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by snazz 6y ago
I apologize that my tone came across as dismissive. Chapter 24 of my paper copy of On Lisp does contain a "sketch of [Prolog's] implementation". I can certainly see the value in Lisp and the culture of bottom-up programming
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by snazz 6y ago
Privacy.com still exists and does exactly that. Most services that offer free trials (like the $300 Google Cloud Platform credit/trial) don't accept virtual credit card numbers because it would allow someone to use an infinite fre
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by snazz 6y ago
Some credit card companies and banks will send you proactive reminders that you're about to be charged for an auto-renewal. If I'm purchasing a subscription, one of the advantages of doing so through an in-app purchase on iOS is t
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by snazz 6y ago
MobileSafari natively supports content blockers as well. You can turn them off temporarily or for a specific site. There's a variety of apps in the App Store that include block lists; just flip a switch in Settings similarly to how you
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by snazz 6y ago
If their competitors were writing their applications in C++ or Perl, it probably would have made a noticeable difference to their iteration speed. Writing a web application in C++ (especially in 1995) would not have been too efficient. I&#x
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by snazz 6y ago
uBlock Origin still works fine in Chromium today. Even if Google were to disallow it and other powerful adblockers, the alternative (similar to content blockers on MobileSafari) is not a serious problem, at least for me. I have Ka-Block! on
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by snazz 6y ago
I think that Beating the Averages demonstrated that Lisp was PG's Blub, and maybe he wasn't using a language with strong static typing or logic programming or something like that for the same reasons that Java programmers wouldn&#
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by snazz 6y ago
It’s optional. I am strongly against Brave (the privacy wording, taking cryptocurrency to be “donated” to content creators who hadn’t heard of Brave and then keeping it in “escrow” indefinitely, etc). However, if you are aware of the risks
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by snazz 6y ago
I'm coming at this from the opposite side. Currently, it feels like most of my programming skills are really just Googling skills and remembering what a particular error message means. The market emphasizes this kind of programming by
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by snazz 6y ago
My understanding was that Steve mostly wrote it in Lisp to impress PG, and then Aaron convinced Steve to rewrite it (although Aaron was kind of a Python fanboy and it's telling that the rewrite only took a weekend).
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by snazz 6y ago
That's absolutely awesome! Much better than my theoretical solution.
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by snazz 6y ago
> EDIT: Seeing the command-line you're using, the search you do is over the files' names, correct? The PDF/(original web page) text content is not indexed, right? Just to make sure I understand correctly. pdftotext gets th
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by snazz 6y ago
For me, stability means uptime and infrequency of application crashes. Unfortunately, OpenBSD didn't meet that requirement on my (standard desktop) machine--it would frequently kernel panic on resume. On the other hand, I found that Op
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by snazz 6y ago
It's a bit of Conway's law: the software structure mirrors the organization structure.
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by snazz 6y ago
> Google is infinitely worse than Amazon and Facebook put together. > They just so happen to be an advertising company so they internet doesn't know about it yet. Could you share your reasoning for coming to that conclusion?
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by snazz 6y ago
This would benefit the couple of people who use that fork of Firefox, but would have no effect on every other Internet user. It's impossible for Mozilla to fund anything "unencumbered by Google or other corporate affiliations&quot
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by snazz 6y ago
It could get a lot of new people to be interested in games. I know some people who never really tried playing video games because they were always busy. When they suddenly got a lot more time at home, they realized that games were enjoyable
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by snazz 6y ago
TikTok could switch to Tenor, which is already what Discord and a few other services use.
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by snazz 6y ago
As discussed on a recent thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23137324 ), there are a variety of nice frontend tricks to make a server-rendered site feel nicer (LiveView, TurboLinks, Livewire, instant.page). I'm
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by snazz 6y ago
My latest trick for deciding on external ports to forward is to combine the service port and the device's internal IP address. If my desktop was 10.0.1.36 and the service was SSH on port 22, the external port would be 22136. So far it&
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by snazz 6y ago
Although I will say that the code-browsing experience on https://source.chromium.org beats GitHub by a mile; you can hover over anything, the search tools are better, and it makes it easier to actually understand the code you&#x
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by snazz 6y ago
There definitely is still a Yahoo Finance API for large corporate customers. That's where Apple's Stocks app gets its data, for example. I'm not sure about the third party services---they probably just scrape Yahoo's web
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by snazz 6y ago
The TSV (tab-separated values) format is supported by a lot of software (Google Sheets, for instance) and solves the "comma in the field" problem quite nicely. Tabs can easily be typed by a human, but they don't usually occur
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Teapot: Type-Safe 3D Spreadsheet(syntax-k.de)
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by snazz 6y ago
That's what happens when you draw something longer than the maximum length allowed.
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by snazz 6y ago
Really? Chrome's history search tools are very good, and it's just a SQLite file. I've only had to break out the SQL queries once, but it allowed me to find something very specific. Take a look here: https://gist.g
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by snazz 6y ago
Sway and i3 let you use tabs nearly anywhere you can use windows. I'm not a huge fan of tabs outside of the browser anyway, but it works well.
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by snazz 6y ago
This feature has existed for a long time under chrome://flags. They skipped Chrome 82 for COVID: https://www.chromestatus.com/features/schedule
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by snazz 6y ago
Chromium can easily handle five hundred or more tabs on my machine. It's certainly a RAM hog, but that's to be expected. Maybe it's swapping on your machine? Firefox does a slightly better job when you have more than a thousa
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by snazz 6y ago
I'm guessing that the time required to open the hosts file for reading would eclipse the amount of time required to parse it and do a linear search on the entries. I would think that the file would have to be measured in the hundreds o

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