Shish2k

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by Shish2k 6y ago
> You most definitely don't want to be at a cloud provider with their bandwidth charges. Amen to that, I don’t understand how anybody decides to go in that direction for this type of project. For my relatively small hobby-project (3
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by Shish2k 6y ago
> Most wouldn't pay the $1 for WhatsApp. That shows you how little value these services actually provide Most people don’t pay for air, therefore those people would be happy if their access to air was removed?
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by Shish2k 6y ago
> Unions could fix [tech interviews] Is the problem really “we know how to fix tech interviews, but the upper management don’t like it”? Going by HN discussion I thought that the problem was “There are tens of totally different interview
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by Shish2k 6y ago
> Raid 1 usually means a mirrored disk - how does this work with 4 drives? “RAID1” in btrfs means “two copies of each file are stored on two disks” - so it’s closer to RAID10 in mdadm terms. It’s pretty nice as you can do things like hav
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by Shish2k 6y ago
If somebody likes Doom, that’s basically the polar opposite of "story-rich, choices-matter game” — in the opening scene of Doom (2016), an NPC attempts to deliver some plot via video call; to which the player character responds by pu
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by Shish2k 6y ago
> How can the game be acceptable or fun when cars run on tracks and NPC’s don’t have a problem being attacked? This is such a surreal comment to me - like “How can Tetris be acceptable or fun when it doesn’t even have cars or NPCs in the
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by Shish2k 6y ago
I agree centralisation is bad - the model of “government ensures everybody has a certain minimum level of service (eg set themselves up as a free 4G ISP offering just enough speed to fill in HTML forms etc); anybody who wants good service
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by Shish2k 6y ago
I think this is the argument equivalent of bikeshedding in design documentation - people feel like they need to have an opinion, and “which one verb best summarises these two events?” is the discussion with the lowest barrier to entry. Addi
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by Shish2k 6y ago
If a feature protects against accidents, why should “but a determined attacker can work around it” stop one from using that feature?
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by Shish2k 6y ago
> reference counting will always use more ram because a reference count must be stored True, reference counting stores references… but garbage collection stores garbage, which is typically bigger than references :) (Unless you’re thinkin
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by Shish2k 6y ago
If developers are forced to use slow machines to develop, then they’re less likely to build bloaty slow software that depends on fast machines
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by Shish2k 6y ago
> there is nothing left to be desired Pretty much every time I’m working with vectors, my shapes have borders, and I want to control whether the borders are inside, on top of, or outside the shape (similar to eg box-sizing in CSS terms).
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by Shish2k 6y ago
Words can mean different things in different contexts - “stable” and “unstable” in Debian refer to whether or not the major version numbers of included packages are going to change, not to how buggy they are.
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by Shish2k 6y ago
We were never taught that we were invaded by those nations - history lessons talk about “Romans”, “Saxons”, and “Normans”. None of those nations are around any more, so the obvious conclusion is that we must’ve “won”, probably by virtue of
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by Shish2k 6y ago
… why would it not run fine? Python 2.7 is “no longer receiving updates”, not “ceasing to exist”. You can still download source code back to Python 1.5.1 if you really want to run code with old syntax (Which I just did for fun - the C code
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by Shish2k 6y ago
^ this. Even among people who claim to prefer chonological feeds, double-blind tests show a strong preference for algorithmic feeds. If grandparent is saying “algorithmic feeds are so popular-yet-dangerous that we should regulate them like
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by Shish2k 6y ago
The key difference that you’re missing is “consent"
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by Shish2k 6y ago
> I'm hoping that address reuse never becomes a thing. FYI, it already is for yahoo. I got lucky that they _only_ deleted all my emails after I didn’t log in for a while, and nobody else managed to hijack the account while I was gon
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by Shish2k 6y ago
Running a .onion site over tor seems like it’d avoid this; and also still works when your ISP has you NAT’ed into a private address space - The tor server setup is pretty trivial (no harder than setting up nginx etc), the only downside (whi
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by Shish2k 6y ago
Look at how much the GIMP has improved in the same timeframe :)
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by Shish2k 6y ago
Why so oldschool? Isn’t the new coolness to rewrite your frontend in Rust compiled to WASM? :P
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by Shish2k 6y ago
People keep saying “PHP in ${current_year} is actually great, it only sucked in ${current_year-5}!” - I feel like it still sucks[1] today, but it’ll take 5 more years for the fans to realise it, when they have the PHP from ${current_year+5}
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by Shish2k 6y ago
It does, in my case my standard “check if everything is in order on a host” is: salt-ssh $hostname state.highstate test=True
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by Shish2k 6y ago
> authoritative bodies can be wrong / misled as well, and shouldn't be the only arbiters of truth I agree, but with a very large caveat - the human brain is not good at probabilities, it basically only recognises “outcome A is
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by Shish2k 6y ago
> English but with some words switched up, e.g. Customer -> Clown At most places I’ve worked, “Clown” was already a well-established code-word among the engineers - it’s code for “Engineer” :P
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by Shish2k 6y ago
I worked for a startup that did the right thing even when times were tough… alas, that’s not good for business, and so the company no longer exists :(
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by Shish2k 6y ago
I find it interesting (/ sad) that even on HN, we have a bunch of people saying things like "This is a bare minimum which should've been done a long time ago.” as if it’s an obvious fact that this is a good thing with no bad
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by Shish2k 6y ago
Congratulations, you’ve discovered the paradox of tolerance (which the parent helpfully linked)? There can be no stable and 100% tolerant society, because by definition that means that nothing will be done to stop intolerance from taking ov
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by Shish2k 6y ago
I still remember when the first set of games made a million dollars, and the devs were like “That’s enough money. Let’s open-source these games :D” Can you imagine anybody in the industry saying “That’s enough money” today?
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by Shish2k 6y ago
The “access your own data + your friends' data” API is exactly what Cambridge Analytica used to scrape everybody’s friends’ data

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