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I’m looking for some good, specific ideas on small ways to have a positive impact on the world on a daily basis. What do you consider to be the highest return-on-efforts ways to ma…

There is "Apple Machine Language for Beginners" by Richard Mansfield https://archive.org/details/Apple_Machine_Language_for_Begin... I have fond memories from the late 1980s of try…

For what it's worth, I was experimenting with this idea for Python (in an almost completely vibe-coded fashion) here: https://github.com/jlmcgraw/pure-function-decorators Whether i…

Some commentary from the author here: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1nguv1a/i_built_an_ll...

I wonder who the handwritten notes on page 98 are by? Starts with "confirm plane reservation on Tue. Sept 2 or Wed. Sept 3" which is correct for 1975

“Democracy drowns in dollars” seems sadly more accurate

A style I picked up from a relative, who is a lawyer, is to make bullet points with minimal other fluff: Addressee, - Do this - Then that - Be sure to be aware of this I found it i…

:You’re thinking of A86: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A86_(software)

I wrote a perl script a while back to create random passphrases based on a random mnemonic word It seems like a good idea to me but I’m not knowledgeable enough about cryptography …

Since devices that automatically set their own time are so common now I’ve sometimes wondered why we don’t try moving the time forward/back by some smaller increment each day inste…

I did something very similar but had the thought that making the passphrase be based on an existing word would make a good balance between security and ease of remembering without …

Just curious if anyone can comment on how software is used these days in complicated legal cases ( e.g. money laundering on an international scale with thousands of people involved…