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Should touch and chmod files (.msmtprc and /etc/exim4/passwd.client) BEFORE adding sensitive content to them.

There might be other instances in the how-to, I didn't read it all.

I believe @stonogo is saying Rust code is specific to Rust.

Thanks! That makes sense.

It was interesting to me as it didn't fit my expectations. As a math theory ignoramus, I expected that reflection and rewrite are more fundamental than addition. But Lean seems to assume addition but require explicit rfl and rewrite.

Perhaps there's a Lean "prelude" that does it for you.

Working with a task scheduling system, we were told that every minute a airplane is delayed costs $10k. This was back in the 90s, so adjust accordingly.

Very nice. Also a plea. Don't animate the >. Or, don't wait for the animation to finish before showing the contents.

A ticket booking system I was familiar with added latency after upgrades to maintain a particular experience for the operators.

I guess they were used to typing stuff then inspecting paperwork or other stuff waiting for a response. Plus, it avoided complaints when usage inevitably increased over time.

Really not sure about that. People will give up features for speed all the time. See git vs bzr/hg/svn/darcs/monotone,...

Agree, but it's probably covered by Quanta magazine, Ars Technica, plus 3b1b, veritasium, vsauce, etc.

Native webview? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

FWIW, there are other styles which emphasise other aspects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_periodic_tables

Another reminder of Programming inside the URL String. https://apenwarr.ca/log/20121218

Nice list. sar/sysstat is underrated imho.

The odd thing is that RPN is actually pretty intuitive for people. It's the "language" of cash registers! I had never used cash registers, and I lent my HP rpn calculator to my girlfriend to use. I said it's a bit weird, do you need help.

She gave me the dirtiest "are you mansplaining me" look.

Using the HP was perfectly natural for her as she had used cash registers.

That exists as @apenwarr's afterquery: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20121218

As it is the URL string, you can share it easily.

It's deliberately obscure. Per the article it's for promotion not description.

>I have screen snapshots of his awful Facebook messages, if anyone wants to see Jonathan Payne's entire vile hate speech diatribe

Please do.

I remember reading (decades ago) an extensive article in Software Practice and Experience reaching the same conclusion.

The Computer History Museum in Mountain View has good exhibit on this. The sheer scale of the project was incredible. And rendered obsolete in a few years by the advent of ICBMs.

Pretty cool seeing that the consoles had a place for your cigarette.

I'm pretty sure you're right. There are a vast number of correlations waiting to be discovered. Were just waiting on sufficient data.

I knew of a young toe walker who turned out to have tendon problems and got surgery to have it fixed. For a while her parents thought she wanted to do ballet.

I really hope they do it well. Some of the things that were new in Neuromancer are tropes these days. e.g. the payphone ringing, in the Matrix and more relevantly in Person of Interest.

It's going to be very hard to navigate between faithfulness to the book and still have it feel fresh.

That and inherent difficulty of taking Gibson's prose to the screen. Maybe it will be by voiceover.

At least an audible alert.

On a Tesla (and presumably other cars) opening the door engages Park.

There's no handbrake to pull, and turning the wheel so hard to lose control is next to impossible. Maybe on an oily wet or loose surface.

Reminds me of the Henna problem. People think / expect Henna to be darker than it is so in some countries they added paraphenylenediamine to it.

Paraphenylenediamine is toxic!

> As Mark Crispin said then, the interpretations that people put on it are not what M. Postel would have agreed with.

Absolutely, in particular the "Be conservative in what you do" would have prevented this bug.

It's just possible that someone at some big AI company just pressed a button to add this to their collection of training material. And lazily or otherwise just hit the checkboxes for 'repeat' and 'forever'.

I've heard Haskell described as the best imperative language.

Kerberos is 'fun'. I had to manage a system which used Kerberos to provide authentication between a Rubik's cube of various Windows flavours with various crypto standards, Linux machines of various versions and Java versions and apps of various maturity. It was an ever present source of weird behaviour and I had to bury myself in the innards of all these systems.

I know, not directly related to the article. Just needed to vent bitterly.

One good (and obviously bad) thing about Subversion was the ability to change history. As admin I was asked numerous times to change a commit message. To point to the correct Jira issue, for instance.

Also easier to enforce pre-commit, since it was done server side.