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by eadmund 1y ago
NIST v2: https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/interoperable-randomness-beac... NIST v2: https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/interoperable-randomness-beac...
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by eadmund 1y ago
This seems tailor-made for Org mode! Seeing all those ‘To do’ and ‘Done’ reminds me of it. Did you consider building atop Org mode?
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by eadmund 1y ago
> The business leaders pumping all this money of course don’t understand the technology. True enough! > They’re doing this for exactly one reason: They think they can discard armies of employees and replace them with LLM services, at
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by eadmund 1y ago
I’ve always seen it written with an acute accent: ‘curséd.’ Wikipedia notes both usages, but to my knowledge I have never once read a poem which used a grave accent that way.
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by eadmund 1y ago
> Unions can't (always) make an unprofitable company profitable Indeed, I think their major trick (in America, anyway) is to make a profitable company unprofitable. Much like the bad forms of private equity from above, they bleed a
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by eadmund 1y ago
> I like the idea of baiting with a “whatzit” item Me too! I can’t believe that I never thought of it before, but it makes perfect sense.
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by eadmund 1y ago
Evolutionary success is survival for genes.
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by eadmund 1y ago
> If you can't be an expert after 5 years then there is no such thing as experts. I think you’ll find that after 10 years one’ll look back on oneself at 5 years’ experience and realise that one wasn’t an expert back then. The same
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by eadmund 1y ago
The DER-encoded ASN.1 byte sequence Base64-encoded to MBMCAQUWDkFueWJvZHkgdGhlcmU/ could be represented as: ((tracking-number 5) (question "Anybody there?")) While we are all familiar with opaque X.509 certifica
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by eadmund 1y ago
This XML (from https://www.w3schools.com/xml/note.xml ): <note> <to>Tove</to> <from>Jani</from> <heading>Reminder</heading> <body
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by eadmund 1y ago
This JSON (taken from https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_json_intro.asp ): {"name":"John", "age":30, "car":null} could be this S-expression: ((name John) (age 30)
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RFC 9804: Simple Public Key Infrastructure (SPKI) S-Expressions(datatracker.ietf.org)
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by eadmund 1y ago
After 29 years, Rivest’s S-expression draft is an RFC. They are a straightforward, easy-to-parse S-expression format whose canonical representation is useful for cryptography. They are suitable as a general replacement for JSON, XML, HTML,
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by eadmund 1y ago
It’s not really about clarity, or even about accessibility (although both of those are great!): it’s about what a Web page is . A Web page is a document which can link to other documents . > Links should absolutely be verbs No, link
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by eadmund 1y ago
> What does a Lisp Machine of the future look like? Depends on what one means by that. Dedicated hardware? I doubt that we’ll ever see that again, although of course I could be wrong. A full OS? That’s more likely, but only just. If it
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by eadmund 1y ago
> There is usually no magic spread to be captured unless you’re willing to take more risk (say, money in equities instead of CDs). Which is what one should do, provided one believes that the long-term result will be positive. > Financ
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by eadmund 1y ago
The trick is to borrow $40,000 to buy the car at 6% and keep your $40,000 invested making more than 6%. Even at 7% annually, you’d make $16,102 over five years (1.07⁵ × $40,000). For that matter, at 6.1% annually, you’d make $13,782 (1.06
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by eadmund 1y ago
A mortgage doesn’t make money, but it (can) enable spending less money. If you buy a place such that interest, maintenance, insurance, taxes and the opportunity cost of not being able to easily relocate are less than rent, then you have sa
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by eadmund 1y ago
> At startups you negotiate for equity instead of salary Never take equity over salary. Equity at a startup is a lottery ticket. Would you agree to be paid $10,000 less for $10,000 in lottery tickets? For $20,000 in lottery tickets?
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by eadmund 1y ago
> Why should I reward that by paying them? Do you want to have a great YouTube experience? Paying for it gets you that. I watch YouTube videos frequently. Never see an ad. It’s great.
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by eadmund 1y ago
If a language changes, there are only three possible options: either it becomes more expressive; or it becomes less expressive; or it remains as expressive as before. Certainly we would never want our language to be less expressive. Ther
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by eadmund 1y ago
> In my dayjob I see this tendency constantly to have a lot of different very narrow structs that somehow integrate into some library, and then a TON of supporting code to copy between those structs. Only to then do very little actually
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by eadmund 1y ago
> the amount of em dashes … means absolutely nothing. I’ve been heavily using them for decades at this point. The article itself may or may not be AI-generated, but we cannot penalise folks for simply using a stylish bit of punctuation.
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by eadmund 1y ago
It is mostly pointless complexity, but I’m going to miss batching. It was kind of neat to be able to say ‘do all these things, then respond,’ even if the client can batch the responses itself if it wants to.
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by eadmund 1y ago
> this transition That begs the question of whether there should be or is a transition. From where I sit right now, there should not be and there isn’t. Wayland doesn’t meet my needs (not ‘needs’ in the sense of food and air, of course
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by eadmund 1y ago
I wrote in a sibling comment ‘I do get it — no-one owes me anything.’ No-one should be forced to do anything. Folks are and should be free to work on whatever suits their fancy. But folks should also have a sense of duty or responsibilit
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by eadmund 1y ago
> intercepting/sending keystrokes in particular had to be redesigned to make to make it more secure. without that there would not have been a point to wayland at all. Sure, and I really would like to enjoy that security improvement.
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by eadmund 1y ago
Is it possible to run an X11 window manager in XWayland and have it manage Wayland windows and intercept keystrokes for all windows? If not then it’s not really an upgrade path. I do get it — no-one owes me anything. They don’t even, reall
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by eadmund 1y ago
That doesn’t really work. If there’s no longer a browser which supports X11, then I have to choose between browsing the web and having a usable desktop. The problem is that the Wayland folks are trying to replace X11 rather than provide an
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by eadmund 1y ago
> I understand that change can be challenging It’s less about change and more about outright breakage. Wayland does not support me. > You have a choice: acknowledge that Wayland is faster, more user-friendly, and more secure, or rema

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