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by the_jesus_villa 4y ago
More of a rant than anything. I spend a lot of time doing this and there are so many little things you could harden a little bit. Kind of a rabbithole of energy!
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Securing a GitHub repo is a ton of work(codeofhonor.substack.com)
57 points by the_jesus_villa 4y ago|24 comments
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by the_jesus_villa 4y ago
This is marvelous! The really annoying thing about doing this then was that I had to enter my programs manually via the calculator. Now that I'm free I could connect the calculator to my laptop and code via a fancy TI-BASIC IDE. On the
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by the_jesus_villa 4y ago
Is it really the norm to twist the cookies apart and lick the frosting, like in the commercials? I eat them whole, two at a time, like a pig. Well, that's when I do eat them. I haven't had oreos in many years now.
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by the_jesus_villa 4y ago
Mostly about my programmable calculator when I was in prison, hope this is interesting to someone else!
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Writing Code in Prison(codeofhonor.substack.com)
18 points by the_jesus_villa 4y ago|4 comments
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by the_jesus_villa 4y ago
This article links to another called "PHP Sucks", which is a broken link - that's the third time I've run into that same broken link this week . I guess it's destiny that I go and read it for real. Luckily, it&#x27
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by the_jesus_villa 4y ago
Not answering your question but Patricia Lockwood (one of my favorite authors) wrote a very amusing memoir called Priestdaddy about growing up with a father who was a Catholic priest (having converted from Anglicanism I believe). The book a
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by the_jesus_villa 4y ago
Sorry, but... you'll just have to wait for the next Substack post! ;)
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by the_jesus_villa 4y ago
>Is this really the bookstore's fault? No, not at all. Like, this morning, my hair looked wild, so my wife teased me about it. It merits teasing, not because the hair was my fault, but just because it was funny looking. Similarly, I
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by the_jesus_villa 4y ago
>If you think a corporation is evil, you don’t have to shop there. I don't think charging $80 is evil, but it's a high enough price to merit some light teasing. To clarify: I'm just making fun of B&N for charging a lot
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by the_jesus_villa 4y ago
>It’s about how you framed and excused your behavior. No need for excuses whatsoever - if someone on here has a stolen book they want to gift me, I'll accept it with no shame or guilt. The joke wasn't meant to be an excuse, but
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by the_jesus_villa 4y ago
I can settle this debate: 1. She turned out not be marriage material 2. Y'all are way too sensitive about a teenage girl who shoplifted one time.
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by the_jesus_villa 4y ago
My goto strategy is to laugh at how silly the joke is, rather than try to make people painfully explain something to show everyone how bad the joke is. I guess some people really dislike like lame jokes, though!
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by the_jesus_villa 4y ago
No, she wasn't dishonorable. She took the hard route, risking her own security out of love. I condemn theft, not because it's theft, but because it's harmful. In a utilitarian way, I feel like she helped me more than she harm
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by the_jesus_villa 4y ago
Ha! You've got me, "to the point" is going too far. But I should say that it's a relatively quick, light read. Moments like the octothorpe thing actually make the read easier, because the humanity of it makes my brain wa
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by the_jesus_villa 4y ago
Honestly, knowing C made it much easier to understand why design decisions from Rust matter . I see Rust as kind of a (welcome) reaction to the memory model that C++ inherited from C.
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by the_jesus_villa 4y ago
I appreciate the kind vibes, and I'm sorry Substack isn't an ideal medium (ha) for you. I decided to publish there just because so many writers I admire are there, and I want to write like they do. If I switch to a static blog I&#
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by the_jesus_villa 4y ago
The story actually gets way crazier after that!
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Learn enough C to survive(codeofhonor.substack.com)
105 points by the_jesus_villa 4y ago|111 comments
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by the_jesus_villa 4y ago
Just a bibliography of some C books
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by the_jesus_villa 4y ago
Without any additional context, this probably refers to Tor onion services: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.onion You can download Tor Browser to access them. You can find legit onion links using sites like dark.fail.
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Escaping user input is ridonkulously hard(codeofhonor.substack.com)
3 points by the_jesus_villa 4y ago|0 comments
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by the_jesus_villa 4y ago
>Is this worst-case scenario for linux users any worse than the average-case of windows users downloading an .exe from a vendor's website and running it? Well in my case, I screw around a lot on my computer. So I end up copying and
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by the_jesus_villa 4y ago
>Traditionally on most linuxes (and bsds) you obtain trusted executables from a known good source (your distribution ) , whilst files from other sources are never run at all. On the other hand, the vast majority of people installing appl
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by the_jesus_villa 4y ago
Maybe this is a feature. When your phone is low on battery, you ask for a charger, and when presented with a normal, plebian charger you get to say "oh, sorry, I need an iphone charger". If people want to get a practical, compat
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by the_jesus_villa 4y ago
Don't find your talents, cultivate your skills. You likely will never just "find 1 thing you are really good at", but if you find something that's worth getting good at and stick with it even though you suck, eventually
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by the_jesus_villa 4y ago
Full Point is fun and random: https://fullpoint.substack.com/
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by the_jesus_villa 4y ago
It was definitely easy to jump from learning HTML to learning that I can run code on the backend and render the output by just adding a tag like this: <?php $data_from_backend = [whatever I need to do on backend]; echo
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by the_jesus_villa 4y ago
>i.e.: in the US at least you can get just enough to be complacent as a man by doing bare minimum stuff. Why aren't women in the US complacent? Couldn't they just get by doing the bare minimum?

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