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by zeveb 9y ago
> You could approximate this with Latin characters too, say 2018Y04M05D, but I think there is something to be said for having a distinct ideograph to improve readability and unambiguously mark a day, month, year, hour, minute or second.
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by zeveb 9y ago
> In the early days of the Internet, before the Web, there was a system called Usenet which created primitive online discussion forums. I wouldn't call Usenet groups 'primitive online discussion forums'; indeed, I rather s
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by zeveb 9y ago
> He murdered Mr Hunter, and his wife and daughters after being brutally treated were butchered by the road side. I believe that ‘being brutally treated’ means raped. > Dr Wagner writes that his book sets out to ‘restore some of the h
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by zeveb 9y ago
> No, the US regulates US-based companies, just like in any other field. This includes making the ability to conduct large scale surveillance of the earth's surface subject to license. I wonder how that comports with this limitation
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by zeveb 9y ago
> Why do you consider choosing MySQL over Postgres a grave error? Because PostgreSQL focuses on correctness & MySQL focuses on performance & ease of use. With a database, I want correctness first, and performance & ease of u
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by zeveb 9y ago
> It’s best to do one thing really, really well. They should probably revisit that at this point …
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The real story of the Hawaiian missile crisis(gq.com)
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Serve files over HTTP directly from emacs(gist.github.com)
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by zeveb 9y ago
I imagine the site is using the SCA's definition of the Middle Ages, given the reference to SCA kingdoms in the polyalphabetic cyphers page.
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by zeveb 9y ago
> I think that comparing the operating systems of today based on how they worked 20 years ago is a bit of a stretch. My family, friends & colleagues all use Apple computers & phones, so I believe that I've had pretty good ex
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by zeveb 9y ago
> Double precision NaNs come with a payload of 51 bits which can be used for whatever you want — one especially fun hack is using the payload to represent all other non-floating point values and their types at runtime in dynamically type
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by zeveb 9y ago
You have to enable cookies. I assume it's some sort of anti-DOS defense (e.g., send cookie & redirect; dumb scripts will just uselessly loop instead of causing a server render), but man is it annoying.
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by zeveb 9y ago
> For many, dropping macOS would be a much larger disruption than having less usable F-keys. It's worth it, trust me. I dropped it almost twenty years ago, and I've never looked back. My computers are less expensive, more pow
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by zeveb 9y ago
Reading this, I realised another fatal flaw in the Touch Bar: if you're using a laptop stand with an external keyboard & mouse (as one would do in an office or at home), then having to reach out and hit the Touch Bar would be a hug
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by zeveb 9y ago
The court case which created the so-called 'right to be forgotten' was about someone who wanted his poor credit erased from the historical record. One would imagine that there's a public interest in knowing if someone is a p
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by zeveb 9y ago
Sounds interesting, but I don't think PHP & MySQL are a good stack. While it's possible to write secure software in PHP (I'd probably trust the Paragon IE) guys to do it), it's not very likely. As for MySQL — as fa
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by zeveb 9y ago
> It's possible that really rich people really are assholes. More charitably, just as poorer folks talk about the cool beer they had last week or the really great movie they saw, maybe rich folks talk about the brewery they just bou
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by zeveb 9y ago
This article is advocacy for the so-called 'right to be forgotten.' It's trying to convince people in the U.S. that the 'right' to be forgotten is just about forcing Google not to highlight false information. That,
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by zeveb 9y ago
This is a little-appreciated benefit of using Common Lisp: the language is both standardised and stable, so a library from 2000 is very nearly as likely to run on an implementation today as it was then, or as another library is now. I do wi
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by zeveb 9y ago
boggle Isn't that the way everyone uses Reddit: open up link list, middle-click link, middle-click comments, middle-click link, middle-click comments, repeat ad infinitum , then read, comment, read, comment and so on? Same same wi
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by zeveb 9y ago
> But up close, the changes have turned Reddit from an esoteric maze into a website anyone can use—like a junk drawer that's been gutted, cleaned, and reorganized. > For people who have been on Reddit for years, the obtuseness is
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by zeveb 9y ago
That's a really good point. As awesome as it is to have a supercomputer in my pocket, I wonder if it's really a net benefit: mobile computing has led to a lot of compromises (e.g. the newsfeed) which really aren't good. FWIW
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by zeveb 9y ago
> An ARM VM should run reasonably quick, and Ubuntu works fine on ARM. Sure, but if we're deploying to x86 servers running Linux, then running Ubuntu on virtual ARM doesn't seem terribly wise[0] — it won't tickle the right
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by zeveb 9y ago
> Even all the devs i know working under linux are doing all their development under docker or VMs I don't, because docker is a buggy, embarrassingly-poorly-designed system and VMs are a pain. I develop on the same system I deploy
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by zeveb 9y ago
StumpWM & a full GNU userland just like the machines we deploy on are killer.
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by zeveb 9y ago
What I'd like is for a company like Apple to provide me (and others) the tools & APIs we need in order to take advantage of that integration, without locking us into their UI paradigms. I would like everything to Just Work™; I wou
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by zeveb 9y ago
> The full article is well worth a read: https://dreamsongs.com/WIB.html Agreed. It’s notable (among many other things) for its comment in 3.1, ‘Scheme is a smaller Lisp, but it also suffers from the MIT approach. It
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by zeveb 9y ago
> Because if you're working on a team, not everyone on your team may be a programmer I think we're rapidly getting to the point in our civilisation that that's a bit like having an illiterate on the team. All programming
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by zeveb 9y ago
> This feels incredibly verbose and error prone, not to mention confusing and hard to grok. That looks a lot less verbose, error-prone, confusing & hard-to-grok than actual HTML, don't you think? Or do you actually prefer the
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by zeveb 9y ago
> How is this voter fraud? Because she wasn't legally allowed to vote, and she did. That's voter fraud. I'm fine with forbidding felons to vote, and of course any law forbidding something has to have penalties. I'm

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