gadtfly

Looks like encrypted fax systems: https://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/omnisec/index.htm

Parts II-VI:

https://acoup.blog/2019/05/17/collections-the-siege-of-gondo...

https://acoup.blog/2019/05/24/collections-the-siege-of-gondo...

https://acoup.blog/2019/05/31/collections-the-siege-of-gondo...

https://acoup.blog/2019/06/07/collections-the-siege-of-gondo...

https://acoup.blog/2019/06/14/collections-the-siege-of-gondo...

BetterTouchTool (https://www.boastr.net/) is kinda like an AutoHotKey for OS X -- but on top of custom keyboard shortcuts, it also allows you to configure custom trackpad gestures.

It's easily saved me 100+ hours -- a half-second at a time, 400 times a day. And probably a couple cases of RSI, a couple inches of finger contortion at a time.

The economy of motion is as far beyond keyboard shortcuts as keyboard shortcuts are beyond hunting around with a mouse. It's crime more people don't use it.

Whoever at Netscape vetoed Scheme as the browser language should be on trial in The Hague.

Great interview with Adam Curtis (HyperNormalisation's creator) on Chapo Trap House (a leftist comedy podcast which has been my primary source of sanity since November 8th):

https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-65-no-future...

> In 2015, Weissman convened the Stanford Compression Forum, which resulted in a forty-page white paper outlining what middle-out compression might mean. One of his graduate students, Vinith Misra, worked out the math more explicitly in another paper.

The paper they link to from there (https://www.scribd.com/doc/228831637/Optimal-Tip-to-Tip-Effi...) is actually "Optimal Tip-to-Tip Efficiency: a model for male audience stimulation". Not that I'm complaining, that is absolutely incredible, but does the compression paper actually exist?

As much as I love a good Greenspun invocation, I don't think this really counts:

> Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

isn't about the inevitability of literally implementing a Lisp interpreter.

It's about something more abstract. see: http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?LevelsOfGreenspunning

re `order`: for a usage you probably hadn't considered, that I'm sure you would agree is purely presentational and not application logic, check out:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Flexibl...

tldr:

desktop viewport:

    _header____
    nav|article

mobile viewport:

    header
    article
    nav

can be done really easily with flexbox and `order`.

Yishan Wong 2 days ago:

> Here's one.

> In 2006, reddit was sold to Conde Nast. It was soon obvious to many that the sale had been premature, the site was unmanaged and under-resourced under the old-media giant who simply didn't understand it and could never realize its full potential, so the founders and their allies in Y-Combinator (where reddit had been born) hatched an audacious plan to re-extract reddit from the clutches of the 100-year-old media conglomerate.

> Together with Sam Altman, they recruited a young up-and-coming technology manager with social media credentials. Alexis, who was on the interview panel for the new reddit CEO, would reject all other candidates except this one. The manager was to insist as a condition of taking the job that Conde Nast would have to give up significant ownership of the company, first to employees by justifying the need for equity to be able to hire top talent, bringing in Silicon Valley insiders to help run the company. After continuing to grow the company, he would then further dilute Conde Nast's ownership by raising money from a syndicate of Silicon Valley investors led by Sam Altman, now the President of Y-Combinator itself, who in the process would take a seat on the board.

> Once this was done, he and his team would manufacture a series of otherwise-improbable leadership crises, forcing the new board to scramble to find a new CEO, allowing Altman to use his position on the board to advocate for the re-introduction of the old founders, installing them on the board and as CEO, thus returning the company to their control and relegating Conde Nast to a position as minority shareholder.

> JUST KIDDING. There's no way that could happen.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the...

Perhaps compared to HN. But I would characterize Reddit (as characterized by what's voted up into default visibility) as fairly open-minded, even compulsively contrarian. While a large proportion of the up/down-voting is from petty agreement, there is still a strong enough core of "productive discussion" voting to overcome it. Especially with knee-jerk outrage stories, there's as much skepticism as I've seen in any online community (and more apparent reservation in judgment than I see in many fairly reasonable people I know personally). There's a lot of good research that gets done (when possible), and it's usually voted above the froth very quickly. Sensationalism will almost always get called out hard.

I really can't conceive of any way a forum (online or afk) with sufficient mass (with the accompanying noise, groupthink and trolling that any community of people will pick up) to accomplish the things that Reddit has/may yet could turn out any more reasonable.

The extent of my experience on the topic is in half-comprehending hobbyist's awe and the inclusion of okmij on my "personal heroes and demigods" list. The only word I could half-heartedly associate with this structure is the incredibly lame "hylomorphism"... which actually kinda generally expresses the pattern of much of computing. It's 5 AM and I'm going to sleep, but I'll leave you with the the most plausible leaves of a very brief search towards finding some recognized formal name for this structure:

http://blog.sigfpe.com/2009/07/monad-for-combinatorial-searc... http://spivey.oriel.ox.ac.uk/mike/search-jfp.pdf http://www.cs.au.dk/~gerth/papers/jfp96.pdf

If you really don't like yourself, try digging here:

http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pointless-haskel... http://comonad.com/reader/2009/recursion-schemes/