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by c256 7y ago
> Of course, writing a text-based browser in Lisp or any other language is far simpler but also less practical. Emacs has a few; the included one is called “ewww”, and is pretty nice if you’re into emacs already.
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by c256 7y ago
>Project Fi has had the best support of all 8 cell phone carriers I've ever used... There are many reports of Project Fi having excellent support that turned into total horror when Project Fi ended and was replaced by Google Fi. The
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by c256 7y ago
I can’t think of any applications written using those (or any other, actually) cross-platform toolkits for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android that were even moderately successful in the market. Generally, cross-platform UIs are dislike
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by c256 7y ago
Offhand, I’d suggest reading it over a long period of time, starting whenever you feel like you have a good mastery of whatever project you’re working on at the time, and taking breaks to rest or sprint on need-it-nowish topics in between.
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by c256 7y ago
Have you seen Plan 9? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs
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by c256 7y ago
Think of the series like a detailed, focused encyclopedia. You can learn an incredible amount from reading and understanding it, but reading the whole thing is probably not especially efficient, and it will likely take a long time. That sai
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by c256 7y ago
Not the OP, but my understanding is that the problem is a matter of practice: there are so many tiny packages with such complicated dependency graphs that the exposed surface for attacks is two steps past gigantic. As someone who doesn’t us
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by c256 7y ago
I see what you’re going for, but do you really think anyone’s goal was to price the stock so that the price stayed flat? In the one IPO that I saw from the inside (early in the internet bubble days), the financial people seemed to be debati
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by c256 7y ago
MacOS Preview has (very) basic image editing built in, but it’s not widely advertised. Open it up and look through the menus.
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by c256 7y ago
That only works if you’re running X11, not on Wayland (in case it was unclear; I was momentarily confused, so I’m posting.)
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by c256 7y ago
It’s not billionaires, but: search the internet for “college admissions scandal”. Note that the people involved already have better schools, more free time for extracurriculars, tutors, test prep, better environmental factors, etc.
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by c256 7y ago
He has been quite open about being too abrasive in the service of directness/bluntness in the past. At the same time, the OS research field really was like this at that time. At MIT, for example, it felt a bit like “which flavor of ex
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by c256 7y ago
Especially in C-like languages, undefined behavior is one of the main things that creates space for compilers to get better (produce faster code, or produce code faster, or smaller, etc). That topic comes up in compiler discussions every so
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by c256 7y ago
There’s a free (as in beer, not speech) app that does quite a lot, and a paid upgrade that’s largely about customizing it. The potential customizations from the ‘power pack’ seemed quite extensive, but I haven’t personally played with it mu
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by c256 7y ago
If you’re in the mental space of thinking about mathematical problems, then you’re probably very far from the legal meaning of ‘translation’. IANAL, but I have taken some IP Law classes, and these two domains don’t use the same kind of form
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by c256 7y ago
Have you seen Lilypond? http://lilypond.org/
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by c256 8y ago
Most content industries (definitely including movies, tv, books, music, and games) vary between “dislike” and “loathing” of secondary markets, because it gets them nothing and costs them a “potential sale”, even more than piracy, because th
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by c256 8y ago
Especially if you’re going to go with Roku.
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by c256 8y ago
For most people: either Adobe Creative Cloud or a stable OS underneath that doesn’t have “turn it off and back on, and then try reinstalling the driver” as a super-frequent troubleshooting step. Note that I’m not saying the Apple experienc
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by c256 8y ago
I see “serious design people” using non-laptop macs, and using iPads and/or iPhones instead of laptops for portable devices. There are a few who use Windows, but they are almost uniformly unhappy about it. The people I see who are mos
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by c256 8y ago
Sadly, the SE is dead. The best you can hope for is that there are is a little refurbished stock available in a usable configuration, but that chance is already slim and dwindling.
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by c256 8y ago
Clearly distinct meanings are usually fine, as there’s little chance of context overlap causing clashes. The subtle distinctions can cause more trouble, but those tend to occur in situations more refined than we expect systems like these to
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by c256 8y ago
The update service inside ASUS was broken, so it doesn’t matter what ASUS intended or implemented; the attackers would have just changed that. The second stage installer was totally owned by the attacker. Perhaps interesting to note: this i
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by c256 8y ago
In addition to the (extremely pertinent) answer above, there are advantages to dynamically typed languages in some cases, so it shouldn’t be surprising/confusing that sometimes “dynamic typing plus optional type checking with zero run-
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by c256 8y ago
I believe that vim supports the language server protocol via a (some?) plugin(s), and that pyrite provides a lsp mode, so you should be able to use them together. Note that you would be running vim and node to write python code, which seems
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by c256 8y ago
This is not really what the data shows. In the U.S., for example, the large majority of voters recognize global climate change as serious and impending problem. Where voters “don’t respond to climate change” is when they are asked if they’r
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by c256 8y ago
Yes and no; car ownership in many parts of the world is tied to development, and as standard of living rises in many parts of the world, so does car ownership. (Not that I’m saying this is a good thing, to be clear.)
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by c256 8y ago
I like much of what I’ve “seen” from Lex Fridman, but I think the title here is a little misleading. This is a conversation with a guy who works on AI at MIT, but the label made me think it was some project or report from CSAIL, which it do
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by c256 8y ago
Solar and wind are reliable and economic in many parts of the world, but much less so in many parts of the world that already have very high population density. “Move everyone to a different part of the world” is an even less tractable appr
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by c256 8y ago
It exists, but it’s been a pretty terrible experience every time I’ve tried it (roughly once every 12-15 months since ~2011). GSuite has some occasional issues arising from connectivity issues, but these also happen to Office365, and are at

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