justaaron

what about setting a secure cookie with a jwt, and expiring it when you log-out? what is the utility in server-sessions? (aside from the ability to revoke it at any time from the server.)

I had the exact opposite experience. I only began to grok a lot of the STEM stuff once I took up regular weed smoking, around the age of 16-18. I did note an initial period in which it was disorienting and novel to be "high", but this subsided. It helps me focus, It helps me cognate by reducing the noise and allowing me to be interested in whatever I put in front of my face. There is a euphoric effect upon taking a puff off the pipe that never goes away (not in over 30 years so far...) This euphoria is associated with learning, focus, getting work done, and a generally positive work cycle of reward. I do not own a television. I have many hobbies, and managed to live from performing original music in over 50 countries for approximately a decade. I study API's and tutorials after dev work before sleeping... I've never been able to be a couch potato, although online social activity (what is this? expression? I'm not sure...useless for sure...) certainly robs a lot of my time and I wish I would have the self-discipline to get away more, so that's all for now lol :D

devise an alternative to "proof of work" blockchain ledgers.

cryptocurrencies are sucking down electricity at a rate larger than many nations, and all for literally doing NOTHING useful...

(majorly non eco activity...)

paywall source material alert...

microcontrollers... arduino seems to be a popular smoothed-over platform/IDE/ecosystem that's friendly to beginners.

The actual C++ is largely hidden and one deals with statements inside one of a few preset event handlers in an event-loop...

because it is very difficult to type this instead?

ssh -L 21234:localhost:1234 bob@server.com

I will confess that I googled it numerous times until one day I realized how silly and obvious it was and now it's burned into my brain...

crystal

https://crystal-lang.org/

You all surely must be aware of the only existing completely functioning FOSS FPGA toolchain, right?

http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/

and even featuring a gui app built on top of it! https://icestudio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

GPL2 vs GPL3

I won't read paywalled content, but this articles title wins an award for punniness

But no, Google news is not ignoring or de-prioritizing their filth-cum-journalism.

I am obviously not their target reader, and yet my news.google.com feed contains plenty of Fox propaganda.

Google obviously has no qualms about a "moron tax"

sheesh, look at Youtube. it's full of alt-right tripe.

I should bloody well hope that anyone with a brain has a bias against astro-turf fake-populist wanna-be dictators.

We owe no consideration to deliberately-destructive trolls seeking to undermine all notions of civility and social progress merely to feed Rupert Murdochs empire of faeces further banquet tables full of roasted dead orphans.

Breitbart, OTOH, is precisely a harmful entity seeking to undermine all that is decent and good.

It seems to have a heavy "gamer" bias.

Nonsense. I was homeless exactly once for a few weeks in San Francisco.

It took a loan from my sister (hey, lucky I had a sister with money to loan me!) to get one of those rooms in a shared building where you aren't allowed to have guests and the kitchen cupboards have padlocks on them.

You NEED an address to get anything more than one-off day work that you can't count on to pay the next months rent with. It's not optional.

I did the one-off "go to a construction site, ask if they need help, get 20 bucks for cleaning the work site" thing and that's fine for EATING but that's about it. You can't send resumes out or get back to recruiters during that time, etc. It's enough to keep eating, that's about it.

At that time the rent was like $380 for the room (this was in the Multimedia Gulch days...) so that's like 11 bucks a day for rent, don't miss a day.

So, in one day of programming, I would make rent for the month and then some, but I needed to have a place with a computer to program.

So today, you have laptops, but you still need electricity and internet. You need a stable place where you can plug your stuff in, keep it safe, and work.

Note that this website is "hacker news". His efforts are correctly directed and he will likely eventually get the development work he should get. Someone will see the potential, risk a minor investment, and employ him.

Directing him to ag-work here is somewhat of a non-sequitur IMO

try being homeless and getting that landscaping job.

Getting out of homelessness is extremely difficult. You smell, you can't keep your stuff safe, you can't keep your devices powered on, you can't get constant internet, you may not be able to find a place to sit and work in peace, etc.

It's a catch 22: without a job, no apartment. without an apartment, no job. you need a phone, an apartment/living space, internet, and electricity in order to work as a programmer.

I disagree. 1) the author is a programmer. programming pays better than most jobs.

2) the vast majority of jobs will vet for the same "stability indicators" and may even be more of sticklers than the culturally lassez-faire tech industry, which introduced casual fridays to the world.

3) did I mention the superior remuneration for programming jobs versus stacking boxes at Amazon.com warehouses or UPS?

I doubt that the author is "above" other work, as he mentioned doing yard work in exchange for housing at one friends place. This is a tech web site where many tech fiends read "news" items, such as this.

Someone hook this human up with some gainful employment and attempt to assist him in auto-stabilizing. He sounds like he would be a real asset given a relatively small investment.

FWIW, I can't think of any other country this is possible in besides the USA.

webpack and the entire "modern" js frontend...

all because of an inability to manage versioning change across the standard browser js api...

great for a giant megacorp looking to waste money on busywork and divide the workload across more employees (front-end devops?!?)

less useful when you already have to compile a backend, don't really have a problem with ES5, and understand that you are basically only tasked with making your dom updates dependent upon data model changes, YMMV

excellent

I'm touch-typing what my OS thinks is an American keyboard layout on a German keyboard. Physical muscle memory counts for a lot more than mere efficiency, in my book. However, if I were to need to switch to a different layout for physical health reasons, I have no doubt that my brain would adapt, as it's the initial part that is difficult, in that regard.

this is very cool! any idea what sort of gate-count we are looking at for synthesizing the VHDL? I'm not familiar with the Intel FPGA you refer to on the docs for the VHDL implementation:

https://github.com/mbitsnbites/mrisc32/tree/master/mrisc32-a...

preloaded with windows... next

"officer, they abused me by pushing heternormative beauty standards upon me"

some people like porn. different people like different porn. some people like to get spanked...

brilliant.

guitar player from U2

that is SOOOOOOooooo cool!

...to say nothing of wars on emotions that result in being stuck in afghanistan over a decade and a half later to the cumulative tune of roughly 5-7 trillion dollars in loans called appropriations that are still getting kicked down the road like a rusty can, but I digress...

re: nerve cheek gall = the 717 billion dollar leech that sells fear and trades in boots-on-the-ground vs dead-locals erm 'collateral damage' could stand to ditch it's entrepreneurial approach to global corporate empire and perhaps consider scaling back, vs bankrupting it's host or openly admitting it's mercenary nature...

oh the nerve, the cheek, the gall...

and it's also paywalled... so, let's avoid enriching the worlds richest man any further, shall we?