talideon

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by talideon 11y ago
I'm not sure I get what that has to do with the comment I made.
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by talideon 11y ago
There are, at least, things like Termux ( https://termux.com/ ), on Android. Just for laughs, I've been doing actual work (using git, vim, and Go) in Termux on my Nexus 10. Only two things got in my way: screen size and
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by talideon 11y ago
You might want to do a search for the term 'The Grauniad'.
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by talideon 11y ago
Can H.264/H.265 do that in a lossless fashion?
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by talideon 11y ago
Ruby's "exit" doesn't have to be as magicky owing to how simply typing "exit" in Ruby is a valid way to call a function with no arguments. The problem, if you can even call it that, is that Python doesn't
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by talideon 11y ago
Whatever method you take, whether it's a special case after reading a line, or some other weird hack, you're adding magic. With Ruby, this isn't a big deal because if `exit` is a function, then typing `exit` will call it, and
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by talideon 11y ago
That's because there's no magic in the REPL. You're typing nothing but regular Python code. 'exit' is an object. Expressions typed at the REPL are stringified. Thus, when you type 'exit', it gets stringifi
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by talideon 11y ago
If you can, give ScudCloud a look. While like the regular Slack desktop client, it's essentially a browser window, I've found that overall it works that bit better than the official client.
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by talideon 11y ago
It's a bit of a pity that they don't self host, even if they also have a Github repo.
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by talideon 11y ago
The problem with tone isn't so much that it's hard (not more so than, say, a voicing or aspiration contrast is), but that as people get older, it's harder to hear contrasts that don't exist in the languages you're f
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by talideon 11y ago
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
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by talideon 11y ago
It's not good to confuse your mother (mā) with your horse (mǎ).
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by talideon 11y ago
> You can't use tones to communicate things like irony, anger or doubt. You have to play on volume. You're losing a lot of expressiveness and subtlety in the process. That's not unusual even in languages without tones. F
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by talideon 11y ago
I guess it's worth mentioning Parkinson's law of triviality here, given it's relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_law_of_triviality
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by talideon 11y ago
Vaguely related (due to the similar naming): https://github.com/catseye/Specs-on-Spec/blob/master/star-w/...
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by talideon 11y ago
It was fixed as in the PRNG in v8 was awful, even for a non-CSPRNG, and was recently replaced with a much better one: https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=4566
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by talideon 11y ago
One thing to keep in mind if you use Thunderbird is that their certificate verification library (Mozilla::PKIX) really, really hates self-signed certificates. So, if you're using a self-signed cert on your mailserver's submission
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by talideon 11y ago
> However, DNSSEC is a crappy standard. It doesn't do encryption so a surveillant can still collect metadata; To be fair, on-the-wire encryption is a problem orthogonal to that which DNSSEC is attempting to solve, which is integrity
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by talideon 11y ago
No, no, I read it. The question is, where did you get that data in the first place, and how can you trust that it hasn't been tampered with between the authoritative nameservers and your local cache? That's where the benefit of DN
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by talideon 11y ago
All those pictures and all that whitespace serves a purpose: it breaks up the message into manageable chunks that are easier to digest and more approachable. The homepage of any project is essentially an ad for the project. It needs to be
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by talideon 11y ago
Exactly.
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by talideon 11y ago
Yeah, I know exactly what it looked like: big wall of text with navigation. The sites for Python, Haskell, Ruby, O'Caml &c., all underwent similar changes, and all promote the languages better for that reason.
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by talideon 11y ago
> However, if we're going to expect more, it should look more like the new Guile site and less like this. I was referring to both sites. Both the Guix and Guile sites are better than your typical impenetrable GNU project website.
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by talideon 11y ago
> This site, however, is a load of pure propaganda. No, it's advertising, and not dishonest advertising. > You can create applications on the web with Lisp? Really?!? Yes! You know, something on the server has to generate the c
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by talideon 11y ago
It looks more 'corporate' because they paid more attention to the site's information architecture[1]: rather than presenting you with a wall of text like old sites do, you're presented with what it is, why you should car
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by talideon 11y ago
Compared to what was there before, it's much better.
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by talideon 11y ago
There's nothing stopping you from doing that, even with a patent in place, so long as your mechanism for secreting X (such as using a different base organism) is different. To give an analogy, if somebody invented and patented the reci
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by talideon 11y ago
In what regard?
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by talideon 11y ago
SNI is useful because it's less of a headache than setting up multiple network interfaces. Conserving IP address space is simply something really nice you get for free.
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by talideon 11y ago
> Are you sure? Yes, very sure. Because I actually had to sit down and read the relevant RFCs way back because it's part of my job as somebody who works for a domain registrar. Here's a quick overview for anybody who hasn'

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