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by wtbob 10y ago
> Typing the more unusual characters has always been way easier on Macs. That used to be the case, but I find the Compose key in X is awesome: as others have noted, Compose / = → ≠ (and → is Compose - >)
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by wtbob 10y ago
> It's depressing but there are many places where people prefer to use Hipchat and Slack to ping a nearby coworker rather than bother to take off headphones to talk to the person several feet away. I do that, because that way my col
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by wtbob 10y ago
Note that with cell phone spoofing , someone could impersonate you to OWS. All your contacts would get messages stating that your key ('secret numbers,' I think is the term they use) has changed, and all messages would then go t
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by wtbob 10y ago
> What's the alternative? The alternative is cleanly separating web browsing (a passive activity requiring no code execution) and using distributed apps. I'm not at all against the idea of a common, cross-platform execution
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Given that popular uses for the Web today include social networking, e-commerce, web apps, and online access to services like banking, I think the idea that sites should just display static information and should work better without JS
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Haha, good one, but joking aside, I would rather prefer that the dishes can never get dirty, no matter what. Using JavaScript to deploy content-focused websites is like a restaurant which uses its cookpots for urinals: sure, it can be
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by wtbob 10y ago
This is one of the reasons I disable JavaScript. The web is an interlinked web of documents called pages. It's not a distributed application platform: although it can be twisted into that, it turns out that no-one actually carefully
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by wtbob 10y ago
> I'm OK with the trade off, since I'd much rather improve the experience for those who pay through their nose for mobile bandwidth. I know that your heart is in the right place, but I believe that you're making the wrong
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by wtbob 10y ago
> weapons are still essentially freely available in the USA (at least it looks that way from over here in Europe) They're really not. Automatic weapons made after 1986 are banned; automatic weapons made before that date are extrem
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by wtbob 10y ago
I imagine that it's mostly that folks like folks who are similar to them: similar philosophies, similar religions, similar classes, similar incomes, similar families, similar physical types, similar habits &c. The unfortunate thin
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by wtbob 10y ago
In 2016 the NRA spent $3,188,000 (source: https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=d00000008... that doesn't even make the top 20 (it's #156). Perhaps you meant campaign donations? It donated $1,09
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The second factor(thedailywtf.com)
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Seriously, I'd advise that you implement an HMAC today, and implement GCM tomorrow — using raw CTR mode really is that dangerous. And make sure that you never ever ever reuse IVs, ever. This sort of thing is incredibly dangerous. Pro
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by wtbob 10y ago
> except for adding just enough JS to do Medium-like lazy image loading to save bandwidth for visitors. Please, please don't do that: it means that visitors without JavaScript enabled simply cannot view your page. If a visitor wis
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by wtbob 10y ago
> at best you're attempting to tunnel encrypted messaging over an unencrypted transport. That covers pretty much all communication encryption: ultimately, encrypted data goes out over an unencrypted link. > A protocol that leaks
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by wtbob 10y ago
> I can't even say the word Lisp without cementing my reputation as a crazy lunatic who thinks Lisp is the Answer to Everything. So I keep my mouth shut (mostly) and watch helplessly as millions of tax dollars get wasted. I've
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by wtbob 10y ago
> trying to shift Catholicism back to its roots of faith and charity rather than being hypocritical morality enforcers. How are faith & charity different from any other moral issue? Why do you (apparently) think encouraging faith &a
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by wtbob 10y ago
All I can say is: if you've not read this yet do so . It's a quick read, and it's completely worth the time. Best thing I've read on the Internet today, honestly.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> They use it because certain journals require it, or their advisor makes them use it. I think that's one of the jobs of an advisor: to encourage his students to strive to be better and do better.
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by wtbob 10y ago
Well, this was in academia and it was a long time ago, but when I was in college at the turn of the century I used it. Once I noticed that the exact same paper got a whole extra grade in LaTeX, I never went back to word processors.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> You need to get 1 out of 100 applications from the app store, that competes for the one who can shows the most ads and be the least effective at decoding the picture. The ZXing Barcode Scanner doesn't show any ads. IIRC, they giv
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by wtbob 10y ago
One of the first apps I install on my phone is ZXing's Barcode Scanner, specifically so I can scan QR codes. On Android, it's hands-down the easiest way to post WiFi details for a LAN party or similar (no idea how to do it with i
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by wtbob 10y ago
FWIW, my $BOSS-2 had a PhD, loved LaTeX and even set one of our lower-level guys on writing all our company-internal docs in LaTeX. It actually worked out pretty well. I imagine that an obviously-LaTeX resume (look for the ligatures, the c
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by wtbob 10y ago
One wonders how long before Yale changes its name altogether: Elihu Yale was a slave trader.
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by wtbob 10y ago
Not understanding is fine: assuming that something one doesn't understand must be a slur is not fine.
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The aircraft was 11 nautical miles away, which is over the horizon.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> There's a significant amount of code you can lose from a large C project just by getting rid of ifdefs that nobody uses, so the +/- line count isn't a great metric either. Can't 'ifdefs that nobody uses' h
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by wtbob 10y ago
> The military also didn't go out of its way to punish recklessly shooting down a civilian aircraft. It wasn't reckless: it was the right call based on the data Vincennes had, which showed that an Iranian fighter was able to ki
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Our guy shot down a passenger flight, murdering 290 human beings, we gave him a medal but we then paid USD$213,000 in blood money per passenger to Iran without ever admitting fault. Vincennes believed it was shooting down an attacking
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by wtbob 10y ago
> In 1953, we overthrew their democratically-elected government in favor of the opposition No, we didn't: the rightful government (the Shah's) overthrew an attempted dictator. Mossadegh lived out the rest of his life in peace,

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