Shish2k

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by Shish2k 6y ago
Responding to the original comment before it got edited: > Google still works for all, as I know. So I should google everything that hits the front page of HN, even if I already read the original link and it looks boring, just in case it
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by Shish2k 6y ago
FWIW as a casual observer, “this software exists and can do these things” is way more useful than “software I know nothing about got a new feature that I don’t understand because I don’t have the context of knowing what the software is or w
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by Shish2k 6y ago
> I believe I've said something that's easy to understand, at least without bad faith. I’m pretty sure I understand what you’re saying - "this change only affects creation of new repos”? The responder isn’t missing your po
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by Shish2k 6y ago
> Perhaps we would do well to remember that words can have different meanings in different contexts. I’m afraid this idea is rapidly becoming deprecated - now if a word has multiple meanings, we pick whichever one is most offensive and f
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by Shish2k 6y ago
A new day, a new example - “Utah bill would require activated porn filter on new phones” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26362605 IMO “Government requires a filter” is a waaaay bigger problem than “private company de
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by Shish2k 6y ago
Not sure if this is sarcasm or not - just because HN is full of nerds, doesn’t stop us from being just as vulnerable to clickbait and confirmation bias as anybody else :)
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by Shish2k 6y ago
Is there an official definition of “Eastern”? As a Brit, my general cultural impression is that Germany is “Central”, and every other country is northern / eastern / western / southern relative to that
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by Shish2k 6y ago
If a TV station broadcast a daytime TV show containing violence, racism, and a female nipple - which aspect would they get in the most legal trouble for? I’m neither a lawyer nor an American (I assume we’re talking about America here), but
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by Shish2k 6y ago
This is the actual reason that the company I work for decided to standardise on “denylist” rather than “blocklist”...
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by Shish2k 6y ago
> as we are seeing with all of the woke craziness People (eg, sex workers) have been getting deplatformed (often with the government assisting in - or requiring - the deplatforming!) for decades, and I didn’t hear the free-speech /
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by Shish2k 6y ago
I love the things I learned from Haskell, but I find it so painful to actually use :( Similar case with Erlang... I wonder if there are any functional languages that aren’t weird ? Like they call the first element in a list / the othe
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by Shish2k 6y ago
At my last job I had that conversation several times :( Our website would regularly take 30s+ for a page to load, and we had an hour of scheduled downtime each week, because that’s how long it took the webapp to restart each time code was p
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by Shish2k 6y ago
To somebody who believes in a black and white “with us or against us” world, “sympathy" and “support” are the same thing :(
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by Shish2k 6y ago
> If they've agreed to it, what's the problem? They’re in a position where the options are pretty much “agree to this” or “go out of business” (To which I guess the free-market response is “That’s not a problem - an independent
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by Shish2k 6y ago
By that logic all software is 100% "secure by default" - if I don’t choose to add my own electricity into the equation, then there are no bugs in the running software at all, because no software is running :D It’s technically co
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by Shish2k 6y ago
"HTTP 451 - Unavailable For Legal Reasons” seems to be getting close?
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by Shish2k 6y ago
> Jibri is essentially a Chromium which views the Jitsi webapp, running in a headless X server whose framebuffer and ALSA audio is hooked up to an ffmpeg process which livestreams to the appropriate destination So if I’m understanding th
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by Shish2k 6y ago
In my cases I found that mysql was faster for “select * from <table> where <unique key>=<blah>” — but for anything more complicated than that, postgres won (admittedly I haven’t checked recently - it was around 10 years ag
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by Shish2k 6y ago
Same - all my work is remote these days, and I’m considering dropping my JetBrains subscription because of it. I love the jetbrains tools so much, as they’re better at basically everything; except for this one feature of remoting where VS
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by Shish2k 6y ago
> people tend to get paid monthly, and subscriptions tend to bill monthly, it's only natural to factor out time I know you’re painting a picture of a dystopian future, but isn’t this basically how health insurance works in the USA t
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by Shish2k 6y ago
The one that annoyed me recently - numeric-looking string keys are turned into numeric keys. So if you have eg a hashmap of [naughty_word => replacement], then [“penis”=>”willy”] and [“asshole”=>”bottom”] work fine, but [“69”=>”
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by Shish2k 6y ago
So… you want channels like this one to continue spreading round the internet without anybody questioning their legitimacy? I’m not sure what your actual point is here. “Here’s a practical example of a shady actor using bots to spread bad
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by Shish2k 6y ago
> makes the code as free as it can possibly get Alas, the paradox of tolerance. Being 100% free for one generation means you frequently end up being 100% closed in a later generation. Being 99% free (“you can do anything except remove fu
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by Shish2k 6y ago
> [by treating everybody as infected] you'd eliminate Covid in two months Not to mention a ton of other illnesses. I do wonder if “the world’s governments pay everybody to stock up on food and stay home for two months” would actuall
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by Shish2k 6y ago
> Facebook image identifier misclassifying black people as monkeys Tangential, but it’s interesting that facebook’s reputation is now so bad, it’s become a black hole that distorts responsibility enough that google’s bugs are pinned on t
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by Shish2k 6y ago
The accusation being made here isn’t “this software can be used for piracy”, but rather “this software is primarily designed for piracy”
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by Shish2k 6y ago
> It appeared to during the civil rights movement. I'd like to know what is different about this? Support for a political group is a choice, skin colour isn't
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by Shish2k 6y ago
If it was phrased as “user's data”, then couldn’t the app developer get the case thrown out on the basis of “we haven’t taken facebook's data, therefore facebook has no right to sue us”?
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by Shish2k 6y ago
> I encourage others to "put their money where their mouth is" and show a little support for the people making and sharing this software for free Just went to donate for myself, and happened to spot Rachel’s name in the list of
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by Shish2k 6y ago
Logically I agree with you, but we’re living in a world where “corporations are people”, so...

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