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unkown-unknownson Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch

Or you know, you are talking to another person that has had the same experience.

unkown-unknownson Avogadr.io – Molecular Wallpaper Generator

https://www.avogadr.io/?background=005f2f&foreground=00ff04&...

unkown-unknownson Betting on the Web – Why I Build PWAs

I'd not heard of PWA before. After reading the OP I did an additional search on Google. Found a course on udemy that claims to be on sale.

https://www.udemy.com/progressive-web-app-pwa-the-complete-g...

I've seen three of the videos in it so far. Seems like an ok course for the ~25 USD I paid for it.

unkown-unknownson Vigil, the eternal morally vigilant programming language

Likewise, users ought to be punished for making mistakes as well. If someone has a typo in a command on the cli, delete a random file from their home dir.

unkown-unknownson Psychology of food menu design

No pictures in your menu though.

unkown-unknownson A modest proposal

Have you tried writing Rust? I have and I think this feature is great.

I upvoted you for your link, but actually the argument that it would be good because people who care more will make a better decision than those who don't does not completely convince me. Someone could care a lot about something but still have the wrong idea about it.

unkown-unknownson Game Engine Black Book Postmortem

It's sort of a solution but still it's breaking the letter of the law no matter how we feel morally about "pirating" something we've already paid for. I'd rather see more authors/publishers make DRM-free editions of the product in the first place so that I don't have to break any laws in order to make use of what I've paid to have access to. I am willing to pay a premium rate for this.

unkown-unknownson Filecoin Breaks Record for ICO Funding

Popular when seen in relation to other options for decentralized storage perhaps. It might be a small group at the moment but they can still be large in a small space.

unkown-unknownson Game Engine Black Book Postmortem

Would love to read this book. Any chance of a DRM-free ePub edition being made and put up for sale?

unkown-unknownson OxiPNG: PNG optimizer written in Rust

First commit of OxiPNG was 2015-12-15. The way I read the part you quoted is that they originally assumed OptiPNG to be dead, not that they are saying now that it's dead.

Absolutely agree with your point about reaching a stage where not so many big changes are necessary though.

unkown-unknownson Nginx Unit

https://github.com/nginx/unit

It's open source at the moment at least and I think it's reasonable to expect at least that the parts that are open source today will remain so in the future. Certainly they could have a commercial version with extra features like they do with Nginx, but as long as they have a useful version of this Nginx Unit available open source I will be happy to use it.

unkown-unknownson Voynich manuscript: the solution?

From your link:

> In particular, MINIX was chosen as the basis for the operating system (previously, ThreadX RTOS had been used). Now ME firmware includes a full-fledged operating system [...]

Woah, did I read that correctly? That there is a version of MINIX running inside of the Intel processors of presumably almost every modern computer with an Intel CPU that has Intel ME in it? If so then that's insanely cool! I mean I still dislike Intel ME itself and wish I could disable it easily and without risking damage/destruction but the idea of there being a version of MINIX running on my computer right now is quite cool.

unkown-unknownson Riak and the demise of Basho

On a side note that has to be the longest e-mail footer I've seen in a good while.

Reminded me of a usenet post from years ago but can't find it now, anyone know which one I mean?

While looking for said usenet post I found something else though, here: https://www.slashdot.org/story/18304

unkown-unknownson Zero-confirmation inter-account transfers of .uk domains with eNom

I've tried a bunch of different registrars and ended up with gandi.net whom I've been with for several years now and am very happy with. Switch to gandi.

unkown-unknownson Android 8.0 Oreo, thoroughly reviewed

Responsive Web Design (RWD) is a Web development concept focusing on making sites look and behave optimally on all personal computing devices, from desktop to mobile. [1]

The viewport meta tag is part of what makes RWD possible. [2] The viewport meta tag does not relate to PiP in any way that I can imagine.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Responsive...

[2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Mobile/View...

unkown-unknownson China's Central Bank Bans ICOs

Woah :O

unkown-unknownson Miscellaneous Arduino bits and pieces

Execution beats talking about ideas for sure, but having ideas beats having nothing at all.

unkown-unknownson China's Central Bank Bans ICOs

> https://uetoken.com/

Did they actually do an "ICO" or was it showing as "finished" from the get-go?

Let's find out!

30 seconds later.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170627123240/https://uetoken.c...

https://etherchain.org/account/0xbe5c1c298d0088886146a906cdf...

