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HillBates··on Unix didn't use to support '#!', a brief history
Unix didn't used to support VIM
HillBates··on Best radios to use in an emergency (2021)
Coverage of earth by earth sensing satellites in visible spectrum is so high, that you can literally write different message into sand / earth every hour. No radio construction necessary XD
HillBates··on Best radios to use in an emergency (2021)
The biggest flaw of all prepper radio lists is that they do not contain knowledge about how easy it is to locate a radio transmitter. Every radio user should do at least one "radio fox hunt" to understand how to locate other people and / or how easy it is to be located.

You can do that even with radios on this list, no special equipment needed.

HillBates··on Hardening attack surfaces with formally proven binary format parsers
formal verification is about functionality, not about your emotions.
HillBates··on Tell HN: Apple rejecting cross platform apps (React Native, Flutter, Capacitor)
traffic on twitter, stack overflow, google etc open "trends.google.com" and you can see for yourself
HillBates··on Commercial-Emacs
1) highlighting - most unnecessary thing people invented, except values and :things: in "" 2) LSP client provides these things exactly as other programs do. GNU means do everything different because otherwise it is not GNU, so maybe thats not good thing after all. This push is so strong even Steve Jobs started to Think Different after cloning BSD in 199x...
HillBates··on Commercial-Emacs
you said it yourself. "added such an insane feature list in the last few years "

those people are there more then few years. so this improvement has nothing to do with these people ( except managerial role ).

HillBates··on Programming in the Apocalypse
COMPILERS - just use LLVM. Why do we need 900 different compilers ? We can have every architecture, programming language covered. Less human resource wasted. Experiments and new approaches can be tried inside LLVM too.