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The immediacy with which any vision can be built is amazing. But the minute you let go of the direction and abandon responsibility, it eats you alive. Like a powerful dog. You are …

You wonder what all the Rust talk was about before the programming language's release in Jan 2012.

I miss websites that look like lynx's: https://lynx.browser.org/

I hope this idea makes the rounds. It's so terrible when you have to learn the idiosyncratic nomenclature of products. It feels like it was already worse some years ago, but this p…

What are the eyebrow raising connotations you have?

I had similar thoughts. But let's not overlook the information asymmetry, which contributed to the dissatisfaction. I don't want to live in a world which is controlled unilaterally…

The sensational capture of a coelacanth was really very recent, only since 1938 we know they still live! Did you know all birds are living dinosaurs?

Imagine being part of a management that thinks when your workers lie on paperwork that excuses you.

MBP 2014. Firefox is smooth as can be, opening on Chrome blocks the whole machine.

I can vouch for Dokku being equally very reliable and surprise-free to use.

The link works, but the link parser on HN (of all places) is confused by the parens.

I realize now it was a stupid question, but the excellent refresher and ensueing discussion of edge cases was well worth the downvote someone felt compelled to leave, haha

Can’t you switch out the signatures inflight, too?

Ok, makes sense. Thanks for clarifying

Interestingly, this project (Lunatik) started over 30 years ago in 1993. https://github.com/luainkernel/lunatik/graphs/contributors

Seriously, just write one unit test for your regex.

„In general, a lot of the AI takes I see assert that AI will be able to assume the entire _responsibility_ for a given task for a person, and implicitly assume that the person’s _a…

25 years ago I also had a lot of trust in freedom on the internet, because it would just "route around censorship" and all that. I don't have the same confidence anymore.

Not hard to anticipate how this might play out. I can see how it first becomes the "official" resolver, which in a later steps is maybe "recommended," then required if you want cer…

UBI is the weirdest thing. I'm certainly no fan of an economic system which casually threatens each of it's member with starvation and homelessness if personal misfortune strikes. …