T-hawk

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by T-hawk 7y ago
Neither does the browser. The search engine does that. What should happen here is the search engine still crawls and indexes resources accessible by ftp, and the ftp:// url gets passed to the operating system to launch an approp
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by T-hawk 7y ago
Indeed I probably would, just didn't want to distract from the central point in that post.
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by T-hawk 7y ago
I'd break this up by lines, every time. int result = systemcall(“some string”, expression_argument(args), SC_MODE_1 | SC_MODE_DEFAULT)) if (result != 0) Separation of concerns. Each line does one thing. Making a system call
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by T-hawk 7y ago
Anything you want to run locally without being tethered to always-on connectivity, for one. Or just anything you want to run without network latency.
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by T-hawk 7y ago
This is true, but Hawking radiation has nothing to do with the observed event. Hawking radiation is incredibly weak, orders of magnitude dimmer than even the cosmic microwave background, never mind visible starlight. The observed event is
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by T-hawk 7y ago
Unions like to set salaries, because there are more mediocre performers who stand to gain compared to free-market wages than top performers who stand to lose. They don't exactly want a cap, but they greatly desire a floor, and accep
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by T-hawk 7y ago
> It's illegal to discriminate candidates based on non-work aspects (e.g. candidate has kids). This is true only when a specific law creates a specific protected class. Discrimination is legal by default. An employer can freely ch
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by T-hawk 7y ago
It's not necessarily so much about the coding. It's about the maintenance and refactoring. The people who like types aren't so much the implementors who dictate the original full view of the system; the people who like type
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by T-hawk 7y ago
The nuclear power plant at Shoreham on Long Island is possibly the most famous example of NIMBYism killing nuclear. The reactor was built and operated at test levels, but the NIMBYs demanded for full operation to include a disaster plan to
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by T-hawk 7y ago
From a scientific standpoint, there's really no value in downlinking video as opposed to still images. It costs several multiples worth of scarce downlink bandwidth, for a tiny gain in what there is to see of the same rocks at slightl
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by T-hawk 7y ago
> Whatever happened to the philosophy of “do one thing and do it well”? This relies on composability, integrating together several such components into a coherent whole. Users don't understand composability or want to do it. They w
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by T-hawk 7y ago
You're not trying to make your site absolutely bot-proof. Someone deliberately targeting your site can figure out any such measures. (You want legitimate users to do so.) You're just trying to throw in enough friction that most
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by T-hawk 7y ago
I love that that's still an 8-bit palette-based image. And that that's immediately recognizable by noticing the banding and dithering in the colors.
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by T-hawk 7y ago
> Many games ship with a "packfile", which is a pseudo-filesystem that appears as a giant blob to the OS. Games get to do this because they don't care about interoperability. The packfile is intended to be a closed enviro
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by T-hawk 7y ago
> There IS GOING TO BE a barrier of entry SOMEWHERE. This is correct. When everyone has a degree, then no one does. There is a limit to how many productive professional jobs can exist. All the necessities for society and life can be pr
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by T-hawk 7y ago
Of course, you'd have everyone gaming what constitutes an "impression". Everyone might redesign into single-page apps to keep the same ad impression visible for a longer time, for one example. And the personal tracking side
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by T-hawk 7y ago
Terraforming Mars can continue infinitely. The end state requires players to deliberately take the actions to reach it. If no player chooses to end the game, it never will. Players could continue forever to use engines that generate poin
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by T-hawk 7y ago
The general rule is, if the letters are pronounced phoenetically together as a word, it counts. That's why Scuba and Laser are in. It's the difference between AWOL (in) and MIA (not). OK was never accepted before because it&#x27
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by T-hawk 7y ago
I recently had experiences with a regular social group that demonstrated this. It's a group that drinks regularly except for two people who don't. One always feels like he fits in fine, while the other's presence always stu
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by T-hawk 7y ago
Why do people use chat services? They want responses . Getting responses is what Slack and Discord are optimized for and why they've gained adoption. The chat services enable responses, by making it low friction, by giving the feel
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by T-hawk 7y ago
You could. Maybe not by the commonly available ROM patching tools. But you could write a program that takes as input the NES ROM and outputs the C64 ROM, such that that program contains nothing copyrighted by Nintendo. It would convert t
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by T-hawk 8y ago
Gating content based on age isn't really about preventing access to it. Gating content (on most any basis) is more about blame-deflecting and CYA: make sure you're not the one to be fingered as the responsible party when the &q
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by T-hawk 8y ago
> why would a human being say something like this to a fellow human? Because what they see isn't a human, it's an obstacle.
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by T-hawk 8y ago
How do you propose to have crew available for every possible permutation of that routing? It would take an enormous standing population at every airport in the system, only a small portion of which will work on each given day. Good luck f
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by T-hawk 8y ago
Nope, if he's in the US and not over 40. The Age Discrimination In Employment Act only prohibits discrimination against workers age 40 and up. Disfavoring workers of age 39 or under is perfectly legal federally. https://en
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by T-hawk 8y ago
HN has those comments and HR doesn't explode because: Ageism is legal in the US except for specific prohibitions. The Age Discrimination In Employment Act only prohibits discrimination against workers age 40 and older. There is no f
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by T-hawk 8y ago
> What used to be a $9-10 Uber ride is now $19-20. What I can walk in 10 minutes now costs $11. That's... ridiculous. That's... the market clearing price. It's pricing a scarce resource (road space) to demand. If you&#x2
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by T-hawk 8y ago
They subsidize it by charging a rate per piece that is less than a regular stamped mailing, but at a price level that still turns a profit. It's market segmentation, full price service for those willing to pay it, and a cheaper option
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by T-hawk 8y ago
I refuse to pay TSA for "solving" a problem that they created. More customers paying for pre-check incentivizes TSA to make the regular experience comparatively worse .
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by T-hawk 8y ago
This is true, that the First Amendment only refers to government action. But its underlying spirit is often taken to be that no entity with power should seek to use it to suppress free discourse.

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