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by neilv 1y ago
This is an awesome writeup, and a very appealing idea.
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by neilv 1y ago
IIUC, this is the handler for all requests, not just `GET` with path `/hello/<NAME>`. It doesn't implement what many Web "backend" developers now call "routing", which means the programmer specifyi
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by neilv 1y ago
We're partly in this police state mess of legislation and user-hostile technology because of the history of piracy. Piracy isn't going to starve the bastards. Piracy is helping the bastards, by giving them reason or pretext.
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by neilv 1y ago
If some legislator or public interest lawyer would like to fix some of the DMCA shortcomings or abuses, I think Rick Beato would be a good poster child for legitimate fair use. Beato does high-quality, knowledgeable videos that make IMHO le
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by neilv 1y ago
Yes, with some of the fancier Scheme/Racket syntax transformers, you can do that string parsing at syntax expansion time. Sometimes it makes sense (e.g., if you want to support chunks of hairy SQL pasted into the code). I could go eith
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by neilv 1y ago
> This was most of what I knew about nonfiction writing when I managed to land an assignment, on spec, to profile Douglas Hofstadter for a piece in the Atlantic’s print magazine. That sounds like an impressively rapid climb.
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by neilv 1y ago
> The first time Thompson, 53, [...] Could it be all the roles he was submitting to weren’t actually real? Probably. But there's also another obvious explanation for why he wasn't hearing back. (Widespread ageism, which is
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by neilv 1y ago
Thanks. At 11m. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RzUBqtgODM&t=11m
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by neilv 1y ago
> Scheme is such a nice language to code and hack with; but, how safe would it be to expose it directly? If you have really good Scheme programmers, who know their system, and built it competently, it's probably safer to expose
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by neilv 1y ago
Just a comment on APIs in Scheme... If you're defining a Web server route handler, it's reasonable to do it as you would in most languages, like this package's example: (get "/hello/:who" (lamb
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by neilv 1y ago
I think you're supposed to touch the touchpad in particular ways with your thumb, while using your index finger on the TrackPoint stick. I wonder what the set intersection is, between people who want TrackPoint sticks , and people w
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by neilv 1y ago
I have bad news for you: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadp/th... Someone should scoop up the niche market of anguished ThinkPad devotees, with a TrackPoint and a good, n
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by neilv 1y ago
A TrackPoint-like "pointy stick" has been on some other major brands: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick#Naming_and_bran...
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by neilv 1y ago
The bottle of gin is to drown the sorrows of not having a TrackPoint keyboard?
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by neilv 1y ago
> Suppose you find a clever mechanism in another repository, such as an authentication flow or a clever way to persist state locally. In that case, you can ask DeepWiki to provide a Markdown cheat sheet: a breakdown of how it works, whi
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by neilv 1y ago
(Responding to https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/25/google-will-require-develo... ) > Starting next year, Google will begin to verify the identities of developers distributing their apps on Android devices, n
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by neilv 1y ago
When I was doing fancy things with HTML5 Offline, Apple seemed to be actively breaking even that (e.g., storage), like other browsers weren't. Sigh.
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by neilv 1y ago
CEO: "Bring me the head of whomever is responsible for this metaverse fiasco!" :)
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by neilv 1y ago
More cyberpunk than this would be for the official author side to be a `.onion`, with a vanity subdomain that took a borrowed farm of GPUs a week to compute, and an RSS/Atom reader feed from that, plus a Fediverse/Mastodon account
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by neilv 1y ago
> However, how do you square that with the proof, time and again, that truly secure and encrypted networks are primarily use by criminals Do you have a URL for this proof? (If it's true, that would be good to know.)
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by neilv 1y ago
Has anyone tried to go after online video game cheaters with lawsuits? What about criminal charges (e.g., CFAA)?
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by neilv 1y ago
Kudos to this article for: 1. starting with threat modeling (though they don't call it that); 2. mentioning that your OPSEC affects not only you but also people connected to you; and 3. mentioning that maybe you should just leave the d
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by neilv 1y ago
> Strong PIN, not biometrics And also be aware of "shoulder surfing", which is different today in 2 ways it wasn't in the past. In the past, the risk was something like someone looking at you type in your PIN on a bank A
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by neilv 1y ago
Seeing posts like this upvoted on HN restores some of my faith that we can still be a field of the smart and the professional.
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by neilv 1y ago
* Racket is for great programmers who don't care about whether they have the latest JS or Python community commodity keywords on their resume. You can be ridiculously productive with it. * Over the years, the academic priorities and i
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by neilv 1y ago
> “Y Combinator — and the larger venture capital community — have long been hesitant to back app-based businesses that were poor investments due to the Apple Tax,” This could be good, if it encourages people to re-learn the value of op
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by neilv 1y ago
The "Half Life Snacks" video employer advertising was brilliant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEi3U77b6yE
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by neilv 1y ago
> No ads, no data collection [...] Just anonymous thoughts from [...] It currently leaks cross-site user tracking information to Google (www.gstatic.com).
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by neilv 1y ago
I was expecting a 5 1/4" or maybe 8". But the video was sponsored by a CNC machine company, so 3 1/2" hard shell form factor (the only popular one that can be CNC'd) makes sense. :)
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by neilv 1y ago
Thank you, that's interesting and a concern. Do you have pointers to information about the governance and legitimacy of CoMaps? (I see a mention that it's non-profit, but no statement about what kind of non-profit, not even on the

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