So they did but apparently nobody sent them any money, unless they also used some other addresses.

Another 60 seconds after that.

Actually they have a link on the current https://uetoken.com leading to https://etherchain.org/account/0xbe5c1c298d0088886146a906cdf... with 23562 txns total at the moment. Wonder if any of it was legit and if he got any money out of it.

unkown-unknownson [dead]

Snapshot of thread for when it dies: http://archive.is/fIadd

unkown-unknownson “Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic silent EOL of the product”

ZFS lives on in OpenZFS, which is where FreeBSD, Linux and other platform developers and some companies exchange their modifications of ZFS.

Solaris lives on in illumos and forks of it.

unkown-unknownson [dead]

> Haha I think your link is wrong ;)

Whoops lol. That's what I get for not double-checking that I pasted correctly hehe.

unkown-unknownson [dead]

Your article about ML [1] seems pretty good so far. Any plans on finishing it?

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Drugs/comments/6xi2jj/whats_your_dr...

unkown-unknownson Insane state of today's advertising part 3

You and I might dislike ads but don't you think there's a pretty big chance that a lot of the products you are hearing about from your friends were only brought to their attention thanks to ads? So without ads your friends would not have known about the products that they do now.

unkown-unknownson LogDevice: a distributed data store for logs

Exactly. Specifically, whether it'll include the usual patent clause. I am sure it will and as such it will be of no interest to me.

unkown-unknownson SanDisk crams 400GB into a microSD card

Conversely the only Samsung microSD card I ever had failed on me. I've also had some trouble with SanDisk cards from time to time. My general experience is that microSD cards are okay but I'm not at all happy about them.

I'm doing a project soon involving a Raspberry Pi. I've used rpi for various things before but the different thins time is that it's going to be installed at the location of a client. I am quite nervous that the microSD card will fail. For my own stuff I can easily write the image to a new card and it doesn't matter. But with a client where they expect the thing I'm making to work it would be painful to have it fail.

Is there some ready-made Linux distro for Raspberry Pi that is extremely small in size and which is made to load it whole self into memory and not write back to the SD card at all? It'd be extremely helpful to know about it if any such distro exists. Preferably it should be based on Rasbian just slimmed down and with logging etc removed. That way the kernel itself would be more reliable so that it won't crash randomly for reasons that have otherwise been fixed in Raspbian but which might not be in an independently maintained kernel.

unkown-unknownson Is Romantic Desire Predictable? Machine Learning Applied to Initial Attraction

> photos are no substitute for real life

Absolutely agree. I'm just saying that even if they were I think it'd be hard to measure attractiveness objectively because different people have different likes and dislikes.

However you probably are right that there are features that are considered attractive by almost everybody and that we just overlook those.

unkown-unknownson Is Romantic Desire Predictable? Machine Learning Applied to Initial Attraction

In addition to what was said already I have recently began to wonder whether "attractiveness" is as clear-cut as what one might initially assume.

For example on two different occasions when I was hanging with two different friends of mine we looked at Tinder profiles of women on my phone and both of them had almost the exact same reaction when I started swiping; "wow, you and me have really different taste in women!"

In both cases I was swiping on the women that I found to look the most attractive. Previously I might have thought that everyone would agree that these women were attractive.

unkown-unknownson “Category Theory for Programmers” has been finished

Via https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/6x7ms0/category_th...

unkown-unknownson The Why and How of Google AMP at Condé Nast

Another couple of grievances:

- On desktop you get useful error messages like for example "you're doing that too much, try again in x minutes". On the mobile web version it's just a generic message that is of absolutely zero help.

- You get to see the score of your posts (good) on your profile but to see the score of your comments you have to click on an individual comment. Bad!

unkown-unknownson The Why and How of Google AMP at Condé Nast

I agree. Also the mobile web version is lacking a lot of things with regards to making use of the Reddit API.

For example if on mobile you go to a subreddit to make a post it will present you with the self post and the link post option regardless of the settings of the subreddit. So you write a long post and post it, only to get told sorry this subreddit doesn't allow self posts, or you post a link and you spend a lot of time typing in the title only to get told sorry no links allowed. WTF?? It's beyond ridiculous that they show the option of making a post in a subreddit where it does not apply.

It doesn't stop there. The whole thing is very disappointing :(