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by vog 9y ago
Yes, that explains why they use it. But it does not explain why they need to use it.
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by vog 9y ago
I don't get it, either. Indeed, they do include their fonts with plain <link> elements: <link href='//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=PT+Sans|Signika:400,600' rel='stylesheet' type=&#x2
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by vog 9y ago
I see. So this is more to be interpreted as a rushed preliminary report, forced upon them by appearing at the HN front page, to prevent uninformed rumor to appear and to spread. Or, did I miss something? EDIT: Apparently the latter didn&#x2
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by vog 9y ago
This site is very good and informative. But I find it kind of ironic that a site that warns about malware wants JavaScript, just to display static content. On the positive side, the JS code seems to be used only for loading custom fonts, an
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by vog 9y ago
Please refrain from strawman arguments. Nobody said there is no research, just that openness would lead to more research. Even "a multitude of papers" was obviously not enough to catch this earlier. On top of that, please refrain
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by vog 9y ago
Curious question: Why do you write those details here on HN and not on the Letsencrypt Blog or letsencrypt.status.io? Are HN readers somehow more entitled to these information that those who "merely" subscribed to your blog's
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by vog 9y ago
Git operations are not atomic, though. This is a huge implementation flaw, if not design flaw. I had it several times that my laptop (or a VM) crashed during or short after a git commit, before it was fully written from cache to disk. The
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by vog 9y ago
I'm just saying that in general, the incentive for a scientist to put work into an open system is orders of magnitude higher than to put work into a closed system. To provide a similar example: The crypto experts around Daniel J. Berst
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by vog 9y ago
> It might be that you have a subconscious cultural bias against the word. Poe's law is very strong here.
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by vog 9y ago
From their docs: > Fossil stores state information in SQLite database files [...] updates are atomic, so even in the event of a system crashes or power failure the repository content is protected. This is actually a huge improvement ov
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by vog 9y ago
More security experts would be encouraged to have a look at the design and to find flaws early on. Of course, we all know that this doesn't always happen, see OpenSSL. However, once a major incident (Heartbleed) happened, they did: Man
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by vog 9y ago
> This will not happen Note that we do have good Open Source CPU designs, though, such as RISC V.
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by vog 9y ago
Very interesting approach! I often hear people complain about how all programs in the old days were more efficient, but I never met anybody who actually lived up to the logical conclusion. [1] > I run Win3.1 inside DOSBox Out of curios
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by vog 9y ago
> the general recommendation for drug addicts is to keep their drug of choice in their home and within an arm's reach, so that they can exercise their willpower for the sake of the stronger fight Is that really true? Where did you
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by vog 9y ago
> In-game purchases require the more secure PIN Wait, what? I'd rather say: No in-game purchases for minors at all.
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by vog 9y ago
Yes, some of the tools did, but the ones mentioned here didn't (QBasic, Norton Commander/Utilities, Turbo Pascal/Vision). Norton Utilities did play some interesting games with modifying the VGA character set in real time, imp
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Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack(int10h.org)
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by vog 9y ago
This is a really great theme! I love it how even the button clicks are authentic. Some suggestions: 1. To get a real DOS feeling, the number of characters per line should be limited to (exactly) 80, and the font size should be increased acc
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by vog 9y ago
Yes, that's the classic standard response to this question, because it makes a kind-of positive outcome. But, really, isn't this the only kind-of positive response to this question? Is there any other response that works this way?
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by vog 9y ago
> I didn't take that remark to be anything about the syntax Exactly that's the problem: The author is ignoring the syntax issue, that is, the fact that the vast majority of non-Haskell programmers won't be able to make m
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by vog 9y ago
My personal hope is that this type of development will lead to the solution of one of the biggest problems with neural networks: their intransparency. If the result of the learning and optimization is not just a bunch of weights in a graph,
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by vog 9y ago
Very good example and motivation for dependent types. However, I think it makes strange assumptions on its readership. For example: > If you’re a non-Haskell programmer, this might all seem perfectly fine and normal, and you probably ha
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by vog 9y ago
That reminds of the old days when automatic "self-learning" SPAM classification began. Back then, spammers sent deliberately gibberish messages. The goal was that users (rightfully) marked those as SPAM, somehow disturbing the mac
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by vog 9y ago
In contrast, compiler errors are becoming better and better every day. And where they became cumbersome and unhelpful (e.g. C++ via GCC), competition helped: Either through other programming langauges (e.g. OCaml, Rust), or through other co
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by vog 9y ago
> But if there can be no data about it. Does it even make sense to talk about it as existing? To be honest, that question never made any sense to me, because this whole discussion is merely about refining a semantic detail of the commo
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by vog 9y ago
This is an interesting aspect, but slightly different from what I had in mind. Just because you treat data as code doesn't mean you have to force it into a Turing-complete language. It just means that you should document it, format it
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by vog 9y ago
I know this is not meant to be taken seriously, but some claims don't even make sense from a purely mathematical point of view. > Area: The area of the Universe is infinite. Right now there is more evidence for the universe to be
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by vog 9y ago
Thanks for clearing this up. It's good to know that there is sane blog software out there, and that it is actually used.
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by vog 9y ago
Slightly off-topic, but: > Most of the planet doesn't treat editor configuration as software. We do. This is so true! And it applies to many, many other types of configuration as well.
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by vog 9y ago
This argument doesn't make any sense to me. It might be true for self-written blog software, but amusingly those tend to have quite good performance ... either because these are static generators, or because these are rendered on the

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