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3481.
2020 Event Lineup – Update(blog.rust-lang.org)
1 points by weinzierl 6y ago|0 comments
3482.
by weinzierl 6y ago
I was about to summarize my pain points but you covered them all and expressed them better than I could. What I often find difficult is to reliably prevent overlap, I would subsume that under you last point about margins and paddings.
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by weinzierl 6y ago
> That allows for a wide variety of phrasings or ‘turns of the word’ that are all dead in English since Norman words do not carry inflections German words do about their location in a sentence, which gives German its flexibility to jumbl
3484.
by weinzierl 6y ago
I feel the same. For me it was 10 years on May 2nd and if it wasn't for HN, I wouldn't be the person I am today. Not only did I learn ton of things here, being part of the community here shifted my outlook on some things significa
3485.
by weinzierl 6y ago
I know and as far as I remember this is done using a small brush to trace the outline and then fill it. Apart from being kind of a hack you also lose the beauty and simplicity of using Metafont to describe the spine of the character and let
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After 5 months we can finally share the full version of the CacheOut paper(twitter.com)
1 points by weinzierl 6y ago|0 comments
3487.
The Letter S [pdf](apps.dtic.mil)
1 points by weinzierl 6y ago|0 comments
3488.
by weinzierl 6y ago
> "Metafont is a really nice program for designing typefaces." It is really a nice approach, not only for typefaces but also for graphics in general there is the Metafont inspired MetaPost. [1] > "You specify control
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How to block web browser-based localhost port-scans(ctrl.blog)
6 points by weinzierl 6y ago|0 comments
3490.
Learn to read Middle English(blog.plover.com)
177 points by weinzierl 6y ago|115 comments
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by weinzierl 6y ago
Makes sense. Just to avoid the wrong impression, when I said I never participated in a voting ring, what I really meant was that I never tried to game the system im any way. Easy for me to say, I know, unfortunately impossible to proof. Any
3492.
by weinzierl 6y ago
I don't know if it is purely based on upvotes but what I can say for my account is that on average I used to get significantly less then one karma point per upvote. When I watched the upvote counter on the individual item[1] and compar
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Live with CloudflareTV in 15 Minutes(twitter.com)
2 points by weinzierl 6y ago|0 comments
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The Final Countdown(cloudflare.tv)
2 points by weinzierl 6y ago|0 comments
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by weinzierl 6y ago
> Er, you mean page $01 is bytes $0100 to $01FF, right? Yes, yes, thanks for the correction. > And 6502 in general didn't use flat addressing, IIRC; Not so sure about that. > eg `12FE,x` would address 12FE,12FF,1200,1201,... w
3496.
by weinzierl 6y ago
Some current real-time processors still have an on-chip stack for return addresses, not entirely unlike the one the 8008 had. One example is the ARM Cortex-R which can store up to 4 addresses on its dedicated return stack.
3497.
by weinzierl 6y ago
This is not only an excellent answer but also a fantastic history of the development of the stack. > "I've found no particular evidence that the stack pointer was made a full 16 because they felt any need for a stack to be tha
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Embed XMP sidecars into image files with embed_xmp(ctrl.blog)
3 points by weinzierl 6y ago|0 comments
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by weinzierl 6y ago
> "36. Creativity Begins at the Edge: Change starts away from the spotlight. Then, it moves towards the center. That’s why the most interesting ideas at a conference never come from the main stage. They come from the hallways and t
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by weinzierl 6y ago
> Even though I generally prefer reading to watching, I've found in the past few years that YouTube is better for reviews[..] My pet theory why YouTube is better is that there is no incentive to make videos longer. Blog post end up
3501.
by weinzierl 6y ago
> "1) stop trying to learn from random blogs, get a book. Books are still out there and you can learn just as good from them now as 20 years ago." Many books are not much better. While blog posts are bloated for SEO purposes,
3502.
by weinzierl 6y ago
There was a time when searching for "A vs B" produced useful results. Nowadays a search like this is completely useless. I wish those auto-generated sites would completely disappear from the search results.
3503.
by weinzierl 6y ago
> Helvetica grew in popularity due to its being nearly the polar opposite of a just-prior-to-mid-century use of Fraktur by a certain european political party. Helvetica was developed in 1957 in Switzerland. This was a time when pretty mu
3504.
All the symmetrical watch faces (and code to generate them)(blog.jgc.org)
2 points by weinzierl 6y ago|0 comments
3505.
The Unattributable “Lead Hunter” Data Breach(troyhunt.com)
1 points by weinzierl 6y ago|0 comments
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Tracking miscompilations in LLVM using its own unit tests(blog.regehr.org)
2 points by weinzierl 6y ago|0 comments
3507.
Lists of Unsolved Problems(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by weinzierl 6y ago|0 comments
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Suit Claims Google’s Tracking Violates Federal Wiretap Law(nytimes.com)
3 points by weinzierl 6y ago|0 comments
3509.
The difference between parentheses and curly braces in GNU Make(blog.jgc.org)
1 points by weinzierl 6y ago|0 comments
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Analysing the alleged Minneapolis police department “hack”(troyhunt.com)
260 points by weinzierl 6y ago|94 comments

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