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Tangentially, E. W. Dijkstra's handwriting is the cleanest I've seen, and I had the same feeling you did when I came across his papers in his archive. I later came across this blog…

He specifically references the last page of the last issue, and concludes his commencement speech with its words "Stay hungry. Stay foolish." [1] Pretty nice to see it context, nex…

Unlearning OOP does not necessarily involve forgetting abstraction and the concept of an object. "Unlearning OOP" involves freeing yourself from the notion that all programming sho…

> The transition from the Fourth to the Fifth happened in 1958 without much violence. Quoting from the article: Things came to a head in 1958 as France struggled to decolonize. The…

I have no knowledge of DANE but its reliance on DNSSEC makes me worried that it would be difficult for people to adopt it. Also, I think it solves a different problem: it prevents …

Why should curation be centralized? We do not need a "decentralized dictatorship" (what would that even be? that's antithetical) and we certainly do not need a centralized one. It …

Well it did have to change its name from GAIM to Pidgin at some point because it infringed on "AIM" by AOL. And whether or not Pidgin was fully "TOS-compliant" (which it might have…

How so? Where are the bugs you speak of? I don't find the UI to be nightmarish either. Can you point to specific issues the site maintainer can look at? If this is the worst modern…

Another comment by krajzeg points to this repository for more context: https://github.com/Piddewitt/C64-Game-Source-Code

From the repository's README: Commented source code of the C64 Lode Runner Game - Including the copy protection

It's like exercise: if you can withstand more training, you will get better results. The most important thing is not how hard you train, but how consistent you are at training. The…

Even if we did manage to achieve such an upgrade, we would still have to successfully manage to secure the rare earths required for electronics manufacturing. Extracting and proces…

> Stallman goes further than my preferred definition, insisting that Free Software must also be freely redistributable with no required payment. What do you mean? What would free s…

The initial sale never has and never will be the issue with non free software; in fact, they can sometimes be acquired free of charge. I get your sentiment and I agree with you tha…

What exactly does your diet consist in? What other adjustments have you made, e.g. in sleep or exercise? From what I've read[1] the risk with a long-term keto diet is an increase i…

Thank you for your input. I was familiar with proper noun capitalization (e.g. Moon/moon and Earth/earth). French (my first language) is different in that it differentiates languag…

Can you elaborate on using "folks" instead of "people"? I'm unfamiliar with the difference as english is not my first language. For reference, to my knowledge these words are prett…

An extreme example would be gwern.net -- specifically you might want to read https://gwern.net/about and https://gwern.net/design

Exactly, I completely agree with you. This is what baffled me about the parent comment: " Unlike other human rights, the right to privacy has always been a bit fuzzy with a ton of …

What would pass "clear and succinct" in your opinion? I don't see how it is less clearly defined than any other human right. Let's take international law[1]. Right to privacy is de…

Again, I don't see the problem with new regulation disabling old design. And I don't see how your points make the game impossible to morph into a playable state. For one thing, tha…

How is this problematic? New law impedes on previous practices and renders them unfeasible all the time. In the specific case of Pokemon Go, and with end-of-life plans in mind, you…

Reminds me of this quote from Douglas Adams: I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is norm…

One of the things I'll never understand was why the attacker was replaying my traffic? They were clearly in my network and could access everything without being detected, why repla…