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j88439h84··on DaScript – high-performance statically strong typed scripting language (2019)
Compare to Nim?
j88439h84··on Air pollution is worse than we thought
How much worse are the bad ones than the others?
j88439h84··on NSA Owns Everything (2015)
TIL, any recommended reading on this?
j88439h84··on NSA Owns Everything (2015)
I don't remember WiFi or CPU backdoors in Snowden, ShadowBrokers, or Intel 2020. Unless by "backdoor" you just mean NSA holds zero days on various important technologies, which is reasonably likely given EternalBlue. Is that what you mean?
j88439h84··on NSA Owns Everything (2015)
Can you provide some evidence for these claims?
j88439h84··on Hyperloop: Pipes of Fancy
They'll be stuck in a tunnel. Is that worse than being stuck in the desert?
j88439h84··on JuliaDB
It looks like barely faster than Pandas?
j88439h84··on That UPS you bought for your home server may not be as useful as you think
Which reviewers do that?
j88439h84··on PDF: Still unfit for human consumption, 20 years later
SingleFile can do it.
j88439h84··on Linux 5.8-rc1
> Can know for sure

can know what -- that there isn't a backdoor? I can look at Linux source all day and not find the answer to that.

j88439h84··on Linux 5.8-rc1
I dunno, why do you say that?
j88439h84··on Statement on Google’s conduct by founder of CelebrityNetWorth.com (2019) [pdf]
> Are everyday consumers harmed by Google’s practices YES

How are consumers harmed by Google presenting extracted data in an infobox? Isn't it more convenient?

j88439h84··on Linux 5.8-rc1
> Certainly better than closed source Windows 10 and OSX.

How can you tell?

j88439h84··on First Impressions of Rust
One thing is that anonova doesn't control the anonova namespace.
j88439h84··on Crush: A command line shell that is also a powerful modern programming language
A similar idea is Mario, for Python code in shell pipelines. Its most novel feature is (optional) async commands, so you can pipe in a list of urls, make many concurrent requests, and then process them in a single line.

    cat urls.txt | mario async-map 'await asks.get ! x.json()' apply len
https://github.com/python-mario/mario

Nushell also seems cool, it's somewhat similar to Powershell. https://github.com/nushell/nushell

j88439h84··on You don’t need reproducible builds
There is a trusted hardware industry emerging, so your story has plausibility
j88439h84··on The World of Competitive Lockpicking
What would a scammer do in that situation?
j88439h84··on Google to buy 6.6% stake in ADT in home security push
That's a surprisingly large amount of work, what is involved?
j88439h84··on DeepDream: How Alexander Mordvintsev excavated the computer’s hidden layers
It is a substantive comment about the presentation of the subject matter.
j88439h84··on μPlot v1.1 – now with log scales support
There's a table of numbers in the readme but it has no headers so I don't know what it means.
j88439h84··on Show HN: A platform for beginners to learn programming in Python
Poetry is by far the best way to start a Python project. Way easier than using pip, pipenv, virtualenv, venv, pyenv, conda, miniconda.

https://python-poetry.org/

j88439h84··on Color E-ink Screen, 199 Euros
If it's a pdf can be useful to change contrast
j88439h84··on Migrating a 40TB SQL Server Database
May I ask what kind of production environments you have in mind? Are these large-scale FAANG-style deployments or something else?
j88439h84··on Migrating a 40TB SQL Server Database
What is the use case for logs?
j88439h84··on How did anyone do math in Roman numerals? (2017)
Cool idea.
j88439h84··on Headphones are collecting too much personal data (2019)
Nice analogy
j88439h84··on LWN pays $300 for a well-written article from new authors
Do you have to put stuff behind a paywall to get paid?
j88439h84··on On Liberating My Smartwatch from Cloud Services
Is it possible to get data off a Fitbit without uploading it to cloud?
j88439h84··on On Liberating My Smartwatch from Cloud Services
Does this take data from the Garmin web API or directly from the watch hardware, without uploading it to Garmin?
j88439h84··on LWN pays $300 for a well-written article from new authors
Medium paid you $800 for this one? https://medium.com/better-humans/how-to-set-up-your-windows-...
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