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GossiTheDog, 18 days ago to random

For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

video/mp4

arialdo, 9 months ago to random

TIL of a testing approach called Concolic Testing, in which "symbolic execution is used in conjunction with an automated theorem prover". Wow.

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

arialdo, 6 months ago to mechanicalkeyboards

#MechanicalKeyboard Vendors search engine. Very well done! #keyboard

https://kbd.news/vendors

arialdo, 3 months ago to random

I'm surely pedantic, but I think that technical articles should have links that make it clear which source they target.

For example:

BAD
As you can read [here] and [here]

BETTER BUT STILL NOT IDEAL
As you can read about [monads] and [burritos].

BETTER
As you can read in [John Doe's Monads Tutorial] and [Making burritos by Mark Foo]

arialdo, 8 days ago to CSharp

Apparently, the fastest way to check if an enumerable contains at least 2 elements in #csharp is:

xs.Skip(2).Any()

Unbelievably faster than:

xs.Take(2).Count() == 2

or a foreach list with a counter.

arialdo, 1 year ago to random

Protesilaos Stavrou: #Emacs: spontaneous live stream today (2023-05-06) at 11:30 Europe/Athens time

https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2023-05-06-live-stream-general-emacs/

arialdo, 10 months ago to random

It seems that everywhere “engineer” became synonym of “programmer“.
Too bad.

arialdo, 2 months ago to random

Just published: Boolean Blindness

https://arialdomartini.github.io/boolean-blindness

"A Prolog programmer is delivering a baby.
The mother asks, “Is it a boy or a girl?”
and the Prolog programmer says: “Yes”."

arialdo, 1 year ago to random

Evil #Emacs users have now the change to be diabolical with Devil

https://github.com/susam/devil

arialdo, 1 year ago to random

Just discovered mg, formerly known as microGnuEmacs. a 200KB an #Emacs like tiny editor.

arialdo, 1 month ago to firefox

#Mailchimp dumps #Firefox? Good reason to dump Mailchimp

arialdo, 1 year ago to random

My dream programming language

https://github.com/TodePond/DreamBerd

arialdo, 11 months ago to emacs

With support of Protesilaos, I managed to have #Emacs working with #fsharp.

In the next weeks I'm trying to use Emacs as my main IDE. I'm very curious to see where this will take me.

I mean, using 2 of my most loved technologies together, so excited!

arialdo, 11 months ago to random

Duplication is the root of all evil.

Or:

Every copy/paste is a lost opportunity for abstraction.

arialdo, 10 months ago to forth

I started reading this post by @ratfactor thinking it was solely about #forth, only to discover it's a mine of information and anecdotes about the story of computing, lambda calculus and combinators.

A joy to read

https://ratfactor.com/forth/the_programming_language_that_writes_itself.html

arialdo, 2 months ago to random

I love this definition by Eugunia Cheng:

“Pedantry is precision that does not increase clarity“

arialdo, 10 months ago to vim

Bram was by far the most prolific contributor to Vim (70x commits compared to 2nd prolific contributor).

https://github.com/vim/vim/graphs/contributors?from=2004-06-13&to=2023-08-05&type=c

With his departure, I wonder if this means the end of #Vim as we know it, with #Neovim taking over as the successor.

What do you think?

arialdo, 7 months ago to random

Never understood how companies continue calling their people "resources" and think this can be appreciated.

arialdo, 24 days ago to random

Current status: reading The Book of Monads

https://leanpub.com/book-of-monads

arialdo, 30 days ago to emacs

#emacs as your next #fsharp IDE

https://arialdomartini.github.io/emacs-fsharp

arialdo, 3 months ago to random

One of the funniest algorithms I stumbled upon. Genius as much as Sleep Sort

https://www.timwarriner.com/carddata/

arialdo, 1 year ago to random

Have I seriously used Postman all these years?

https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el #Emacs

arialdo, 6 months ago to random

Please, don't use medium.com to publish your articles. Please.

arialdo, 1 month ago to random

How would you write a test to verify that the function

shuffleList xs

returns the list xs with shuffled items?
Even more generally, how to write tests of functions having to do with randomicity?

arialdo, 4 days ago to random

How
Much
I
Hate
YAML
Based
Build
Pipelines