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Ideally our critical infrastructure would have a better security track record

For zero-crossings my first thought would be either bullet (•), to not break the visual flow; or multiply (×), since it's at least vertically centered

In C++, any concurrent filesystem access is undefined behavior (which seems pretty crazy to me) https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/filesystem > The behavior is undefined if the call…

We spent our lives searching for the Creator, and in the end all we found was GitHub Copilot

If you think "→" misrepresents the meaning of "->", then certainly "->" also misrepresents the meaning of a semantic arrow "→". The set of symbols in 7-bit ASCII is somewhat arbitr…

> We learned that the key to a post reaching the front page was the content itself. Well that's good news, at least

I predict we start seeing "Login with 1Password" buttons on random websites next to the google and facebook buttons. I also predict it never catches on.

The natural next step is adding ELIZA-like chat responses to your bots

I know that PioSolver is not a "poker AI" per se, but the article seems to say it can tell you what to do based on the table situation. Has anyone tried pitting pro players against…

Or even better, turn on autovacuum (buy a roomba)

Definitely embellished. If you try to eat a live cat, it will scratch your face beyond recognition.

Wow you're right, that's quite a manifesto. Almost as provocative as this quicksort manifesto. https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~mjw03/PersonalWebpage/pdfs/quickso...

> As of April 5th 2017 with the release of Windows 10 Version 1703, SetProcessDpiAwarenessContext used above is the replacement for SetProcessDpiAwareness, which in turn was a repl…

I mean... no, the success of this burgeoning asset class does not depend on me convincing a single HN poster in a long-buried thread. And there never was a "manifesto", at least no…

Bitcoin is a technology that has various use cases. Just because some person gives a sales pitch, doesn't mean that sales pitch becomes the benchmark by which to measure the techno…

People give sales pitches for lots of things. You don't have to listen to them. > Are you sure about this? Whether I'm sure or not... I think everyone should be given the choice.

Crypto isn't intented to remove middlemen. It's intended to give people the choice of who to trust. People can choose to trust an exchange, or to self-custody, and deal with the co…

Many BTC addresses are owned by companies (e.g. exchanges, trusts, etc) and not by individuals. The Gini coefficient only looks at individuals, not companies. In other words, it do…

Has anyone made a bot yet to automatically reply to stalebot so issues aren't closed?

Can you elaborate, what happened with Manjaro?

I just think it's weird that I can't have an LTS OS with non-LTS userland apps. But I guess I have to accept that. Snap is a nonstarter for me for many reasons. Startup speed is im…

Are there any apps other than terminals that don't use ctrl-c? I can forgive that in a terminal app because it conflicts with SIGINT, but it would be very weird if a normal app lik…

The name "testing" kind of turns me off tbh. I want my OS to boot reliably. I don't want to be a test subject. > How does scoop solve the problem? It skips intermediate packaging s…