FearNotDaniel

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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
It is in English. Thus to call it an "English article" is both grammatically and factually correct. However it would have been less ambiguous to describe it as an "English-language" article, if the GP's intent was
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
That’s almost certainly true, but at least part of the problem (not just Kafka but RDD tech in general) is that project home pages, comments like this and “Learn X in 24 hours” books/courses rarely spell out how to clearly determine if
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
True. But pro-privacy is the argument that the server no longer needs to geo-lookup your IP address and find out where you are with much greater accuracy than is needed to determine what timezone you would like dates/times to be displa
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
Yeah that HTTP date format thing is kind of orthogonal - the same document slightly later explicitly says it's talking about the format used within HTTP messages/headers and not relevant to user-facing display within the page cont
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
That would be an absolutely awful user experience, unless there was also a way to default to knowing what the user's actual local timezone is without them having to manually pick it from a list of the 38 or so currently in use. I mean,
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
In what sense is the user's local time zone "contained within" the IP? The only way I know to get from an IP address (i.e. those four eight-bit integers separated by period signs) to a client-side timezone is first to use a G
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
> Current time is determined by a Cloudflare Worker using the request IP I was scratching my head for a while wondering why you need an IP address to determine the current time… I’m inferring this means geo-locating the IP to determine t
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
Feel free to hit me up (email in profile) if you want to know about navigating life in Austria, I moved here from the UK 5 years ago. We also have amazing nature but the properties are not so cheap :)
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
For those not immediately familiar with the name [0], he's one of the founders of Sun Microsystems and its chief hardware designer back in the day. Very impressive. But the document has no intro and takes several pages to talk about hi
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
Generally looks like a promising idea even in a deeply-competitive space, however the "selling point" of having pie charts to summarize your monthly spending does absolutely nothing for me - I know, banks etc use them in their mar
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
These sound great in theory but as an app user I have found their implementation can range from deeply irritating to downright broken. Anti-use cases off the top of my head might be (this was from a calendar/reminder app): - I write my
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
I’m watching the horror show of US politics unfold from Western Europe, where I know every outrageous step that Trump takes, unchallenged, will only empower and encourage those would-be dictators who are attempting to take over and possibly
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
I’m inferring that NPS here refers to “Net Promoter Score” [0]. Presumably within his niche, the author can assume his readers already know that. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_promoter_score
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
To save anyone else panicking and/or wasting time searching for more context around this: you only get Apple Intelligence turned on (whether by default or not, I couldn’t say) if both your hardware and geographic region support it [0].
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
If we're talking about fantasy airport extensions, it might be good to have at least one decent international airport in Yorkshire rather than expanding MAN and/or BHX. Failing that, you would need to significantly improve the tra
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
“Microsoft”, huh? It would be kind of helpful if the author would bother mentioning what particular Microsoft product/service he is talking about and on what platform rather than just a vague reference to a “security scanner”. That’s w
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
I agree 100%: sensationalism helps nobody except extremist politicians, the media/tech channels that monetise engagement and anyone else who stands to profit from outrage and division in society.
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
I don’t know, perhaps it is. If you have some data to back that up (or even a report from consumer media that dares to name its sources) then please do link it. My point above was that it’s easy to respond to such stuff with a gut reaction
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
I don’t know if the HN Title has been altered since you posted this, but the verbatim wording “Young men now spend more of their free time alone than any other group” is in the screenshot of the chart taken directly from the original FT art
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
Ah, the unintentional ambiguity of language, the reason there are so many lawyers in the world and why they are so expensive. The GP's phrasing is not incorrect but your comment made me realize: I only parsed it correctly the first tim
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
Exactly - it’s the same problem when using (current) LLMs for major programming tasks, generally useless if you don’t already have enough knowledge of the language/platform to spot and correct the mistakes, plus enough awareness of sof
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
I am by no means a professional in this area, but as a keen amateur I would worry about my inability to discern facts from hallucinations in such a scenario: while I could imagine such output provides a useful “springboard” set of reference
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
Ah yes, I had a chance to read it while walking down the street. I know that joke, reminds me of the one my dad used to delight in telling, which ends with “I must be the luckiest Arab in Belfast”. Funnily enough the exact one that you post
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
Goodness, where to start… I don’t have time to read your link so I’ll only reply to what you wrote from my own direct personal experience: - many Protestant groups, while not fighting wars of physical violence, still harbour very unchristia
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
Except Universalist/Unitarians, perhaps, they like to mix it all up into one big melting pot.
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
Thanks for helping to flesh out the technical side of the discussion while I’m over here getting hung up on the theology :-) this is what makes HN still (occasionally) great.
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
> only semi-literate Seems very possible when you consider that this is before the Roman Aristocracy decided to muscle in on the action and take over the church. Many of the original disciples and apostles were semi-literate working clas
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
There is nothing in the Bible that describes the practice they promote. Sure, there is a claim that people who are filled with the Holy Spirit will not die if bitten by snakes, but no description of it being used as a ritual practice and yo
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
Great example. See also “thou shalt not kill” which would contradict tons of the surrounding text, if that is actually what the original Hebrew said.
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
What about them? Are you asking about the scriptural basis from ancient times that they use to justify their modern practices? (i.e. the immediate topic at hand) Or are you looking for theological and/or scientific opinions on whether

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