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Ah, I see. Yes that doesn't seem to be so common.

For some reason this contains fi and fl ligatures, which look pretty odd on a monospaced font:

http://imgur.com/4tJkbaK

In most fonts the italic "a" is as you describe. (Like a truncated "d".)

Is there any particular reason why that piece never uses the phrase "wind turbine"? That's actually what it is, right?

A small amount of video from the test event:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/78468512/Weaponis...

The umpire carries a shield and a hand axe!

There's also a few other videos on a YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/user/UnifiedWeaponsMaster/videos

github.com's security-related headers (content-security-policy, strict-transport-security, public-key-pins) add up to 1383 bytes. That will compress, but it's starting to add up…

Is there any reasonable way to verify that end-to-end encryption is actually being used, and used correctly? From a user's point of view the app looks and works exactly the same as before, except for the addition of a QR code which could be doing anything.

That's a reasonable position, but that's not what the argument for cancelling the conference was.

The argument was that the speaker's presence would threaten the "physical and emotional safety of its attendees and speakers." This appears to be completely unsupported by the facts.

Amazingly there's things even the Chuck Norris of programming doesn't know:

http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet?tab=questions

He's only asked 39 questions (about one for every 1000 answers), but I'm charmed by the fact that they're real questions, usually not particularly esoteric or "advanced". Turns out even Jon Skeet needs to ask how to "efficiently fetch a Mercurial change log in TeamCity."

I suppose something that's unlikely to ever 404, and on a CDN that's "fast" for folks everywhere in the world would be best, so upload.wikimedia.org is a good choice.

The speedtest http://webkay.robinlinus.com/scripts/speedtest.js downloads a 5mb file from http://www.kenrockwell.com/contax/images/g2/examples/3112003....

You might want to change that to something on a big company CDN to avoid killing kenrockwell.com's server.

That post also suggests two things that Tor could do to improve the situation for their users:

* Support a stronger hashing algorithm to make it possible for CloudFlare to make .onion versions of all of their customers' sites. * Implement "client-side" CAPTCHAs.

I don't how feasible either of these are, but it seems strange (evasive?) that Tor Project's blog post does not discuss either.

On update, can you send email to the purported author, telling them they've updated the package? (Similar to those "you have logged into some site from a new computer" emails.)

An easy way to undo a publish would also be useful.

> The program committee feel that we cannot possibly organize a workshop under the umbrella of a conference that values the free expression of racist and fascist views over the physical and emotional safety of its attendees and speakers…

From reading the link, I would assume that no "racist and fascist views" will be aired or otherwise expressed at the conference: it's a technical conference, it's against the pledge of conduct, and in addition the organizers sought out a public statement from the speaker "clearly stating the speaker’s views on violence," which they duly got. Do you not believe them?

"If Alice tosses a coin until she sees a head followed by a tail, and Bob tosses a coin until he sees two heads in a row, then on average, Alice will require four tosses while Bob will require six tosses (try this at home!), even though head-tail and head-head have an equal chance of appearing after two coin tosses."

How does this work?

He's found quite a few different bugs:

https://hackerone.com/anand786 https://www.facebook.com/whitehat/thanks (listed 2015, 2014, 2013)

If you connect your card to Apple Pay you get an immediate notification every time your card is charged (might depend on the bank), which is useful for detecting this sort of thing.

Actually I'm not sure why Apple Pay should be necessary--if you have the bank's app installed that should generate notifications on "purchase" as well.

Fisherman has a lovely website and even docs, but what does it actually do? The list of plugins is not very impressive, many of which seem to be placeholders that don't do anything at all (see the "plugins" with numeric names):

https://github.com/fishery

You're still secure if you use https. If neither your computer nor the host you're connecting to has been tampered with, then you're safe irrespective of what's happening between.

I'm puzzled by the name too. How was the Credit Union funded? I'm assuming no archive.org money went into it--?

I once read a story (I think in the Washington Post) about two people meeting up in similar circumstances sometime in the 60s or 70s, and then, when parting, promising to meet again at a specific location and time far into future.

And so after decades, one party went to the arranged meeting point with great anticipation having told their family about the story, etc. But the other party didn't turn up. Eventually the reporter tracked them down, and they couldn't remember anything about the original meeting.

Unfortunately, I've never been able to find this story again, despite spending quite some time looking! But, going by this story, I think it's quite possible that often when something like this happens it's far more significant to one person than the other, partly because some people have more drama in their lives than others.

> I got the impression that Homebrew wanted to own /usr/local rather than sharing it with other software

This is still accurate. Homebrew creates/manages /usr/local/.git. /usr/local/.gitignore starts with /* which is … not conventional.

Is this also related to why you can't rename /usr/local to /usr/local.old? (To do a fresh install of homebrew into /usr/local.)

  $ sudo mv local local.old
  mv: rename local to local.old: Operation not permitted

The upgrade changes the permissions of all files within /usr/local to root:wheel.

In another comment femto113 points out that provided there's enough credit card fares drivers can keep all of the cash they receive, with Uber taking their cut via the credit card transactions. (However, it looks like Uber's cut is 20%, so it doesn't look like there's enough to make this balance out completely.)

Wait, so how does the driver pay Uber their cut? They have to deliver the cash to the Uber depot? And what happens if they get robbed on the way? (Or say they did?)

Any image showing the diff between this and Source Code Pro? (The "preview" in the README doesn't actually work.)

Is this using the "beta" italic that Adobe have been working on, or something else?

https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro/issues/6

It can be password protected, though.

Note that GitHub itself does create useful diffs of images:

https://github.com/cameronmcefee/Image-Diff-View-Modes/commi...

More: https://github.com/blog/817-behold-image-view-modes