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Estragon

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    Comment #12955148

    It seems likely that the NSA is running a large fraction of tor nodes, and doing exactly what you suggest. It would cost a trivial fraction of their budget, and yield huge amounts …

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    Comment #11494569

    You only need to change a few words: "In other words, they simply didn't test their (global!) custom route announcement management software. An edge case was triggered in productio…

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    Comment #11452400

    No code returned. :( https://www.bing.com/search?q=solution+to+halting+problem

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    Comment #11409691

    ultimately I lose a bunch of work. Take a copy of the entire repository before attempting anything potentially destructive.

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    Comment #11409455

    man git stash

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    Comment #11409282

    I have no problem with lazy lists. It's the "0, 2 ... \infty" expression which offends me.

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    Comment #11404856

    > There are some people who appreciate games that are very abstract and with > simple rules from which complex behavior emerges, such as a game like Go. I love Go, but I despise pe…

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    Comment #11402704

    Ah, right. Thanks.

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    Comment #11402626

    say "Code took {now - INIT now} seconds to run"; # Code took 0.01111143 seconds to run Implicit string interpolation??? What if I just want to print out the string "now"?

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    Comment #11386265

    Your best is different from his/her best.

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    Comment #11379059

    When did the internal projects start using Kubernetes? I heard that its uptake within Google has been very anemic.

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    Comment #11374492

    Side question: what is NPMJS Inc's business model?

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    Comment #11366805

    Being enthusiastic for wholesome things is a skill in its own right.

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    Comment #11358550

    You could probably whitelist with a .dockerignore like * # exclude everything !README.md # include the README. !run.sh # include the initiation script You would want to check exact…

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    Comment #11358501

    f(X)=sha1(concat(md5(X), X)), then.

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    Comment #11352684

    If it was a good implementation, I'd agree with you, but it's not: https://github.com/azer/left-pad/pulls

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    Comment #11352593

    > I can use multiple debuggers What does this look like, and how does it improve the experience over using a single debugger?

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    Comment #11280686

    iVPN. Mainly based on their excellent privacy tutorials: https://www.ivpn.net/blog/privacy-guides Steer clear of PIA. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8982095

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    Comment #11280645

    The whole world is flooded with fiction about using guns to stop bad people with guns. The narrative around crypto is tiny by comparison.

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    Comment #11280562

    Classic HN response.

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    Comment #11155957

    Are there any CLI gmail clients which can handle 2FA? I'd like to have a way to read my work email in emacs, but I'm pretty sure work would be unhappy about me putting an app-speci…

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    Comment #11148070

    > How much are you really worried by this? It's a very serious ethical issue. You might not have any exploitable weaknesses given the current technology, but other people do: alcoh…

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    Comment #11126104

    > What language has decorators, generators, comprehensions, modules, but isn't Python? Clojure, Haskell. :-)

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    Comment #11126002

    Is there an emacs package for this? Is the server code open-source as well?

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    Comment #11115015

    > Most of my time is spent outside of the editor Emacs has a leg up, in this respect.