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by zeveb 3mo ago
> If a security vulnerability is reported by someone who is also violating the CoC, what do you do? Do you ignore it? Fix it silently? Is this even a question? You triage and fix the vulnerability just like any other one. Are truths spo
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by zeveb 3mo ago
… and regulation, too (as the article details).
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The Demise of Real Neighborhoods Is a Story of Finance(thenewatlantis.com)
3 points by zeveb 3mo ago|1 comments
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by zeveb 1y ago
> It was easier to have non-threatening debates because everyone felt more secure. When people are stressed and afraid, the debates aren’t just intellectual exercises but things that could mean the loss of real opportunities in their liv
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The man who spent forty-two years at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool (1993)(newyorker.com)
273 points by zeveb 2y ago|304 comments
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Thinking About Opening URLs in Emacs, and Wayland, and Stuff(lars.ingebrigtsen.no)
2 points by zeveb 2y ago|0 comments
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by zeveb 2y ago
> Mississippi, the poorest state in the United States, is close to surpassing Europe's largest economy Germany's GDP per capita.
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Poorest US State Rivals Germany: GDP per Capita in US and Europe(euronews.com)
5 points by zeveb 2y ago|2 comments
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by zeveb 2y ago
Snopes in 2018 and Snopes in 2008 were sadly two very different things. They used to be such a great resource!
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Why Microsoft Office is a bigger productivity drain than Candy Crush Saga (2018)(timharford.com)
3 points by zeveb 2y ago|0 comments
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by zeveb 2y ago
I think that this is correct. Also, we really shouldn’t forget that Markdown is meant to generate HTML, and that HTML blocks are valid Markdown: a system which does not permit it isn’t really using Markdown.
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Testing the Practical Common Lisp Code on Medley(journal.paoloamoroso.com)
4 points by zeveb 2y ago|0 comments
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by zeveb 2y ago
> If you run more than one monitor with different DPI, Wayland is the only choice. I run multiple monitors with differing physical DPIs on X11. Yeah, that means they have differing resolutions. It doesn’t bother me, and I can do all th
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by zeveb 4y ago
> Quoting is insane and hard to get right. This really makes me wonder if you’ve used Tcl. Quoting in Tcl is so much simpler than in e.g. bash or cmake. It’s all about know when a string will be evaluated or not. > Type errors are
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by zeveb 4y ago
> The last notable ban was Paul Graham for simply sharing their Mastodon handle. Paul Graham is a man, not a plural entity.
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by zeveb 4y ago
> I'll take Java over JavaScript any day Well sure, and I would choose to be hanged rather than broken on the wheel, but I’d rather neither. Fortunately, Armed Bear Common Lisp runs fine on the JVM.
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by zeveb 4y ago
I think it’s more like how some people still wear wool and linen despite the fact that polyester and rayon exist. Popularity does not equal quality.
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by zeveb 4y ago
> Having a unified tool set works wonders for group productivity, no more messing around with some employees not having a certain package and others needing to customize their vim configs. Completely agree: the entire company should be o
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by zeveb 4y ago
Well, forbidding adults from smoking is one of the negative consequences.
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by zeveb 4y ago
> I know, it’s strange… since 1972 everyone was thinking that we were manipulating versions, but, it turned out, surprisingly, that thinking about the changes themselves as first class solved a very important problem: the problem of me
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Distributed Version Control is here to stay, baby (2010)(joelonsoftware.com)
1 points by zeveb 4y ago|2 comments
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by zeveb 4y ago
These are hilarious. Is it a meta-joke that a series of videos about over-complicated technology are only visible if one allows JavaScript and embedded Twitter posts?
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by zeveb 4y ago
It’s so much easier to destroy than to build. That applies to buildings, but it also applies to cultures and civilisations. The work of centuries — even of millennia — can be broken in decades or even years. And what’s worse is that there
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by zeveb 4y ago
Imagine a Gandalfina origin story where she’s running, jumping, punching and kicking orcs!
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by zeveb 4y ago
> you should not assume the format of a non-200 status code You should never assume format based on status code at all! You should detect it based on the Content-Type header. > You'll get a 500 with a plaintext body. Don't
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by zeveb 4y ago
> I don't think there's a correct answer I think there is a correct answer: use the 404 to indicate that a requested resource does not exist, and use a 200 to return a requested resource that does exist; and use URLs to repre
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by zeveb 4y ago
> It's the difference between "There is nothing handling this route at all" and "there is something handling this route but the object isn't found." 'Nothing handling this route' has no meaning, be
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by zeveb 4y ago
> Standard week starts on Monday. No thanks! IMNSHO the week starts on Sunday.
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by zeveb 4y ago
'Whitelist' and 'blacklist' have nothing to do with race, they never had anything to do with race, and anyone who thinks they do is, quite simply, wrong . Knowing these facts, this is nothing like calling a black man
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by zeveb 4y ago
> If using a regular modern browser is a superset of the experience of w3m, why do I want to add the extra level of inconvenient indirection? Because using a 'regular modern browser' is not a superset; it also lacks certain thi

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