krylon

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by krylon 8y ago
Welcome to the real world! :) I have seen this kind of situation, too. It sucks, but if you play by the corporate rulebook and lobby for better rules, you will be either worn out or retired by the time those rules get updated.
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by krylon 8y ago
You still need to hook up stuff to a computer - mice, keyboards, those weird 3D-mice our CAD people use, printers, and these days even displays are all attached to USB ports. And since the ports USB replaces have mostly gone, there is littl
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by krylon 8y ago
It's weird in retrospect. When my grandfather had his gall bladder removed (late 1960s, I think), he spent about 4-6 weeks in hospital and another couple of weeks at home recovering; last year, I had my gall bladder removed, they sent
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by krylon 8y ago
Signal might be an alternative, assuming you can get your contacts to use it.
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by krylon 8y ago
I am happy with uMatrix, too, but FWIW, I could not recommend it to non-technical or impatient people. For many pages, I require multiple iterations of stepwise refining of what is and is not allowed before a site works for me. I do not m
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by krylon 8y ago
Wow, that looks like even more work than I had imagined. I hope you enjoy writing that book as much as I enjoy reading it! > 2018/03/29 - pancakes :)
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by krylon 8y ago
Police Officer: You just don't know when to shut up, do you? [Goes and arrests the dude for piracy and rape]
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by krylon 8y ago
In a certain way, that is a brilliant idea! Generate a random key, encrypt a bunch of random data with it (or maybe even just generate a bunch of random data), and send it to a few of your contacts, who immediately discard it. But I think s
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by krylon 8y ago
Thank you so much for all the effort! I can only imagine - vaguely - how much hard work must go into writing such a book.
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by krylon 8y ago
Personally, I like to consider Linus taking time off to work on his social skills (whether it is really necessary or not) a sign of personal growth. Time will tell how things will change in the Linux development world, but on a personal lev
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by krylon 8y ago
I don't think OpenBSD is ever going to adopt a CoC, so they should be fine. ;-) duck
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by krylon 8y ago
If you do not need custom domains, I can remain posteo ( https://www.posteo.de/ ). They charge one €uro per month for a 2GB mailbox, but on the upside, the servers are located in Germany, and they are completely ad-free.
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by krylon 8y ago
Wasn't there this announcement recently that the Five Eyes was "asking" vendors to provide backdoors voluntarily, or else? And all the governments engaging in this kind of behavior are at the same time giving each other excus
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by krylon 8y ago
Why does Microsoft not make those changes themselves? Does the Chinese government not want them to know what changes they want?
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by krylon 8y ago
Whoa! A flying Segway, 30 years before the Segway!
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by krylon 8y ago
From the UX perspective of a long time user: GNU Emacs, I guess. AFAIK, its general architecture has not changed much in 30+ years. It was meant from the get-go to be extensible, a decision that has proven wise many times over.
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by krylon 8y ago
I have a Kindle reader with an E Ink display. It is much more pleasant to look at in daylight, especially when ambient light is very bright. Battery life is also much, much better. My tablet lasts two to three days at most, under light load
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by krylon 8y ago
Maybe not quite what you are looking for, but http://terralang.org/ is very Lua-like, has static typing, and compiles to machine code.
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by krylon 8y ago
The management console of the AV software we use at work is built in Silverlight, but that is about the only instance of Silverlight I have ever seen.
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by krylon 8y ago
With a company the size of Microsoft, I am certain that there are different factions/divisions/groups within the company that might have very different values, views, priorities, to the degree that they might as well be different
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by krylon 8y ago
Now that you mention it, can somebody recommend some good starting points for learning F#? That language has been on my bucket list for far too long.
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by krylon 8y ago
On the one hand, I find it revolting that the language will let me do that. On the other hand, why would I ever want to do that? It's not something one might do by accident. It's along the line of C letting you say idx[arr]
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by krylon 8y ago
Thanks for the clarification! When I first learned about hash tables (in Perl), the book I used said that the iteration order over a hash should never ever be relied upon, and that it could change arbitrarily from one release to the next.
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by krylon 8y ago
"The order of iteration for a Go map (a hashmap) is unspecified, by design." I that surprising behavior? It is not only well-documented, but is in line with most other languages that offer a hash table / map / dictionary
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by krylon 8y ago
I've been a GIMP man for about as long as I can remember (1999?), but a while back I had some reason to try Paint.Net at work, and I was seriously impressed. The GUI is one of the nicest I have ever seen. Too bad it is only available
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by krylon 8y ago
On the upside, one might argue that people eating this stuff are already punishing themselves, so to speak.
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by krylon 8y ago
Thanks for the clarification!
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by krylon 8y ago
Yes, that's the one! Thanks!
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by krylon 8y ago
In Germany, the infamous §175a StGB that made gay sex illegal was only finally removed in 1994. I think it was practically ignored for some time before that, but that was only 24 years ago. And yes, it feels just as unreal to me.
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by krylon 8y ago
There was a bit about a ferocious sea weed-eating shark on one Simpsons episode. Funny how these things turn out... :)

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