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2431.
by t-3 5y ago
It's probably the syntax, which is designed to be similar to mathematics. Self-taught programmers will probably struggle to adapt to BNF if they don't have a strong mathematical foundation.
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by t-3 5y ago
The solution is to do away with the source of authority; anarchy. Conveniently, this is also my answer to the question for this Ask.
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by t-3 5y ago
I'm also using tutanota.
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by t-3 5y ago
Did google still have fans among the technical crowd when golang launched? I'd expect Rob Pike and Ken Thompson to be the fanboy-attractors rather than google.
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by t-3 5y ago
For personal data? I don't. If it's important, I make hardcopies, everything else is ephemeral and ultimately replacable. Not worrying about backups saves me a lot of time, money, and stress.
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by t-3 5y ago
The author's description of high school makes me feel grateful for the teachers I had. I guess I got lucky with a public school that had teachers that cared and made an effort to teach rather than have us do rote memorization.
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by t-3 5y ago
> They can’t just decide to not uphold the law though. Why is that? Google is not, nor should they be, a law enforcement agency. There are multiple law enforcement agencies and interested individuals/organizations (the copyright ho
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by t-3 5y ago
My bet: refusing to give up your social media information will be considered probable cause.
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by t-3 5y ago
There was never a technical limitation to running software over a network, unless you go back to before computer networking was invented, far far before the internet. Putting all the capability into the browser is what people have a problem
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by t-3 5y ago
Same. I was afraid of heights until I worked in a warehouse. Standing on the forks of a hi-lo, changing lights in the ceiling...
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by t-3 5y ago
"Human supremacist" attitudes are incredibly common. Look at any discussion of animal intelligence and you'll see the most vehement denials of any possibility that our cognition and emotions aren't unique in the world.
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by t-3 5y ago
I agree, but I'm concerned that any internet news reporter can be easily shut down or marginalized with little to no recourse. Payment processers are also able blacklist with impunity. A large organization with multiple channels to get
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by t-3 5y ago
Exactly. In my opinion, Thinking Forth by Leo Brodie should be required reading for anyone who touches code.
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by t-3 5y ago
I think it's something like "if your ethics != my ethics, I must preemptively discredit and attack you to prevent you from criticizing me". A very natural xenophobic reaction when you look at it like that.
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by t-3 5y ago
Linux users RTFM. Command line flags aren't hard when you have the documentation at your fingertips.
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by t-3 5y ago
I like how the conditions they are showing in the prisons are exactly the same if they had hacked prisons in the USA. Government malfeasance seems to be a universal.
2447.
by t-3 5y ago
Grammar/spelling/usage is almost all about memorizing and copying others, so engaging in tasks that use those skills will definitely get you further faster than a step-by-step progression. I was reading and writing at a level far
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by t-3 5y ago
Availability is a fundamental part of security - if the information you wish to access is made unavailable to you, that is a security failure. If the only goal was confidentiality, we would turn the computers off and bury them in concrete.
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by t-3 5y ago
It's a good way to ensure that I will never pay for their products, and will enthusiastically support any competitor who respects their customers.
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by t-3 5y ago
Afghanistan is incredibly rich in resources, and they have a suitable climate for the production of opium poppy, the precursor to heroin. "natural gas, petroleum, coal, copper, chromite, talc, barites, sulfur, lead, zinc, iron ore, sal
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by t-3 8y ago
Is there a reason you can't just use a pipe and process stdin?
2452.
by t-3 8y ago
On desktop - no, I use qutebrowser or firefox/vim vixen. On mobile: Yes. I have fat fingers and find gestures both difficult and unintuitive.
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by t-3 8y ago
Having some simpler and easier selections ala Lingua Latina ( https://lingualatina.dk/wp/ ) would definitely help. If you haven't heard of it, that is a book for learning Latin Wooten entirely in Latin. It starts of
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by t-3 8y ago
Facial recognition is less important for spies; faces can be changed rather trivially. Gait analysis and recognition is big too, and more prevalent than you might think. It's employed by large chain stores to track serial shoplifters.
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by t-3 8y ago
English spelling is a feature, not a bug. You can tell the origin of nearly any word by it's spelling, and knowing that gives you clues to pronunciation and grammar. If you're ignorant of latin and more modern European languages i
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by t-3 8y ago
They will never be confused because context supplies the clues.
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by t-3 8y ago
He means it's not POSIX-compliant. You can't replace /bin/sh with it and expect stuff to work.
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by t-3 8y ago
A good place to check is the county offices that serve the local district court. There will often be mental health and counseling services for probationers, and those places generally have a billboard full of current jobs that are felon-fri