denis bider

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My favorite breakfast

Covid-19 from a spiritual perspective

Covid-19: Stream of recent data points supports the iceberg hypothesis

Biden vs. Trump: Sex Predator vs. Sex Predator 2020

Ergonomic keyboards: Microsoft Sculpt vs. Logitech Ergo K860

Seth on hate with respect to love

Pura vida, my ass: 5 years in Costa Rica and all I got was this lousy T-shirt

We already live in a society based on love

denis tries to teach foreign policy

Reinventing wheels: A better, sliding-matrix diff algorithm

Reinventing wheels: A straightforward, two-pass diff algorithm

My beloved aunt and her All-Adoption

Forced-birth activists as paperclip maximizers

AI can change scenery, can't fix suffering

"Support" incompetence at Amazon (and elsewhere)

What's wrong with computing?

The case for SSH over UDP

Water heater does not work, but no fuses are blown and all circuit breakers seem closed?

Life continues, not begins, at conception

GDP and the rate of predation: Why can't we protect ALL of the innocent?

Your silly email parser is not good enough

Facebook predictions: The campaign against Zuckerberg is about message control

Simple things that do not work in the US

Redditors with absolute powers

Faux stoicism of the confused libertarian / Trumpian variety

Dunning-Kruger effect in academic subjects without test of truth

We kept it gray

The five principles of negotiation (for young adults)

Missing web security feature: Signed web assets with browser validation

Samsung Galaxy: Buggy alerts in both Samsung and Google Calendar

Thoughts on Bitcoin - and why I cashed out of BTC at $18k

Mudanzas Mundiales: 82 days to move things from Costa Rica to Texas

Left vs. right: reason and compassion vs. blind principles

The "woo" of physicalists

IBM Trusteer Rapport is crap-ware

For sale: 4-bedroom condo in San José, Costa Rica!

On the Google vs. James Damore controversy

"It's hard work to suffer."

Libertarianism in bullet points

Is morality fundamentally objective?

Why I no longer like libertarians

Microsoft Office: Command Prompt window flashes every hour

Rust is beautiful

Limitations of Central-American pronunciation

"May prosper all the nations"

Righteous predators

The $20 billion puppy, and "The buck stops with you"

Rationalists and control fetishists

Is the internet ready for DMARC with p=reject?

Lock-step refactoring

Loyalty to group vs. principle

Limitations of single-payer health care

Why software patents are counter-productive

Fear: An account of terror on top of a coal stack; by Franc Bider

Code generation bug with new optimizer in Visual Studio 2015 Update 3

The barren rockscape and the Garden of the Mind

The benefit of some kind of authority

On the desirable properties of a programming language

"Hello world" in LLVM IR language without CRT

Over-education and free college

Libertarian confusions

The Louis Vuitton theory of happy marriage

CamelCase vs. underscore_case

Against signed integer types

"Unreachable" beauty standards

Socialism and libertarianism: The two idiots

The rats' race and the pie in the sky

Masters don't need

Limited empathy and large out-groups

Crappy gaming laptops recap

Scott Adams' Trump argument, and improving democracy

Barva kože in karibska idila: najine izkušnje iz St. Kittsa

The Overrated Compass

Most people are no good at long-term planning

Musicians "saving" the world

Transaction ethics as root of social/libertarian disagreement

Survey of SSL/TLS use in SMTP mail exchangers

Republicanism is fascism

The doghouse: Vagaries of the Excel COM interface

"auto" considered (often) harmful

Our bitching and moaning: Why the Middle East cannot have peace

The advantages of Seq, and the demerits of std::string const&

Can we stop with this idiocy of private courts?

On Daylight Saving Time

Modern-day pyramid building

Spec author "fixes mistake", wastes everyone's man-year

This ex-libertarian endorses Sanders

When monospace fonts aren't: The Unicode character width nightmare

C++ Relocator proposal

Acetaminophen (paracetamol, Tylenol) more toxic than thought

Apple design is anti-nerd

Science, spirituality, and the limits of the materialist paradigm

The ethics of non-consensual monogamy: coercion and dead bedrooms

How the Yugoslav army dealt with liabilities

Ossification and Hawaii: Impressions of a C++ working group

Love and function

"Good, traditional" traits

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