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aaaaaaaaaaab··on Zerocal – A Serverless Calendar App in Rust
You can serve a static HTML page from anywhere. GitHub pages, S3, maybe even Dropbox. Running a Rust binary is an order of magnitude more complex than that.
aaaaaaaaaaab··on Zerocal – A Serverless Calendar App in Rust
Do you even need a service for this? Couldn't this be a simple static HTML + minimal JS that opens a base64 URL with content-type "text/x-vcalendar"?
aaaaaaaaaaab··on It's Time to Mandate Treatment of the Dangerously Mentally Ill
Love how people in this topic keep arguing about the most strawman interpretation of the article.

Noone is saying we should commit "neurodivergent" individuals with a minor Adderall addiction into mental asylums where they will be subjected to shock therapy... The article is about severely ill paranoid schizophrenics, who are ticking timebombs when off their meds.

Sorry, but this is not some "on the spectrum" hippy bullshit - these people are seriously ill and need to be treated, and kept in check to make sure they stick to their treatment.

aaaaaaaaaaab··on Discovering faster matrix multiplication algorithms with reinforcement learning
Modular multiplication over GF(2)… also known as AND?
aaaaaaaaaaab··on Elon Musk moves ahead with Twitter deal in 13D filing
Original nutters?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzbdBk6XQ6Y

aaaaaaaaaaab··on QR code images in macOS are silently executed in the background hours/days later
Lol. This is the User-Agent of Apple's crawler:

"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_1) AppleWebKit/601.2.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.1 Safari/601.2.4 facebookexternalhit/1.1 Facebot Twitterbot/1.0"

aaaaaaaaaaab··on How criminals are using jammers, deauthers to disrupt WiFi security cameras
>That’s what locks are for

The landlord can open those locks with their keys.

aaaaaaaaaaab··on How criminals are using jammers, deauthers to disrupt WiFi security cameras
Or run an opto-coupler through the window pane!
aaaaaaaaaaab··on How criminals are using jammers, deauthers to disrupt WiFi security cameras
At least you can shoot them in the US.
aaaaaaaaaaab··on How criminals are using jammers, deauthers to disrupt WiFi security cameras
LOL! Yes, and they also automatically accept the terms & conditions on the McDonalds captive portal with Jeff Bezos’s email address.
aaaaaaaaaaab··on “When are we going to use this in our everyday life?” (2017)
You invented a PID controller! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PID_controller
aaaaaaaaaaab··on “When are we going to use this in our everyday life?” (2017)
I was always good at art. Until the age of 14 I wanted to be an artist. I paid no attention to math - I spent most of those classes practicing graffiti lettering in my notebook. It was around this time that we got Internet in our household, and I wanted to create a custom website for my artworks, because I found deviantART lame. So I started looking into how websites are made, and ended up cobbling together a basic PHP page on a free hosting provider. I was fascinated by web programming, so I decided that I would go on to get a software engineering degree, but I still considered graphic design and illustration my main forte. The first class on the first day of university was Introduction to Linear Algebra, which started with matrices, determinants and Gauss-Jordan elimination. I vividly remember it was that first 2-hour lecture that made me realize math was actually awesome! It sounds stupid, but it was at that lecture that I realized for the first time that vectors are just lists of numbers. Like, what the hell? It all made sense, and it was beautiful!

As the years went by, each new topic that I’ve learnt seemed like some kind of revelation: the fundamental theorem of calculus, Fourier- and Laplace transforms, Cauchy-Riemann equations, the central limiting theorem, Markov chains, quaternions, Galois theory, and the list goes on. I felt like I was living in Plato’s cave before, being oblivious to this infinitely complex and fascinating world.

