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by jf 8y ago
Rust excels at giving you fine-grain control over how your code runs. This was important to me recently, when I found I couldn't prevent Go from using threads: I recently wrote the same UNIX PAM module in Go, Python, and Rust. I starte
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Gallery of programmer interfaces(docs.google.com)
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With the Apple Watch with LTE, Apple _is_ tackling the issue of smartphone addiction. I've been using my Apple Watch as my sole form of communication for 3 months now, it's great.
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by jf 9y ago
I was going to mention the same thing. Wouldn't using a UPS mitigate this attack?
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Infrastructure Secret Management Software Overview(gist.github.com)
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by jf 9y ago
Can you go into more details on situations that would be hard to test? This has all only been a thought experiment for me so far, and in my thought experiment I handwave these sort of issues away by thinking "that's what emulation
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by jf 9y ago
This is great, thanks for sharing it!
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by jf 9y ago
I love seeing projects like this and I hope that a sane alternative to OpenSSL emerges. A big dream of mine is that we'll eventually have a comprehensive and hyper-detailed set of automated tests that we can use to validate cryptograph
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by jf 9y ago
It is a very "IBM" typeface indeed. It reminds me of the typeface that is inspired by the IBM 1403 printer: https://1403.slantedhall.com/
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by jf 9y ago
I was able to get the page to load, here's the text of thet post: "Today I’m announcing my departure from Docker, the company I helped create ten years ago and have been building ever since. A founder’s departure is usually seen a
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by jf 9y ago
Me too! Not having Facebook prevented me from asking you what you think of this claim: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7s36ub/what_cons...
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by jf 9y ago
Seashore - it was a fantastic Mac-specific fork of Gimp with a great native user experience. Last updated in September of 2010: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seashore_(software)
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by jf 9y ago
Irony bordering on hypocrisy! If we were to compare reasons why we dislike Twitter, I expect that we'd have a lot to agree on. I tried to leave Twitter too, but found that I couldn't because I still get too much value from Twitter
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by jf 9y ago
Recent successful boycotts include UFW's "no uvas" and the boycotts related to apartheid. Wikipedia also has a longer list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_boycotts
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by jf 9y ago
I live in the valley, have several friends at Facebook, etc. I don't know anybody who hates Zuckerberg. I don't hate him. But I am very upset with Facebook-the-company and Facebook-the-system. What bothers me most is that, to the
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by jf 9y ago
> It will be the best feeling you ever had from doing something with your facebook account. I second this, deleting my Facebook account was the best decision I made in 2017
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by jf 9y ago
Genuinely curious, when was the last time that our civilized world turned itself upside down in a hurry?
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Implementing FizzBuzz on an FPGA(righto.com)
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by jf 9y ago
The best way to get around the WSJ paywall is to subscribe to the WSJ
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by jf 9y ago
os-test is really cool, thanks for the additional links!
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by jf 9y ago
It took me a while to find, examples of user interfaces made with CLIM can be found by scrolling down on this page: https://common-lisp.net/project/mcclim/excite.html
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by jf 9y ago
A Conditional Cash Transfer program called "Opportunity NYC" is mentioned in this article. Given what I read in the article, I expected the amount of money in question to be on the order of hundreds or thousands a month, but accor
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by jf 9y ago
A list of suicide hotlines are available here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SuicideWatch/wiki/hotlines Here are the numbers for the United States: National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 (TALK) Veter
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Winamp2-js adds support for all three windows(twitter.com)
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by jf 9y ago
> The Computer History Museum in Mountain View runs demonstrations of the IBM 1401 on Wednesdays and Saturdays so check it out if you're in the area; the demo schedule is here: http://www.computerhistory.org/hours&#x
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by jf 9y ago
(In case anybody is wondering, these comments are referring to the excellent book "Seveneves" by Neil Stephenson)
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by jf 9y ago
To borrow from the show "Halt and Catch Fire": The programming language isn't the thing, it's the thing that gets you to the thing. In my talks with the researchers at Dynamicland, it's become clear the programming
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by jf 9y ago
> I get the sense the end goal here isn't in productivity but more for education and creating environments that foster a programming mindset and/or nourish more emergent creativity from being able to code at a higher level Whil
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by jf 9y ago
Plan 9 is an amazing, inspirational, and futuristic operating system from the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs One of the things that Plan 9 can do is seamlessly treat remote resources as if th
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Largest Early World Map(medium.com)
2 points by jf 9y ago|0 comments

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