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proaralyst··on Google Is Eating Our Mail
There's no standard DKIM selector though, right? You may have used a different DKIM selector in your query to the one they have set up
proaralyst··on Ask HN: What email client do you use?
ProtonMail's web & Android clients. It works pretty well: tags, folders & sieve filters.
proaralyst··on AMP pages displaying your own domain
But it's served from Google, so they still control all the analytics
proaralyst··on Why aren't figs considered vegan?
But not all people who avoid more foods than a vegetarian do so because of that ideology. If those people's diets exclude all animal products it's useful to use the term vegan as most English speakers will understand what you mean.

Language is defined by usage, not organisations.

proaralyst··on Hacker from Russian crime group jailed for global blackmail conspiracy
It's the BBC, they're taxpayer funded and don't advertise (within the UK).
proaralyst··on Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 on the Day Before Deadly Crash
Given the system assumed it was in stall, which means loss of altitude anyway, surely it's safer in general to go nose-down to avoid the stall? At least then you have a chance of recovery, which you don't in a stall. (Except of course, going nose-down.)
proaralyst··on W3schools.dev Redirects to Mozilla Developer Network
Python lists are dynamic arrays, not linked lists.
proaralyst··on FastMail loses customers, faces calls to move over anti-encryption laws
I looked at FastMail and ProtonMail. I ended up going with ProtonMail because they're in Switzerland.
proaralyst··on We Should Think Twice About Colonizing Space
In contrast, what we know from facts about sea travel: even real land monsters might leave you alone once in a while but the sea is actively trying to kill you at every moment. There are real problems to be solved, like fresh water generation, bad weather and having enough food supplies to last until landfall. The monsters out there are quite real and quite deadly.

Did you know that the sea is still deadly? Not all of these are fatalities, but some are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_2018

proaralyst··on 2.7M medical calls breached in Sweden
There are many more embarrassing medical conditions other than HIV status.
proaralyst··on Ocado's burning robotic warehouse
Given that Cambridge Consultants spawned Cambridge Silicon Radio you're probably right.
proaralyst··on Browsers
They use a polyfill for Firefox on Youtube because of a never-standardised feature too: https://twitter.com/cpeterso/status/1021649116391075840
proaralyst··on LED Strain
That's what that is. I never considered that those displays were strobing!
proaralyst··on Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10
It gives the Chromium project massive power over web standards. This happened with IE6 and was a bad time for the web.
proaralyst··on Why does America still use Soyuz rockets to put its astronauts in space?
I thought it had five main engines, four with six chambers and the fifth with eight?
proaralyst··on DNS Queries over HTTPS
I'm kind of sad that we're using HTTPS as a transport though their use cases make sense. It seems this is intended to exist alongside the existing & new secure protocols? Is it foreseen that this will only be used by web apps?
proaralyst··on OCaml for the Masses (2011)
Haskell has a famously high barrier to entry that has little to do with its type system or functional nature. As a pure lazy language you have to learn a lot of concepts (What does pure mean? What does lazy mean? What is a monad?) before you can be productive. Extending this into intermediate usage is difficult too; how do I begin to combine these monads I now understand?

I see your argument. If your aim is to get into functional programming then Elixir/Erlang, even Lisp/Scheme is fine. I don't think it's the functional nature of OCaml and Haskell that make them powerful; I think those parts of the language are great, yes, but the type system (static, algebraic, inferred) is the real secret sauce.

proaralyst··on OCaml for the Masses (2011)
Elixir is not statically typed. Thus you lose a lot of what makes OCaml great; a whole class of errors caught by the compiler before you run your program.

I'd say the type system isn't that much of a barrier to entry. You're likely used to one from any existing statically typed language; the only new things are sum types, polymorphic types & type inference. These aren't _that_ hard to get your head round but really improve the safety of your program.

proaralyst··on OCaml for the Masses (2011)
Elixir is not statically typed. It's definitely interesting but you don't get a lot of the same safety as you do with ML.
proaralyst··on Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal
Have you used it extensively? Why on modern keyboards? I can't stand non-modal editors now. I find them extremely limiting.
proaralyst··on Not Lisp again (2009)
I don't think the grandparent is complaining about reposts, merely linking to previous discussions for the curious.
proaralyst··on WebRender is in beta
Yeah: https://github.com/servo/webrender
proaralyst··on Richard Stallman Has Announced the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines
The singular they has been used at least since the 1300s[0]. At what point does it become correct?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they#Older_usage

proaralyst··on Messenger systems compared by security, privacy, compatibility, and features
Had the same UI problems.

Also Signal isn't federated and doesn't use the Matrix protocol.

proaralyst··on Messenger systems compared by security, privacy, compatibility, and features
I would like to use Riot/Matrix but its UI (at least on Android) is terrible. I can't convince non-technical friends & family to switch.

Part of the problem is the inability to assign nicknames to contacts, so you have to remember everyone's Matrix ID.

proaralyst··on OpenBSD's unveil()
You might be interested in bwrap.[0]

[0]: https://github.com/projectatomic/bubblewrap

proaralyst··on Self-healing material can build itself from carbon in the air
Plants extract carbon from CO2 all the time. This material is using photosynthesis so I would assume it works close to as well as it does in plants.
proaralyst··on Sorting 2 Tons of Lego, the Software Side (2017)
Needs a [2017]

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14280569

proaralyst··on What does the GDPR actually mean for startups?
Yes. You can request a copy of any personal information held by any company. This is a pre-GDPR right too.
proaralyst··on Long-sought decay of Higgs boson observed at CERN
Crucially: it really doesn't work with gravity or relativity.
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