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by nemoniac 7y ago
Get a Thinkpad, remap the keys in software and never look down again.
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by nemoniac 7y ago
The thing I don't get about pass or gopass is that "each secret lives inside of a gpg encrypted file whose filename is the title of the website or resource that requires the secret." Why leak the information that there are pa
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by nemoniac 7y ago
If you're in Astronomy, you may be amused to read that there is some intriguing history on virtual authors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpher%E2%80%93Bethe%E2%80%93G...
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by nemoniac 7y ago
Not that hard? It's literally undecidable! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21154565
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Spanish National Institute for Statistics will track all mobile users for 3 days(elpais.com)
1 points by nemoniac 7y ago|0 comments
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Unable to email anyone from primary domain name; thanks Google Mail and G Suite(mailman.nanog.org)
4 points by nemoniac 7y ago|1 comments
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by nemoniac 7y ago
As a counterpoint, in Amsterdam the municipality has hundreds of charging stations all around the city. https://www.amsterdam.nl/en/traffic-transport/map-charging-s...
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SSH Authentication with Keybase
2 points by nemoniac 7y ago|0 comments
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WhatsApp Reminds Us of the Leap of Faith We Take with Closed Source Encryption(forbes.com)
1 points by nemoniac 7y ago|0 comments
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British police harvesting EU crime databases ahead of Brexit(theguardian.com)
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by nemoniac 7y ago
Yes, it does
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Gradual Typing from Theory to Practice(blog.sigplan.org)
2 points by nemoniac 7y ago|0 comments
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S Stands for Shock: The European Funders’ Proposal for Open Access(blog.sigplan.org)
2 points by nemoniac 7y ago|0 comments
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Racket Is an Acceptable Python(dustycloud.org)
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Apple and WhatsApp condemn GCHQ plans to eavesdrop on encrypted chats(theguardian.com)
2 points by nemoniac 7y ago|0 comments
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by nemoniac 7y ago
To use the title of Dan Ariely's book: Predictably Irrational
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by nemoniac 7y ago
Could you point to a "much better interface" to numerics?
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by nemoniac 7y ago
Programming is about building abstraction upon abstraction. If you don't understand the abstractions upon which you're building, you'll have trouble building upon them. Unification and backtracking take some effort to grok. I
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by nemoniac 7y ago
The first sentence of the report defining the Scheme programming language: "Programming languages should be designed not by piling feature on top of feature, but by removing the weaknesses and restrictions that make additional features
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by nemoniac 7y ago
It would be helpful if you say that your focus is markup, scripting and styling languages and not programming languages in general or even natural languages. This is far from a "universal language parser".
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by nemoniac 8y ago
The article suggests that because Facebook, for example, has its European headquarters in Ireland, then complaints under the GDPR must be handled by the Irish data regulator. This is not the case. Any EU citizen can bring a complaint to the
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by nemoniac 8y ago
gnus
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by nemoniac 8y ago
These are two different things. A coment in code describes the state of the code as it is. A commit message describes a change in the code, a delta.
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by nemoniac 8y ago
In what parts of the world do you accept customers?
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Lexical differential highlighting instead of syntax highlighting(wordsandbuttons.online)
3 points by nemoniac 8y ago|1 comments
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by nemoniac 8y ago
The title is misleading. The article is about the early Web, not the early Internet.
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by nemoniac 8y ago
Could it be argued that this is in contravention of the GDPR? Can Twitter demonstrate that it's necessary for them too have a phone number to provide their service?
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by nemoniac 8y ago
I'd be curious what the consequences of the new EU copyright law would be for a site like this?
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by nemoniac 8y ago
Perhaps the point your missing is that "your version-control system will love semantic linefeeds". You can have your editor reformat your text for viewing any way you like but adding a word at the beginning of a long paragraph can
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by nemoniac 8y ago
There was a Lisp interpreter written in COBOL on the HN front page today. An option for Eliza in COBOL might have been Eliza on Lisp on COBOL.

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