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Dontrememberit··on Show HN: Kasaya – A scripting language and runtime for browser automation
The idea of this library is exactly to not use HTML ids (or css paths etc), but use instructions you could give to an human browsing the web (enter the page, press tab, type this..)
Dontrememberit··on New AMD EPYC-based Compute Engine family, now in beta
Which VPS?
Dontrememberit··on Avoid rewriting a legacy system from scratch by strangling it
Can you tell what area is this? Is it a backend service or something like software that runs on consumer's PCs?
Dontrememberit··on A common mistake involving wildcards and the find command
Just add an ENV var containing a JSON with this metadata. There's tons of env vars that get ignored by programs that don't care about each specifically.
Dontrememberit··on My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
Hey, I hope you figure a way to back up this stuff, since phones are prone to be lost or stolen (or is it backed up automatically by Google or Apple?)
Dontrememberit··on Netflix Now Streaming AV1 on Android
There's no need to get defensive over this. One can do both.
Dontrememberit··on Netflix Now Streaming AV1 on Android
No, but they might pirate (but I bet yify is even worse)
Dontrememberit··on Jonathan Blow on Rust
Dependent types prevent infinite loops at compile time because if you have nonterminating terms, your types are unsound as a logic (you can derive true and false properties altogether)

That's because theorem proving with dependent types is based on the idea that you can prove something by providing a proof object that is a witness that what you want to prove is true. But a nonterminating function can fake it: you can write a function that promises a proof that something is true, while it never returns (so it never has to build a proof object). That way you can prove that false things are "true".

Dontrememberit··on Jonathan Blow on Rust
> I've been arguing lately that C++ should do something like this: Add a full-on theorem-prover to the language so that I can write my own safety rules specific to how my program works.

Did you take a look at ATS?

Dontrememberit··on Stanford's free course on higher mathematical thinking is about to start soon
It appears to be offline.
Dontrememberit··on Television viewing and cognitive decline in older age
Do you mean quality and quantity?
Dontrememberit··on I don't use static website generators like Hugo
Your website layout breaks on mobile (width is too large)
Dontrememberit··on Category Theory for Programmers (2014) [pdf]
What about optics?
Dontrememberit··on My Business Card Runs Linux
Today an esp32 is more bang for your buck. 80mhz dual core, has wifi and bluetooth, and so on

Edit: and you can program it with the arduino IDE

Dontrememberit··on Show HN: ArcaneVM – A Fully Homomorphic Encryption Brainfuck Virtual Machine
One practical application is DRM
Dontrememberit··on Android’s Commitment to Kotlin
If Android is "Kotlin-first", why is flutter development done in Dart?