> The P/B distinction will be difficult for many people as well. P/V/F confusion is also a thing, in Indonesia. V and F tend to be pronounced as P.
When you can only see half of a car, the red turn signal lights also make it impossible to tell quickly whether the car is about to get into your lane or the driver's foot is on the brakes. This situation can happen…
> Wtf kind of intro to a programming language doesn’t include syntax rules? PP could have been more clear and say syntax-rules (note the dash), which means macros. Macros are usually considered an advanced topic.
There is a naming tradition in the Lisp world, which Racket devs apparently have chosen over searchability. Qualities or activities that have negative connotations. Guile. Gauche. Larceny. Racket. I think it started…
It has to do with the codes these keys (used to) emit in combination with Ctrl: Ctrl/H - Backspace Ctrl/J - Line Feed Ctrl/K - Upline Ctrl/L - Forward Space Source - the ADM-3A operator's manual, page 3-5:…
Unless you have RSI. Then it might be worth it. Depends on what hurts.
I think Signal should stop doing their new feature announcements in the form of chat messages. This weakens their claim "we don't contact users", because it makes it look like they do. Dedicated UI, like bottom sheets,…
We just don't know much about one another. I never really thought about it until I saw this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45993140
Given that most software hides dot files by default, where do you see them so often? The only place I've encountered where they are visible by default and do get in the way is bash filename completion, and you can…
> a 60 question test with 50 minutes of allotted time Is this kind of test - many short questions - a standard thing for math in your country? My university exams were pretty much all "2-question", in 90 minutes. The…
Try publishing on https://repo.or.cz (or another old-style web interface), and just leave an email for contact. You will hear only crickets. Adding the slightest friction, and making potential drama 1:1 only,…
> Maybe using an unnatural placement of )parentheses( could have worked as a non-conflicting indicator of italics. Using different delimiter for opening and closing is a good idea on its own, too. I think it makes…
There seems to be only one possible option, --resume, and only one line is dedicated to handling it...
> They sit on disk as plaintext, readable by any process running as your user The proposed solution: > Instead of loading secrets from a file, you use a wrapper script that fetches secrets from a secure store and…
Just yesterday I saw Claude.ai use double dashes in its responses for the first time...
Pacman does check for changes in configuration files, and adds .pacnew files instead of overwriting them: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Pacnew_and_Pacsave
> I've since learned that anything heavily regulated like hospitals and banks will have security procedures catering to compliance, not actual security. Sadly, yeah. And will do anything only if they believe they can…
> But you still haven't fixed the typo-prone keybinds! Which key bindings are you referring to? It's not a trap, I promise! Just fishing for ideas.
>>broken SGX metadata protections >Citation needed. https://sgx.fail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Guard_Extensions#List...
It looks this way at first glance, but at the end of the article is a link to the original: > If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my…
Firefox for Android, for one, shows the alt text at the top of the context menu that pops up when you long press an image. If it's too long, it gets truncated, though.
> What were you expecting? That your character ranges in ls would match mine? I would expect the command to work in any directory. Try a few different directories on your computer and you'll see that it won't work in…
This is what I get: ls -l | cut -c 35-41 6 Nov 1 6 Nov 6 Nov 1 6 Nov 1
Can these flags be used to extract the N-th column (say, the size) of every line from ls -l output?
> That’s typical usage of Awk, where you use it in place of cut because you can’t be bothered to remember the right flags for cut. Even you remember the flags, cut(1) will not be able to handle ls -l. And any command…
> The P/B distinction will be difficult for many people as well. P/V/F confusion is also a thing, in Indonesia. V and F tend to be pronounced as P.
When you can only see half of a car, the red turn signal lights also make it impossible to tell quickly whether the car is about to get into your lane or the driver's foot is on the brakes. This situation can happen…
> Wtf kind of intro to a programming language doesn’t include syntax rules? PP could have been more clear and say syntax-rules (note the dash), which means macros. Macros are usually considered an advanced topic.
There is a naming tradition in the Lisp world, which Racket devs apparently have chosen over searchability. Qualities or activities that have negative connotations. Guile. Gauche. Larceny. Racket. I think it started…
It has to do with the codes these keys (used to) emit in combination with Ctrl: Ctrl/H - Backspace Ctrl/J - Line Feed Ctrl/K - Upline Ctrl/L - Forward Space Source - the ADM-3A operator's manual, page 3-5:…
Unless you have RSI. Then it might be worth it. Depends on what hurts.
I think Signal should stop doing their new feature announcements in the form of chat messages. This weakens their claim "we don't contact users", because it makes it look like they do. Dedicated UI, like bottom sheets,…
We just don't know much about one another. I never really thought about it until I saw this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45993140
Given that most software hides dot files by default, where do you see them so often? The only place I've encountered where they are visible by default and do get in the way is bash filename completion, and you can…
> a 60 question test with 50 minutes of allotted time Is this kind of test - many short questions - a standard thing for math in your country? My university exams were pretty much all "2-question", in 90 minutes. The…
Try publishing on https://repo.or.cz (or another old-style web interface), and just leave an email for contact. You will hear only crickets. Adding the slightest friction, and making potential drama 1:1 only,…
> Maybe using an unnatural placement of )parentheses( could have worked as a non-conflicting indicator of italics. Using different delimiter for opening and closing is a good idea on its own, too. I think it makes…
There seems to be only one possible option, --resume, and only one line is dedicated to handling it...
> They sit on disk as plaintext, readable by any process running as your user The proposed solution: > Instead of loading secrets from a file, you use a wrapper script that fetches secrets from a secure store and…
Just yesterday I saw Claude.ai use double dashes in its responses for the first time...
Pacman does check for changes in configuration files, and adds .pacnew files instead of overwriting them: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Pacnew_and_Pacsave
> I've since learned that anything heavily regulated like hospitals and banks will have security procedures catering to compliance, not actual security. Sadly, yeah. And will do anything only if they believe they can…
> But you still haven't fixed the typo-prone keybinds! Which key bindings are you referring to? It's not a trap, I promise! Just fishing for ideas.
>>broken SGX metadata protections >Citation needed. https://sgx.fail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Guard_Extensions#List...
It looks this way at first glance, but at the end of the article is a link to the original: > If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my…
Firefox for Android, for one, shows the alt text at the top of the context menu that pops up when you long press an image. If it's too long, it gets truncated, though.
> What were you expecting? That your character ranges in ls would match mine? I would expect the command to work in any directory. Try a few different directories on your computer and you'll see that it won't work in…
This is what I get: ls -l | cut -c 35-41 6 Nov 1 6 Nov 6 Nov 1 6 Nov 1
Can these flags be used to extract the N-th column (say, the size) of every line from ls -l output?
> That’s typical usage of Awk, where you use it in place of cut because you can’t be bothered to remember the right flags for cut. Even you remember the flags, cut(1) will not be able to handle ls -l. And any command…