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When I broke my collarbone on my dominant arm I learned Dvorak left-handed layout a QMK keyboard. I configured some layers to make all the symbols needed for programming easy to ac…

A braille embosser is pretty much the soundtrack to my childhood (along with the dectalk pronouncing “c colon backslash greater-than”). My dad is blind and I’m so appreciative of t…

> not a really winnable game It’s totally winnable! The player almost always has a chance to avoid death. Deaths are usually due to missing knowledge or laziness/impatience. The kn…

Your phrase “discussing sexual content” strikes me as really odd. If you discuss a “traditional” relationship with a 5 year old, you’re already discussing sexual content on the sam…

What you’re describing is the scam, and that’s become the definition, but “NFTs” in general do have more potential than that, even if it’s crowded out by bullshit. NFTs make more s…

This seems like a leap. Admin has increased 45% in the same time faculty has increased 56%. And the timeframe is 20 years . Is there too much bureaucracy? I don’t know. But I don’t…

There’s a dead comment with a negative take about the YouTube comments being turned off, and I just wanted to point out - the conf is hosted in a really cool custom real-time confe…

MIT pushes for charges, not JSTOR, according to the following accounts. > After his arrest, JSTOR released a statement saying that though it considered Swartz's access to be a "sig…

Any mathematical instruction I have found helpful has had a big emphasis on building “intuition“. This post was the first explanation I encountered that explained floating point en…

Such a good writer. His Wolfenstein book had the best explanation I’ve ever seen for how floating point numbers are encoded, and that explanation is in the first several pages. If …

There was understandable confusion around whether the sentiment of the original CoC was serious or sarcastic. It appears it was serious, based on the new CoC and this tweet: https:…

Inconvergent is my favorite as well. The artist in the article uses Processing; inconvergent builds his own tools which I think is cooler: https://github.com/inconvergent/snek

My first thought was terminating SSL at a proxy or using sslstrip with a VPN or something - I feel like there’s definitely a way to do what he wants. Each option might come with so…

This is my favorite Swift gotcha :D This bug bit me one time back before remote debugging came out when I was developing an app for a device that plugged into the lightning port. T…

> You can make `rustc` happy by following suggestions, but may end up puzzled as to the reasons for the changes it suggests. This is how I felt, but it wasn't bad: I think you star…

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To clarify further: Uncertainty is the cost of gaining more ownership, and I don't want to downplay that. If I'm sending messages where I want to maintain as much personal ownershi…

Certainty is difficult. I use the approach mentioned - I maintain email accounts at 3-4 different popular providers anyway. If I do ever notice something fishy I'll send to a coupl…

I've been self-hosting for the past 4 years and this hasn't been my experience. Things like fixing DKIM/SPF eat an hour or two occasionally, but I've never encountered an issue whe…

Beware though: "Note: Flutter is an alpha, open-source project." It's missing some polish (notably, check accessibility) https://flutter.io/widgets/accessibility/ "Make your app ac…

Tangential to the current discussion but you didn't have to cash out, you just had to transfer the coins to your own wallet. I think that was the only reasonable choice -- IMO it r…

Yep :P that's definitely a benefit for a class of users, but it's not the benefit that all users are interested in, and all the other benefits are linked to those vulnerabilities. …

I think you are making an assumption that seems common sense but might not actually hold: that cryptocurrency will fail if it is prone to fraud, speculation, theft, etc. I think it…

At odds with Reactocese, who suggested that the world at each moment is diffed against a 'shadow world' to apply the minimal set of changes that render the new reality