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by zeveb 9y ago
It's interesting that IBM's JFS is so broken. Was the Linux version written by IBM, or is it a reimplementation by a third party?
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by zeveb 9y ago
I find five years a bit surprising, but what do you think the proper penalty would be for a felon committing voter fraud should be? Edit: I'm utterly amazed that this comment has been downvoted to silence. Disenfranchising felons —
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by zeveb 9y ago
> ‘How fucking terrible that some irresponsible jerk decided he or she had some god complex that jeopardizes our inner culture and something that makes Facebook great?’ I wonder if some Facebook employees understand how folks in the IC f
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by zeveb 9y ago
I believe that's how it work on Linux too!
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by zeveb 9y ago
Guix is very cool, but I wish it were written in Lisp rather than Scheme. Absent re-implementing it myself, though, maybe I'll give it a shot.
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by zeveb 9y ago
emacs is a modern developer tool. Its most recent version is just about to be released. It supports all major and several minor OSes. It's used by modern developers (e.g. the folks at Jane Street …). And, unlike some of its compet
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by zeveb 9y ago
I'll second GNU Stow — I've been using it off-and-on for almost twenty years now (hard to believe that it's been that long!). It does have issues when pre/post-install scripts are required, but that could be easily wr
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by zeveb 9y ago
The real special sauce for Forth is that it's small and it's knowable . Anyone who wants to learn about how elegant a computer system can be should take a look at jonesforth[0], a Forth implemented in x86 assembly language. It
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by zeveb 9y ago
It's your phone. Of course software you installed should be allowed to do anything you want. The fact that Android has recently made it impossible to MITM apps is really making me consider switching. I don't think I will, be
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by zeveb 9y ago
I think that the timing issues are related to the problems with mixnets for anonymity: it turns out a global passive adversary can observe all messages sent and received and eventually determine which parties are talking to one another, wit
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by zeveb 9y ago
Public transit isn't a solution: it's slow, filthy, relatively expensive (for the value received) and public (I'd rather not sit next to someone who hasn't bathed this week). Uber, OTOH, is fast, clean, cheap-for-the-
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by zeveb 9y ago
It's an interesting article, but folks buying shares in what they want to happen are the greater fools in a prediction market (this applies to people on both sides of political questions). What you want to do is determine how much a
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by zeveb 9y ago
Thank you so very much! It really wasn't written to be persuasive — it's not an argument but rather a series of assertions — but I stand by it today. JavaScript delenda est.
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Privacy and tracking on the Fediverse(blog.soykaf.com)
2 points by zeveb 9y ago|0 comments
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by zeveb 9y ago
> Lastly, I thought it was funny that both Yegge and Bray can agree to take shots at JavaScript. There's another thing you'd think nerds would get tired of already. Why? JavaScript is really, truly, awfully horrible. It'
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by zeveb 9y ago
> The only explanation for this constant re-invention that I can come up with (and that's shared among others I know) is that Google doesn't care/need a dependency tool because of their mono repo. That's a pretty good
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by zeveb 9y ago
HyperCard is why I'm a developer today, and it's precisely because it was such an egalitarian tool. I was a (human) language geek as a child, but I loved using computers. I downloaded a bunch of neat stacks other people had made
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by zeveb 9y ago
Ah, good point — I was thinking of the issues with Firefox Sync.
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by zeveb 9y ago
> When a gay couple gets married on the other side of the country, do you notice? Does your life change? The word 'marriage' doesn't mean in 2018 what in meant in 1918, or even in 1968, or 1993. In large part, that'
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by zeveb 9y ago
> In this case, the software is open source, so the software can be evaluated. You enter your password on a page Mozilla serve[0]; they can change the source of that page at any time, and for a single user. They could for example, send
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by zeveb 9y ago
Mozilla's client-side encryption uses a key which is itself encrypted with your Firefox Account password — and Mozilla serve you the JavaScript used to log into your account, so they can steal your password whenever you log in using yo
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by zeveb 9y ago
> the value proposition is: neovim, with vscode compatible snippets and typescript-language-server-driven autocomplete (also works with vanilla JS) out of the box How's that compare to emacs? It sounds like it can be extended with
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by zeveb 9y ago
Except that some of the economically best taxes are land-value & wealth taxes — and what are savings & investments other than wealth, often in the form of land?
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by zeveb 9y ago
I think part of his point is that memorization & post-it notes are improper ways to manage passwords. In general, a password one can memorise is too low-entropy to be used — and I think we all agree that writing passwords down is just
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by zeveb 9y ago
That looks pretty cool at first glance — I need to spend some time reading it in my free time to figure it out.
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The making of Dark Castle(gamasutra.com)
162 points by zeveb 9y ago|37 comments
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It’s time to replace passwords with keys(bryan-murdock.blogspot.com)
26 points by zeveb 9y ago|13 comments
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by zeveb 9y ago
> Respectfully, how does your desire to bear private arms contribute to your militia or the freedom of your state and country? According to 10 U.S. Code § 246[0]: (a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at
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by zeveb 9y ago
I think maybe it has, and each of us doesn't notice it when we're younger and we think that we're really arguing about principles. Before Trump Derangement Syndrome (Russia!) there was Obama Derangement Syndrome (Kenya!); be
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by zeveb 9y ago
Sounds like adapting rules for mediæval heraldry might be useful for y'all. Shields & livery, after all, were meant to be clearly visible from a distance, in poor conditions, while the viewers were in psychological distress. Likew

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