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Has Aerc added support for email threads yet? I tried it when it first came out and that was my biggest disappointment.

You can put a signal handler in your program to catch the SIGSTOP and run some code before it gets killed.

And honestly, the user's suggestion wasn't bad.

Ah, thanks!

What's the purpose of this code in the original decompressor? Assuming c is an uchar, aren't EOF and 0xFF equal?

  if (c == 0xFF) {
    len = getchar();
    c = getchar();
    while (len--)
    emit(c);
  }

Anyone remember the old Buzzfeed links that were on the kottke front page? They were there before "Buzzfeed" was "Buzzfeed". I always thought that was strange since back then the day they mostly just re-posted Reddit content.

Here's the blog post from the hack's author: https://www.avidhacker.com/2016/02/29/catchMeIfYouCan/

A lot of these are laughable, but I think Tron: Legacy did a really good job of mixing something realistic as well as futuristic.

bitcoin is just p2p paypal

for crying out loud CUIL doesn't show up on cuil. it sucks. we get it.

digg died several months ago when their comments slowly started looking a lot like youtube's

i agree, as many problems as it may have today, one only has to look at some 3rd world countries to see how radically good governance can change things and how important it is. i'm not saying that just because we have it better than somwhere in africa or the middle east, we shouldn't complain or try to improve, but government, especially at the local levels, does a decent job.

Why are ads on social sites so hard? They know my age, location, favorite bands and movies! It just seems like it should be really easy.

yea, but those properties weren't that big to begin with. digg has already "gone somewhere"

rtfa - 3 years