Hacker News: ignoranceprior

New comment by ignoranceprior in "Entire website in a single HTML file"

ignoranceprior — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 02:14:01 +0000

I wonder whether, upon clicking the links, there is any indication about the change in visible content.

New comment by ignoranceprior in "All hyped up for Hypercard: further adventures with an Apple legacy format"

ignoranceprior — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 00:07:54 +0000

Link should end with '.html', not '.htm':

http://www.art.net/studios/Hackers/Hopkins/Don/hyperlook/ind...

New comment by ignoranceprior in "The Bongcloud Attack"

ignoranceprior — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 00:55:14 +0000

If you are playing as white and know in advance black is going to play the bongcloud, then 2. Qh5 is forced mate.

i.e. 1. e4 e5 2. Qh5 Ke7 3. Qxe5#

New comment by ignoranceprior in "Ask HN: Why do Greek or Russian characters get URL encoded?"

ignoranceprior — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 00:15:45 +0000

I think technically a URL/URI is only supposed to contain ASCII characters, and certain things that expect URL input will want ASCII only. However, all modern browsers can convert from Unicode to punycode (in the domain name) and percent-encoding (in the path). So I don't really understand why browsers only let you copy the percent-encoded form easily.

New comment by ignoranceprior in "Ask HN: Why do Greek or Russian characters get URL encoded?"

ignoranceprior — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 00:02:43 +0000

Try going to e.g. https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A7%CF%81%CE%BF%CE%BD%CE%BF...

When visiting the page (at least on Firefox), the location bar displays the intended characters, but when copying it you get the percent-encoded form. If the reason for percent-encoding was just to make scams more obvious, shouldn't the form shown in the browser interface also be URL-encoded?

By the way, it seems like that is a much stronger argument when applied to domian names than when applied to the part of the URL after the slash.

New comment by ignoranceprior in "China blocks Wikimedia from entering World Intellectual Property Organization"

ignoranceprior — Sun, 10 Oct 2021 23:59:14 +0000

The USSR was not part of the Axis. Quite the opposite. (Although they did have a non-aggression pact with Germany before the start of the war, that did not last long.)

Which just goes to show that many Americans aren't really aware of how the Soviets were crucial to winning that war.

New comment by ignoranceprior in "Why does NARA post a language warning for Bill of Rights?"

ignoranceprior — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 21:00:51 +0000

They seem to have that warning on every single page of catalog.archives.gov. That solution seems much easier than figuring out whether each individual item requires a warning or not.

New comment by ignoranceprior in "Ask HN: Is Archive.today Down?"

ignoranceprior — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 03:10:47 +0000

archive.md works for me

New comment by ignoranceprior in "Ask HN: What are the disadvantages of using less popular TLDs like .sh or .xyz?"

ignoranceprior — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 17:15:24 +0000

- Non-tech-savvy users might not instantly recognize example.xyz as a domain name. When you discuss your site in person, you might have to explain the TLD, whereas with .com, .net, .org, this isn't an issue.

- If the same domain name but with a more popular TLD exists, people might accidentally go there instead.

- Some outdated validation code (such as a regex to match valid email addresses) might not recognize the TLD, especially if it's one of the long ones. I'm not sure if this problem actually exists, but it could.

New comment by ignoranceprior in "Software Dev Can't Be Automated – It’s a Creative Process with an Unknown Goal"

ignoranceprior — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 01:18:00 +0000

Relevant xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/1263/

New comment by ignoranceprior in "Kid Pix as a JavaScript App"

ignoranceprior — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 02:21:23 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin–Hall_distribution

New comment by ignoranceprior in "Why extraterrestrial life may not seem alien"

ignoranceprior — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 15:55:15 +0000

If Star Trek taught me anything, it's that most aliens look like humans, except for some bumps on their forehead. Hodgkin's Law of Parallel Planetary Development.

New comment by ignoranceprior in "Language records reveal a surge of cognitive distortions in recent decades"

ignoranceprior — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 22:20:11 +0000

I'd be curious to see how sentiment analysis of contemporary writing has changed over time. That would be easier to interpret than this metric too.

New comment by ignoranceprior in "GitHub Co-Pilot 404's"

ignoranceprior — Sat, 24 Jul 2021 22:57:08 +0000

https://copilot.github.com

New comment by ignoranceprior in "Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covid-19"

ignoranceprior — Sat, 24 Jul 2021 15:21:58 +0000

COVID might be the worst infectious disease in recent memory, but it is far from the worst disease in history.

New comment by ignoranceprior in "Ask HN: Which will come first 1B followers or 1T dollars?"

ignoranceprior — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 18:39:05 +0000

Ronaldo, the soccer/football player

New comment by ignoranceprior in "Ask HN: Will access to computational power be the next class struggle?"

ignoranceprior — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 16:30:47 +0000

Yeah, computational capital is just a special case of capital in general, albeit one that will likely be highly important going forward.

New comment by ignoranceprior in "Why GitHub Copilot is not a Treat for your Job"

ignoranceprior — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 15:38:02 +0000

"Treat for" or "Threat to"?

New comment by ignoranceprior in "RateOurCops – Like Yelp, but for Cops"

ignoranceprior — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 00:42:22 +0000

> Use old english language

Hwæt, weardmann! Hwæt is sēo ġedrēfednes?

New comment by ignoranceprior in "Google reports soaring attrition among Black women"

ignoranceprior — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 12:14:32 +0000

If I had to guess, I would say Black+ means anyone who has Black heritage, even if mixed. But it could be a sexual orientation thing too.