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haecceityon Historical programming-language groups disappearing from Google

So Google Groups archives usenet stuff? Where are the usenet stuff hosted originally? How do I connect to it without Google Groups?

haecceityon Show HN: UnnaturalScrollWheels – Better scroll wheel settings for macOS

I invert the y motion of my mouse too.

haecceityon Typometer: A tool to measure and analyze the visual latency of text editors

That might be slow because of autocomplete list starting and not because of rendering.

haecceityon Running DOS Apps on Windows

the term applications was just as common as programs? Apps as a short form for directories names or variable names was also pretty common?

haecceityon Bloom filters debunked: Dispelling 30 Years of bad math with Coq

Bloom filter was probably chosen not because of its false negative rate but because it was good enough whatever its false negative rate is.

haecceityon Google reportedly keeps tabs on usage of rival apps to develop competitors

In some companies (that also has a platform of some kind, where they have information that would give them an advantage over everyone else in the market), it's not allowed to act on this information unless its released to the public. It's anti-competitive in some way.

The group that collects the information is not allowed to share the information with the product group.

Does anyone know legal basis for this policy?

haecceityon 62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Afraid to Share

I think he means

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit_stereotype

haecceityon On Liberating My Smartwatch from Cloud Services

Version control for word documents is horrible though. To review each change it opens up a new word instance.

haecceityon Ask HN: Is it just me? why is “news” so addictive?

Why allow yourself be tormented by something you have no control over?

haecceityon Show HN: An Aesthetically Pleasing Arch Linux Distro

Whenever I use an Arch laptop that I haven't touched in a while and need to do an update on it, there will be update conflicts that need to be resolved manually. I'm pretty sure this happened every time. There are tons of posts on the forum about update conflicts.

haecceityon Dijo: A terminal-based habit tracker written in Rust

Ya but who wants to use COM/XPC/DBUS/Binder?

haecceityon Ask HN: Resources to start learning about quantum computing?

https://www.edx.org/course/quantum-mechanics-and-quantum-com...

What better than learn from Shor and Chuang?

haecceityon RIP ROP: CET Internals in Windows 20H1

TLDR ROP is common technique for making programs do bad things so this prevents a whole bunch of bad things from happening.

haecceityon India, Jio, and the Four Internets

Not going to take sides but none of those are internet companies.

haecceityon Why it’s hard to kill the Bloomberg terminal (2019)

What is a Bloomberg terminal made of? A windows exe and a keyboard? I thought it was the whole machine?

haecceityon Former ICANN CEO is now co-CEO of the private equity firm that tried to buy .org

What was his duty and is it recognized by law? Who would prosecute him?

haecceityon Japan reveals 87 projects eligible for 'China exit' subsidies

Maybe they should subsidize innovation instead.

haecceityon Apartheid in Fancy Dress: Against India’s arranged marriage regime

How do castes work? Can you tell what caste someone is by how they're dressed?

haecceityon David Shor’s Unified Theory of American Politics

Unified theory sounds a little ambitious. I wish he would explain what economic populism is. Does he mean Democrats failed to be popular? Well gee. Sucks.

haecceityon The evidence which suggests that Covid-19 is not a naturally evolved virus [pdf]

My first step in filtering crank papers is to ask is this written with Microsoft Word.

haecceityon Scientists uncover first atomic structure of Epstein-Bar virus nucleocapsid

Clearly you know the answer to these questions. Why even ask. Just be confident say what you feel.

haecceityon Lessons from the awkward life and death of the Segway

I'm waiting for the day when I can buy a toaster and get subscriptions on toasting modes.

haecceityon NewPipe – ad-free, open-source Android YouTube client

I don't want those features and I don't want to be asked if I want those features everyday.

haecceityon NewPipe – ad-free, open-source Android YouTube client

You should buy youtube premium.

haecceityon Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?

I keep saying phone numbers for 2FA is dumb but entire industry thinks this is a good idea for some reason. The problem here is that it's not even used as 2FA, it's just one factor and these services think it's sufficient to prove identity.

haecceityon The Platonic solids and fundamental tests of quantum mechanics

Bell's inequality was used to prove incompatibility between local and hidden variable theories. What's the point of fancier Bell's inequalities?

haecceityon Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study

On the other hand you can get pretty far even if you don't any social network but you can solve textbook problems.

haecceityon The Fake Cisco

I was going to ask the same question. Besides reading every line of machine code?

The only way I can think of is monitoring its traffic and looking into anything fishy from there. But even that isn't conclusive.

Maybe the backdoor listener is behind a complex port knocking sequence? There's really no way to tell.

haecceityon Data structures and algorithms I actually used while working at tech companies

Who implements AES? I thought everyone just copy paste from reference implementations.