NateEag

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by NateEag 5y ago
Human nature. We have a very hard time not abusing power we have access to. If you run the server, you will always have the temptation to use your admin powers to control the social situation. (... which, as freenode is showing us, actually
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by NateEag 5y ago
Irrelevant nit, but: > “Basically, the only ‘intuitive’ interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.” The nipple is not intuitive for everyone. One of our children struggled mightily with the nipple and we had a miserabl
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by NateEag 5y ago
> The argument isn't driven by fact, it's driven by hate. Whether your claims are true or not (and I haven't looked into that myself), this assertion is worlds away from assuming good faith. I see no evidence for it in the
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by NateEag 5y ago
Yes, I believe you're right about that, but I believe it's still the case that no one just distributes the plans. You have to learn engineering and nuclear physics then design your weapon yourself.
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by NateEag 5y ago
> The fact that bad people can occasionally benefit from something isn't a reason to not give it to the rest of us. It actually can be. There's a continuum. At one extreme are things like plans for nuclear or biological weapons
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by NateEag 5y ago
> What's been written about this? A great many cryptolocker programs. And several websites you can access via Tor to buy illegal drugs from the comfort of your own home via cryptocurrencies.
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by NateEag 5y ago
Probably so. Thanks for pointing that out. If you're using Signal at all, you probably care at least a little about security, so it's not a given, but probably the vast majority of Signal users wil never hear about this. I wasn&#x
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by NateEag 5y ago
100% code coverage isn't even close to a guarantee of correctness.
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by NateEag 5y ago
> "I have Signal installed on my phone" seems a reasonable disclosure of a known potential trap. No, that's a straightforward statement of fact which a software expert might realize implies there's a trap. A police of
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by NateEag 5y ago
> Would the general population just give up if things got that bad? I suspect the general population is already mostly- immune to this. I think most people keep their pictures and all other important data in Google or Apple's servic
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by NateEag 6y ago
If The Illiad is to be trusted, open warfare still has plenty of soap opera. Humans are emotional creatures no matter the context. You can't change that - all you can do is accept it then learn how to work with emotions (both yours and
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by NateEag 6y ago
"Existence in this country" is completely different from "existence," even if the two ideas happen to share a word.
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by NateEag 6y ago
What follows is a summary of a time bisect saved a team I was on from a lot of pain. It's been a long time so I may have some details wrong, but the point should be clear. Years ago I worked at an e-commerce shop. One fine day we disc
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by NateEag 6y ago
Yup, that's fair for sure. I thought the parent comment was speaking generally. Maybe I misunderstood. Either way, I was thinking of downloading Droidscript as one way of saying "I want arbitrary code exec." I think it's
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by NateEag 6y ago
Some of us realised that end users don't want to program and that they can be better protected from themselves by only allowing execution of arbitrary code when they explicitly say they want it.
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by NateEag 6y ago
No, you _will_ not do that, and made that decision so long ago it feels inviolable to you. When someone points a gun at a cashier and says "this is a robbery and I'm gonna shoot you if you move a muscle," the cashier usually
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by NateEag 6y ago
I think you're arguing against a strawman here. I'm not saying "people think Tesla wants you to defeat their safety mechanisms and sit in the back seat." I'm saying "The name implies more autonomy to the averag
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by NateEag 6y ago
As someone who has maintained such a system, there is a very real risk of this. If the app is content-heavy, and that content varies between each instance of the app, they're more likely to be okay with it, but it is still a difficult
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by NateEag 6y ago
You're definitely right that I got Tesla's described goal wrong. That said, I don't think self-driving system has come close to "better than human" yet, so my point still stands. Some may do better in limited circum
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by NateEag 6y ago
Expanding on this, you don't know what hardware is required to do a job until you have done the job. No one has shown full level 5 self-driving yet, so Tesla should never have said "we have the hardware it takes." We don&#x27
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by NateEag 6y ago
Does that matter? If that is the general perception, how it got that way doesn't change what people think the word means, or what they'll hear when Tesla names a feature Autopilot.
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by NateEag 6y ago
Because even if that's what "autopilot" technically means, it's not how it's used idiomatically by laypeople. Most people hear "autopilot" and think "set it and forget it".
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by NateEag 6y ago
> For HN: You should have to give a reason to down votes. To give someone downvote permissions and then allow them to downvote on something they bias, isn't far. Because no one would ever lie or put noise in the "why I downvote
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by NateEag 6y ago
Nintendo is historically HUGE on being family-friendly and controlling their image. Streamers telling raunchy jokes, dressing sexily and/or swearing while playing a Mario game probably does hurt Nintendo's brand, at least in the
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by NateEag 6y ago
A friend of mine and I do this regularly.
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by NateEag 6y ago
I'm sorry. That sounds miserable. :( Like I said - a proof of concept is only a POC if major features and plumbing are just missing. You only build the parts you need to show the concept is possible. The bits you don't know exac
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by NateEag 6y ago
Perfectly reasonable workflow. I lean towards POCs these days because I have experienced the requirements turning out to be all wrong far too often. It's hard for people to know what they want or need before they can try something sort
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by NateEag 6y ago
I'm not saying you aren't doing good work, or that it's not worth doing. I'm just saying that nginx is good enough for most people, and they'd need to see massive improvements to their workflows to change. I'm
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by NateEag 6y ago
Simplest and most performant would need to be an order of magnitude improvement on nginx for anyone to care.
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by NateEag 6y ago
To prevent a prototype or proof of concept from shipping, you need to leave it feature-incomplete. The mistake people often make with such things is building it thoroughly enough that it can be shipped. If you hit that problem, you didn&#

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