RadioactiveMan

I really value tests on projects I work on alone because the work is usually intermittent. I don't have the time or energy to deal with regressions, and I may not remember everything about the system by the next time I work on it.

I also find manually testing to be tedious, so I'd rather spend that time writing code that does it for me.

People's fundamental rights and freedoms are not technicalities.

> No one has expressed concern so far.

The article is an expression of concern. It also cites three court cases to show that it matters.

Fzf is brilliant. Recently I found fzrepl (https://github.com/danielfgray/fzf-scripts/blob/master/fzrep...), which blew my mind. It uses fzf and its preview window to create a repl for other programs, such as jq. That's great for figuring out a query for jq since I use it so rarely.

I'm not sure if I'm missing something here or what.

> HTTPS doesn't hurt anything and actually has some nice side effects (it separates backups onto a separate port than the majority of your web traffic, allows for traffic shaping if you want to do it).

Wouldn't using HTTPS put it on the same port as virtually all web traffic?

Would we really lose them? My understanding is that, after a fire, a forest experiences very rich growth, especially of plants that don't grow much under the shade of old trees, which are good food and cover for many animals.

> People complained when Firefox added [...]

> Now they're [...] removing [...], and people are still complaining?

It's different people.

6.99 is 6.99. It's only 7 if you pay with cash.

The company has this to say about synthetic leather.

> Fish leather is more ecologically sound than vegan leather alternatives because it requires less energy than the creation of vegan leather, it does not include petroleum products, and it works with the circular economy using existing waste from food fisheries to create a durable finished good. Fish leather doesn’t need the extra (chemically induced) step of removing hair that mammal leather requires, either.

https://www.7leagues.com/leather

> 1) addons don't work yet

It'll be interesting to see if this change is going to get rid of extension support or not. I'm a Firefox fan, but uBlock Origin is more important than the browser.

Here's the RFC for it with the "why" and discussion of the tradeoffs. https://wiki.php.net/rfc/numeric_literal_separator

The praise for arrow functions is surprising. They don't enable anything new and their feature - saving a half dozen characters - comes with the cognitive cost of tracking how both types of anonymous functions work and their subtle differences in behavior. It's not worth that price.

There's seven billion people in the world for which running grep is not easy. This makes it easy.

The padlock was already meaningless.

There's room for people whose tastes include hunting endangered species too! https://www-m.cnn.com/2015/05/21/opinions/rhino-hunt-is-cons...

It's not a lie. They linked right to an elaboration of that statement.

This is a really good point. Usually we talk about protecting against a third party, but the far more ordinary use case is protecting against the adversary right on the other side of your router.

That was entirely The Pirate Bay's fault, not CloudFlare's.

Since the encryption key is in the URL I don't think it's fair for them to claim they can't decrypt.

I have been through some of your material and it has been a joy to read.

If CAcert isn't usually trusted and StartSSL is not free for commercial use, are they really alternatives?

> The True Cross is the name for physical remnants which, by a Christian tradition, are believed to be from the cross upon which Jesus was crucified.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Cross

Look into exercism.io; it's a pretty cool way to solve problems while people provide feedback on your code. Better still, you can review other users' solutions and see how you could have done better.

It'd be nice to have the recipe title in the URL. For example, if [1] was something like [2] (or something) it'd be helpful when looking at the URL for a recipe.

[1] http://imadefood.com/recipe/NkgHYiLPl [2] http://imadefood.com/recipe/NkgHYiLPl/herbs-and-gin

Try logging in to Wikipedia and enabling Hovercards[1] in the beta features. It creates a pop-up with a summary of linked pages when you hover over the link.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Preferenc...

"And it's not all physics and math; the entry for the Ka/s ratio, a useful measure in evolutionary biology, assumes you already know a lot about evolutionary biology and the genetic code."

It seems to me that any information - in an encyclopedia or anywhere else - on a subtopic must assume knowledge of the parent topic.

Other gripes by the author seemed to be nitpicks about article quality, which are fair but extremely minor.

I adore SpeedCrunch. I don't have fancy large number requirements but I love the interface. It works on Linux too, though I think it's an old version in the Ubuntu repository so you might prefer to download the source instead.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10741148

Good to know. Reading definitions of concatenate and catenate, I was confused about whether there actually was a difference or not.

Edit: that wikipedia page makes it sound like the program it replaced was the one that prints a single file to the screen.

Catenate means to connect things together[1], which implies it was named with multiple files in mind.

[1] https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/catenate