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WindowsFon4life··on Ask HN: Is Signal down?
https://outage.report/signal
WindowsFon4life··on Walmart will begin offering to subsidize college tuition for its U.S. workers
Walmart still pays more than Target.
WindowsFon4life··on NetBSD Network Security Audit
This is great news. Since they took a beating in the last security findings in code that was not even enabled by default. Leading to it seeming much more serious than it was.
WindowsFon4life··on GDPR: US news sites unavailable to EU users over data protection rules
s/news/propaganda
WindowsFon4life··on Common Lisp homepage
Exactly this. "Fluff" for something that does not lack an online documentation experience.
WindowsFon4life··on Common Lisp homepage
The only Cl implementations worth using are those with roots in the real CL. imho.
WindowsFon4life··on Common Lisp homepage
Fluff.:O
WindowsFon4life··on Common Lisp homepage
"We are in the process of decoding the original format used for the CLHS." This is a smell that highlights the above post it seems.
WindowsFon4life··on You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS
The jvm would be bad, but in my case it was very underpowered for Virtualbox. Unsure how it is usable by anyone.
WindowsFon4life··on De-Googling my phone
ApkPure is a very nice replacement for the play store.
WindowsFon4life··on Facebook announces Clear History feature
Social Media services are the new HA/RDBMS. No such thing as a Lossy Social Media Service(lsms)
WindowsFon4life··on CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran (2013)
France provided Saddam with a nuclear breeder reactor. That seems to be much more dangerous than intel.
WindowsFon4life··on CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran (2013)
So we gave Iraq military intel, but no weapons of any sort? Iran, on the other hand, was using almost 100% American weaponry.
WindowsFon4life··on NixOS 18.03 Released
"OS" is so misleading.
WindowsFon4life··on Wells Fargo double charged everyone on their bill pays today
First month off of WF, and I'm soo happy.
WindowsFon4life··on Show HN: Bato – A Filipino Programming Language
Guess "boto" was already taken.
WindowsFon4life··on Racket-On-Chez Status
Great news! With this and Gerbil, Scheme has a very bright future.
WindowsFon4life··on IPFS Pubsub: Distributed named pubsub channels based in the IPFS Cloud
Great work by vyzo on this. Look forward to using this for all sorts of content publication!
WindowsFon4life··on Complaint tablet to Ea-nasir
"Written in Cuneiform". How about Akkadian? Many languages were written in wedge writing. Cuneiform is neither a language, nor a fixed set of symbols. Cuneiform was used in at least eight different languages. </rant>
WindowsFon4life··on Google's 'Advanced Protection' Locks Down Accounts Like Never Before
Caveat. If you post anything subversive or controversial, they will just punt your account. All a hacker has to do is present some evidence to any of this, and your account is gone...
WindowsFon4life··on Google's 'Advanced Protection' Locks Down Accounts Like Never Before
There is proof that his password was password, and there is proof that his IT told him the phishing email was legit. There is no way that same IT was capable of securing a mail server for HRC.
WindowsFon4life··on Keybase launches encrypted Git
If only their app did not have so many pages marked writable and executable...
WindowsFon4life··on Gerbil – An opinionated dialect of Scheme designed for systems programming
r7rs is what you seek
WindowsFon4life··on Gerbil – An opinionated dialect of Scheme designed for systems programming
I think you mean "shell scripting".
WindowsFon4life··on Gerbil – An opinionated dialect of Scheme designed for systems programming
Gerbil is there as well.
WindowsFon4life··on Gerbil – An opinionated dialect of Scheme designed for systems programming
Try building a modern project in either. Anything non-trivial will highlight where Gerbil stands out.
WindowsFon4life··on Gerbil – An opinionated dialect of Scheme designed for systems programming
https://ecraven.github.io/r7rs-benchmarks/ recent addition to the charts, and is doing quite well.
WindowsFon4life··on Gerbil – An opinionated dialect of Scheme designed for systems programming
Gambit is amazing. And gerbil brings a lot of batteries to it.
WindowsFon4life··on How to Live Without Google
The key is ensuring that choice exists. It's easy to jump on the 'Must have Apple!' or the latest Google Nexus. We create the very monster we complain about when it gets TOO popular. This is very much inline with Southpark and Walmart...
WindowsFon4life··on How to Live Without Google
I got rid of both my Iphone and Android. Moved over to a couple of inexpensive Windows 10 mobile phones, and have not looked back. Lack of apps? Edge, for all other cases, write your own. It's not hard to port apps, or to write your own for remote apis. Never thought I would ever support Windows. Given how many times I've wanted BG taken out for how bad it was. But I must admit, the Windows lifestyle is pretty nice. Share all my devices on one account, and it may not be up to par with Apple Lifestyle, but it's pretty good.
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