Typhon

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by Typhon 3y ago
Dialing 911 in the EU can redirect you to 112, though I don't know how that redirection works. It's worth knowing the local emergency numbers in any case
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by Typhon 3y ago
Yes, and Dennis Ritchie who died seven days later
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by Typhon 3y ago
That's not true in the sense that the cancer doesn't have objectives per se, therefore it doesn't have anything to lose in the sense that matters.
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by Typhon 3y ago
It reminds me of the extreme advertising meme.
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by Typhon 3y ago
Justin Rye's site is now at http://jbr.me.uk/ (and the espe-ranto at http://jbr.me.uk/ranto/ )
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by Typhon 4y ago
I am a true prophet. https://twitter.com/TyphonBaalAmmon/status/15911802751865528...
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by Typhon 4y ago
I think Pinboard is more likely to buy Twitter. And honestly this might not be the worst thing that could happen to it. Not sure if Maciej will be keen however.
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by Typhon 5y ago
Organizations (mostly) don't self-perpetuate through sexual reproduction. It's perfectly possible for the VHEMT to expand if they manage to convince enough people.
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by Typhon 5y ago
I thought it would have been obvious to anyone that this is satire, but then again I know that it was explicitly presented as such the first time I read this text so I'm probably biased.
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by Typhon 5y ago
This is one of those things that is both very true, and very much easier to say than do.
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by Typhon 5y ago
It used to be the most common lie was "I have read the EULA". Nowadays the most common lie is "we care about your privacy" or possibly "we get it, you hate ads".
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Interview with D. Madore, creator of Unlambda(esoteric.codes)
1 points by Typhon 6y ago|0 comments
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by Typhon 6y ago
It's never more about money than when "It's not about the money anymore". I think that with a stock whose worth at this point is the result of pure dutch-tulip-like speculation, the question is where is the tipping point
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by Typhon 6y ago
The one valid definition of success for a programming language is that it looks pretty and thus the most successful programming language is Piet ( http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html ) I mean, joking aside, i
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by Typhon 6y ago
This is a rather bad article because it completely misses the real complexity of a spell checker. A spell checker is not simply a list of words, it's a way to check mistakes according to a standard and to point towards ways to fi
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by Typhon 7y ago
The big difference between the American attitude and the Chinese attitude towards ecology is this : The Americans loudly refuse to do anything, loudly deny that there's a problem, and loudly proclaim their hatred of ecology. The Chines
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by Typhon 7y ago
This article quotes Perlis' famous saying that "a programming language is low-level when it calls attention to the irrelevant", and I am reminded of another Perlis aphorism : « Adapting old programs to fit new machines usuall
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by Typhon 7y ago
There's plenty of small online stores selling all kinds of stuff. Recently I had ordered smoked paprika from Amazon UK because I can't find any where I live (France). I got regular paprika. So I ordered from a specialized online s
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Wikimedia's sites are “suffering from a large and broad DDoS attack”(twitter.com)
20 points by Typhon 7y ago|4 comments
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by Typhon 7y ago
No, it's just a simple heuristic to get started.
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by Typhon 7y ago
Here's an idea : do the 0.1 version by crawling and indexing the web in a perfectly standard way, apply the usual, run-of-the-mill search algorithms, then diff it against the Bing/Google/etc first results which will be biased
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by Typhon 8y ago
No, no it's still there at https://www.duolingo.com/courses
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by Typhon 8y ago
There's a great post at Slate Star Codex : http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/16/things-that-sometimes-h... It contains a lot of advice on how to choose a therapist and how to behave with them and what yo
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by Typhon 9y ago
Han unification was really a pretty stupid idea.
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by Typhon 9y ago
most of them were "Under construction" GIFs over ugly tiled backgrounds Oh you remind me of the beautiful paean to those GIFs in Olia Lialina's "A Vernacular Web", which is a pretty cool discussion of early intern
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by Typhon 9y ago
If you have to do X in the new language in the same way as in Fortran, the new language is not better for doing X than Fortran, is it ?
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by Typhon 9y ago
In any case, some researchers have claimed that Sci-Hub obtained their credentials through phishing. I don't know if it's true but in any case, such claims provide plausible deniability against that kind of watermarking proof, don
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by Typhon 9y ago
All websites have founders and personality. Since you mention the PirateBay, they were a team with a rather snarky sense of humour. Archive.org is run by a foundation. There are always people and there's always legal responsibility. In
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by Typhon 9y ago
yeah I was just giving an example of quick-and-dirty HTML that I thought was being advocated.
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by Typhon 9y ago
Yeah but users don't read the HTML, the browser does, and it doesn't care that you're using ten <br> tags for vertical spacing instead of an elegant CSS styling property. Edit : just want to make it clear that I'm

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