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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 opposit…

> 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.

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 licens…

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 r…

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 peo…

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.

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…

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 directl…

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 insu…

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 Fir…

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."

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 …

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…

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…

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 bo…

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…

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…

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 bee…

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 philos…

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 i…

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 modu…

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. …

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, …

As an individual, have you ever found an effective way to reach out to a (large) company that either doesn't want to hear from you, or doesn't care about your use case?

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 …