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by 9dev 10mo ago
If you generalise enough, all comparisons become useless: Sure, all Sapiens have common ancestors. That doesn’t take away from the wonder of imagining people thousands of years ago literally travelling across half the earth to settle somewh
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by 9dev 10mo ago
Well. A possible solution might be to limit the exposition to social media children have by creating a law, which is the topic of this thread?
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by 9dev 10mo ago
Again, you being right doesn’t change anything. This is the world we live in, and that means we need to work with what we have. Which includes inattentive parents.
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by 9dev 10mo ago
I trust the EU for one, yes, because it doesn't really have the capability or agencies to create massive databases on citizens. Aside from that, there's really a lot of research going on around zero knowledge proofs and verified c
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by 9dev 10mo ago
Don't project the contemporary US administration on other countries, please. Not everyone lives in a cynical regime.
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by 9dev 10mo ago
It’s not about wrongthought, but manipulation and deception, blended with advertisements exploiting child psychology, coupled with peer pressure.
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by 9dev 10mo ago
That sounds great in principle, but many parents are either not interested or present enough to do so, or themselves lack the skills for it.
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by 9dev 10mo ago
But then again, should the EU follow up with a similar policy, it could mandate the use of these checks and prevent/penalize ID photos. I’m very optimistic here.
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by 9dev 10mo ago
> It also ties a uniform ID to an account, simplifying tracking and surveillance by corporations and governments. That is by no means the only solution. A lot of work is happening in the area of cryptographically verified assertions; for
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by 9dev 10mo ago
The major headline in response over here in Europe was "the transatlantic relationship is dead now". It’s so confounding, and needlessly destructive.
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by 9dev 10mo ago
Ever played Horizon: Zero Dawn? He’s like a real-life version of Ted Faro
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by 9dev 10mo ago
Haven’t got the memo? Everything computing is AI now. If you want to sell it, that is.
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by 9dev 10mo ago
Both, kind of. The demand to have at least a rough estimate when something will be available is justified IMHO—other departments obviously need to maintain their own timelines and schedule work that depends on output from engineering. Also,
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by 9dev 10mo ago
Sure you can move the goalposts here, but OP clearly meant to say software tasks cannot be estimated because people only work on novel problems, since everything else is "not worth doing" (what a massively privileged thing to say
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by 9dev 10mo ago
All of that is besides the point. People need to estimate their tasks if their managers want them to, and no amount of philosophical navel-gazing will change that.
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by 9dev 10mo ago
> As you say, worthwhile software is usually novel. This is an interesting assumption. I’d argue that the overwhelming majority of software is the most boring LoB CRUD apps you can imagine, and not novel at all. Yet, people need to estim
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by 9dev 10mo ago
That's a double-edged sword, though. Those tax dollars don't just pay for the license, but for ongoing development, responsibility for security issues, support contracts, emergency personnel, and so on. With a purely Open Source s
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by 9dev 10mo ago
Heavens, thank you. It’s like people assume genius when RMS wiggles his little toe and wonder what grand intellectual insight might have moved Him to do so.
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by 9dev 10mo ago
What I would like to learn is how to implement arbitrary client-chosen idempotency keys for public HTTP APIs to avoid duplicate requests. Stripe does this, for example; but other than keeping a record of every single request ever received,
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by 9dev 10mo ago
That’s 600 lives still. Seems absurd to not do something that has no negative but only positive outcomes.
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by 9dev 10mo ago
A while ago the developer of Mela showed up in a comment here on HN, and I’ve been in love with that app ever since: https://mela.recipes Not only has it a built-in recipe browser that will immediately extract the recipe from we
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by 9dev 10mo ago
It’s amazing how similar legislation is to software engineering in that regard: It all comes down to managing complexity. A good law is achieving its effect with as little special case handling in as few lines as possible while covering mos
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by 9dev 10mo ago
That wasn’t as complicated as the title would have made me think!
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by 9dev 10mo ago
Could improve the flow by going public.EMPLOYEE, otherwise a thing of sheer beauty
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by 9dev 10mo ago
A better solution would be to make taxes and parking cost relative to vehicle size/weight. Want a big SUV? Pay 4x the taxes and hefty parking fees. Drive a small, electric commuter vehicle? Half the tax, reduced parking.
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by 9dev 10mo ago
And how exactly fixes that pedestrian deaths? But I know your answer; put people not driving a car into jail too, right? Eliminate sidewalks too, use the space for an additional lane. Exiting your car anywhere except in parking lots and pri
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by 9dev 10mo ago
Buses and trains decrease the number of cars on the road by pooling travellers. Ambulances and fire trucks serve a purpose beyond making individuals travel comfortably. This is a straw man.
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by 9dev 10mo ago
> car design is probably a small factor That probably is doing a lot of work here. A truck with a driver sitting so high above the street they can't physically see a child or bicycle in front of them is just an inherent risk to pe
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by 9dev 10mo ago
You accumulate web frameworks and maintainers similar to the winning strategy at Monopoly, until you have implicit control over entire ecosystems. Whether you actually seize that control or not doesn’t even matter, because you are in a posi
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by 9dev 10mo ago
If you haven’t yet, also take a look at VueUse. It’s essentially a library of very useful utility composables that come on handy very often, and make for astonishingly clean components.

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