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by 0xfffafaCrash 4y ago
The judge seems irrational. Both arguments mentioned here are flatly wrong. It is demonstrably false that Apple not including the adapter ”obliged the consumer to purchase a second product of its exclusive manufacture”. The number of people
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by 0xfffafaCrash 5y ago
A lot of people don’t seem to be aware that there are a bunch of excellent runtime validation libraries that one can use to encode runtime validation checks which produce the typescript types for you (so you rarely have to write ”T is Cat”
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by 0xfffafaCrash 6y ago
Sorry but forensic ”expertise” in the court room has always been laughable. In ”full view of the judge and jury” means absolutely nothing when these people are completely scientifically illiterate and defer to the so called expert who has a
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by 0xfffafaCrash 6y ago
It's a "flat design" vector art style inspired by the work of the Memphis Group that's called "Corporate Memphis" primarily by critics. While Hacker News is apparently too sophisticated to be condescended to wi
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by 0xfffafaCrash 6y ago
Indeed, as the article states: > ... the contagiousness of the virus isn’t a fixed biological constant. It’s the result of the biology of the virus interacting with human biology, with our environments, with our society. As seasons chang
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by 0xfffafaCrash 6y ago
ISPs charge onerous prices already and they often have local monopolies enforced by local governments and public utilities (which create artificially high regulatory barriers to entry to eliminate competition [0]) as opposed to dominant mar
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by 0xfffafaCrash 6y ago
Do esoteric programming languages count? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_languag... There’s also a fairly huge subculture of abusing things such as Turing completeness (e.g. in CSS) to make tools a
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by 0xfffafaCrash 6y ago
It might hurt his reputation to have left at a time like this, but I imagine not necessarily any worse than his reputation would wind up being if he stuck around at the helm for a pawn in a game between the US and Chinese governments. If an
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by 0xfffafaCrash 6y ago
In Sweden, BankID covers well over 90% of the population between ages 20 and 60 with a unique electronic ID. (Including 98% of those between 20 and 40.) It supports identifying yourself with a credit card and pin using a card reader given t
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by 0xfffafaCrash 6y ago
Look, if the marketing for oatly just focused entirely and explicitly on the cruelty of the dairy industry that they are competing against, they would never be a successful alternative to dairy because most consumers don’t respond positivel
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by 0xfffafaCrash 6y ago
JS is really fast assuming you don’t do anything in JS is not a convincing argument for this. My point is that if you are using JS as a wrapper for a big black box of gpu computations that are close to the metal then you are not really usin
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by 0xfffafaCrash 6y ago
Javascript is now fast in the sense that V8 is good enough at the things you are likely to do in the browser or in a typical node server. The very example in this link of how a matrix of random numbers is to be generated is an absolute joke
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by 0xfffafaCrash 6y ago
This is cool and I am glad it exists as someone who works with nodejs often, but if you’re doing heavy server side computations where serious parallelization is actually important, I’m a little skeptical that investing in having those compu
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by 0xfffafaCrash 6y ago
While it's not the selling point politically, I think those lobbying for things like this are very much happy with any monoculture that results. With services like Google News, people can get exposed to news from various media outlets,
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by 0xfffafaCrash 6y ago
While it's certainly not the case everywhere, the truth is that a lot of software development needs out there aren't terribly challenging to get to a "good enough" state from a business value perspective. This is exacerb
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by 0xfffafaCrash 6y ago
Almost no full stack developers are expected to work with assembly (unless explicitly stated) so that seems more than a little hyperbolic. Full-stack in its common usage doesn't mean "everything and nothing." People might dis
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by 0xfffafaCrash 6y ago
I was pretty clear about my stance on Brave in the first three words of my comment, but I'm skeptical of any interpretation of user privacy which is so eager to excuse sending user browsing history without asking as not "shady&quo
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by 0xfffafaCrash 6y ago
Brave is trash, but to say Firefox hasn't done shady things is a bit of joke after the whole incident where they sent full site URLs and interaction data over to Cliqz's servers for a random sampling of users in Germany while bein
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by 0xfffafaCrash 6y ago
I wish I could say the same, but nearly half of the teams I've worked with on web development go exclusively with .js because it's been pushed by prominent members of the React community for "ergonomics"[0] (which here
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by 0xfffafaCrash 6y ago
One of the problems with the js community is the idea that it is a good idea to name just about anything that is js-ish in a file with a .js extension. I love Dan Abramov, but I think a large part of the blame for this can be placed on his
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by 0xfffafaCrash 6y ago
This is called permission marketing and was advocated for most prominently by Seth Godin starting in the late 90’s. Unfortunately for every person in marketing who like Seth Godin cares even a little about things like privacy and consent, t
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by 0xfffafaCrash 6y ago
Low official case numbers in Sweden are meaningless. They made a strategic decision not to track untested cases which would be presumed COVID-19 cases in most countries and they perform an almost negligible number of tests in Sweden which a
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by 0xfffafaCrash 7y ago
The idea that a company on the scale of Meetup could be effectively run by 5 people in a basement strikes me as completely absurd. I've seen similar comments about companies like Twitter, YouTube, Spotify, and even Facebook and I'
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by 0xfffafaCrash 7y ago
There has been an EU court ruling on this exact question of whether dynamic IP addresses count as personal data even in contexts where the website operator in question does not have the means to associate it with an individual but another p
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by 0xfffafaCrash 7y ago
Taylor Swift signed a deal with a record label instead of being an independent artist because it seemed (and possibly was) advantageous at the time and now that she is rich and famous and doesn't need the label, she no longer wants to
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by 0xfffafaCrash 7y ago
Using bitcoin to purchase goods and services would be a taxable event, but is there really a clear case that using a tumbler is a taxable event? On what grounds?
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by 0xfffafaCrash 7y ago
Disallowing these case/underscore variants from referring to differing values could be quite ok -- even a plus-- if (but only if) an additional rule is added to disallow any variations of the declaration-time casing for a variable with
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by 0xfffafaCrash 7y ago
What gave you this idea? I've attempted to find corroborating evidence online and am coming up blank.
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by 0xfffafaCrash 7y ago
That may be true, but I believe the information hackernews collects is still enough to be potentially personally identifiable. This makes we wonder if the inability to delete here might be at odds with GDPR compliance in the EU.
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by 0xfffafaCrash 7y ago
> Myth #11: Instead of merging / into /usr it would make a lot more sense to merge /usr into /. > Fact: This would make the separation between vendor-supplied OS resources and machine-specific even worse, thus maki

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