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541.
by kej 9y ago
This is part of the reason why Donald Knuth stopped sending out his reward checks and instead sends a certificate from the fictional Bank of San Serriffe. People were posting pictures of their reward checks, because getting one is pretty co
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by kej 9y ago
No presumably about it, there was some minor outrage that they were capturing traffic when it first happened: http://www.pcworld.com/article/198667/google_wifi_data_captu...
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by kej 9y ago
There's a decent book that covers exactly this point: https://www.amazon.com/How-Scots-Invented-Modern-World/dp/06...
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by kej 9y ago
I've enjoyed two books read by Guidall, but I spent several years of my commute listening to Patrick Tull read Patrick O'Brian's Master & Commander series, and I'm not sure any other narrator will ever match that f
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by kej 9y ago
As others have said, for properly hashed passwords, the answer is no. However, for plaintext passwords using the default string comparison routines, a timing attack becomes possible since it will take slightly longer to compare a partially
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by kej 9y ago
I've noticed the same thing, and even worse is a friendly or gentle introduction.
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by kej 9y ago
I'm having a hard time seeing the outrage, here. Paket seems like a neat thing, and supporting other package managers is well and good, but why does that have to be done on the nuget.org web page? That just seems like it would open tha
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by kej 9y ago
Do you have any specific examples?
549.
by kej 9y ago
You still get the same three-char width, the ligature just makes it three lines tall, also.
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by kej 9y ago
Ah, that's fair. It is a little bit of visual noise, maybe roughly equivalent to the blinking of matching parens or braces as you move your cursor around. I think the slight improvement in visual clarity when reading the ligatures make
551.
by kej 9y ago
I happen to like them, but the only one I'd put forth as a definite improvement is that JS/PHP's triple-equal === operator gets turned into three horizontal lines that take up more vertical space than the double-equal does. T
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by kej 9y ago
In my experience using Fira Code with VS, VS Code, and Konsole, the monospacing isn't a problem. The ligatures are designed so that they fill up the same width as the original characters. My opinion might be biased by a heavy math back
553.
by kej 9y ago
The console reports: Error in parsing value for ‘left’. Declaration dropped. Error in parsing value for ‘top’. Declaration dropped. A little debugging shows that a NaN is getting into the item properties and then propagating through the
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by kej 9y ago
It's even worse than that. Recent studies have been able to reproduce the text you type by analyzing the sounds emitted by the keyboard[1] and even the ripples produced in the local wifi signal.[2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.o
555.
by kej 9y ago
It's at least the movie and literature maps, with Firefox 54.0.1 (32-bit) on Windows 10 (64-bit). I am on a Windows Insider Preview build (16241.1001), so that could be it. Still broken with all add-ons disabled. Working fine in Firefo
556.
by kej 9y ago
In desktop Firefox (on Windows 10), the text on the map doesn't spread out, so you end up with a bunch of names written on top of each other. Checked it in Chrome and it seems like a cool idea.
557.
by kej 9y ago
Oh, you're right. I was thinking the residue material was all contained inside the die, not that the die itself was made from it and would gradually fall apart as you used it.
558.
by kej 9y ago
I wonder if you'd get more performance with mechanical balance changes or a magnetic table surface and individual electromagnets on each die face.
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by kej 9y ago
Wouldn't this be the opposite of what you want? You'd weigh down the current bottom face, making that face more likely to be on the bottom for future rolls.
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by kej 9y ago
While still useful, this appears to be more of a bundler than a compiler, per se.
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by kej 9y ago
Not even that, he tweeted that he'd like to find Andy and Andy showed up: https://twitter.com/johnbiggs/status/879406815167086592
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by kej 9y ago
Here's a theoretical larger project, as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa
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by kej 9y ago
To piggyback on your example, I volunteered at an organization who were working with someone who had recently been released from prison but had no ID and no access to any supporting documents. The organization spent months going back and fo
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by kej 9y ago
From the linked issue: >deliberately have my editor set up to change tab width based on editor width (responsive indentation width) What editor are you using that has this setting?
565.
by kej 9y ago
The sequel, Romeo and/or Juliet, is fun as well.
566.
by kej 9y ago
This looks interesting, but I feel like it's conflating two equally interesting ideas, "what if only certain nodes could make new blocks" and "what if the blocks had some kind of structured data". I think moving tho
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by kej 9y ago
Only distantly related, but the title reminds me of line from AI (pseudo-?) researcher Chris McKinstry[1]'s web suicide note: >Oh and BTW, the mind is a maximum hypersurface and thought a trajectory on it and the amygdala and hippoc
568.
by kej 9y ago
Just to quibble with your last point, I think it would be reasonable to say humans have a biological predisposition to use tools and to defend themselves. I know I have a very primal urge to protect my young children; I could see how that c
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by kej 9y ago
Wikipedia has a decent article if you've never read it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Mars#Challenge...
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by kej 9y ago
I think you could convey this pretty well if you changed the first screen shot on your page a little. Cut out the actual browser window part, and paste that on to an image of an address book/planner with the same information about Jim

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