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As usual with tech giants, the burden of playing whack-a-mole with the perpetrators is left to the victims, while the company profits.
You forget that √x always has 2 solutions: 1 positive and 1 negative.
Re:Roll or Don’t on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @09:54PM (#34089152)
I wonder how it would work before Javascript.
Re:Low Bandwidth CNN on Monday December 12, 2022 @08:26PM (#33963353)
Nice, but I wish they opted for an RSS feed instead.
Re:Ask HN: Is it black holes all the way up? on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @10:54PM (#33903949)
Yeah. It's basically a God hypothesis for geeks.
If this forum were to live up to its name, you would be laughed out of here after that comment.
Re:We Hate Lisp on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @10:32AM (#29810197)
Yeah, it needs Javascript to display text. No thanks, bye.
Just like who knows how many bits of false information. Which then get copied, pasted and repeated across the web and the world.

I've randomly found several, and I'm just one person.

Re:The WWW is 30 years old today on Saturday August 07, 2021 @02:57AM (#28096409)
At this point, I can't help thinking it created more problems than it solved.
> 2. Bad people steal good thing.

2. Good people sell good thing to bad people.

Re:Getting to know logical clocks by implementing them on Friday July 02, 2021 @06:09PM (#27717561)
At point #3, I think you meant "then a→c".
Re:Not Lisp again (2009) on Sunday February 28, 2021 @08:14PM (#26298755)
The syntax of those defines sure looks weird. In what dialect does the name of the function being defined appear as the CAR of a list, followed by the parameters?
Re:Phel: A language inspired by Clojure that compiles to PHP on Friday February 19, 2021 @09:48AM (#26193693)
Very interesting! Maybe preprocessors really are the way to go for PHP, even if it were just for ironing out its inconsistencies (not to mention implementing a whole new language on top of it, as in this case).

But why those square brackets for argument lists? That seems unnecessary.

Re:Fake Amazon reviews 'being sold in bulk' online on Monday February 15, 2021 @11:01PM (#26150782)
My solution: only read negative reviews. They're much more telling. As a bonus, they'll often kill impulse purchases, saving me money.
Re:The Alien-Haunted World on Monday February 15, 2021 @10:40PM (#26150667)
>an atheist insists there must not be.

Wrong... Only so-called "strong atheism" is active belief in gods' non-existence. Regular (unqualified) atheism is lack of belief in gods' existence.

PAYWALLED
To be fair, Apple started it in the late '90s with their Pentium-snail ads.
Re:The Crypto-Chernobyl on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @08:12PM (#26097030)
A comparison with cash would be completely arbitrary: bitcoin doesn't replace cash, so it only adds to the problem.
A god wouldn't have needed all that complexity to make organisms pop into life. Frankly, God is just the most unintelligent hypothesis.
Re:State of Common Lisp Survey 2020 on Thursday December 03, 2020 @02:37PM (#25293535)
With the decline in Usenet traffic, that's much less of a problem nowadays. I haven't seen any spam in comp.lang.lisp for the last 2 years at least. It's pretty much all signal, and mostly high quality too.
Re:State of Common Lisp Survey 2020 on Thursday December 03, 2020 @11:47AM (#25290902)
Usenet newsgroup comp.lang.lisp for sure.
Re:NandGame – Build a Computer from Scratch on Thursday December 03, 2020 @10:59AM (#25290136)
I wish Pure Data had a GUI like that. Hats off to the author.
>Prosecco is also not Champagne

Indeed: Prosecco is a spumante.

Re:Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging on Thursday November 26, 2020 @06:04PM (#25224190)
> Weird (to me, an english speaker with no knowledge of modern or 11th century Austrian) that they went with Fugging and not, say, Focking.

All the time, they would have had people scraping away some paint turning the "o" into a "u"...

Re:SC-IM – An ncurses spreadsheet program for the terminal on Saturday August 29, 2020 @03:30PM (#24318789)
Cool. I use original sc almost every day. Is this from the same code base?
Re:tilde.town: A social network over SSH on Friday August 28, 2020 @04:39AM (#24302661)
What OS are they running? Strangely enough, it's not mentioned in the FAQ and I couldn't find it with a cursory look at their wiki.
Re:Kindle collects a surprisingly large amount of data on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @04:16AM (#24280306)
How is anyone still using a Kindle after the 1984 scandal?
Re:rc.d belongs in libexec, not etc on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @02:34PM (#24274485)
Hence my usage of the word "keep". You can't move /libexec elsewhere.
Re:rc.d belongs in libexec, not etc on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @03:27AM (#24268897)
So then you must keep 'libexec' on the root partition (if your system is partitioned). Whereas '/etc' is on the root partition for sure.
Re:Mutt email client 25 years old on Monday August 17, 2020 @04:23AM (#24185181)
It's entirely possible to send mail as format=flowed plain text, so that messages will rewrap nicely on any screen. I do it all the time with Mutt, it's actually very easy.

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