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cxr

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The original reason to start the project which I had―which was the Germans were a danger―started me off on a process of action, which was to try to develop […] the system in Princeton then at Los Alamos to try to make the bomb work. […] With any project like that, you continue to work trying to get success, having decided to do it. But what I did―immorally, I would say―was not to remember the reason that I said I was doing it. So that when the reason changed, which was that Germany was defeated, not the singlest thought came to my mind at all about that, that that meant now that I have to reconsider why I'm continuing to do this. I simply didn't think, okay?

-- Richard Feynman. Interview broadcast on BBC, 1981.

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    > The simplest way to build a high-quality website. The build (generation) step should be able to execute on/inside the browser runtime (using standardized APIs, not hardcoded agai…

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    "The amount[...] that industries pollute" is just "personal changes" with more steps.

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    In this case, do the things that it says are no use focusing on. Change your individual behavior to align with the position you profess to have taken about whether or not climate c…

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    Somehow I get the sense that you don't shoot for a balance of $0 in your bank account.

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    It's because inhabitants of metric land neglect the decimeter, probably because it's too awkward of a word. Define 1 metric hand = 1 decimeter, and you can cleanly convert between …

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    Somehow I get the sense that you don't shoot for a balance of $0 in your bank account.

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    For a time, it was popular for movie trailers to end with a domain, often of the form "${ $TITLE }film.com", which would take you to the marketing site for that release. Nowadays t…

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    And the Web is not HTTP!

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    > There's always some nincompoop who brings that up. Al Gore deserves credit for what he did as a senator and vice president. He helped to pass legislation that enabled the NSFNET …

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    > Would moving the untrusted content to be served from a separate domain entirely close the hole? Yes.

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    > That's why I'm careful not to include allow-same-origin in the sandbox attribute It doesn't matter. I just said there is no combination of CSP or the iframe sandbox attribute tha…

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    > - which really is designed to be used as a sandbox Not for untrusted content living on the same origin to prevent it from exercising any of the powers that it would ordinarily ha…

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    CSP is optional and designed to be one part of a defense-in-depth strategy (to extent that it was thoughtfully designed at all—it's an awful standard that should not have made it p…

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    A lot of people don't get podcasts. They think it's a genre (and that it applies to the show(s) they watch on YouTube). For a large segment, telling them that a feed reader is for …

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    It's no use being pedantic if you're not going to be correct. > This is a pedantic point, but that's not really what the definition of compiler is as much as a common understanding…

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    The creator of lcc also published a paper "lcc.NET: targeting the .NET Common Intermediate Language from Standard C" (2004). https://drh.github.io/documents/msil-spe.pdf > One prob…

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    > You seem very angry and I clearly don't understand what you are talking about. Luckily you managed to frame it so that the failure comes across like something that I got wrong an…

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