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by wrinkl3 9y ago
Why no Unicode support?
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> And the only use they've found so far is to gamble it on altcoins like they have in the past with penny stocks! Which is really all cryptocurrencies are good for at the moment. Nobody in their right mind would use anything so vol
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Also collecting kitties appeals to more people than collecting punks.
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How 'Metal Gear Solid 2' Foretold Our Post-Truth Future(rollingstone.com)
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Nowadays Bitcoin is much less anonymous than it once used to be - the nature of its blockchain is inherently transparent and I imagine every large law enforcement agency in the world has resources allocated towards blockchain analysis. Al
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Knuth is a unique character. I read the more personal of his books last year, "Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About". It's essentially a transcript of several open lectures he gave at Stanford on topics ranging from
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In my experience there's stark difference between those who got into the cryptocurrency culture at large, and those who just trust some specific platform/service to make them rich riding the Bitcoin wave. The latter group certainl
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If you reread some of Neal Stephenson's novels right now (namely Cryptonomicon and Reamde) it's remarkable how well he conceptualized cryptocurrencies long before their arrival. He obviously got the specifics wrong - his cybercurr
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Vulnerabilities don't have to affect the backend - most of JQuery-related CVEs that I could find had to do with XSS.
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I feel like that technology needs more time. Give it a few more decades, a couple of breakthroughs and lots of small incremental advances and we might yet see something resembling the Feed from Diamond Age.
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Around 2010 I assumed it would a matter of a couple of years until we were reading comic books on our Kindle Color ink tablets.
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There's definitely a huge demand for less dating-oriented ways to meet people online. > something like a real-time Reddit Reddit did that with Robin, their April's Fools Day experiment two years ago. It randomly connected small
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I remember when Facebook hyped the Graph search as the next big thing, a truly social search engine. Years later I only occasionally remember about its existence when trying to find someone/something specific on Facebook, and even then
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I recently wrote a simple scanner that goes through a list of websites, accesses them with a headless browser and measures the CPU performance on the browser's process. It's fairly good at identifying obvious miners, but false pos
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The logistics also remind me of Joss Whedon's Dollhouse.
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In Japanese business culture, there is a situation where you have to visit a company and say I’m deeply sorry for what I did and just bow and bow. <...> Usually, I accompany a salaryman who made a mistake. I take the identity of the
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by wrinkl3 9y ago
So why has nobody tried to implement something similar for Python? Is there some fundamental limitation of the language at play?
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The likely answer, as always, is a morally ambivalent weirdtopia.
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> I am particularly interested in how much AliOS deviates from mainline Linux. What could be the benefits of not using the mainline Linux for a stack like that?
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The Smoking Gnu! Pratchett was genuinely interested CS and crammed an unusually high amount of modern tech references into his books. The imp-powered PDA devices from Jingo still bring tears to my eyes.
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Funnily enough, one of my big gripes with REAMDE so far has been that Neal doesn't seem to get the Russian mentality at all. I'm not familiar enough with the Hungarian culture to judge Csongor, tho.
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Anathem is probably Stephenson's best novel, and I say that as a huge fan of Cryptonomicon and Snow Crash. I've actually found his last few novels lacking, still struggling to finish The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. and REAMDE. I d
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They also had Chris Lattner on board for a while, the guy responsible for llvm and Swift. He quit/got fired after about half-a-year though, citing irreconcilable differences with Musk as the main reason.
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So what exactly is the intellectual hygiene he refers to? Being rational and overcoming one's biases?
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Meh, then you're back to the same dilemma ads have: you have to convince the users to visit your page from a desktop PC as much as possible. And that usually means making the mobile experience as bad as possible. Which the users won&#x
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The Pirate Bay just tested that yesterday, apparently. They bundled a Monero javascript miner with some of their pages. The funny thing is that while the legality of that is questionable enough for the more reputable websites not to go down
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Can you elaborate how?
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I feel that the governmental/corporate attempts at killing free Internet are mostly ineffective as long the public unanimously wants to preserve it. But as soon as enough people begin to question it themselves, thinking that maybe they
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Trump's antics aside, I wonder how much more turmoil will it take for cutting off the Internet to become an acceptable solution for a significant minority of people in the West. Both sides of the political divide are becoming increasin
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Has anything resembling that ever been implemented on a wide scale?

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