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by zeveb 8y ago
Why are so many borrowing money to get a college degree in a field which won't pay off? For that matter, why are we paying for so many to get high school degrees which don't pay off? The driver of a semi truck, or the cashier at
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What is systems programming, really?(willcrichton.net)
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Could ? By its very nature the soi-disant 'right' to be forgotten does threaten free speech, since governments use it to silence people telling truthful information. This isn't about libel: it's about criminals and w
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by zeveb 8y ago
I mostly went to HN. My own migration was Slashdot → reddit → HN. I'm on lobste.rs too, which feels like it's in the growth stage. Fewer comments, but fewer bad comments still. HN is nowhere near reddit levels of decay, which
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by zeveb 8y ago
reddit has ads? I hadn't noticed … More-pertinently, I wonder how many of the developers of reddit's new ad system themselves have ad blockers installed. Do any of them actually see the results of their work?
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by zeveb 8y ago
> Boys of about 13 would be captured from areas to the north of the Persian empire, and trained to become an elite force for the personal use of the sultan or higher lords. The Arabic word Ghulam (boy) was sometimes employed for the body
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by zeveb 8y ago
Firefox Accounts encrypt user data with (a function of) a master key; that master key is encrypted with a key derived from the user's Firefox Account password. It would be completely insecure for Mozilla to know the user's passwo
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Fabulous text-only websites, 2018 edition(rickcarlino.com)
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by zeveb 8y ago
> Do we know if Mozilla is planning anything to fix this? Nope, so far as I can tell they are invested in their current approach. In fairness, I will admit that it trades security in order to get a slight improvement in usability. If th
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by zeveb 8y ago
Which account, as I've documented before, is insecure; you should not have a Firefox account and should not store passwords, browsing history, bookmarks or any other privacy- or security-related data with Mozilla's system. (sh
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> Lucey says that UCSF changed its selection criteria for AOA in 2016 to focus less on grades. The number of minority students selected for the honor society that year increased to match the percentage of minorities in each graduating cl
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by zeveb 8y ago
The ternary operator is a hack due to C distinguishing between statements & expressions. A better language would just use if: (setf thing (if (< a b) foo bar)) The above sets THING to FOO if A is less than B, otherwise it s
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Wi-Jacking: Accessing your neighbour’s WiFi without cracking(surecloud.com)
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by zeveb 8y ago
> Employing 103 couriers at 12 hubs around the world, the DCS boasts a delivery success rate that would be the envy of FedEx and UPS. Do they? The article never backs that up: > Nobody at the service could remember a single lost pouc
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by zeveb 8y ago
> How is WebAssembly any different to/better than the clusterfuck that Flash became? The difference is not really in WebAssembly, but in ourselves. Back when Flash was breaking the Web, just about everyone it not just because it
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by zeveb 8y ago
> A Wimbledon spokeswoman said in a statement that the All-England Lawn Tennis Club is “committed to achieving the ‘gold standard’ of measures to protect the integrity of The Championships,” including courtsiders. Of course, courtsiders
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by zeveb 8y ago
> The problem is that most parents don't want to (or can't) invest the time and effort into teaching their kids how to do household tasks. The problem with that is that teaching kids how to do human tasks is basically the defin
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by zeveb 8y ago
> Humans already don't plan their day strictly around sunlight. For maximum health & energy efficiency, though, we probably ought to (just like we probably ought to build our houses so that air conditioning is optional & h
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by zeveb 8y ago
> Seems to me the sun is highest several hours after noon and midnight is closer to sunset than sunrise. The definition of noon is when the sun is at its highest point. Yes, due to timezones real noon may be half an hour from clock no
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by zeveb 8y ago
> The European commission will recommend that EU member states abandon the practice of changing the clocks in spring and autumn, with many people in favour of staying on summer time throughout the year. Eliminating the annual time change
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> There's a Pascal's wager in this situation. In the worst case, there's no cognitive effect from pollution, but you clean up the environment anyway. And, as with Pascal's wager, that's unconvincing: one could sp
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Dropbox dropping support for anything other than unencrypted ext4 on Linux(dropboxforum.com)
3 points by zeveb 8y ago|1 comments
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Undetectable remote arbitrary code execution through JavaScript and HTTP headers(bugzilla.mozilla.org)
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Be productive with Org mode(badykov.com)
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by zeveb 8y ago
I really like the Indie Web stuff, and I think that their idea of using one's own website as a login is a great one. The problem is that one actually ends up using some third-party website (e.g. github.com) to run authentication for
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by zeveb 8y ago
This isn't terribly fair. Spending 12.5% of profits on charity seems pretty laudable to me. The article complains about $57.3 million in bonuses, but the linked article neither gives that figure nor provides a timespan. Half a millio
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by zeveb 8y ago
> Both editors [ed: vim & emacs] are fully capable, it really depends on personal preferences I think that Paul Graham's Blub Paradox[0] applies to editors and operating environments as well as to programming languages: someon
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by zeveb 8y ago
Yup — and in fact I recall that it was used very shortly after the 2016 presidential election as the Left, stunned at its loss, was searching for reasons why the election didn't go their way, and latched on to the idea that it was &#x2
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by zeveb 8y ago
> I'm 100% certain that these companies would not have used my project if it wasn't MIT open source licensed. Nope, instead they'd have hired you or a programmer like you — or figured out a way to make money from GPLed cod
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> Trump and BREXIT: the blame is put entirely on the electorate, but in both cases it was the elites who gave the electorate the opportunity to make a choice and it was the elites who provided the selection of possible choices. To the ex

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