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by LeonB 3y ago
Anytime one philosopher wins, two other philosophers lose. And vice-versa.
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by LeonB 3y ago
Ok I understand and I think I agree. My question is how this relates to the words “The Prince” ? Is that a reference to Machiavelli? Or Prince Myshkin from Dostoyevsky or some other Prince? A novel, a poem… I just want to know what in parti
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by LeonB 3y ago
As in… “having read Machiavelli’s The Prince, I am aware that a mercenary army is not reliable?” ?? That’s what keeps occurring to me.
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by LeonB 3y ago
The problem with the MVCaesar pattern is that sooner or later a Basic Routing Universal Transformer User Service stabs it in the back.
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by LeonB 3y ago
> models have to call other models. “You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down!"
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by LeonB 3y ago
> You take a table from the database and put it into an html tag table. Wait, who is “you”? The model? The model tells the view about itself. This is early O O. Everything is an object. And objects have power and self awareness. When the
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by LeonB 3y ago
^^ Obvious Assassin.
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by LeonB 3y ago
What you’re indirectly highlighting is that the dominant asymmetry is the difference between the risk of having not thought about it and the cost of having thought about it and found no problem. The average person - the median - has little
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by LeonB 3y ago
They say: before you embark on a mission of revenge, better dig two graves. They haven’t seen my list. They’d want to dig twelve, maybe nineteen.
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by LeonB 3y ago
It’s important to make sure your wishes are known regarding vengeance. Unlike Banquo from Macbeth, as you lay dying, you may not get a chance to shout: “O treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly! Thou may’st revenge – O slave!” - and im
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by LeonB 3y ago
There’s a deeper economic lesson in here. Essentially it could be summarised as: government cannot leave policing to the market. In modern capitalist democracies with social benefits there’s a lot of debate/opinion about what the state
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by LeonB 3y ago
The fact that a computer bought from a store, that you pay good money for, comes with this crapware installed shows that even when you do pay, sometimes you are still the product not the customer.
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by LeonB 3y ago
Microsoft ends up, wrongly, in the firing line for a bunch of things, similar to the story you told and to the sqlite_ comment in TFA. Notice that on iOS (for example) if an app crashes it just disappears > poof! < and it’s gone. On
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by LeonB 3y ago
Hey Junglist45689 old buddy -- in that TedX talk at 5mins JoJo plays the legendary intro to Sing Sing Sing, and then he plays another intro to a song that "25 years later another acted as a signal to make the next generation go wild an
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by LeonB 3y ago
I am a user who uses accessibility tools and is stating that the operating system is failing in both the size and the tone of the scroll bar. Btw, trivialising dark mode is not cool. I have photosensitivity at times and when it’s bad th
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by LeonB 3y ago
The OS gets the scrollbar wrong so often that as a user and developer I’ve found I need to take care of it. It’s fine relying on the “platform” but the platforms are just criminal cartels holding users and apps hostage. Two specific example
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by LeonB 3y ago
Sounds like the product has branding marks, perhaps a tag, insignia etc., and those carried on with the same theme and thus were the actual infringing elements — not the product itself. That would make perfect sense. The parody product alon
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by LeonB 3y ago
One of the allegations is that one or more lab workers were sick with covid in 2019. Their colleagues - the scientific community - cannot through science alone determine if this was true. If it happened then they went to a nearby hospital.
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by LeonB 3y ago
The top level question is not a scientific question. In order to investigate it, many many many smaller questions may be asked, some of which are scientific.
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by LeonB 3y ago
Early on the article makes a conjecture that others also make which I think is part of why the topic is so hot: “Whether the virus emerged as a result of a leak from a laboratory or from nature has become one the most controversial problems
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by LeonB 3y ago
That’s irrelevant. You’re being asked to accept that other people care if somebody sees them naked.
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by LeonB 3y ago
Ha, excellent. So someone did it in 2019. Was it you?
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by LeonB 3y ago
I’m still listening to that TEDX talk - but I can’t help thinking in a few places it’d be great to sample his voice and use it on a very drum heavy dance track. E.g. when he says “there was once a drumbeat that acted as a signal to a whole
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by LeonB 3y ago
It might be a pedantic point but when you buy a perpetual license you don’t “own” the product - you “own” a license to use the product, on the terms in the license.
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by LeonB 3y ago
> The reality is that $dayjob (or %dayjob% etc) signals "hey I'm a programmer" You’ve hit the nail on the head. It’s also about the reader who understands the context and thus feels a sense of belonging to an “in-group”. I
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by LeonB 3y ago
I agree. In Visual Studio I’ve gotten used to using “Ctrl F12” to go to “implementation” instead of F12 for go to definition. If there’s only one implementation it takes you straight to it, and if there’s multiple it lists them so you can p
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by LeonB 3y ago
I think it’s been posted on HN because it’s relevant to the way software development can be performed in ignorance of production environments - or can be done in a production-aware (more SRE focused) way.
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by LeonB 3y ago
Remember too, much more recent: “Executive Order 13769”, 45’s “Muslim ban” - absolutely horrific policy, just six years ago.
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by LeonB 3y ago
I’ve seen a pathology where people ask for irrelevant details to stall for time. As in: “hmmm what version is your operating system? And what’s the version of every package/dll on your computer?”
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by LeonB 3y ago
"practice makes permanent"

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