Arainach

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by Arainach 9mo ago
A list consisting entirely of fictional works (one by an American who has never lived in Japan even) is not a good basis for claiming to understand a culture. Seriously, Cryptonomicon is a bizarre thing to put on this list. I like the it a
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by Arainach 9mo ago
It's been known in creative fields - including software - forever that payment in "influence" is worthless. It's been a meme for decades. http://www.fyoupay.me/
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by Arainach 9mo ago
You absolutely can, because you can sell the bitcoins and turn them directly into money in your savings account. There are exchanges that declare their exact value. You can't do that with prestige. There's no exchange and no ma
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by Arainach 9mo ago
> Payment in units other than dollars is still payment. If I get paid in bitcoins, the bitcoin market could completely collapse before I cash out. It's not different than that. I can't pay my rent or my server bills in "pr
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by Arainach 9mo ago
This isn't true and hasn't been true for 20 years, if ever. Maybe in the very beginning they had such a bar, I wasn't there. As late as 2007 they were still recruiting on-campus at non-T20 schools like Michigan State. Much o
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by Arainach 9mo ago
It's hard to pick one representative example, but the whole channel is a better example than the video linked in this HN post. Where this video says things such as "using precision tools and carefully selected materials", Ba
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by Arainach 9mo ago
The message is stating that you're seeing a Captcha because suspicious traffic has come from your network. If you're not doing suspicious things, "check that you're not infected with malware" is valid feedback.
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by Arainach 9mo ago
Giving credence and advertisement to all of those has caused huge societal problems. Sports Betting is a huge problem.
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by Arainach 9mo ago
If malicious or scraping traffic is coming from your IP, it's not victim blaming. AI has ruined everything good and free for everyone except a few oligarchs.
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by Arainach 9mo ago
> I feel far less negative than if I'd tried getting similar info from legacy sources (10x slower, and with 10x the suits, lipstick, and ads). The data doesn't back this up - especially since legacy sources aren't algorith
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by Arainach 9mo ago
>It’s like studying the social impact of vaping without considering the replacement activity (smoking). That's not how this works. If you ban vaping, not everyone - and not necessarily most people who vape - would be smoking instea
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by Arainach 9mo ago
Anyone who claims they turned to fascism because they're angry people insulted fascists is not arguing in good faith. Silence allows the messages of hatred to spread more loudly and more rapidly; if you leave fascists along they become
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by Arainach 9mo ago
What context would make that statement acceptable?
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by Arainach 9mo ago
I really didn't think that "don't rape people" was a left/right issue (or something that should have to be explained why it's wrong), but here we are.
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by Arainach 9mo ago
Humanity and civilization are defined by going beyond any base instincts. Even if you're correct (I don't agree), consider other things: if you look at someone and your body has an instinctive desire to have sex with them, you are
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by Arainach 9mo ago
They didn't, though. Plenty of people who had one reputation at their death have had that reputation change over time, especially with more information and awareness of what they did. Sometimes their reputations improve, sometimes th
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by Arainach 9mo ago
It's tricky because you're now cropping into rectangular apps which may actually use all the pixels they get and want hit testing in them. When Windows went to a 1 pixel border and shadow effects, it still had hit testing in a reg
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by Arainach 9mo ago
Another comment suggests that third-party tools are still required and that Apple still hasn't added support for this, which makes me wonder if anyone at Apple uses an external mouse or if this is a scenario they literally don't c
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by Arainach 9mo ago
Eh. AvE was amusing for a while, but the shtick grew old to me and it all feels much more theatrical and artificial (not necessarily artificial as in faking data, but artificial as in the entire process designed to be amusing rather than u
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by Arainach 9mo ago
Not sure why this is getting downvotes, it's absolutely true. For a very long time you couldn't even set different scroll directions for external mice and the touchpad - even if it's (maybe? I forget) supported now it's
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by Arainach 10mo ago
Whether powered by human or computer, it is usually easier (and requires far fewer resources) to verify a specific proof than to search for a proof to a problem.
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by Arainach 10mo ago
>Beautiful code only tends to exist in open source. This hasn't been my experience at all. Beautiful code happens when strong experienced developers are present - either as the authors or as leads instilling good culture on teams.
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by Arainach 10mo ago
This is wrong and hilariously short sighted. Other countries don't respect America due to military might - they do so because of decades of mutually beneficial trade agreements. Soft power is infinitely more useful than hard power.
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by Arainach 10mo ago
This is all irrelevant - it's completely unacceptable for the US President to send the military into another without Congressional approval, and to kidnap a leader at all (especially without a declaration or war or UN authorization).
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by Arainach 10mo ago
It's often impossible to make backwards-compatible changes to a format which wasn't designed to allow for future changes and which is designed to be as space-efficient as possible. That doesn't mean that the limits of the old
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by Arainach 10mo ago
They are. Every breaking change is a pain point for your users/customers. Every time they have to do something to work around your breaking change, it's an opportunity to reconsider whether they need you or whether using your pr
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by Arainach 10mo ago
Each layer of your stack should have different types. Never expose your storage/backend type. Whenever you do, any consumers (your UI, consumers of your API, whatever) will take dependencies on it in ways you will not expect or predic
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by Arainach 10mo ago
No. Elected officials have to be elected, which is a control and feedback mechanism.
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by Arainach 10mo ago
Mr. Buckley may or may not be shocked, but he's certainly a vocal opponent of a competent effective government, so all of his thoughts on how he'd prefer to be governed should be ignored with extreme prejudice.
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by Arainach 10mo ago
Great. Now we have inexperienced legislators, inexperienced aides, and experienced lobbyists. That's definitely going to be an improvement rather than an absolute catastrophe. Term limits are like so many populist ideas: they sound

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