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That’s neat! I made this tool for Unicode in general: https://www.azabani.com/labs/charming/

> corporate logos, octop^Hcat Only two logos appear in the entire pull request process, and those are the two small silhouettes that you see on every page. > CoC shoved in your fac…

> free accident compensation New Zealand?

Full Speed has existed since USB 1.0 — it’s “full” relative to USB 1.0, where the only other option was Low Speed — but I agree that the name was a poor choice.

Why is it a matter of course?

Some of their other writing seems to be of a similarly low quality. Another of their pages [0] seems to mirror a post [1] that they had sent to comp.lang.lisp, where they describe …

“We absolutely, most certainly, should NOT ship libraries with operating systems.”

With progressive enhancement, Twitter could provide basic functionality with full page loads and the like, and use JavaScript to replace these with a better user experience.

That a person would continue to work for a given rate does not imply that they don’t mind working for that rate. There are many reasons why one might continue. They may not be trai…

If you only look within a given occupation, sure, the disparity isn’t as wide, but that fails to answer some important questions: why do the choices that women (or any given group)…

To avoid having to wait for some of the page’s resources to time out: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

The effect of fragmentation on file systems on SSDs is minimal, and fragmentation is not related to TRIM. http://askubuntu.com/a/537211/1624

2016 is less than 48 hours away. Why is curl http:// | sh still a thing? Why is the Windows installer delivered without HTTPS, and does it really have no digital signature, or have…

To see the page, you’ll need to disable HTTPS Everywhere for senate.gov, as the site’s broken over HTTPS.

That’s more true for Linux than other Unix-like systems. Solaris comes with Bourne, FreeBSD comes with that and csh defaulting to Bourne, OpenBSD comes with those and pdksh default…

This article is based on Jakobsen’s master’s thesis: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10713064

In my limited experience, rendering vector fonts is among the slowest parts of rendering text in a terminal. The difference between an xterm with a TrueType or OpenType font and an…

It's only secure when used with TLS 1.1+ where it has an effective security of 112 bits. Otherwise it is susceptible to the BEAST attack, like any other CBC cipher suite, unless th…