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by bitwize 2y ago
Location: Gulfport, MS Remote: Yes, please Willing to relocate: Probably not Technologies: C, C++, Python, Ruby, JS/TS, Java, Lisp (preferred), Linux, Android, PostgreSQL... Email: bitwize at gmail dot com CV
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by bitwize 2y ago
You must be new here. Hackernews has known for some time things that mainstream science has yet to fully understand: namely, that diet dominates as a cause of big-ticket diseases like cancer and dementia, and that Alzheimer's specifica
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by bitwize 2y ago
How about this one then: The scientists involved must have been pretty shocked by this discovery. You might say they were... Reelin from the implications. Thank you, I'll be here all week. Try the veal!
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by bitwize 2y ago
Prince Rogers Nelson's given name was a registered trademark of Warner Music. It took that whole stunt with him changing his name to Love Symbol #2 to get them to relent.
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by bitwize 2y ago
It could be worse. One word: Urbit. What the boat couple is doing strikes me as the most romantic sort of bricolage and just gives me the warm fuzzies all over. But Urbit just pisses me off for a variety of reasons.
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by bitwize 2y ago
What? Typst is open source and has a CLI, it's not just an online app.
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by bitwize 2y ago
That may be a CFAA violation, a felony in the United States. See Ryanair DAC v. Booking Holdings, Inc.
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by bitwize 2y ago
TeX is old and busted; Typst is the new hotness. Written in Rust, too!
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by bitwize 2y ago
Markdown is the Unix of rich text formats.
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by bitwize 2y ago
CRTs just have a richer, warmer picture.
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by bitwize 2y ago
Ghosting is a legitimate way to deal with job candidates, as it is with potential romantic partners. The reason why is because crazies don't handle rejection very well, and you don't want to incur their wrath, both from a safety a
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by bitwize 2y ago
The way I explained my continued loathing of Microsoft to a friend was that back in the day, it was like having two choices of car: a Ford Pinto, or a pickup truck. Not everybody needed the heavy transport capabilities of the pickup, but th
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by bitwize 2y ago
My wife knows a used-tire shop in New Orleans. Used to go there when her car had a flat and needed it replaced quick and cheap.
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by bitwize 2y ago
> Why isn’t “june” then “iune”? In Latin, June would indeed have been IVNIVS.
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by bitwize 2y ago
> Being able to enroll your own keys (or disable secure boot entirely) is a requirement for being a compliant implementation. No, it's really not. Currently Microsoft requires enrolling keys and disabling SB to be available to quali
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by bitwize 2y ago
Secure Boot protects against booting a kernel image that's been tampered with. If the running kernel is vulnerable to root-level exploits, it can't help you, but it can prevent a malicious attacker from switching a trusted kernel
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by bitwize 2y ago
Secure Boot is the first component in a verified boot chain from initial power-on to application level code. Signed, verified firmware boots signed, verified kernel with strict authenticity and integrity guarantees. The goal is, presumably,
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by bitwize 2y ago
Terry Davis was right. C should be your shell, as God intended.
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by bitwize 2y ago
Hope you like compiling it yourself. The toxicity of the community means it was refused inclusion by at least one distro (Void Linux).
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by bitwize 2y ago
> - There are typos where “at” is misspelled “ay”. Glad we don’t have to deal with that. Ah yes, you'd see those coming out of the ARPANET site run by Arthur Fonzarelli. He also used to moderate rec.motorcycles.
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by bitwize 2y ago
(Jay Sherman voice) "Buy my book! Buy my book!"
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by bitwize 2y ago
This incident, together with the news that the 1997 film Titanic employed a Linux-based render farm to composite special effects shots together (one of the first such Linux deployments for a major Hollywood film), led to the Slashdot-era
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by bitwize 2y ago
Just what we need to tie up the cops so we can rollerblade into Grand Central Station and hack the Gibson to get the garbage file that will exonerate Joey! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yhVDhcuRY1I
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by bitwize 2y ago
Ruben Sim has been doing really good work addressing this stuff. So good that apparently Roblox, whose business model has pivoted into conducting child husbandry for groomers, felt the need to sue him. Since every kid I know cites Minecraft
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by bitwize 2y ago
This is Hackernews. Do things because you enjoy them? How can you enjoy life if you don't measure, optimize, and min-max every little thing, and write a little Rust program to track all the data you can post to Show HN? All food is fue
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by bitwize 2y ago
I gotta admit, it's pretty LoTek of him to strap a partially dismantled Lenovo laptop to the back of this thing, but... couldn't he have just used a mini PC that's designed to be mounted to the VESA mounts present on many fla
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by bitwize 2y ago
Uh, like, the entire demoscene is mashing X to doubt there, bud. The Amiga had one of the most beautiful interfaces to its hardware and OS of its day. Plus, beginner-friendly languages like AMOS Basic were available.
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by bitwize 2y ago
Here's Quest: A Long Ray's Journey Into Light -- Apollo's contribution to that quintessential genre of 80s HPC marketing: early CG animation, presumably rendered on the company's own computers. https://www.y
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by bitwize 2y ago
Apollo's Domain/OS (formerly AEGIS) was impressive, but did not gain a full POSIX layer until later in the 80s, as I understand it. So the Model 16 really was the only other commercial Unix workstation, besides Suns, in early 1983
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by bitwize 2y ago
The key is to find a hard, less captivating book and just power your way through it. Crime and Punishment may be this for some. You could also try learning X11 programming with the famous wall-o'-manuals that entails.

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