So brilliant that we’re all still using ASCII!†
† With an occasional UNICODE flourish.
Readit Newstransfire commented on UTF-8 is a brilliant design iamvishnu.com/posts/utf8-... · Posted by u/vishnuharidas
transfire commented on The day Return became Enter (2023) aresluna.org/the-day-retu... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
I agree. Separate keys would be better.
I wonder if hat word processors would have used a separate Enter (or Go!) for?
I hope there are no major problems to commercialization. This will be huge!
transfire commented on Smalltalk, Haskell and Lisp storytotell.org/smalltalk... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
IDK. They all look a little atrocious to me.
But readability has a lot to do with what you are used to.
The only exception might be FORTH. A very well written FORTH implementation (and I mean very well written) probably would be fairly readable to anyone — at least at the higher levels of abstraction.
transfire commented on Show HN: AutoThink – Boosts local LLM performance with adaptive reasoning · Posted by u/codelion
That’s awesome!
Now have it mark blocks of text on or off, so it can ignore irrelevant, or worse erroneous material — no need to include it in the context window.
transfire commented on Ruby 3.5 Feature: Namespace on read bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues... · Posted by u/ksec
Do we really need a new “code container” type for this? Could modules not serve the purpose by localizing require. e.g.
module Foo
require “bar”
…
end
transfire commented on The History and Legacy of Visual Basic retool.com/visual-basic... · Posted by u/ibobev
I feel the same about MS Access databases, for databases obviously. Provided you kept within its limitations, and actually used relational models, it was really quick at setting up a database program. I never used VB6 but the workflow sounds similar.
It was almost exactly the same expect in VB you had use some esoteric code to access databases — and they kept changing what was the “proper” way to do it. (I think by the time I quit VB it was ADO?)
transfire commented on Intel to announce plans this week to cut over 20% of staff scmp.com/tech/big-tech/ar... · Posted by u/KnuthIsGod
Is this a reflection of the economy in general or just Intel’s own troubles?
With Apple’s move to Arm and increasing interest in RISCV, the x86 architecture hegemony seems to finally be cracking.
transfire commented on TLS certificate lifetimes will officially reduce to 47 days digicert.com/blog/tls-cer... · Posted by u/crtasm
Are you seriously not aware of Let's Encrypt? https://letsencrypt.org/
Nobody has really had to pay for certificates for quite a number of years.
What certificates get you, as both a website owner and user, is security against man-in-the-middle attacks, which would otherwise be quite trivial, and which would completely defeat the purpose of using encryption.
As long as Let’s Encrypt is still around.
I find it hard to believe there is no way to secure without requiring an authority in the middle.
YAML has a merge key <<:, which might be helpful.
The merge key is a clever little trick, but it depends of the special hash key, so lists can’t be merged.
Syntax does matter, which is why YAML matters — even if imperfect.