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by zeveb 8y ago
That's because restricting the use of software is restriction of user freedom …
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by zeveb 8y ago
That completely ignores the belief that proprietary is unethical and immoral. 'I can't do the things I want without doing X' is not a compelling counterargument to 'X is unethical.'
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by zeveb 8y ago
AML is bad because it makes a crime out of something which isn’t actually bad. Yes, criminals are bad people who do bad things and they should be caught & punished. But KYC/AML are about making it easier to find criminals by thei
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by zeveb 8y ago
Seems to me that one interesting approach would be to automatically rewrite a program in continuation-passing style, and then use callbacks (the lowest-overhead approach) where the callback is the continuation. It ought to compile pretty
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by zeveb 8y ago
Amusingly, you can actually do all of that within emacs: - email: notmuch/Rmail/Gnus/&c. - password manager: pass.el (uses pass under the covers) - navigate directories: shell or eshell, with autocompletion and/or He
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by zeveb 8y ago
Ah, 2018! A dizzying time when images on a web page are blurry or altogether missing unless one has enabled JavaScript! (the article is interesting, but why-oh-why does the Beeb site show blurry photographs instead of sharp ones? We'
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by zeveb 8y ago
> Now, hopefully the problem here is already self-evident but let's just be crystal clear anyway: adding a second step to authentication should not be seen as an excuse to weaken the first step. I'm hesitant to call this guy&#x
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by zeveb 8y ago
Please don’t do this. Users should never require JavaScript to be enabled to view text or images.
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by zeveb 8y ago
Why would they pay more tax than they are required to? Why would they not argue that their properties are overvalued if they believe them to be? Seems to me that it might be a good idea to issue retroactive tax bills (or refunds!) based on
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by zeveb 8y ago
> Our experience with Sync 1.1 taught us that this does not work with real people at scale; people often lost data as a consequence of this design. Far better to lose passwords, bookmarks & history than to have them exposed — which i
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by zeveb 8y ago
What defines ‘smart’? I can think & consider & carefully plan — and still do something foolish. Moreover, what you consider wise I may consider foolish. Who am I to judge your choice, and who are you to judge mine? It would c
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Hacker's Keyboard removed from Google Play Store for over a month(github.com)
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> On my regular browser size this looks something like this [1], which is borderline unreadable due to the width alone. Just resize your browser window: it's not the site's job to guess how you want content displayed. I loved
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by zeveb 8y ago
> But, if you pull up the manual page for something like grep, you will see that it has not been updated since 2010 (at least on MacOS). Well, GNU grep was last released 16 months ago, and the last change to its master branch was 4 weeks
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by zeveb 8y ago
Coming from a background of using emacs & vi, I actually feel the exact same way about Eclipse, IntelliJ, Atom, SublimeText & all the like. It's odd to me to have such painful extensibility & so few tools to let me actuall
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by zeveb 8y ago
> What I find strange is that a man who would make such a noble gesture as taking care of a wounded enemy, would not simply refuse to take part in such a senseless, destructive war as WWII, in the first place. Because he lived by a code.
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by zeveb 8y ago
I don't know how I feel or what I think about running mission control from a browser. Seems like it'd probably lead to lower defects to build something very simple very close to the metal — and probably not at a prohibitive lev
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by zeveb 8y ago
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by zeveb 8y ago
> I'm actually gonna have to go ahead and blame the demise of Flash for the current lack of interesting web design. I know there were technical reasons to get rid of it. Security. Mobile. Proprietary. etc. Whatever. The thing is, al
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by zeveb 8y ago
> any document that exclusively uses masculine pronouns for genderless subjects reads as outdated. Correct English is never out of style. Different languages do different things, and that's okay. Some languages apply grammatical ge
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[His] Google-free Android life(lushka.al)
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by zeveb 8y ago
I don’t like the idea of installing client-side software in order to preserve my server-side privacy. Seems like leaping from the frying pan into the fire.
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Why [he] invented [his] own text editing language for Emacs(with-emacs.com)
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by zeveb 8y ago
> There were no folks reaching out from IBM saying, “Psst. Hey, man. RUN FOR YOUR LIFE! GO GET HELP!” That doesn't mean that there aren't folks who feel that way. There could, for example, be people within IBM afraid to speak
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by zeveb 8y ago
I don't know if I'm terribly keen on an authentication system which can be cut out of my dead body and used. Maybe these should have a way to detect removal?
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by zeveb 8y ago
> I still haven’t seen anything that has the size, battery life, functionality, range, and audio quality as AirPods at any price point Walmart has wired earbuds for under $5, which are quite small (they fit in your ears), have perpetual
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by zeveb 8y ago
ISTR that way back in the old days mail clients displayed every header, and then they started hiding some known ones, and then they started hiding all but certain ones. Is that a correct memory? Because that'd probably explain the mes
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by zeveb 8y ago
The disclaimer at the beginning of the article, and the tone of the article itself, reveal how religious — as opposed to evidence-based — the helmet issue is. People who advocate them firmly believe themselves to be on the side of righte
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The sequel, https://technicshistory.wordpress.com/2018/09/19/the-unravel... , is pretty interesting too. I wonder to what extent the U.S. dominance of information technology is a result of the fact that even w
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by zeveb 8y ago
In Common Lisp, it works because symbols are scoped by package, not by object. So if you're in the package foo and start typing 'bar,' then your editor would autocomplete symbols in the foo package starting with 'bar&#x

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