Spivak

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by Spivak 6mo ago
And then there's the theory that the man is also the biblical antichrist which I think fits the prophecy reasonably well. Revelations has some pretty specific details that match up which I find quite entertaining.
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by Spivak 6mo ago
She does if you want to keep doing business there. That's the stick that's available. Either you follow their laws despite not being in their jurisdiction or you can't sell to customers in Libya. I don't like it same as
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by Spivak 6mo ago
I know but you're fighting the cost difference between installing CC terminals and QR code stickers.
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by Spivak 6mo ago
Well they technically do, parliamentary sovereignty means that the UK can, "legislate to ban smoking on the streets of Paris." There are no limits to what laws they can write, even ones that are out of their jurisdiction, absurd,
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by Spivak 6mo ago
This phenomenon happens with more than just police too—I've seen it happen with medical professionals, firefighters and EMTs as well. 0. Be a white person who has little to no interaction with non-white people in your day to day life.
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by Spivak 6mo ago
Yeah, it's the most basic thing you could do that's not intrusive to the rest of the system. userdb is a local directory and most directories, like LDAP, have a DoB field. Even if these laws fizzle out the change would still be po
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by Spivak 6mo ago
Because government has a unique pricing advantage, they get additional value from the houses they build in the form of all the positive externalities and property tax revenue. So projects that wouldn't be profitable for private builder
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by Spivak 6mo ago
I love these projects, I hope one of them someday emerges as the winner because (as it motivates all these libraries' authors) there's so much low hanging fruit and free wins changing the line format for JSON but keeping the &quot
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by Spivak 6mo ago
Can you imagine if a service as chatty and performance sensitive as Discord used JSON for their entire API surface?
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by Spivak 6mo ago
I don't mean this as a jab, but would you use Windows to develop software? Especially Windows that has AD teeth sunk into it where everything is "managed by your organization." It's just a thousand small cuts for seeming
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by Spivak 6mo ago
Because e-bikes have effectively done regulatory arbitrage and the sky didn't fall. You want more people using small electric vehicles where before they would have used a car, you lower the burden to get one on the road.
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by Spivak 6mo ago
Python has DB-API.
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by Spivak 6mo ago
It's nice to know they do it just for the love of the game.
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by Spivak 6mo ago
Well sure, with those requirements running any piece of software will be complicated. None of the complexity has anything really to do with HA. My pretty minimal stack: - Intel NUC running Ubuntu LTS. - Zigbee dongle I bought off Aliexpress
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by Spivak 6mo ago
I was talking about the int being 32 bits and the pointer being 64 bits but go off. If you did a naive codegen of this without type checking where the compiler just said "yes ma'am blindly copying the value to &x" then yo
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by Spivak 6mo ago
I don't think this is the right analysis, pretty much all products follow an ever steepening curve of price to get to the highest quality. The general sentiment on HN, of which I count myself among, is that you stop before the curve ge
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by Spivak 6mo ago
In C-ish languages the statement int x = "thing" is perfectly valid. It means reserve a spot for a 32 bit int and then shove the pointer to the string "thing" at the address of x. It will do the wrong thing and
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by Spivak 6mo ago
Synthetic cannaboids were also studied as a possible analgesic and at the doses required it caused brain damage. Which is honestly disappointing because a general purpose pain killer that isn't opioid based would be a miracle.
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by Spivak 6mo ago
Defining a picture of your government id not being a sufficient credential for… well anything would probably be enough to kill all these age verification laws and might get some traction legislatively if you frame it right. It has the benef
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by Spivak 6mo ago
Creating this metric/alert is practically a rite of passage for junior ops people who then get paged around 5pm.
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by Spivak 6mo ago
> On this note, a login failure is not an error Login failure is like the most important error you'll track. A login failure isn't necessarily actionable but a spike of thousands of them for sure is. No single system has been
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by Spivak 6mo ago
I think you can justify this logic only in the case you sincerely believe that the current admin is a fluke and things will return to roughly the previous status quo on the order of a few years. And that isn't unreasonable to think,
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by Spivak 6mo ago
If it doesn't have a screen or a network connection it can't do either of those things. I'm very eagerly awaiting the Slate truck for exactly this reason. A cheap barebones EV meant for hauling stuff and people locally. The t
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by Spivak 7mo ago
Taking for granted that is really the purpose, how does age verification solve this problem? Adults won't have any trouble accessing online spaces meant for kids under these laws. And then why does porn get mixed up in this, it's
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by Spivak 7mo ago
Hard disagree about attributes, each tag should be a complete object and attributes describe the object. <myobject foo="bar"/> // means roughly new MyObject(foo="bar") But objects ca
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by Spivak 7mo ago
As long as they stay comments there's no harm. As soon as they become struct tags and stripping comments affects the document's meaning you lose the plot.
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by Spivak 7mo ago
I really don't get this comment section. You get a Macbook then you have a perfectly usable machine which will run all the mainstream software you ask of it, and then you get natively compiled well supported developer tooling, no VM re
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by Spivak 7mo ago
Guess we'll find out at the midterms if you're right, I certainly hope so. We're at the point where even the major policy differences between Democrats and Republicans are insubstantial compared to just getting people in offi
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by Spivak 7mo ago
Yeah, I think most people who want proof of citizenship are forgetting that your driver's license (even your REAL ID) isn't a proof of citizenship. It's passport, certificate of naturalization, or birth certificate. Restricti
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by Spivak 7mo ago
See this is why I think the whole age verification thing is backwards. If you want to create child friendly spaces then you need to verify someone's age is under 18, 16, 13 etc.. That's a way more real and tangible harm than a tee

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