There's nothing malwareish about the source and binaries package I downloaded, nor about the version from Arch AUR I'm actually running.
Your Brave may be objecting to the absense of https. Mine only states the obvious "Not secure" in the address bar.
This is the one thing above all else which has kept me off Go. Tentatively comment out a line or two and the whole compilation process may come crashing down because now you have a declared but unused variable, and mere warnings apparently aren't Gestapo enough in this particular universe. You then find and comment out the offending declaration, only for the compilation to die in flames again because now you reference a never declared variable. It gets tiresome after a while.
Completely different beasts. Busybox is a tight, lightweight implementation of [a subset of] the Posix toolchain. This thing - also tight and lightweight - is a collection of commands primarily geared towards manipulation of file names and contents. Highly un-unixy (more like "do all sorts of things and do them well") but with clear, straightforward, non-arcane syntacs.
I had a pile of somewhat complex text transformations I needed to perform, and was getting headaches just contemplating the hodge-podge of cat and grep and find and awk and sed and regex and stackoverflow and kilometers of pipes I would be getting into, not being much of a wizard with such things, so went looking for something a bit less daunting. Found this, and within in an hour had a working script which I am fairly certain I will also be able to read and understand a year from now.
Noone can gurantee any specific uptime. Any projection for the future, however qualified and propable, is still only a projection. GMail could go down tomorrow, for 24 hours or forever. (Not, of course, that such optimism is in way warranted).
As I remember it from nearly 25 years ago, with was a safe and straightforward construct to use, as long as you kept it within manageable scopes. Great for saving an extra dereference inside some monster loop when the microseconds really counted.
> Let's say you need a short segment of DNA to randomly pop into existence
But do you?
If elements A and B tend to form compound A-B, and compound A-B can attach a further set of A and B, forming B-A-B-A which under certain circumstances will split into A-B and A-B, you have basic reproduction, and perhaps the occasional presence of element C will expedite the process. Game of life.
In my [very] layman's view of the world, given a billion years or two, some such infinitely simple process should be enough to get the ball rolling, as long as it can somehow produce an ever so slightly errorprone copy.
Would of course be an obvious location for our erstwhile cosmic mentors to place their easter egg monolith. They may know in only four years that we found it.
Alternatively, if we really are hearing native Proxomitrons, that'll be the clearest cue imaginable that life is abundant absolutely everywhere.
Please let it not be some unshielded box of cheap electronics in the observatory basement.
Make that 30 years, early sixties, and about 75 kg, and it's me, except I've always absolutely loathed running.
I'm in fine shape, thank you, and my experience in general very much resembles yours.
Came here to say that. A distant runner-up would be the murder by rubber gun and scarab beetle figurine in Murder Must Advertise, same author, same Lord Peter Wimsey.
Entirely my take, minus the irony. I hugely dislike driving with an armed boxing glove in front of me. A boxing glove originally put there for the benefit of people not inclined to wear a seatbelt. The vast majority of traffic accidents I see (and I drive 8 - 10 hours every day) are entirely self-inflicted. Too much speed, too little distance, no focus on the road ahead and the rear view mirror.
You have to love this HN crowd. Here's Bill Watterson being lectured on what he - cartoonwise - threw away and which opportunities he missed. More is better. He just never got the memo.
Beg your pardon? G-Shocks come in a wide variety of designs and price ranges. At a glance, mine could easily pass for an F-91W - a cheap, digital watch about as far from pretence as it is possible to get. Durable, radio sync'ed, solar cell driven, and watertight down to some ridiculous level of pressure. Just about the most functional piece of hardware I have ever owned. The unflashiest of black boxes, just there when I need it, shows me the time to the second every time, no discussion about it. And it doubles as a signaler, a very neat expression of who I am or at least would like to be. I wouldn't swap it for a Rolex even if somebody gifted one on me.
> Morality did not occur in humans spontaneously. It must have had animal precedents. Ethologists such as Frans de Waal have discovered that some mammals, particularly monkeys and apes, show a rudimentary sense of fairness and inequity aversion
We share the house with several cats. And an old labrador.
One of the cats in particular appears to have a highly developed idea of fairness. She will get up and nonviolently intervene if she perceives someone getting too much of a rough deal. This can be inter-cat disputes or it may be labrador exuberance getting someone trod on or being hit by a wagging tail.
The thing is, she doesn't play favorites, not even with Julius the Lab who is otherwise the all conuming love of her life. The offending party gets told of, and generally listens.
The other thing is, she is nearly always completely in line with my own judgement on the given case. And appears to understand our commonality of thinking: She has on more than one occasion actively solicited my assitance if the ongoing confrontation has been a bit too loud and boisterous for her to tackle alone. Afterwards, I will unfailingly be treated to a short acknowledgment snuggle as thanks for the help.
I probably wouldn't believe this story if I heard it from someone else, and of course I've never managed to get anything on video. But it's real and absolutely amazing to watch.
Always surprising to see the amount of ire that GIMP can reliably call forward in threads like this.
I've used the thing privately and professionally for countless projects since 1997. Stuff for websites, photo material for several books, restauration work for museums and photo archives, colorizations, weirdo manipulations and just general fun. Have ventured into other software but always come back to GIMP, very quickly so in the case of Photoshop and its various equally useless Adobe siblings.
Yes, GIMP is clunky, and the gradual unclunking mostly seems to happen in geological timeframes, and there's the CMYK problem and the occasional trick which PS does better or smoother. So what? It has gotten the job done. Every time. Thousands of times over nearly 23 years. I raise my virtual paperhat to these dogged, reliable, persistent people. A birthday present will be forthcoming.
And as another Dane, I am digusted and have beeen for many years. Would that vis-a-vis mink farmers as a group this virus had a sense of poetic justice.
Thank you.
I am Danish, into coding, and living sort of just down the road from the quondam HQ of Regnecentralen where PBH worked, and yet I barely knew about the man, and much less his writings.
Also, everybody, do check out the entire site. Or sites, rather - there are subdomains, and the author present them as seperate constructs. Troves of stuff. Homepages like we used to know them before the world went bonkers.
According to me, and according to my professionel coder friends who work with the thing daily, it's cue tee.
Same way Tcl isn't tickle, PNG isn't ping, and LaTeX only grumplingly and with quite some self discipline on our side manages to remain la TECH. These jokes were marginally entertaining 30 years ago, tired by the turn of the century, and way past expiry today.
Feedbro on Firefox. Takes nicely care of my ~200 feeds, and without the friction of some external program having to launch the browser.
Tiny Tiny might be an option if the feature set has evolved to justify running a server somewhere. Last time I looked, it didn't, but that's years ago. And anyway, it's probably a good thing to have no feeds on my phone.