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How does Newsboat support non-Latin scripts? Seems like a pretty basic requirement.

E.g., this blog is in Hebrew, you can see the expected text layout on its website: https://workaround.blog/

I wonder if Newsboat can replicate that layout. Here is the RSS feed:

https://workaround.blog/feed/

They should have notified the users whose information was leaked, as soon as they knew about it.

The 50M users whose information was handed to Kogan, and then Kogan sold to CA, should have been notified by Facebook as soon as Facebook found out.

Those users did not agree to that kind of usage of their information.

The author's concerns are well justified, however they suggest to provide an alternative.

Measuring time in picoseconds. The current unix timestamp is roughly 2^70 picoseconds, so won't fit in 64 bits.

For male scientists. Feels weird

That the clock always moves forward.

As one example, some clocks are cpu specific (rather than system specific). When a thread gets scheduled to a different cpu, it might be talking to a different clock, and getting a backwards time.

The user might also be changing the clock while the program is running, of course.

If the forward direction of time is important, make sure the the source of time is a monotonic clock API.

Providing account authentication as a service seems like a no-brainer.

Does no company in this space know how to sell to conservative IT organizations like air lines?

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The moment my girl was born. I now regret waiting so long to be a parent.

That's fine. I am really interested in the possibility of running a 'homeserver' directly on a phone.

Do you think that would be possible?

Is anyone working on it that I could help?

I have a computer which is always on and always connected.

It's my smartphone.

Can I just run a 'homeserver' on that and be connected?

A school is made up of buildings and teachers, but most importantly - peers, and that must have changed dramatically.

Also, the home environment of the students has a huge impact on the school itself, and very little is done to mitigate that by American schools.

The alternative to small modules is not no modules at all, it's libraries.

"Secure" but "we advise against using Bitfly for highly sensitive data. You have been warned.".

So is it secure or isn't it?

It's funny to say json and edn represent data, because they are both strictly UTF8 encoded - raw bytes have to be encoded somehow (with neither standard specifying a prefer erred method) to be represented. Why is this important? Sometimes we want to embed a binary formatted piece of data (e.g. an image) as part of our data.

My father was a commander in the six-day war, and certainly could not speak Polish. This is the first time I've heard of this notion.

Most anyone raised in Israel would not be able to speak Polish clearly enough to communicate commands, and most commanders (including the chief of staff Rabin) were born in (then) Palestine.

Err, to help people who don't have any money?

Microsoft's approach to Web development is not in favor of openness, despite of all of Scott's efforts. They are still pushing the closed, proprietary Silverlight over HTML5.

This is incredibly American centric and ignorant of variant weather conditions. Try wearing a fit shirt, long pants and leather shoes in 90+ weather...

The Harris-Benedict study is from 1919 on a population of 239 subjects . I'm just wondering - Do you know if it has been re-evaluated in more recent years, and was found valid?

I'm glad to see Dropbox as defining this space.

Commercial opportunities include protein structure prediction for drug design, brute-force attacks for breaking security, and various simulations (geophysics, finance).

Distributed computational resources have a value. For example, there is a list of scientific projects being conducted via many client computation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_p...

Sounds very interesting. Can you point to a paper in the area?