EFruit

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by EFruit 2y ago
Oh, those kinds of columns. I thought we were talking text columns, and I was about to relate. I work at a small business. Despite computer software being about the literal opposite of our business (plants), the founder built an entire su
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by EFruit 3y ago
> I read a paper a while back which introduced a different algorithm with tighter bounds on regret Got a link or cite for that paper? It sounds interesting.
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by EFruit 3y ago
I've been following Keygen for quite a few years (but alas, no projects suitable to try it), partly because of the excellent docs about licensing schemes, and partly because licensing systems (and the breaking thereof) have been a recu
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by EFruit 3y ago
If they won't let us SEE their standards, let alone collaborate on them, we should just write our own. Membership for FOSS developers: $0 Membership for anyone even tangentiality related to a massive corp: Call us for pricing details.
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by EFruit 3y ago
Perhaps I'm in the minority here, but I would like to see the entirety of HN's codebase posted as-is, no redactions, cleanup, etc. The entire site is officially moderated by ~2 people, and autonomously by the community. Whatever s
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by EFruit 4y ago
Yes, see the sibling comment, and for the love of all that is holy, heed the warnings. Use it at your own peril, and even then with caution and distrust.
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by EFruit 4y ago
FUSE proxy: https://gitgud.io/ee/gtabfs WebExtension: https://gitgud.io/ee/tabfs Caveat _extremely_ emptor: This code works on my machine, and I have no recollection of how it came to be that way.
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by EFruit 4y ago
I use a deeply modified fork of this every day. My changes have been: 1. Rewrite the backend in Go (I'm nkt qualified to audit the C version, and having Web Stuff™ interact directly with an unaudited C filesystem daemon makes my skin c
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by EFruit 4y ago
As much as I _despise_ modern ReCAPTCHA, I have always been able to pass the challenge eventually; it has never flatly rejected me with no recourse. If I made a mistake or was insufficiently human for it, I got a new challenge and tried aga
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by EFruit 4y ago
wrt. Discord and their stance on "self-bots", what is the demarcation point between their (web) app and my computer? Is using a screen reader a self-bot? Is a non-screen reader Firefox add-on that uses the API a self-bot? What if
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by EFruit 4y ago
Raymond's blog always hits a note of morbid fascination. At times it almost feels like schadenfreude. "Neat, but thank God I didn't have to be the one that wrote/discovered that."
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by EFruit 4y ago
Their IRC setup is profoundly disappointing. Joining their channel redirects unregistered users to a designated quarantine room that blocks all messages. Why on earth do I need to manage YET ANOTHER account just to ask a question, get a res
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by EFruit 4y ago
I have logged more pages turned and books completed on a stationary recumbent bike at my local YMCA than anywhere else in the world. Some earbuds to drown out the radio (and others' grunting), an ereader with far more content then it s
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by EFruit 5y ago
I wish the underlying theory to this whole class of software was more accessible. It seems like these logical systems can do such amazing things, but I'd be remiss to integrate any of them without some degree of understanding of what t
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by EFruit 5y ago
Frankly, I'd be thrilled to have a Firefox fork that is designed to show exactly one page, specified by the command's sole argument, and do nothing else. All the "tab" stuff and bookmarks could be offloaded to shell scri
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by EFruit 5y ago
I have two thought experiments: - Imagine the exact same software was used, instead by the localities' fire & rescue departments. I don't suspect anyone would complain about trying to put ambulances as close as possible to p
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by EFruit 5y ago
Two major questions come to mind: 1. What will the impact be for ROCm's Navi support on Linux? 2. Does this mean they're getting more confident at handling simultaneous display AND compute with ROCm?
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by EFruit 5y ago
That was similar to my thought. In Vim, I have persistent undo and Undotree set up so that I can go back to the state of a file at any point in my process, so long as it hasn't been changed by any other program. I wonder if there'
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by EFruit 5y ago
I've found that "Todo apps" are generally useless for me. The list gets too big, or it has limited support for priorities or dependencies or whatever, so I built my own. Its philosophy is built around the fact that I'm o
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by EFruit 5y ago
Frankly, the biggest mistake of my career thus far has been starting it. I didn't get in to a university, so I bumbled around for 6 years at a community college. In the middle of it, I managed to get a 6-month stint at a help desk (whi
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by EFruit 5y ago
As someone who's been using Go for a long while now, I can't help but wonder if modules and other recent changes aren't a step backwards. Maybe I'm a change-averse geezer, but modules still seem like an overcomplicated s
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by EFruit 5y ago
There is (yet another) aspect that the author didn't cover: internalized rejection. Imagine you burn out during college, so you pivot and get a professional certification instead. You pass the exam and have the certificate in hand, and
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by EFruit 5y ago
I'm all for eliminating (re)CAPTCHAs, and I'm glad someone is working on the problem, but this proposal seems a little iffy on a few fronts, with two main areas of concern. First, I don't like the idea of having Cloudflare as
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Ask HN: Dealing with a vendor that doesn't care?
2 points by EFruit 6y ago|1 comments
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by EFruit 6y ago
That's... spooky. I was working on this exact project a few weeks ago for the VM/370 source distribution tapes (and WOW the VMFPLC2 format is a pain). Shame OP didn't preserve the on-tape file structure, it would have been in
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by EFruit 6y ago
I agree, my speculation is just that: speculation. I sincerely hope they can come up with a generic, decentralized way to verify professional credentials, as that could bolster certification's viability as a career path. Elsewhere in t
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by EFruit 6y ago
I don't trust a company like Google to act in its students' and certificate holders' best interests. It's not hard to imagine that the certifications will all be tied back to a Google account that they can terminate at a
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by EFruit 6y ago
Thinking from a different perspective, in a majority mail-in election, could these machines pose a risk to the election's integrity? They would most likely not be undergoing the same scrutiny as electronic voting systems (which in many
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by EFruit 6y ago
Interesting! The game reminds me a bit of another industrial simulation game called "Oakflat", a nuclear power plant operations simulator for MS-DOS (and later Windows). The DOS version can be played on archive.org, but I'm n
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by EFruit 6y ago
NB: The textbook is currently free thanks to Springer releasing a selection of their material as free in response to COVID. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-04101-3

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