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721.
by lisper 2y ago
What do you think is more likely, that you are the first person to ever think of this, or that others have tried to do this and failed for some reason? The more interesting question is: what is that reason? I'm not going to tell you
722.
by lisper 2y ago
That depends on what you mean by "purely functional Lisp". You can write purely functional code in any Lisp, and you can compile any Lisp to machine language, and this has been true for decades. AFAIK there is no Lisp that enfo
723.
by lisper 2y ago
OK, for that definition of "everyone" then yes, it's probably mostly true under normal circumstances. (Poor Jews may have been buried without shrouds, I don't know.) But 1) being crucified was not a "normal circum
724.
by lisper 2y ago
There was never a time in which "everyone" got a shroud. Even in Jesus's time, burying someone in a shroud was a distinctly Jewish custom, and using linen did not become fashionable until after Jesus's death [1] [2]. F
725.
The Planck scale: Is there a fundamental limit to space and time? [video](youtube.com)
3 points by lisper 2y ago|1 comments
726.
by lisper 2y ago
Clearly your dog has been possessed by a demon.
727.
by lisper 2y ago
OK, so your proposed alternative is to give a key to a trusted third party (TTP). But how do you authenticate to that TTP?
728.
by lisper 2y ago
It depends on what you are trying to optimize for. There is a benefit to punning the empty list and boolean false. It lets you shorten (not (null x)) to just x, and that is a common enough idiom that it actually makes a difference in real
729.
by lisper 2y ago
You need to read more carefully. The claim was not that there is no NIL in Scheme, the claim was that Scheme does not have a "NIL in the sense that other Lisps like CL or Elisp have". There is a NIL is Scheme, but it's just
730.
by lisper 2y ago
> you can probably get them to click approve It depends on the type of attack being mounted, but a typical phishing attack is mounted as a MITM attack. With passkeys, a MITM cannot get the client to even ask the user to approve the tran
731.
by lisper 2y ago
> It's a problem for anything where you need to manually keep backups of key material. Well, OK, but what is the alternative? (Actually, you don't need to manually keep backups. You can have automatic backups, but those come
732.
by lisper 2y ago
> Minor correction (I'm assuming it was a typo) -- the secret for the passkey should be the private key Yeah, I meant "public key" in the sense of "public-key cryptography". I've edited the comment to make
733.
by lisper 2y ago
But that's not a problem with passkeys, that's a problem with Firefox Sync.
734.
by lisper 2y ago
Two main ways: first, as I said in my original comment, you don't reveal the key when you use a passkey. So at worst a phisher might be able to get you to sign a challenge that they are facing to get into your account once, but they w
735.
by lisper 2y ago
> Are passkeys replacing passwords, 2FA, or both? They are advertised as a replacement for passwords, but the truth is that they are orthogonal to both passwords and 2FA. They are a completely different kind of authentication. Both pass
736.
by lisper 2y ago
> Does Scheme even have NIL in the sense that other Lisps like CL or Elisp have? No. It has an empty list, which is a singleton atomic value whose type is not shared with any other object, and it has a boolean false value, which is dist
737.
by lisper 2y ago
There really should be two different kinds of cons cells, one for "proper" linked lists and another for general purpose consing. The difference is that the cdr of the first kind of cons cell (I'll call it a PL-cons) can only
738.
by lisper 2y ago
> Modern Lisps now evaluate (car nil) and (cdr nil) to nil. Scheme doesn't. Taking the CAR or CDR of nil is an error.
739.
by lisper 2y ago
Huh? He mentions Lisp all over the place. Check the index.
740.
Everything We Teach at Y Combinator in 10 Minutes [video](youtube.com)
6 points by lisper 2y ago|0 comments
741.
by lisper 2y ago
s/sport/organized competitive activity/
742.
by lisper 2y ago
Here's a video that explains it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLGuZZraIqg And one from the championship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5t6ej8Jzew And here I was thinking that curling was the most
743.
by lisper 2y ago
If, like me, you were wondering WTF this is all about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLGuZZraIqg
744.
by lisper 2y ago
> I don't understand this. That's because it's nonsense.
745.
American Airlines Seeks $94M in Skiplagging Travel Hack Lawsuit(aviationa2z.com)
8 points by lisper 2y ago|6 comments
746.
by lisper 2y ago
In that case you don't have to bring coca into it at all, that just muddies the waters. All you have to do it look at Marcellus Williams and Richard Glossip and compare how they were/are being treated to how Donald Trump is being
747.
by lisper 2y ago
I will not defend the claim that equality before the law exists in the U.S. It's still far from obvious to me that hundreds of entities have applied for coca import permits with legitimate justification and been denied.
748.
by lisper 2y ago
The difference between coca and cocaine is rather like the difference between sugar cane and refined sugar. In fact, that is quite a good analogy in more ways than one.
749.
by lisper 2y ago
> there's been presumably hundreds of applicants Well, that's exactly the question, isn't it. You can't presume this because the answer to the question turns on the actual fact of the matter.
750.
by lisper 2y ago
I know who Matlock is. But then it makes no sense at all.

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