back
user profile
dmit
6,674karma·537submissions·February 21, 2011
recent activity (537 total)
comment
This is the perfect moment to mention that Ron Gilbert's new game Thimbleweed Park is coming out this summer. https://thimbleweedpark.com/ …
comment
Not to mention that you can verify the Luhn checksum on CC numbers and immediately catch ~90% of all typos (and 100% of single-digit typos). Don't even need a server call.
comment
ncr = No Country Redirect Previously used by google.com too, seems to be ignored now. https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/873 …
comment
Here's a more or less faithful translation of the first solution to JavaScript: https://jsfiddle.net/zhrpm8su/2/ …
comment
Agreed on usefulness of random access. Here's a couple more links on seekable gzip compression: http://lh3.github.io/2014/07/05/random-access-to-zlib-compre... ht…
comment
Here's a more recent comment that describes the evolution of this feature:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10705926 …
comment
Similar tool for Rust: https://github.com/Ticki/dybuk
comment
Which formula did you use? There are various approximations. Although I got ~43 years using the one from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_attack#Source_code_ex... julia…
comment
Numeric literals in Go are untyped until they need to be. https://blog.golang.org/constants
comment
Look, all things considered I like that we have someone like esr. He's an important figure in the history of software engineering. Whatever my opinion of his software output might be, that doesn&…
comment
Most likely explanation: Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon. Slightly less likely: modern Haskell distills some ideas that have proven to be beneficial to software projects regardless of the language(s) they c…
comment
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6820 > A couple of stories by Charles Babcock and (my coincidentally old friend) Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols have mentioned the existence of an ‘NTPsec’ pr…
comment
This is a bit disingenuous and you probably know it. Not everything in the world is about startups, and OpenBSD would do just fine without the recent Internet security news. Can you really blame a pro…
comment
My bad, I wasn't completely precise. The claim is he has one of the most precise NTP clocks, which was relevant to this discussion. https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2716278 …
comment
>> I have not looked closely at ntimed but I have little doubt it is high-quality work, probably as good as anything I am capable of producing, possibly better. Ok, that is just precious. =) O…
comment
Interesting, this and phk's ntimed are both sponsored by the Linux Foundation. I guess it makes sense on some level to have concurrent projects that tackle the same problem from different directi…