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They mention that they'd ideally want a natural ordering on the commit hashes. Something to do with their zero-tolerence security policy.

What's the background there? Why do they need a natural ordering?

Thank you, I appreciate the honest feedback. My academic background is technical (math), but not CS.

Been wanting to transition into another role. Not sure what exactly but within software development.

Can I send you an email?

How would I go about making that kind of money? I'm planning on moving to London next year. My professional background is as a web dev.

Unrelated question:

> with feeling and 4 part harmony

What do you mean by this in this context? I tried googling it, but only found results on musical theory. I guess you mean this as a (funny) metaphore?

What does "fusional" mean here?

Thank you for this concise information. This is disturbing to me.

I want to do something similar. Do you want to connect?

Absolutely.

FWIW: My first thought when reading this was that it read like something Putin & co have said over the years.

Sure Emacs is endlessly configurable. But it is too clunky for my taste.

I realize this is sort of like complaining about trivial code style preferences in a code review, rather than looking at what the code at hand is actually doing.

But Emacs just feels too... Old-school. Not in a cool way, but rather in a boring way.

I wish I "figured out" Emacs though.

A few years ago, a friend of my cousin became a licensed dentist here in Sweden. My cousin had to remove a tooth and his friend gave him, I assume, a lower price because they're friends...

He removed a tooth alright, but the wrong one (on the wrong side). And apparently my cousin just assumed he worked on fixing something else, realising the mistake way too late.

I asked my cousin if he considered suing but he didn't want to do that because they're friends...

Weird situation.

I assume that, realistically, the JS is verified by outside experts (and not by the user), and that a check on the user's part would simply be comparing a calculated hash to a given one.

I understand that this might not be how things are really done at PM (i.e. do they provide a hash? probably not) so my arguments may be hypothetical, but it doesn't render them invalid in the larger context imo.

Yeah, I saw this type of argument after I made my original comment that you responded to.

While this argument undeniably makes sense, I guess it boils down to what assumptions are made about the user.

Like, if we assume that the user is this paranoid, then why couldn't they just check the JS file/bundle with a local copy that is verified? Think of a Chrome extension or whatever.

We still run the JS locally on our own computers.

Feel free to correct me on this, but in terms of ProtonMail's E2E, it's done entirely client-side (= in JavaScript), at least in the web UI. This was claimed on PM's website a while back iirc.

So I believe this makes the claim "true E2E" more believable. Or at least verifiable - because it's just JS.

OK, I had no idea about that. I thought you spoke of Romani people, or travelers!

Interesting, OK! I've never heard "traveler" take on that meaning before.

I was assuming the poster spoke of Romani people (or "gypsies", but this is a racial slur) and it was clearly out of context.

> many of my fellow travelers on the "left" on this issue

What do you mean by "travelers" in this context?

I'm old enough to remember the show Pimp My Ride, but I don't recall Xzibit ever having that "catchphrase" on it.

What's the rationale behind this omission on NVIDIA's part?

Is it reasonable to assume that the same thing applies to the Z-drugs too, specifically Zolpidem?

I have a family member that I'm worried about, that has taken Zolpidem for several years straight (apart from minor breaks in between prescription refills because of overconsumption during the previous refill...).

My plan was to get a MSc in Math, but I figured that no one (= employers) would care in the end, given my career in software development already. When I realized even I didn't care about the degree, I just stopped.

But I do think the material is interesting. So I want to learn in my spare time. I think that's the best alternative for me, as I don't dream about working in academia etc. I was never a stellar student (in a university setting) anyway.

I want to build a stronger foundation in statistics and probability theory. The goal I have in mind is to try and dabble with systematic trading.

This site is blocked in the EU. :-/

I grew up similarly, and I've come to the same conclusion!

Right, I take my question back

Yeah, I did know that. However "Richard" and "Dick" are much more distant in some sense... I had no idea.

How is it possible that the design of a language do not allow for external code/libraries?

Interesting, TIL.

Hah, mIRC was a long time ago! I'm a bit nostalgic. :)

But is it really true that vanilla mIRC consumes less RAM than calc.exe...?

That'd be impressive, if I could believed that!

Have you found good learning resources for Russian?

I have almost the exact opposite experience: tried asking dumb questions on IRC a lot, until I realized going to the source (books!) is the way to learn.