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by wtbob 10y ago
His webpage certainly doesn't work with JavaScript disabled. What an exciting world we live in, when I have to give a stranger execute access on my computers in order to read his words. If only there were some way for him to send me t
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by wtbob 10y ago
Nope, not fudged: the names are hierarchical. So (name mom) is mom in your namespace, (name mom dad) is dad in your mom's namespace, and (name mom dad June) is June in your mom's dad's namespace.
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by wtbob 10y ago
The problem with lobste.rs is getting an account.
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by wtbob 10y ago
Ah, but SRS is hate speech for a cause the reddit staff believe in, while other subreddits are hate speech for a cause the reddit staff don't believe in. Huge difference.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Can you expand on that? I'm not sure quite what you mean. Sure! It derives from the SDSI/SPKI work of the late 90s, which demonstrated how one can use petnames (i.e., local nicknames) for people, and then refer to a contact&#
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by wtbob 10y ago
> That doesn't seem like a very good tradeoff because then it requires Signal to store/compare _more_ personally identifying information (though I guess you could make many of those things pseudo-anonymous). Actually, it's
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by wtbob 10y ago
This is similar to how Android warns me every single time I reboot that an unknown entity can observe my network traffic. The unknown entity, of course, is me (I've installed a certificate for my Streisand server). But still, it fl
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Can you think of anything easier? I think signal:wtbob works just as well as tel:+15551212, if we want to continue to rely on OWS as a central identity provider. I think that 'mom's dad's sister June' also works, if
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by wtbob 10y ago
> As on the desktop, I'm using Firefox on the phone mostly for the syncing capability Be aware that if your Mozilla account password is not a fully-secure, unmemorable, random string then it is possible to break into Sync: unlike pr
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by wtbob 10y ago
> it's impossible to do things like logging out, or using a public machine reasonably Both of those are really the same issue, and they boil down to 'only use a browser instance you own to use a secure site, and don't shar
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by wtbob 10y ago
Wouldn't it make more sense to merge stuff into / than into /usr, i.e., move /usr/bin/* into /bin, /usr/share into /share &c.? The 'usr' portion of the path is weird historic
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by wtbob 10y ago
Nice comment, right up until your final sentence, which just drips with bitterness.
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> It syncs to iCloud That sounds great if you want Apple to have all your data. But why do you? Never mind that wires will always be better and more private than wireless.
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by wtbob 10y ago
But in general functions shouldn't really be all that long anyway (if they are, break 'em up!). I kinda like declaring my variables all at the top — I think it looks nice & clean.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Most of the web is broken with NoScript installed. More accurately, most of the web is broken, whether or not NoScript is installed — it's just that you can see that it's broken when NoScript is installed.
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> even talking with people present: "Sorry, could you please repeat that? I was just responding to an email." 'I'm sorry, I scheduled this meeting so that we could have a conversation. Let's reschedule for when
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by wtbob 10y ago
> But I also noticed that some new cars ship with infotainment systems that consist solely of a (bad) touchscreen; as new cars slowly replace old ones, the number of cars with actual physical buttons for the music player or radio is dwin
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by wtbob 10y ago
Not the worst idea ever: it's large, inhospitable and the climate is not especially conducive to layabouts (although the long winter darkness would probably be well-correlated to depression and violence).
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by wtbob 10y ago
I wish they hadn't broken their images — they require JavaScript for functioning <img> tags(!).
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Is Common Lisp still worth considering? I think so. The more I use it, the more I realise how well-put-together it really is. There are numerous places that annoyed me once, before I understood them, and which I now appreciate (pathn
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Most people aren't in a position to get a replacement delivered from a vendor that quickly Back when I worked in enterprise services, it was a requirement that we had good support contracts — 1-, 4- or 8-hour turnarounds were stan
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by wtbob 10y ago
What blows my mind is how, after seeing that, some folks would want to program in anything other than Lisp. Code, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, all with a single uniform representation! Seriously, anyone who's not taken a look: take a look
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by wtbob 10y ago
> It seems that perhaps (while oil prices were high) these coal miners should've moved to North Dakota and Texas. Easier said than done when one's entire social structure is rooted in one place, and has been since before one wa
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by wtbob 10y ago
> I haven't seen much in the way of specific predictions from Stallman. Try The Right to Read[1], which predicted ebooks, DRM, restrictions on reverse-engineering, electronic marketing profiles and hardware which refuses to run free
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by wtbob 10y ago
> The observation is typically used by scumbags in Scottsdale to trick women waiting for a 'ride' into getting into random cars, which is why the taxi company I drove for lobbied to force ride-vehicles to have some sort of bran
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by wtbob 10y ago
Yup, you're right. I've been so annoyed at folks claiming that either of them got the majority of the votes that I completely misread your claim.
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I'd say that it's homicide. Sometimes homicide is justified, and sometimes it's not. I think that defensive homicide is okay, and I think that's fairly uncontroversial. And there's definitely a difference between
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Yes, I'm an idiot.
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Yup, professionally it's all-Go, all the time. But I've always been gluing libraries , not programs, together. I think I'd still reach for Go over Python for gluing programs together, but I've not done it enough to be

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