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The "Chief Purpose Officer" at Ethos is working hard these days to keep us all well informed - http://www.circleid.com/pp/dot-org-sale

> "I would recommend musl, although the style is a bit idiosyncratic in places: https://www.musl-libc.org" Opened a random part of musl out of sheer boredom. Here's what I see: htt…

> "Tech debt is what the 2nd generation of engineers gets to complain about after the 1st gen made the product succesful at something." Strange and snarky comment for a "Chief Tech…

Broader question - is there some-kind of support planned for a DNS-like MX address mechanism, for receiving emails via the .crypto domain?

It's 2020 and locking your screen on Linux is unreliable. It's difficult to promote Linux as a worthy consumer desktop OS alternative.

> "If Waymo turns trucking into an automated business (or even just reduces the number of humans needed to haul cargo), we could be in for a similar situation." Sure. Tuning in to …

Thanks. So, a given "specification" (how a font looks to the human eye) can have many different "implementations" (ie. TTF files). The specific "implementations" themselves can be …

> "I created this font by purchasing a Leroy Lettering set, using Inkscape to trace the scanned letterforms of one of its templates, and some FontForge Python scripting." How does …

Stacks are used extensively across the x86 family [0] [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_calling_conventions

> "WASM translated to register-based bytecode. That's awesome!" If the hardware executing this code is "stack-based" (or, does not offer enough general purpose registers to accomod…

Friendly reminder: you don't really know whether this person truly works for the NHS, as they claim. Don't divulge sensitive information to random people.

You're not saying the same thing, and your version sounds like BigCorp PC talk - regurgitated and self-censored. What makes you feel entitled to go around "re-writing" comments/pos…

> "(Survey author) yes, it seems like I made a mistake with the different level descriptions. For me knowing how to do things like transitions and animations is comparatively "simp…

> "I am on alexa 1m (50k even). I do not have a load balancer, I do not have multiple servers for redundancy. This isn't even a static site, most of our page views are the wiki, th…

> "Using CPU jitter is a clever solution. I hope it stands up to scrutiny." How safe is it to use CPU jitter in a virtual machine?

> "I wish the reporter could elaborate more on whether there are live websites broken due to this or is it a project under development so we can measure the impact more." (Quoted a…

> "They whitelist domains" That's not a bad idea, actually. Who maintains those whitelists and how do they get updated? If you want to make the web somewhat usable for others, is i…

I'm not for or against Erlang. While honestly attempting to learn something new today, I became frustrated with how devoid of content most of the comments in this thread are. "I'm …

> "you sound combative." Sure, let's just have another thread full of "{tech} is best." on HN's frontpage. And let's get all personal about it. Enjoy the echo chamber!

I was challenging jhgg's comment, by requesting actual clarification and proof for the very broad statements they made. But if I'm honest, this entire thread is full of many such c…

> "Although not in Erlang, Discord uses Elixir which runs on the BEAM VM to much success as well for our real time distributed system as well as VOIP signaling components. Looking …

> "Dark definitely won't be for everyone, but it seems to me like it will empower a lot of people to bring their ideas to reality more easily than before." I agree. > "There is a l…