RadioactiveMan

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by RadioactiveMan 1y ago
I really value tests on projects I work on alone because the work is usually intermittent. I don't have the time or energy to deal with regressions, and I may not remember everything about the system by the next time I work on it. I al
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by RadioactiveMan 2y ago
People's fundamental rights and freedoms are not technicalities.
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by RadioactiveMan 4y ago
> No one has expressed concern so far. The article is an expression of concern. It also cites three court cases to show that it matters.
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by RadioactiveMan 4y ago
Fzf is brilliant. Recently I found fzrepl ( https://github.com/danielfgray/fzf-scripts/blob/master/fzrep... ), which blew my mind. It uses fzf and its preview window to create a repl for other programs, su
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by RadioactiveMan 5y ago
I'm not sure if I'm missing something here or what. > HTTPS doesn't hurt anything and actually has some nice side effects (it separates backups onto a separate port than the majority of your web traffic, allows for traffic
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by RadioactiveMan 5y ago
Would we really lose them? My understanding is that, after a fire, a forest experiences very rich growth, especially of plants that don't grow much under the shade of old trees, which are good food and cover for many animals.
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by RadioactiveMan 5y ago
> People complained when Firefox added [...] > Now they're [...] removing [...], and people are still complaining? It's different people.
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by RadioactiveMan 6y ago
6.99 is 6.99. It's only 7 if you pay with cash.
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by RadioactiveMan 6y ago
The company has this to say about synthetic leather. > Fish leather is more ecologically sound than vegan leather alternatives because it requires less energy than the creation of vegan leather, it does not include petroleum products, an
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by RadioactiveMan 7y ago
> 1) addons don't work yet It'll be interesting to see if this change is going to get rid of extension support or not. I'm a Firefox fan, but uBlock Origin is more important than the browser.
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by RadioactiveMan 7y ago
Here's the RFC for it with the "why" and discussion of the tradeoffs. https://wiki.php.net/rfc/numeric_literal_separator
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by RadioactiveMan 7y ago
The praise for arrow functions is surprising. They don't enable anything new and their feature - saving a half dozen characters - comes with the cognitive cost of tracking how both types of anonymous functions work and their subtle dif
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by RadioactiveMan 8y ago
There's seven billion people in the world for which running grep is not easy. This makes it easy.
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by RadioactiveMan 8y ago
The padlock was already meaningless.
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by RadioactiveMan 8y ago
There's room for people whose tastes include hunting endangered species too! https://www-m.cnn.com/2015/05/21/opinions/rhino-hunt-is-cons...
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by RadioactiveMan 9y ago
It's not a lie. They linked right to an elaboration of that statement.
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by RadioactiveMan 10y ago
This is a really good point. Usually we talk about protecting against a third party, but the far more ordinary use case is protecting against the adversary right on the other side of your router.
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by RadioactiveMan 10y ago
That was entirely The Pirate Bay's fault, not CloudFlare's.
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by RadioactiveMan 10y ago
Since the encryption key is in the URL I don't think it's fair for them to claim they can't decrypt.
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by RadioactiveMan 10y ago
I have been through some of your material and it has been a joy to read.
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by RadioactiveMan 10y ago
If CAcert isn't usually trusted and StartSSL is not free for commercial use, are they really alternatives?
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by RadioactiveMan 11y ago
> The True Cross is the name for physical remnants which, by a Christian tradition, are believed to be from the cross upon which Jesus was crucified.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Cross
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by RadioactiveMan 11y ago
Look into exercism.io; it's a pretty cool way to solve problems while people provide feedback on your code. Better still, you can review other users' solutions and see how you could have done better.
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by RadioactiveMan 11y ago
It'd be nice to have the recipe title in the URL. For example, if [1] was something like [2] (or something) it'd be helpful when looking at the URL for a recipe. [1] http://imadefood.com/recipe/NkgHYiLPl [2]
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by RadioactiveMan 11y ago
Try logging in to Wikipedia and enabling Hovercards[1] in the beta features. It creates a pop-up with a summary of linked pages when you hover over the link. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Prefer
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by RadioactiveMan 11y ago
"And it's not all physics and math; the entry for the Ka/s ratio, a useful measure in evolutionary biology, assumes you already know a lot about evolutionary biology and the genetic code." It seems to me that any informa
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by RadioactiveMan 11y ago
I adore SpeedCrunch. I don't have fancy large number requirements but I love the interface. It works on Linux too, though I think it's an old version in the Ubuntu repository so you might prefer to download the source instead.
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by RadioactiveMan 11y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10741148
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by RadioactiveMan 11y ago
Good to know. Reading definitions of concatenate and catenate, I was confused about whether there actually was a difference or not. Edit: that wikipedia page makes it sound like the program it replaced was the one that prints a single file
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by RadioactiveMan 11y ago
Catenate means to connect things together[1], which implies it was named with multiple files in mind. [1] https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/catenate

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