P/V/F confusion is also a thing, in Indonesia.

V and F tend to be pronounced as P. And if you pronounce the letter "correctly", some Indonesians might not recognize the word. They've never heard it this way.

PP could have been more clear and say syntax-rules (note the dash), which means macros. Macros are usually considered an advanced topic.

Qualities or activities that have negative connotations. Guile. Gauche. Larceny. Racket.

I think it started with theorem provers - Planner, Conniver. Then Scheme[r].

  Ctrl/H - Backspace
  Ctrl/J - Line Feed
  Ctrl/K - Upline
  Ctrl/L - Forward Space

https://archive.org/download/lear-siegler-adm-3-a/Lear_Siegl...

This weakens their claim "we don't contact users", because it makes it look like they do.

Dedicated UI, like bottom sheets, snackbars, etc., doesn't have this problem.

I never really thought about it until I saw this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45993140

The only place I've encountered where they are visible by default and do get in the way is bash filename completion, and you can change this via the readline config file:

  # ~/.inputrc:
  set match-hidden-files off

Is this kind of test - many short questions - a standard thing for math in your country?

My university exams were pretty much all "2-question", in 90 minutes.

The first half was an essay where you have to reproduce a lesson from the curriculum, in your own words.

The second half was "the formulas" - you have to develop one or two formulas from first principles.

I once got an A- even though I got "the formulas" half very wrong. As the teacher explained later, I simply chose the coordinate system beginning at not the same place the textbook did. And this was supposed to be a bad teacher - he actually gave Ds to almost all of us (180 people). This was a makeup exam.

You will hear only crickets.

Adding the slightest friction, and making potential drama 1:1 only, demotivates most people.

You might miss out on an occasional good feedback, though.

Using different delimiter for opening and closing is a good idea on its own, too. I think it makes parsing simpler and unambiguous wrt nesting.

I've imagined something like this:

  `(monospace)
  _(underline)
  /(italics)
  ~(overstrike)

The proposed solution:

> Instead of loading secrets from a file, you use a wrapper script that fetches secrets from a secure store and injects them as environment variables into your process

Now they sit "on disk" as plaintext, in /proc/self/environ, still readable by any process running as your user.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Pacnew_and_Pacsave

Sadly, yeah. And will do anything only if they believe they can actually be caught.

An EU-wide bank I used to be customer of until recently, supported login with Qualified Electronic Signatures, but only if your dongle supports... SHA-1. Mine didn't. It's been deprecated at least a decade ago.

A government-certified identity provider made software that supposedly allowed you to have multiple such electronic signatures plugged in, presenting them in a list, but if one of them happened to be a YubiKey... crash. YubiKey conforms to the same standard as the PIV modules they sold, but the developers made some assumptions beyond the standard. I just wanted their software not to crash while my YubiKey is plugged in. I reported it, and they replied that it's not their problem.

Which key bindings are you referring to?

It's not a trap, I promise! Just fishing for ideas.

>Citation needed.

https://sgx.fail

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Guard_Extensions#List...

> If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

> https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/14/sole-and-despotic/#world-...

This is a case of Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere - https://indieweb.org/POSSE