Siira

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by Siira 5y ago
All dictators despise being hold accountable.
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by Siira 5y ago
> the majority of people you converse with over email are boring. The majority of people are “boring.” Not acknowledging your approach’s failure points (in this petty way) isn’t good marketing, really.
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by Siira 5y ago
I imagine you can inject the necessary buttons via userscripts, if this is truly a “hard requirement.” The bookmark bar is, of course, the standard solution to this.
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by Siira 5y ago
> a frontend for Google Bing*
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by Siira 5y ago
Wells are regulated where I live.
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by Siira 5y ago
That cliched sentence is bullshit. Google is an aggregator of supply, and profits off this position. The users are not “the product,” the products get commoditized for the users by Google, and it is this process that makes them money. As a
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by Siira 5y ago
https://kapeli.com/dash also has the ability to download offline archives of SO. Its interface is very good.
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by Siira 5y ago
I am archiving subreddits on Github in plain-text org-mode. If you have some subreddit in mind, open an issue, and I'll create an archive repo for it. - https://github.com/NightMachinary/r_HPfanfiction - https:&#
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by Siira 5y ago
The same way it did with Afghanistan, presumably?
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by Siira 5y ago
Physical security is a public good, while computer security is a private good. (Websearch the definitions if you don’t know them already.) The economics just don’t match up.
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by Siira 5y ago
> User Style Sheets (1998-2019) I’m still using them.
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by Siira 5y ago
> to take advantage of a program that was not meant for them What’s wrong with this? Our whole society operates like this, but it’s suddenly wrong for some small fries to “take advantage of the law” ?” Write your laws correctly, and don’
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by Siira 5y ago
Reminds me of Racket’s `#lang` file headings.
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by Siira 5y ago
Go modules did break my Go scripts after updating.
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by Siira 5y ago
In the end, a good engineer rarely becomes a professor. This is both because the industry pays better, and the universities don’t value engineering expertise. The best SE courses in my university were offered by “guest” teachers from big so
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by Siira 5y ago
Exactly. It’s no different. Who wants a world that is no different from the classic dark ages?
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by Siira 5y ago
I am for one, living here in Iran, where in the last year millions lost money by "investing" in the regime's "stock market." I didn't, lucky me. Now the inflation has taken my money instead. Not to mention the
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by Siira 5y ago
Well, it's not like the governments have allowed crypto to work. Telegram's plans were forcibly halted, technically superior coins like Monero are banned from exchanges, and the elites (who ultimately benefit from the hegemony of
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by Siira 5y ago
Mozilla did NOT spend the money on Firefox. You did hear how they fired their core engineers recently, didn't you?
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by Siira 5y ago
I started programming with .Net languages via Visual Studio (which is quite a good IDE), and I disliked dynamic languages exactly for the reasons you list. But nowadays I mostly prefer dynamic, optionally typed languages ala Julia. Typing a
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by Siira 5y ago
What are these better tools?
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by Siira 5y ago
I’ve been abused all my life by religion, and the Iranian regime (which all evidence points to being much milder than the Chinese dictatorship). You’re no different than your predecessors; What are you doing to help people that actually goe
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by Siira 5y ago
But a person posting on HN is statistically more likely to be the critical thinker when compared to the Twitter baseline. The whole thing is philosophically weird, but practically speaking, one can somewhat know that people saying aliens bu
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by Siira 5y ago
Flags and moderator actions are also much rarer, but controversial stuff does get downvoted quickly unless it’s quite high quality.
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by Siira 5y ago
Please provide some specific examples. Even with examples, the important question is about how frequent they are, but without examples, your statement is just your personal experience. PS: Your usage of “smart racism,” “nazis,” “homophobes”
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by Siira 5y ago
It’s election time here in Iran, and this time, we have essentially a one-man election, which is sth rare here (there usually are at least two candidates who can possibly win, and even though both of them are inside people already vetted by
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by Siira 5y ago
It’s probably not so much deliberate complexification, as reluctant simplification. The system will become complex all by itself when there is little pressure to streamline it.
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by Siira 5y ago
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/
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by Siira 5y ago
Any PCRE to JS convertor you would know of?
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by Siira 5y ago
What’s a Scheme that 1) has fast startup binaries (so no Racket) 2) has a good emacs experience ala SLIME/SLY, CIDER?

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