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LambdaComplex··on New Map Scale Is More Readable by People Who Are Color Blind
Maybe it's working just fine but you're already colorblind ;)
LambdaComplex··on Ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with certain uncommon file systems
>you'd then need to tunnel your connection (eg via SSH or VPN)

Well, there is an sshfs FUSE filesystem, for what it's worth

LambdaComplex··on Ask HN: What are you working on this weekend?
Working on imageboard software that I'm writing for fun. All its responses are JSON, so it'll be possible to write various frontends for it.

(Although I haven't actually implemented the "image" part of it yet, so I guess it's just a text board right now)

LambdaComplex··on The death of a TLD
My personal opinion is that TLDs should be "generic"--.com for commercial, .org for organizations, country-specific TLDs, etc.--and that allowing private corporations to register TLDs for their own brands (like .xperia for instance) was a mistake
LambdaComplex··on Oblix: an efficient oblivious search index
Same boat as you--This looks cool but I don't really have anything to say about it :(
LambdaComplex··on Massacring C Pointers
> I've interviewed a number of people who think that Java === computing. Not even the "JVM", mind you, but Java, the language, itself.

Could you elaborate on this? What exactly made you realize that was how/what they thought?

LambdaComplex··on The “Facebook Nevers”
>thoroughly copied Snapchat and crammed it into the Instagram app.

And the Facebook app. And WhatsApp, too, I think

LambdaComplex··on Surprising Findings About How People Actually Buy Clothes and Shoes
+1 for Red Wings

I got a pair of their work boots (1412, specifically) five years ago. I've worn them pretty much every day since then, and they're still perfectly usable.

LambdaComplex··on What's My Color IQ?
I have redshift on and I got a 0. YMMV?
LambdaComplex··on Earliest images of the moon were better than people realised
Related subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/NotFoolingAnybody/
LambdaComplex··on Reverse Engineering Instruments’ File Format
I was expecting musical instruments (and was confused, since I assume they'd just be MIDI)
LambdaComplex··on Id Software
> Half-Life

I think you mean Team Fortress? Although Half-Life does use a modified Quake engine, it was a commercial game that used none of the assets of Quake, so I don't think calling it a "mod" is really appropriate.

(Side note: my username is a Half-Life reference)

LambdaComplex··on What is Enlightenment? (1784)
"This video contains content from eOne UGC, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds."
LambdaComplex··on AI at Google: our principles
>The headlines differences between, say, Washington Post, CNN, The Hill, and Fox News for the same news blurb is even more dramatic than I'd expect when you put them up side-by-side.

Can you give a concrete example of this? I'm definitely interested in seeing how big the differences are

LambdaComplex··on Actix: a small, pragmatic, and fast Rust web framework
Can someone explain to me what advantage the actor model provides for a web server?
LambdaComplex··on Show HN: HackerForums.co, a forum for the crowd that hangs out on HN
I feel like most of HN would rather have an IRC server/channel
LambdaComplex··on Chess boxing
Frog Fractions? http://twinbeard.com/frog-fractions/

Edit: Just replayed it to that point. It's not talking about chess boxing, just (a very incorrect history of) normal boxing.

LambdaComplex··on Has wine gone bad?
Agreed. It really annoys me that I can go to the grocery store and get all sorts of IPAs (and some brewers have more than one!) yet I can only find a handful of stouts.

And no, Guinness doesn't count. Except for their Antwerpen stout--that one is actually really good...but I think it's only available in their 200 Years of Stout in America pack. Their foreign extra stout is okay too.

LambdaComplex··on Jails are replacing visits with video calls–inmates and families hate it
> Star Trek DS9

And even the "good guys" did some questionable stuff, e.g. in In the Pale Moonlight. But that's my favorite Trek episode ever out of all the shows, so I'm not complaining

LambdaComplex··on Underscore Pi (2017)
Could you maybe add something about it being an IOCCC winner back in? (I generally read the comments first to decide if I want to read the article, and I wasn't going to bother reading this until I saw it had something to do with the IOCCC)
LambdaComplex··on OpenBSD 6.3 released
I've been thinking about doing the same thing. What hardware did you use?
LambdaComplex··on Chirpss – Hear and see people visiting or leaving your website
That's already built into HTTP with the Referer header. So what's the point?
LambdaComplex··on Rust's 2018 roadmap
OsString isn't Unix-specific. Or am I misunderstanding what you're saying?
LambdaComplex··on How to write an IRC bot
XMPP?
LambdaComplex··on A Tiny Wolfenstein-Like Software Engine
> early wolfenstein and doom days.

Wolfenstein yes, Doom no. Wolfenstein 3D used a very simple raycasting method that just shot rays out from the player's position to render a 2D level in psuedo-3D. Doom, while still technically using raycasting, uses a much more complicated method that involves BSP trees.

A quick google search found this page, which explains it much better than I can: http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Doom_rendering_engine

LambdaComplex··on A Unix shell script implementing ACME client protocol
Looks like it's only grepping for lines that start with le_test_. A comment would start with #
LambdaComplex··on Facebook's Mandatory Anti-Malware Scan Is Invasive and Lacks Transparency
I figured this would be satire. It's not satire. https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/12/facebook-starts-pushing-it...
LambdaComplex··on Predicting Starman’s Return to Earth
I was expecting David Bowie. The first two lines were a reference to him, so I'm not too disappointed
LambdaComplex··on Let’s talk about usernames
That's the entire point, no?
LambdaComplex··on Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure”
I just checked GoDaddy's prices, out of curiosity. "Plans starting at $59.99/yr". For comparison, you can get a Comodo PositiveSSL cert for about $10/yr.
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