Kenji

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by Kenji 9y ago
If you're a halfway decent programmer, deploying a simple blog is trivial. There are many existing solutions that don't even require you to write a single line of code, and the problem is simple enough that you could write the ent
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by Kenji 9y ago
> Also, i think its unfair to judge people on their knowledge about computing when they are not in the computing field. Yes but you wouldn't call people who don't know how the gearbox works "mechanical native" or some
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by Kenji 9y ago
My sister is a teacher and confirms: While kids play around with their smartphones all the time, they are remarkably ignorant about the basics of computing. They are users, watching videos and composing texts, but when it comes to drivers (
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by Kenji 9y ago
Seems to work for Bandcamp though (which I love by the way).
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by Kenji 9y ago
I only bring a metaphorical suicide vest when I am being honest on hackernews. I have spectacularly unpopular opinions.
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by Kenji 9y ago
If a rational actor sees no way out but to use a nuke, then there is a much larger irrational actor that is tyrannizing the world and needs to be destroyed. And since the actor is rational, it will have carefully considered the choice and h
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by Kenji 9y ago
I always say, just like revolvers are equalizers for humans, nukes are equalizers for countries. I think nuclear proliferation is a good thing.
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That is incredibly alarming. I follow UK news with great worries about internet freedom, freedom of speech and human rights in general. I don't understand how the population allows this??
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by Kenji 9y ago
Some of the best image-recognition systems, for example, can successfully distinguish dog breeds, yet remain capable of major blunders, like mistaking a simple pattern of yellow and black stripes for a school bus. That's exactly the
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by Kenji 9y ago
> Those who are prone to believing fake news (an audience which likely consists of about 80% of the population, many intelligent people and journalists included) Citation needed. I am certain you made that number up on the spot.
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by Kenji 9y ago
Gotta love a graph with an x axis of "extremely cold - cold - normal - hot - extremely hot" Why not put it in numbers? It's not like we are strangers to numbers in degrees celsius or fahrenheit. Only a fool would do axes like
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by Kenji 9y ago
In software jargon, this is called a "Wizard" (i.e. installer wizard, calibration wizard, etc. that guide you through a process that is more complicated by asking a series of simple questions) and is an idea that dates back decade
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by Kenji 9y ago
I would simply put a law in place that if it can be proven that the sexual harassment accusation is completely fabricated, then the accuser must serve the exact jail time that a person would serve who acted out all the accusations. That w
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by Kenji 9y ago
I started to learn AS3 but quickly transitioned to other technologies because even back then, the end of flash was forseeable. I liked AS3 but it was time to move on for a variety of reasons, among them a desire to have more control over ha
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by Kenji 9y ago
It's highly relevant. Facebook now knows he wrote "MY LIFE IS BETTER THAN YOURS" and deleted it. Tells a lot about a person, doesn't it? What if someone wrote something else and then deleted it and somehow that caused tr
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by Kenji 9y ago
Did you know? Facebook stores what you write into the text box even if you don't send it.
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Hate flash however much you want. I learned to program with old ActionScript and wrote my first game as a kid (that actually taught me OOP and laid good foundations for JavaScript which is almost identical). To this day, all the application
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by Kenji 9y ago
Digital Design and Computer Architecture (Harris & Harris) Why? Because we software engineers can learn a lot from the hardware guys. Almost every piece of software I write these days contains some finite state machines (technically, ev
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by Kenji 9y ago
You are correct, but to use a core file with debug info, the binaries don't have to be bit-perfectly identical. All that has to be equal is the offset of each function and statement and that is the case in reproducible builds. Debug
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by Kenji 9y ago
Hahaha, I was about to post just that. Made me laugh. Reminds me of my time at university... during breaks and boring lectures, WiFi was impossible to use because of the load. You could probably measure how boring a lecture is by recording
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by Kenji 9y ago
Reproducible builds are extremely useful. There are more benefits. For example, suppose you have a build server compiling software packages. If your builds are not reproducible and you want to debug a core dump, but you have no debug inform
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by Kenji 9y ago
robots.txt then Zip bombs.
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by Kenji 9y ago
Someone, or a group of people, is responsible for deploying this server in its configuration. These people are incompetent. I don't care if it's an engineer or leadership or corporate structure problem - it is a problem caused by
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by Kenji 9y ago
The incompetence of those responsible at PayPal is startling. This is such a basic exploit, my goodness. At least they acknowledged and fixed it in a timely manner.
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You're doing liberty and democracy a disservice with your whataboutism. It's one thing to suspect your government of sneakily compromising hardware, another to receive official letters to install a surveillance app or be detained.
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It's simply called authoritarianism. The problem is that the left AND the right are authoritarian. The benefit of all those 'anti terror' laws is not only not proven but also largely debunked, however, you just need to instil
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The UK Government is currently in a chokehold of the authoritarians. See also the prime minister's plans about crypto and the (opt-out) porn block and planned required identification to access porn. We can only hope they don't get
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> “When your hammer is C++, everything begins to look like a thumb.” — Steve Haflich As someone who works with C++ every day on my job, this made me laugh out loud. I think I'm gonna write this one on our whiteboard on Monday.
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I cannot get more than 4-5 hours of pure brain work out of my day. Usually, those hours are spent at work, except on weekends. I have no idea how other people do that but if I regularly spend more than 8 hours working per day and then add a
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> As a (former) astronomer, I've never understood why people assume normal distributions for everything. It shouldn't, because there is a big reason to lean towards normal distribution, and that is the central limit theorem. If

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