charlesdaniels

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by charlesdaniels 6mo ago
If we're plugging jq alternatives, I'll plug my own: https://git.sr.ht/~charles/rq I was working at lot with Rego (the DSL for Open Policy Agent) and realized it was actually a pretty nice syntax for jq type
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by charlesdaniels 2y ago
Wow, didn’t realize it had enough legs for people to be hearing about it except via me! Awesome to hear that. Rego is “for” those authz cases like the ones you mentioned in the sense that it’s definitely designed with those in mind, and I d
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by charlesdaniels 2y ago
What's better than 1 nifty tool for querying semistructured data? 2 nifty tools for querying semistructured data!
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by charlesdaniels 2y ago
I have been working on a project in a similar vein: rq[0]. Mine started out as an attempt to make a jq-like frontend for the Rego[1] language. However, I do find myself using it to simply convert from one format to another, and for pretty p
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by charlesdaniels 4y ago
I wrote a wrapper around these some years ago which I’ve been using since. It’s been working pretty well for me. https://git.sr.ht/~charles/dotfiles/tree/171c95a20394552e02a...
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by charlesdaniels 4y ago
There isn’t consensus on who the sea people were. You might be interested in the book “1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed” by Eric H. Cline, which covers what we know about the pre-collapse civilizations as well as the collapse itse
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by charlesdaniels 5y ago
I feel like requiring users to enter into a legal agreement with a private third party in order to perform legally required obligations for a government entity has some troubling edge cases. What happens if a user has a dispute with ID.me,
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by charlesdaniels 5y ago
I wonder if we'll see a comeback of hand-curated directories of content? I feel like the "awesome list" trend is maybe the start of something there. I would be willing to pay an annual fee to have access to well-curated searc
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by charlesdaniels 5y ago
> That's a protocol that's a good forty years old 34 years old, actually. I guess we can go ahead and deprecate the x86 instruction set, tcp/ip, ASCII, C, tar, and many other tools and standards that are old. > and even
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by charlesdaniels 5y ago
I don’t see why sixels couldn’t work. You’d probably want a tool to decode them, diff the images, and then output another sixel image. I’m admittedly not sure of such a tool existing off the shelf though. I’m not aware of text editors suppo
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by charlesdaniels 5y ago
I would point out that sixels[0] exist. There is a nice library, libsixel[1] for working with it, which includes bindings into many languages. If the author of sixel-tmux[2][3] is to be believed[4], the relative lack of adoption is a result
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by charlesdaniels 5y ago
Personally, I have never used any of these features. I'm not even really sure what "Expanded Dark Mode" is. DOH is probably good for many people, but I prefer to run my own DNS server (and I VPN back into my LAN when not at h
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by charlesdaniels 5y ago
The only BlackBerry I ever owned was the BlackBerry Classic, back when that was still contemporary. Best phone I ever had. The UX was very consistent between apps, everything targeting it natively tended to be quite speedy, and the keyboard
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by charlesdaniels 5y ago
Regular expressions, deterministic finite automata, and nondeterministic finite automata are all equivalent[0][1]. All three of these representations are capable of describing any regular language (set of symbol sequences, or more intuitive
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by charlesdaniels 5y ago
> Unless several topics can be assigned to a person (which seems to be implied in the article), in which case that's 256 bits of entropy available to classify each person. Good catch, forgot this was a bit-vector not a single key. &
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by charlesdaniels 5y ago
At the end of the day, even if you assume good faith on Google's part (which I think is quite a leap), causing the user to present more entropy to the site will make them easier to fingerprint. 256 topics would be ceil(log2(256)) = 8 b
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by charlesdaniels 5y ago
I have found uBlacklist[0] works very well for this purpose. 0 - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublacklist/
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by charlesdaniels 5y ago
Try It Online[0] seems to offer a very similar service - if you don't care about the collaboration aspect of it. It claims to be self-hostable[1]. glot.io[2] is another, which seems to fit more in the realm of "pastebin with runna
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by charlesdaniels 5y ago
Can't say I'm a fan of this. The new redesign looks dreadful; the weird floating tab button thing looks like a UI toolkit bug or maybe someone trying to fake tabs using buttons, rather than an intentional design choice. As other c
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by charlesdaniels 5y ago
Discussion thread for the NY Times article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27268418
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by charlesdaniels 5y ago
Agreed. Especially on iOS, there isn’t really a convenient way to do this. I’d love something that uses an ssh key pair to accept files from the “share” dialog and have them end up in ~/Desktop. I tried hacking something with Shortcuts
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by charlesdaniels 5y ago
This is a really cool idea! I have wished for something like this for a long time. Glad to see someone built it. Sadly however, it seems that the .bib file I get from Zotero isn't supported, since it claims to have found 0 articles in
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
> Citation definitely needed. This is worded without precision, you could claim "work as well" to mean nearly anything. Do you have specifics, with data? Performance? Functionality? Features? DRM? What is it? I haven't enc
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
I have noticed this trend across many different applications/toolkits. In Linux land, GTK is an especially bad offender. Desktops tend to have high-precision pointing devices. It is wasteful of space to make big, touch-friendly buttons
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
I feel like it would be even worse on a smaller display where screen real-estate is at a premium. I am fortunate to be able to afford (relatively, compared to most of the world) high end computer equipment where wasting pixels is not as pro
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
I use this feature. On a large monitor, Firefox wastes quite a lot of space with the default layout. To be honest, I wish there was an option to make it more compact than the "compact" layout. There used to be an XUL extension to
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
Personally, I have found that even old.reddit.com is pretty much unusable these days, to say nothing of the horrible new mobile site, which for some reason is also the desktop site. I have found Teddit[0] is much more usable, and much less
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
This reminds me of a technology in Vernor Vinge's "zone of thought" series. I think they called it "evocations", where at the beginning of a call, a model is transmitted that allows the other end to re-construct wha
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
Obligatory comment about how this will be cancelled in 6 months[0] > What if technology helped us focus on what matters most? > Keeping our lives free from distractions. > To help us be more present, more engaged, and more connecte
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
I was under the impression that ReMarkable in particular was pretty good about this. I believe they just run a custom Linux variant and you can even ssh into them. I was really considering getting one, but I think the bigger issue for me is

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