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by faccacta 5mo ago
Enshittification is properly viewed as a cybersecurity risk, a category of insider threat. You defend against it, when possible, by using open source software and open, documented file formats. That way, if open source enshittifies, the com
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by faccacta 6mo ago
It seems like what Europe really needs to do this is a viable mobile OS. It's been true for a while that Linux + LibreOffice is plenty to handle most government workers' needs on the desktop, but that's only good for when the
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by faccacta 8mo ago
I often venerate antiques and ancient things by thinking about how they were made. You can look at a 1000-year-old castle and think: This incredible thing was built with mules and craftsmen. Or look at a gorgeous, still-ticking 100-year-old
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by faccacta 10mo ago
Some courts publish word processing templates for briefs; for example, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit: https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/court-forms-fees/brief-template... The Eighth Circuit gets really i
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by faccacta 3y ago
I do a lot of long-form writing. I switched from typing first drafts to writing them and saw improvements in my creativity, organization, and general quality of writing, and also found that I finished my work faster. Then I switched from ba
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High school student allegedly uses device to turn off nearby iPhones(arlnow.com)
112 points by faccacta 3y ago|109 comments
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by faccacta 6y ago
Yes, that is what I mean. By the way, on the benchmark game website, is it still possible to sort benchmark results not by speed, but by gzip'd source code size?
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by faccacta 6y ago
Some other examples of what you are talking about: In the regular expression benchmarks, some entries implement their own idiomatic regex parsers or link to the PCRE2 library, rather than use the regex library that comes with the language
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by faccacta 8y ago
In 1983 “learning how computers work” was a huge goal for many buyers. Parents bought computers so that kids could learn to use them, which often meant learning to program. (BTW, thank you, mom and dad).
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by faccacta 9y ago
Bar passage rates are falling because law schools have become increasingly theoretical. Many law professors have never had actual clients who pay them for legal work, or have worked as lawyers in the real world for less than five years. The
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by faccacta 10y ago
What I appreciate about books like this is that they assume the reader is already familiar with programming, and so the book cuts to the chase and explains why this language is unique and how it is different from the languages the reader pr
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Stop the Bots from Killing Broadway(nytimes.com)
5 points by faccacta 10y ago|0 comments
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The Path of the Law (1897)(gutenberg.org)
1 points by faccacta 11y ago|0 comments
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by faccacta 11y ago
Not for this stuff. The EFF has no lobbyists in Washington DC, in fact doesn't even have an office in Washington DC. What they do, they do well: Litigating in court. But don't give them money to influence Congress.