NateEag

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by NateEag 5y ago
You're welcome. I'm glad I was able to help communicate your perspective!
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by NateEag 5y ago
s/pet/over/
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by NateEag 5y ago
It's not the software dev's _fault_ that someone used their tool to hurt another person, but it _is_ the dev's _responsibility_ to consider how their tool might be abused and consider whether it's really a societal good
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by NateEag 5y ago
> But in a corporate (or even Open Source project?) environment, The Powers That Be probably want that kind of / that much centralisation anyway. Agreed. I have used git in genuinely decentralized ways and have concluded that in pra
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by NateEag 5y ago
Math is established by logic and proof. If a proof is sound, it should stand eternally. Humans are not perfect, so sometimes we are collectively mistaken about a proof's correctness. The fundamental nature of the process is still one o
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by NateEag 5y ago
If so, then there's no point in ever debating a mathematical idea.
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by NateEag 5y ago
As one who has set up skunkworks git boxes before, I think OP is probably referring to the fact that there is not a no-brainer out-of-the-box way for git repos on different dev machines to autodiscover each other, even on a local network. Y
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by NateEag 5y ago
I'm in no way trying to say that anyone can get themselves a good outcome by trying hard and believing they can. That's obviously fiction. I understand, too, that I have freedoms and opportunities most humans never get, and that I
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by NateEag 5y ago
This is an excellent point. Thank you for sharing it!
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by NateEag 5y ago
It teaches them independence and agency. As far as I can tell, my choices for dealing with injustices and terrible coincidences in life are: 1) to assume someone else is responsible to solve the problems for me, or 2) to assume I am respon
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by NateEag 5y ago
Yes. You can frame this from either the perspective of ranges or the perspective of degrees of precision. I think both are valid, useful conceptions. You could argue they're semantically identical, I think?
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by NateEag 5y ago
Caveat: The date's range isn't always 24 hours exactly. Leap seconds can make it slightly longer. A daylight savings change makes the date's range 23 or 25 hours, depending on the direction. I would not be surprised if someo
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by NateEag 5y ago
I'm not sure. I can see that this extension claims to make debugging with GDB work in VS Code: https://github.com/WebFreak001/code-debug and that at least for emacs there exists a plugin to use that extension: ht
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by NateEag 5y ago
I haven't tried it out, as I've long been more of a logging-driven debugger, but there's an analogous tool for debuggers called dap-mode: https://emacs-lsp.github.io/dap-mode/ Like lsp-mode, it is also b
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by NateEag 5y ago
Not really. Average person on the street is going to correctly say "geez, I dunno. Can I use my phone?" If you don't forbid them to, then they'll whip it out and get 98% correct (I figure they'll typo a few). This m
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by NateEag 5y ago
I expect that happens plenty, but there is such a thing as the subconscious, and I don't think everyone who lacks a full understanding of their own mind is operating in bad faith.
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by NateEag 5y ago
Sure, makes sense, and fits cleanly into the substitution I proposed.
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by NateEag 5y ago
The Inquisition was a truly horrible desecration against many unfortunate human beings. What I know of the Gospels makes me believe the Inquisitors were in no sense followers of Christ. (Of course, the Inquisition has nothing to do with the
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by NateEag 5y ago
One of the things traditional Christianity has going for it is that any adherent is supposed to accept, at core, that they are not an inherently good person. Doesn't mean everything you do is automatically terrible, but in many Christi
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by NateEag 5y ago
s/don't attribute to/aren't aware of/
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by NateEag 5y ago
Sure, it may be too little, too late. You don't know that until the failure is complete, though, and "it may fail" is a terrible reason to not try the best shots we have.
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by NateEag 5y ago
I have an absolutely baseless suspicion that "the worst programmers [you] know" are significantly better than the worst ones I've worked with. The worst ones I've worked with have probably never heard of Haskell, and I w
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by NateEag 5y ago
And neither of those are censorship. To refute sloppy analysis, the sloppy analysis must be published and available.
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by NateEag 5y ago
I watched a little Bill Nye as a kid but it didn't teach me anything at all about the scientific method or falsification. That may have been my own fault - I don't remember enough to know. Just saying.
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by NateEag 5y ago
Sorry - by "original comment" I meant the sibling comment I was referencing. Wrong word choice on my part. The sibling comment refuted the idea that it's perfectly safe to stick your in a powered-off disposal, which was the m
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by NateEag 5y ago
The original comment says: > The overwhelming majority of these injuries involve fishing broken glass out by hand. That is injuring the hand by sticking it in a powered-off garbage disposal.
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by NateEag 5y ago
> I'd like to put my hand in the disposal and turn it on You are not right (see the detailed sibling comment to your claim to rightness), and either you didn't understand what the original poster actually wrote or you decided
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by NateEag 5y ago
But you can send funds to an address the funds cannot be retrieved from. A protocol could conceivably require the recipient to verify they're holding the private key for the address before the transaction can take place. Yet here we ar
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by NateEag 5y ago
No. I'm just saying that the cost of the average app developer team is likely offset by the income Apple makes from the average app developer team. Whether that's how they spend the money, I have no idea. I don't need to know
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by NateEag 5y ago
Which has to be covered by the $99 / year developer program fee, in aggregate. Sure, a few apps will cost them massively more than that, but most will take five minutes of reviewer time every six months and a few gigs per month (or yea

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