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Figma does not seem to tie into the OS UI primitives. What is the experience for visually-impaired users that need high contrast UIs or braille terminals?

I always wondered why there aren't synchronous "audio conferencing" tools to allow play music and even improvise over the Internet. Of course they would have to introduce a fixed d…

> It's not faster, that's a myth This is false. There a plenty of statistics showing that Dvorak is faster (albeit it's true that the main benefits is around finger movement) > nat…

Dvorak. I know 5 people, including myself, that switched to Dvorak and none of us regretted it or switched back. It's not about speed, at least for me, but reducing stress on finge…

> meant to be airtight rather than RF-tight You are thinking about the wrong one.

THIS

Actually, VariableName != variable_name You can write ClassesLikePython and variables_like_python in Nim. Sometimes people end up having dangerously similar variable names in the s…

Keep in mind that Nim is statically typed and the typing prevents ambiguity: foo.say_hi() and SayHi() are not the same.

Author here. Please be aware that the project has no releases, it's not on PyPI and it's little more than a proof of concept. I have no intention to mislead any user into running i…

> This looks like an enjoyable source for weird bugs It's meant to prevent them: in Python applications it's not uncommon to see bugs introduced by an incorrect completion, e.g. up…

> Many Secure Boot implementations let you load your own keys. And there is no promise that this will not change.

> individual sessions are typically much shorter than route change intervals True for web traffic, not true for large file transfers, many multiplayer games, VPNs. > live connectio…

On the contrary: http://www.ibtimes.com/us-spends-less-food-any-other-country...

*Tor

The "conspiracy theorist" fallacy: claiming that an argument is invalid because it implies a conspiracy.

What the author calls "Percentile Distribution" is the same thing as a probability density function?

> 99% of the stuff you use everyday is closed-source and proprietary This is Hacker News; I expect the average to be around 20%

That's exactly what is happening with putting cameras on cops and their cars.

Some examples?

> The fundamental fallacy is the idea that tobacco is so dangerous that it, and anything comparably dangerous, must be banned. Please name a country where selling or buying cigaret…

They are also building a powerful Open Hardware ARM-based router with WiFi and NAS capabilities: https://omnia.turris.cz/en/