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by halosghost 4y ago
Would be nice if it linked to the actual document. See Resolution 3 in the resolutions document [0]. [0]: https://www.bipm.org/documents/20126/64811223/Resolutions-20...
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by halosghost 5y ago
Hey Tom! I remember watching the recording of Programming with Nothing many years ago; it was an incredibly influential talk for me (ignited a love and fascination of mine for the lambda calculus) and have since watched every following talk
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The American Society of Civil Engineers' Code of Ethics(asce.org)
12 points by halosghost 5y ago|2 comments
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The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work (2015) [pdf](web.cs.ucdavis.edu)
4 points by halosghost 5y ago|1 comments
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by halosghost 5y ago
An incredibly compelling and thorough argument that cryptographers (and software engineers more generally) have a moral imperative to be activist.
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by halosghost 10y ago
I am confused. Most things in this article talk about tobacco products, but many e-juice and e-cig products actually do not contain tobacco, though they do contain nicotine. Is this just failure on the author's part, or is this bill no
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by halosghost 10y ago
I sincerely hope this is not just available for C++ but also for C. The RFC makes it seem like it is a little Cxx-focused, but having this tooling on C would be terrific!
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by halosghost 11y ago
So, is your contention that both Go and Swift have equally-strong type systems? If so, you may want to consider saying that instead (though I am not sure how to phrase that in the format you have). If not, should they not be bolded with som
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by halosghost 11y ago
This is roughly my point. “Strong” and “Weak” are inherently relative terms; so, when used without a reference point, they will mean something different to different people. So, without a point of reference, the terms are not useful.
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by halosghost 11y ago
“Strong enough for what I want” is fine. But the author's point is unclear. Strong compared to what? Did the author mean “strong compared to Smalltalk”? Did the author mean “Go and Swift are Equally Strong”? “Strong” and “Weak” don&#x2
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by halosghost 11y ago
You are confusing static typing and strong typing. I understand that both Go and Swift are statically typed. My comment is about saying that Go and Swift have type systems which are really strong, but such an assertion means nothing unless
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by halosghost 11y ago
> inferred strong static typing “strong” compared to what? Go's duck-typing actually makes it weaker than a lot more type systems than you might expect, and compared to something like Haskell or Rust, both of these type systems are
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by halosghost 11y ago
I completely agree. In addition, I feel like there have been so many games which might qualify as “artistic” that should be plenty (even for those who feel they have a rigid line between “art” and “not art”) to qualify video games as a vali
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by halosghost 11y ago
Disclaimer: I am not a particle physicist In the theoretical physics courses I took in college, we spent a while on anti-matter, and one of the things that the professor mentioned was that it is widely accepted that photons are their own an
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by halosghost 11y ago
In C, control flow like if, for, while, do, else, etc., take the rest of the line of code (i.e., till the next semi-colon) and runs it under the conditions of the clause. braces—{}—allow you to take multiple lines of code and have them be g
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by halosghost 11y ago
This is a nice little idea; I’m cleaning it up for my own use under Linux, and I’d like to release it, but I cannot seem to find a license declaration for Ted’s code. Anyone happen to know what license it was released under?
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by halosghost 11y ago
First of all: thanks! I'm excited to read this! Second of all: ugh! Dear HackerNews team, please fix your URL matching algorithm so it doesn't include <> in URLs; they're actually explicitly recommended by the URI RFC a
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by halosghost 11y ago
Actually, though I deeply enjoy grsec and pax, I find it to work just fine with Arch. I have definitely considered gentoo hardened though; the notion of being able to rebuild everything exactly how I'd like it is pretty damn tempting.
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by halosghost 11y ago
I would love to see this make it upstream. I use PaX/grsec under linux and one of my favorite things about them is that they try to enforce w^x. Unfortunately, a ton of programs break this policy (seemingly for no benefit). Having up
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by halosghost 11y ago
My point was that this particular article doesn't tie-in with the others and instead focuses on this specific case rather than taking this case as an instance of the larger problem and driving the issues with the larger problem home. (
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by halosghost 11y ago
The title and major thrust of the article is that ebooks are generally bad. The real point only made at the end though is that they aren't, they're only bad when corporations and DRM are in-control. Imho, if they had been clearer
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by halosghost 11y ago
This is one of those things where the FSF has the completely correct idea, but has accidentally pointed their finger at the wrong culprit. The problem here is not e-books, it's DRM. The article even says as much at the bottom. I comple
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by halosghost 11y ago
That's a good question. He is under the impression that it's actually scanning them, but I honestly don't know (I am aware that the mapping data would be much easier to accomplish).
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by halosghost 11y ago
Absolutely. Like I said, I'm only aware of that feature being informational; I have no information regarding its use in the autopilot mode :)
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by halosghost 11y ago
Actually, my dad has a Model S and one of the coolest features is that it actually does scan for speed limit signs and tell you the current speed limit on the dashboard (you can configure a limit over the speed limit for when this should sh
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by halosghost 11y ago
On the one hand, this looks incredibly cool. On the other hand, I actually find it a bit worrying. With things like BadUSB[1] still out there, I would be worried about anything that gives USB devices more wide reach or higher privileges. Th
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by halosghost 11y ago
(2013)
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by halosghost 11y ago
Yep, this project depends on youtube-dl[1] (which is an awesome tool anyway, so if you don't have it already, you should consider grabbing it regardless). [1] https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl
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by halosghost 11y ago
I'd love to see this make it into F-Droid! Fingers crossed!
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by halosghost 11y ago
> Just because you're wealthy enough to not do the dirty work means you're somehow above the DP, but poor people who can't should get the DP? This is actually not a good argument at all in-favor of the death penalty for th

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