I still love making all kinds of art, but it is mathematics and software engineering where I feel truly at home. (the pay is also nice)

Anyway, my point is that you shouldn’t assume someone with artistic talents wouldn’t find math enjoyable, or that they wouldn’t be talented in it if they gave it an honest try. It can “click” at any point in life, not just high school - but if it “clicks” it’s going to be an awesome journey.

aaaaaaaaaaab··on “When are we going to use this in our everyday life?” (2017)
But when there’s a closed-form solution it’s like God winking at you.
aaaaaaaaaaab··on EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024
For one, you can’t use the phone during wireless charging.

I know, ”akshually, you can use it, you just can’t hold it in your hand!”. Anyway, you can’t use it normally - it must be kept on the mat to charge.

Also, there are a bunch of accessories that require physical connection. Search for “iphone pendrive” for instance.

Bluetooth headphones still have laughable latency for music production, and decent quality full-duplex audio isn’t there either.

iOS developers will also tell you how reliable wireless debugging is. (Hint: it’s abysmal)

aaaaaaaaaaab··on EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024
>Hell, in all likelihood, Apple is likely to ditch a charging connection altogether in favor of wireless charging in the near future.

Lol. Literally not possible.

aaaaaaaaaaab··on Xonsh: I don't remember how to write a for loop in Bash [video]
Whenever I encounter a 100+ line Python script, I rewrite it into a ~10 line bash script.
aaaaaaaaaaab··on The technology behind Bella Hadid’s spray-on dress
Or just superglue.
aaaaaaaaaaab··on Apple’s ad business set to boom on the back of its own anti-tracking crackdown
LOL, wut? I'm in the UK but I don't see any of these... (although my AppleID is non-UK, maybe that's why?)

These are literally the trashiest, scammiest, lowest-tier clickbait ads. You would expect these on the bottom of tabloid articles from The Sun, not a stocks app (!) from Apple (!!).

Holy shit, I am appalled!

aaaaaaaaaaab··on Operation Gladio
I see! So the Soviets were actually the good guys? Or at least well-intentioned...

I assume the same logic could be applied to the history of the Third Reich too, right?

aaaaaaaaaaab··on Operation Gladio
>had we not immediately betrayed them after WWII

Lol. That's an "interesting" take on history.

aaaaaaaaaaab··on Operation Gladio
>The CIA has an uncanny talent for arming and training future and former enemies of the US and most of the world.

The CIA? More like the USA…

They saved the Soviets from collapse via Lend-Lease. They made communist China a global superpower with decades of outsourced manufacturing.

aaaaaaaaaaab··on Turkey’s inflation hits 83% as Erdogan vows to keep cutting interest rates
Why don’t Turks do something about it?
aaaaaaaaaaab··on Tell HN: A disabled 40-year-old person founded a startup and makes a living
The proper term is “differently abled”…
aaaaaaaaaaab··on Companies are paying huge sums to show their ads to bots
Advertising is corrupt by nature.
aaaaaaaaaaab··on A near-disaster at a nuclear weapons lab takes toll on America’s arsenal (2017)
It was just a prank bro!
aaaaaaaaaaab··on “Rust is safe” is not some kind of absolute guarantee of code safety
>does not mean it isn’t hostile or intolerable were it actually one

It feels hostile and intolerable to you.

There are many people who find the risk-averse non-confrontational corpspeak intolerable.

aaaaaaaaaaab··on “Rust is safe” is not some kind of absolute guarantee of code safety
>work environments

It’s not a “work environment”. You can’t report Linus to HR. If you have a problem with him, you can fork the kernel and convince others to follow you. Then you’ll have a mailing list where you can ban Linus for his style. Good luck!

aaaaaaaaaaab··on “Rust is safe” is not some kind of absolute guarantee of code safety
Is he wrong?
aaaaaaaaaaab··on “Rust is safe” is not some kind of absolute guarantee of code safety
You are free not to collaborate on the Linux kernel. That’s the beauty of free software!
aaaaaaaaaaab··on Stadia died because no one trusts Google
>You don't know what you have until it is gone.

Still grieving for Google Reader.

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