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by rauhl 8y ago
> How would you resume execution at the panic point? You invert it: rather than panicking, then continuing from the panic point if things recover, you proceed, only panicking to perform a transfer of control. Interestingly, this is what
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by rauhl 8y ago
For some time now, I’ve been thinking that it’d be funny to add a Lisp-style condition system to Go by abusing panic, defer & recover. I think that it’d be possible (since Lisp’s conditions are really just built atop THROW & CATC
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by rauhl 8y ago
Back when I was a macOS user (back when we just called it System 7 …) I discovered Alpha: an extensible editor written in TCL. It was pretty amazing, and was what first opened my eyes to what could be done with a scriptable editor. Oddly e
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by rauhl 8y ago
I’m reminded of Rogue’s Beard Beer[0], which was made with yeast cultured from a brewer’s beard. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_Beard_Beer
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by rauhl 8y ago
Not really, since one can verify the Firefox code oneself, or hire others to do it, or rely on the fact that it’s a matter of public record and do forensics analysis after the fact should one be compromised. But a target JavaScript file sen
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by rauhl 8y ago
Sadly, I believe that Firefox Accounts — upon which Firefox Sync is built — are insecure in execution. The security of the whole system relies on keeping your password secret from Mozilla, but as you can see when accessing https:/&#x
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by rauhl 8y ago
Which seems to be a bit of a genre, actually: - https://alexpearce.me/2016/02/managing-dotfiles-with-stow/ - https://protesilaos.com/codelog/gnu-stow-dotfiles/ - https://
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Managing dotfiles with GNU Stow(stevenrbaker.com)
4 points by rauhl 8y ago|1 comments
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by rauhl 8y ago
It was a different era, one in which computers were a lot slower, source control was a lot more primitive, a lot of basic stuff was still being invented, but … yeah, I feel a lot better about my own productivity now!
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by rauhl 8y ago
> Like how is it in the interest of handset manufacturers to let you have a general purpose computer that could run unsigned (by them) code? Perhaps naïvely, I imagine that selling me hardware is in their interest. Is control of what ru
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Free Software Foundation: recent licensing updates(fsf.org)
10 points by rauhl 8y ago|1 comments
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by rauhl 8y ago
Release notes are at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/magit/magit/master/Documen...
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Magit 2.90 released(emacsair.me)
3 points by rauhl 8y ago|1 comments
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Why create a Frontier-inspired scripting app?(inessential.com)
2 points by rauhl 8y ago|0 comments
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An introduction to redo(jdebp.eu)
5 points by rauhl 8y ago|0 comments
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by rauhl 8y ago
> Having an Ubuntu VM or VPS available to host a VPN is a reasonable assumption to make. Is it? I personally & professionally prefer Debian over Ubuntu: by default it’s free-software–only, and I find that it’s somewhat more stable &
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Emacs, the 100% extendable IDE(linkedin.com)
4 points by rauhl 8y ago|0 comments
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Old school sniffing attacks can still reveal your browsing history(motherboard.vice.com)
2 points by rauhl 8y ago|0 comments
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by rauhl 8y ago
It looks really, really cool (very nice specs, and attractive too). I wonder how well it’ll run Debian stable. A lot of folks like Ubuntu, and no doubt System76 are doing a fine job with Pop!_OS (gosh that’s an odd name though), but I’m
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by rauhl 8y ago
Most wireless headphones don’t really call attention to themselves. AirPods are truly, terribly ugly , and do. Granted, taste is a subjective matter. If I’d ever noticed someone wearing the ridiculous Google Pixel Buds, I’d probably do t
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by rauhl 8y ago
> Who doesn't want to live above a grocery store? Years before I met her, my wife lived above a grocery store. She absolutely loved it: the entire store was effectively her fridge, and she didn’t need to get dressed for the outdoor
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by rauhl 8y ago
Emacs Lisp has lexical binding these days. I’d like to see an Emacs with a Common Lisp core, and an elisp execution engine to run all the legacy elisp code. https://github.com/blindglobe/clocc/blob/master&#x2
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by rauhl 8y ago
Although Scheme has a standard, I wouldn’t really call Guile ‘more modern and standardised’: Guile has no standard (it extends the Scheme standard in incompatible ways), and ‘modern’ is hard to define. Emacs Lisp added lexical scope in t
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by rauhl 8y ago
Yes, it’s true — and it’s not just true of elisp (which is a decent language) but also of Common Lisp, Python, Scheme and others. It’s probably most true of elisp, because the editor itself is written in elisp, but one gets something of
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by rauhl 8y ago
> This is at the time FB is bleeding heavily, is losing trust and people are willing to try something new. This is, I think, a really key point. It’s debatable to what extent people are willing to try something new (it may be that they’
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by rauhl 8y ago
A couple of years ago I really wanted to get a smart watch. After reading and reading and reading about them, I realised: buying a smart watch is actually pretty dumb. For the same amount of money, I could buy an automatic watch which wil
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by rauhl 8y ago
Very cool! If I ever get around to my hobby-OS project, these would be great.
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by rauhl 8y ago
> Tuesday, 18 September 2018 … > Recently [emphasis mine] we learned of a new technique for discovering the identity of logged-in users to online platforms including Twitter … > The issue was reported to us in December 2017 [emp
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by rauhl 8y ago
They shouldn’t be able to push a new operating system onto my phone. They can let me know that a new version is avilable for me to download, when I see fit. It’s my phone, after all!
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How Silicon Valley CEOs conspired to drive down engineers’ wages (2014)(pando.com)
33 points by rauhl 8y ago|4 comments

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