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In the Spectre paper they note that while Chrome degrades the resolution of `performance.now()`, they were able to get a timer with sufficient resolution by using a Web Worker (thr…

Yes, they would have been better off leaving out this "cycling" bit altogether.

All these anti-Bolshevik treatises of late merely profit from the decay and ruin of Left-wing consciousness and culture that has taken place in the last century. The old Bolsheviks…

> Create a protocol or API spec on top of HTTPS or something else and use it. This is basically what they've done with EDI/X12 over AS2, which was also mandated by HIPAA. The probl…

To get live data from ICE--the exchange that withdrew the request--I'm currently paying a broker $120/month. By comparison, just about every crypto exchange currently offers push f…

Such a relief to see the word in a headline with its actual meaning. Plus, the pictures are sublime.

For Hegel this form of Skepticism/Pessimism is one of the "moments" of Spirit.[1] [1] http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft7d5nb...

As a younger programmer, speaking honestly, it seems to me a significant part of the motivation behind Rust evangelism has to do with distinguishing yourself against older colleagu…

I had really bad sleep issues for years and what finally fixed it was not keeping my phone, laptop, or desktop anywhere near the bedroom. When I was younger I would fall asleep qui…

Emacs K-12

If the question "How would you turn Twitter around?" is being asked in public with tons of people giving great answers, I'm sorry but you have a major leadership problem.

SES also down.

Does anyone know what's going on inside the White House in terms of who is working on these drafts and why the first differs so drastically from the second? We have no reporting on…

Is the DC ruling class still crying about their loss?

I think we'll see more stratification on the internet in the coming years with subscriptions, etc. There's probably even a market right now for a paid version of reddit or HN. The …

The sort of facts-and-figures type of Democrat doesn't realize that politics is not the same thing as the technocratic administration of society. Politics is not an optimization pr…

Why is it acceptable to be so downright anti-political?

What this is really about for executives like Sam is Trump's meddling in the free movement of labor. Where the action goes wrong is in its banning of our Kurdish and Iraqi brothers…

People like Sam Altman are alarmed now that Trump has shown he is willing to meddle in labor markets and potentially impose protectionist labor policies. As Sam says, "This is not …

We should not be banning our Kurdish comrades!

Management is upset they will no longer be able to use H1Bs to cheapen the value of labor. This executive order won't have a big impact but they see it coming. The real issue is co…

It largely depends on context--in politics/philosophy literature it's used quite often.

Having spent years on debian, and having run stable and sid, the only really sustainable arrangement is to use stable+backports. Don't run sid! Gradually your system will become a …

Go is against the sort of programming that builds up conceptual dream worlds of gratuitous abstraction and needless complexity. When that's the only way you want to think, Go will …

Gladwell is a well-known hack and has a terrible reputation in journalist circles for the shilling he did for tobacco companies while being paid handsomely for it.