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I really value tests on projects I work on alone because the work is usually intermittent. I don't have the time or energy to deal with regressions, and I may not remember everythi…

People's fundamental rights and freedoms are not technicalities.

> No one has expressed concern so far. The article is an expression of concern. It also cites three court cases to show that it matters.

Fzf is brilliant. Recently I found fzrepl ( https://github.com/danielfgray/fzf-scripts/blob/master/fzrep... ), which blew my mind. It uses fzf and its preview window to create a re…

I'm not sure if I'm missing something here or what. > HTTPS doesn't hurt anything and actually has some nice side effects (it separates backups onto a separate port than the majori…

Would we really lose them? My understanding is that, after a fire, a forest experiences very rich growth, especially of plants that don't grow much under the shade of old trees, wh…

> People complained when Firefox added [...] > Now they're [...] removing [...], and people are still complaining? It's different people.

6.99 is 6.99. It's only 7 if you pay with cash.

The company has this to say about synthetic leather. > Fish leather is more ecologically sound than vegan leather alternatives because it requires less energy than the creation of …

> 1) addons don't work yet It'll be interesting to see if this change is going to get rid of extension support or not. I'm a Firefox fan, but uBlock Origin is more important than t…

Here's the RFC for it with the "why" and discussion of the tradeoffs. https://wiki.php.net/rfc/numeric_literal_separator

The praise for arrow functions is surprising. They don't enable anything new and their feature - saving a half dozen characters - comes with the cognitive cost of tracking how both…

There's seven billion people in the world for which running grep is not easy. This makes it easy.

The padlock was already meaningless.

There's room for people whose tastes include hunting endangered species too! https://www-m.cnn.com/2015/05/21/opinions/rhino-hunt-is-cons...

It's not a lie. They linked right to an elaboration of that statement.

This is a really good point. Usually we talk about protecting against a third party, but the far more ordinary use case is protecting against the adversary right on the other side …

That was entirely The Pirate Bay's fault, not CloudFlare's.

Since the encryption key is in the URL I don't think it's fair for them to claim they can't decrypt.

I have been through some of your material and it has been a joy to read.

If CAcert isn't usually trusted and StartSSL is not free for commercial use, are they really alternatives?

> The True Cross is the name for physical remnants which, by a Christian tradition, are believed to be from the cross upon which Jesus was crucified.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.or…

Look into exercism.io; it's a pretty cool way to solve problems while people provide feedback on your code. Better still, you can review other users' solutions and see how you coul…

It'd be nice to have the recipe title in the URL. For example, if [1] was something like [2] (or something) it'd be helpful when looking at the URL for a recipe. [1] http://imadefo…

Try logging in to Wikipedia and enabling Hovercards[1] in the beta features. It creates a pop-up with a summary of linked pages when you hover over the link. [1] https://en.wikiped…