.
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by bitofhope 8y ago
What do you mean by modern web? I don't see how modernity implies more load, at least for fork() bottlenecked programs specifically. If you're serving thousands of requests per second, you probably need a pretty beefy server anywa
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by bitofhope 8y ago
And nothing wrong with that. Stricter compiler is a good thing if you don't need it to be laxer. My favourite flag in clang is -weverything. Everything I write in C I compile with it and fix whatever I reasonably can.
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by bitofhope 8y ago
I find the site a little tongue-in-cheek, but I genuinely like the ideas behind it. I honest-to-$DEITY prefer programming in C to any sort of Javascript. C is kinda hellish for large, complex projects, which is good. The world needs fewer l
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by bitofhope 8y ago
>the worst thing is I can use Linux only as pure text/terminal UI Genuinely curious, but why on earth would you install Arch of all things, then? Surely you would have preferred any of the myriad distros that come with a desktop env
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by bitofhope 8y ago
A friend of mine in high school tweeted to Mikko Hyppönen (CRO, F-Secure) and invited him with us for a beer. A few weeks later we met with him in Helsinki over a pizza and discussed cybersecurity, arcade games, politics, pinball and miscel
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by bitofhope 8y ago
I'm a young adult. I've been on the internet for most of my life and all of my adult life. When the GDPR started to be a hot topic, I decided to check what Facebook knows about me. There are lots of things in there I didn't w
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by bitofhope 8y ago
Vim user here. One thing I rarely see discussed is the idea that vim is not about speed. It's about comfort. Maybe hjkl is a little faster than arrow keys. I don't care. I just like doing my editing with less hand movement. I&#x27
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by bitofhope 8y ago
>One guideline states that an attempt at reduction in the total amount of human damage is defensible (Rule 9, pg. 11), which supports killing 5 people. How does this make sense? 5>1 therefore _diverting_ to hit 1 person instead of 5 i
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by bitofhope 8y ago
Firefox 59 on Linux. Font is reasonable but zooming the page does nothing except scrolling up and down.
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by bitofhope 8y ago
I disagree. Song lyrics absolutely count as literature to me, as does the other poetry he was recognized for. He's not the first one to receive the Nobel for poetry either, and his themes and influence line up well with the stated goal
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by bitofhope 9y ago
>Unix on top of Mach Didn't Mach start out as a replacement kernel for BSD? Building a Unix on top of Mach is like building a truck over truck chassis.
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by bitofhope 9y ago
There's a namespace clash here; I'm quite amused at the idea of basing my startup on https://esolangs.org/wiki/Dark
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by bitofhope 9y ago
>The obvious difference between your scenario and the Facebook one is that the victim is an unwilling participant. There are numerous obvious differences involved that make comparison between user tracking and hired murder absurd. The r
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by bitofhope 9y ago
Yes, I do think tracking users in the way that is commonplace nowadays is absolutely an ethical issue and I deem it wrong despite its wide spread. I can buy a newspaper (at least one that still exists in printed form) and read it without be
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by bitofhope 9y ago
Those are good points, but the post does come across as a little apologetic. Serving the paying customers should not absolve you from responsibility for the data collecting. Reductio ad absurdum: a hitman's job is not to be concerned w
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Braille Neue Typeface by Kosuke Takahashi(designboom.com)
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by bitofhope 9y ago
>The Beerware license has similar issues. Under WTFPL section which says it's a no-no. Technically it doesn't say Beerware can't be used but I'd take it to mean it can't.
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by bitofhope 9y ago
Yes, but at a price and space disadvantage. A set of leadholders to match the gradient of a good art pencil set will cost at least tens, more likely hundreds of dollars. They will also take more space. Clutch pencil leads are not as readily
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by bitofhope 9y ago
Pencils are cheap, good leadholders are not. A decent pencil costs 0,50€, an amazing one 2€. Good 2mm leads alone are in the premium woodcase pencil price range. Pencils can be quickly swapped for different hardness. Swapping the lead grade
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by bitofhope 9y ago
Those crank operated or electric tabletop sharpeners are great. For a portable sharpener, my personal favourite is the KUM long point automatic two-stage sharpener. The way it works is that it first sharpens the wood leaving a round core an