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What am I supposed to say to that? If you think the argument that you believe I’m trying to make (which I couldn’t guess if you put a gun to my head) would be easy to make, and tha…

Mr. Ptacek, a) I have no affiliation with OP, and b) do you know what my actual position is (not presupposing that you care)? It's that I don't know anyone who has been inspired by…

While I agree that YC appears rotten to the core at this point, it’s almost impossible to sustain a criticism of the accelerator because they make so many little investments. No ma…

Well, that's sort of like what the "sort key" of a given string is: a vector of its nonzero primary-level collation weights, then secondaries, then tertiaries... And once you know …

Submission statement: Figuring out how to develop a Unicode collator from scratch for a research group that I working with in Berlin was one of my formative experiences as a progra…

Submission statement: This was posted on Monday by the author and didn't manage to cut through the noise on a busy day. Thought I would give it one more chance. It's a post by the …

“If AI doesn’t literally take all the white-collar jobs over the next few years, we won’t just have a stock market bubble to deal with. We’ll have a drought of educated workers.” I…

Perhaps the new "Green Tea" GC will help? It's described as "a parallel marking algorithm that, if not memory-centric, is at least memory-aware, in that it endeavors to process obj…

Indeed, many such cases. Our society is full of institutions that functioned only because "no one in a position to participate would be shameless enough to abuse it." Then that ass…

Another record, Name Authority Pointer (NAPTR), has the telephone number of the Johnson Space Center in Houston: > dig where-is-the-iss.dedyn.io NAPTR ; > DiG 9.10.6 > where-is-the…

As recently as five years ago, the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Ave. in Chicago employed elevator operators. It probably still does.

Watching that video made me wonder whether I should even feel comfortable visiting HN.

An interesting bit, on not making it too easy for people to circumvent the borrow checker: > First, we use a C++ compiler to build gccrs, disabling the borrow-checking pass of the …

In context, those are not shockingly high sums. The real problem seems to be what Woit summarizes in this 2004 (!!) comment on his blog: > It takes a non-trivial amount of time and…

Let’s wait and see what the vulnerability is. Maybe it doesn’t have anything to do with the pitfalls of C. But if it does, expect to read a lot more comments like this.

The screenshot of the DoD recruitment pitch from the conference set off a little "military-industrial complex alarm" in my mind. To be clear, I wouldn't have tagged the guy in a me…

She was right to speak out, and her employer was within its rights to fire her. As long as she subsequently found a job at a company that comes closer to sharing her values, it sou…

I like this about Deno (not to suggest that the runtime is without its flaws). Whenever I try to run a script and it tells me I need to allow e.g. read access to the filesystem, I’…

I wonder why Cloudflare still recommends a value of 6 months (15552000 seconds) for Max-Age in the HSTS header, when that isn't enough to qualify for Google's preload list. They do…

No smoking all day is a big deal for many Muslims in the Middle East. One year I was living in Cairo during Ramadan, and each day when it got close to the sunset call to prayer (wh…

This blog post is from 2015—which should be added to the title here on HN. See MDN's docs on innerText. It's fully supported in Firefox since version 45 (2016). (Edit: the blog pos…