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barrister··on New study suggests handwriting engages the brain more than typing
Brain activity, as measured here, does not imply good writing. I'm quite certain that if you were to type with one hand while juggling a few golf balls with the other your "brain engagement" would be much higher than simple handwriting.
barrister··on It used to be simpler to teach Unix
Yes, and they also don't add single quotes to filenames that contain whitespace characters when displaying them as mentioned in the article.
barrister··on It used to be simpler to teach Unix
This is still the default behavior of `ls` in OpenBSD, very likely all BSD's. I also remember reading one man page on a Linux machine (which presumably is using GNU core utilities) that stated `ls` would always print per line if it was directed to anything other than stdout, e.g. a pipe.
barrister··on ProtonDrive Security Model
In trying to resolve some of their latency issues for their Linux client (on Github) I realized everything was being funneled through Neustar, which was the issue. So I questioned them about it, and they confirmed it.
barrister··on ProtonDrive Security Model
Not as long as it's understood that I feel Neustar was a poor choice given their line of business.
barrister··on ProtonDrive Security Model
The problem I have with ProtonMail or ProtonVPN is that they rely upon Neustar to handle all of their perimeter security, meaning that every single client that accesses their services will be inspected by Neustar, which IMO defeats the purpose. At the moment, I don't trust Neustar, and presume they're a US military contractor (located in Virginia).
barrister··on Motivation – Keli Language
Can someone point out how Keli implements purity in the documentation? Haskell requires the IO monad to accomplish this, not sure what Keli does. Its feature list claims to implement "pure functional programming" but it seems as though it's just functional, like OCaml or F#.
barrister··on The first use of the term “programming language”?
A quick search on Google books for the term "programming language" with the date confined to between 1945-1956 (although you may find more earlier) does turn up multiple results.
barrister··on Starbucks' music is driving employees nuts
I work at Starbucks and I completely disagree with this article (as it pertains to Starbucks). Starbucks has a partnership with Spotify, all employees get a free Spotify account. Every Starbucks has an iPhone used to handle inventory & play the store music. This iPhone has the Spotify app installed and a fairly large collection of Starbucks playlists which accrue over time. Each playlist varies in size but some are quite large, e.g. the "Chill" playlist is likely over 50 songs. Moreover, I consider myself a hipster when it comes to music and can tell that each of these playlists has been curated in the same manner as Apple playlists, by using people "in the know". What that means is that many songs are extremely new and underground. A good example of this are songs like "High 5" by Sigrid, or "Lucky Girl" by Fazerdaze listed when they're released. So, any employee (at least at my store and those in the surrounding area) can simply change the playlist at any time. Don't like the Hamilton playlist?, go change it to the "Dinner Party" playlist. Not only can we change the playlist, we can simply use our own iPhone and play are own playlists with our free Spotify account (as long as it doesn't contain profanity). The one gripe I have is that some songs on the Starbucks playlists are completely inappropriate such as "Get Out" by CHVRCHES. If you haven't heard this song, go listen to it on Youtube and figure out why this is an awkward song to play around customers. So, imo Starbucks likely has the most lenient music policy of similar shops as well as the best music selection.
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