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Stated Clearly also has a great deep dive that I've really enjoyed https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLInNVsmlBUlSjLSj9yGEKphF0... He actually makes it as a reply to Smarter Every …

Medito is good Open Source alternative as well. https://meditofoundation.org/

This reminds me of my intro to Computer Science class. My professor started us off with the Peanut Butter & Jelly Algorithm exercise [1]. I loved it. Nothing destroys your confiden…

This is not a judgment on you, or what you did, but I don't know if I'd define that as "reading." I did essentially the same thing you did, but I have always called it "skimming." …

Different Red Hat employee here, that said, this opinion is my own and I have no real authority to say anything beyond my experience. I, in my job, have a lot of contact with IBM f…

Facebook has a field in your profile settings that you can upload your public key. The purpose is to encrypt the email notifications they send to you.

This is an interesting project for sure, and I see some great potential. I tried out a few phrases, including the one below that include commonly used words in "toxic" comments, bu…

I fully agree. Even on topics I feel I know well, she's 1) shown me something I didn't know, and 2) shown me how a "newbie" could see the topic, making it easier for me to help tea…

Off topic a bit, but what were you using to show the keypresses?

I can't recommend this book enough. As a long-time Vim user, I still learned a few things after reading this book. Drew Neil is a pretty awesome person too.

This is not an original opinion, but I love her style of writing. I can feel the pure unadulterated joy at learning these things. Sometimes I learn along with her, sometimes I am s…

Sure, but consumer/customer re-education is required and usually underestimated. Attrition due to change is a real thing.

> It's too bad that current feminism/SJW movement has so corrupted the feminism "brand" I've started to think of the SJ movement as analogous to the GNU/GPL movement. From a high l…

What I got from this article: "`curl|bash` can be secure if you add signing, file integrity checking, and trust the source." The whole time I kept thinking, these are assurances yo…

I can't say much about stations in general, but the Macedonia station is on the far end of large parking lot full of big box stores. Hobby Lobby, Lowes, etc. I would feel safe, if …

March 2014 Also posted a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7487797

It doesn't help that criticism of crappy behavior and abuse is met with cries of "Free Speech" and accusations of being too sensitive. We as a community/industry need to start call…

That's fair. I re-read the article and see your point. I would still agree with other comments here that a WoT would be difficult to implement in a user friendly way that wouldn't …

PGP would be a problem for high load servers too. "Why not use public-key encryption for everything? At face value, it seems that the existence of public-key encryption algorithms …