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Oct 12, 2019
I'm taking an amateur radio exam today and reviewing mock papers. I'm struck that they explicitly teach people to ignore trolling! This is the first time I've heard official advice on dealing with troll behaviour. (The expected answer is D in both cases here.)
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Oct 11, 2019
Amusingly, parts of atom-beautify use Emacs to format code! https://github.com/Glavin001/atom-beautify/search?q=emacs&unscoped_q=emacs Presumably there aren't many options for formatting of Verilog, VHDL or Fortran.
Oct 11, 2019
Pharo's git integration (using Iceberg) is shockingly good. All your commits are well-structured changes, so you can toggle at class/method granularity what you want to commit. Thanks to Iceberg, these classes in your *live* image serialise to text files!
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Handle unmatched double quotes in string literals · Wilfred/mal_pharo@a0f7a61
Handle unmatched double quotes in string literals · Wilfred/mal_pharo@a0f7a61
Previously the tokenizer would ignore unmatched double quotes, as the regular expression only looked for pairs. Added test to ensure a MalError is raised.
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Oct 10, 2019
I try to name my git remotes as 'github' where applicable. It really helps readability of commands. This is so common that I wish I could make this default (apparently the default remote name 'origin' isn't configurable in git).
Oct 10, 2019
I don't preserve browser tabs between sessions. It's a surprisingly helpful way of staying on whatever side project you planned to play with.
Oct 10, 2019
A really nifty Emacs project: a gnus backend for reading HN!
GitHub - dickmao/nnhackernews: A Gnus backend for Hacker News
GitHub - dickmao/nnhackernews: A Gnus backend for Hacker News
A Gnus backend for Hacker News. Contribute to dickmao/nnhackernews development by creating an account on GitHub.
Oct 10, 2019
Tech in 2011 and today doesn't look like a bubble, and startups failing are less likely to affect retail investors:
More Money Than Anyone Imagined
More Money Than Anyone Imagined
A quick explanation for why the tech bubble never burst
Oct 8, 2019
GNU Guix bootstraps itself using a mutual self-hosting scheme interpreter and C compiler!
Guix Reduces Bootstrap Seed by 50% — 2019 — Blog — GNU Guix
Blog posts about GNU Guix.
Oct 6, 2019
Remarkable research exploring the design of a distributed VPN using zero knowledge proofs to allow nodes to choose permitted traffic whilst preserving privacy:
VPN⁰: A Privacy-Preserving Distributed Virtual Private Network | Brave
VPN⁰: A Privacy-Preserving Distributed Virtual Private Network | Brave
This research presents VPN⁰, the first distributed virtual private network offering a privacy preserving traffic authorization and validation mechanism.
Oct 6, 2019
Businesses are increasingly choosing individual apps rather than buying entire suites from the same vendor: https://capiche.com/p/enterprise-software-is-dead (I'm not convinced it's that easy to switch though: established tools tend to have lots of integrations set up.)
Oct 4, 2019
Bitcoin might be the biggest currency by market cap, but apparently not by volume:
The World’s Most-Used Cryptocurrency Isn’t Bitcoin
The World’s Most-Used Cryptocurrency Isn’t Bitcoin
What’s the world’s most widely used cryptocurrency? If you think it’s Bitcoin, which accounts for about 70% of all the digital-asset world’s market value, you’re probably wrong.
Oct 4, 2019
Excellent deep dive into how Python started, the growth and structure of the community, and where it's going: https://www.zdnet.com/article/python-is-eating-the-world-how-one-developers-side-project-became-the-hottest-programming-language-on-the-planet/
Oct 4, 2019
Steampunk as a reaction to black box consumer electronics with no user serviceable parts: https://modus.medium.com/what-ever-happened-to-steampunk-4ac936905165
Oct 3, 2019
Less than a million IPv4 addresses left!
Update: Approaching IPv4 Run-out
Update: Approaching IPv4 Run-out
Today we allocated the last of our contiguous /22 IPv4 address blocks. We still have approximately one million addresses available, in the form of /23s and /24s, and we will continue making /22-equivalent allocations made up of these smaller blocks. Once we can no longer allocate the equivalent of a /22, we will announce that we have reached run-out. We expect this to occur in November 2019.
Oct 3, 2019
Cute demonstration of implementing generators in terms of delimited continuations: https://defn.io/2019/09/05/racket-generators/ It might be Scheme, but the examples have a lot of syntax! parameterize, let loop, variadic functions, call-with-continuation-prompt (with 2 or 3 args).
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