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by cjbprime 5y ago
Nice blast from the past -- I used xemacs from around 2000-2005, including for reading email and IRC, because that was a thing people used to do. I had a setup where I used it graphically at the machine, but could also ssh in and attach to
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by cjbprime 5y ago
That's a confusing statement -- JS/Node and Golang are comparable (memory safe) languages for API server backends.
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They blocked an open relay he was running which was being used for spamming and viruses. It's not censorship.
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(It wouldn't help to scan the filesystem, since the way the vulnerability works is that the driver will be automatically downloaded and run when a peripheral's plugged in.)
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by cjbprime 5y ago
You can configure an Android phone to use arbitrary device/product IDs like this.
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I'm not a fluent German speaker, but my amateur sense is that word forms of "fault", "mistake", "failure" are used in German instead, e.g. fehl and Software-Fehler.
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> Why learn when you can invent your own shorthand If I don't want to sign up for learning a new language, I should hardly sign up for creating one :)
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by cjbprime 5y ago
I was around 12 years old, so not super well :) But oddly I ended up working on text entry after graduating from college, working on a system called Dasher. I type qwerty around 130wpm, so I appreciate the arcade skills. I'd love to g
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by cjbprime 5y ago
What's an Electron Huge?
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by cjbprime 5y ago
The main reason people don't do this is that your fingers are on the keyboard most of the time, and there are already plenty of buttons if you learn how to hit Ctrl or Alt smoothly (e.g. remap Caps Lock to Ctrl) and how to create new s
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by cjbprime 5y ago
Blast from the past! My parents had an AgendA around 1995. I remember making a "Choose Your Own Adventure" game for the organizer part and learning the chords.
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Which down payment are you talking about? I thought there was a $100 reservation fee. Is that what you mean?
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No, this is an echo chamber thing. The commercial software industry has largely not even heard of Rust. (Arguably they should!) The number of jobs available to purely write Rust code in the world is still very very small.
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by cjbprime 5y ago
Thanks for Mitmproxy! It would be amazing to be able to see non-HTTPS (but still TLS) traffic in the Flows view, and even to intercept it live instead of having to drop to raw TCP mode and write Python. Any idea whether that's on the r
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by cjbprime 5y ago
Thanks for the answer! Perhaps someone could write a script calculating what percentage of common words can be expressed unambiguously using this keyboard? It seems like the percentage would be quite low to me (considering e.g. 80% to be &q
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by cjbprime 5y ago
Interesting! Do you know how it deals with ambiguity? I saw the part about using key order to disambiguate which key was the first letter. But what about words with remaining ambiguity? Or words when there's an "s" in the wor
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I clicked on the link with some excitement towards someone admitting that Murakami's books tend to lack serious thought, which is the conclusion I came to after reading a bunch of them and starting to get disturbed by the common and la
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by cjbprime 5y ago
Write the blog post fully describing what you would say in conversation with them, then put a "I'd love to know that Apple privacy engineers considered these ideas, so please share it with them if you happen to know them." se
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It sounds like the real lesson that needed to be learned was taught to whoever decided that a system without any fault-tolerance that reboots whenever a keyboard is plugged in was fit for production.
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by cjbprime 6y ago
The copyrightable part of them is the creative decision making used to organize the workings of the function itself, not the formulas. Two functions could have identical algorithmic performance, but be stylistically and semantically diff
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533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online(businessinsider.com)
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by cjbprime 6y ago
The obvious choice is aviation -- there are thousands of commercial accident reports, many of which lead to process improvements for everyone else afterwards, and general aviation emergencies every day. YouTube especially is full of ATC aud
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by cjbprime 6y ago
> The age patterns of COVID-19 mortality are such that vaccinating the oldest first saves the most lives and, surprisingly, also maximizes years of remaining life expectancy. Neat! Though we usually use something like Quality-Adjusted Li
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by cjbprime 6y ago
Or for an even simpler alternative, just get towed into the air as motorgliders are (the ones with sustaining motors but not auto-takeoff). I wonder if this tech might be better suited to self-launching motorgliders than GA.
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by cjbprime 6y ago
GitHub's not just an index -- issues and pull requests are a core feature, and our usual decentralized tools for those fail here because you need write access to be able to place issues and pull requests into the main repo, yet you als
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by cjbprime 6y ago
What's the topology of the network? Does every node make a WebRTC Datachannel connection to every other node? (That wouldn't scale.)
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It would be interesting to see a plot of price vs. uptime in the face of unlikely events for electric grids, and which spot on the curve has been chosen here. There are definitely points on such curves, of course, where you've exhauste
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by cjbprime 6y ago
Another option: the "reversing" challenges in infosec Capture The Flag competitions regularly require you to work out which constraints a program has implemented and then plug into Z3 or Angr to find a solution, that might be a fu
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I'm not sure it's ever been common for (non-hardware) startups to seek patents. I think it's becoming less common, both because modern startups are less likely to be producing patentable inventions, and because the US Supreme
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> It's "real coding" to me, though I haven't done any in fifteen years. For what it's worth, as someone who's done both (Linux kernel maintainer and web developer), this sentiment reads as a kind of chauvini

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