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by TheDong 2y ago
> the businesses should however offer it and pay whatever that costs So, in other words, you're in favor of a minor tax on those worse off than you, with poor credit score or otherwise can't get a credit card, so that you don&#
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by TheDong 2y ago
What you're saying doesn't make sense. If you run a cafe, and one customer orders an espresso and the other orders a latte, are you not allowed to charge them differently? Buying milk to make lattes is also a cost of doing busines
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by TheDong 2y ago
Electricity and so on are already included independently of the payment method. Yes, the store should be charging enough to its customers that it can afford electricity, and if it can't afford electricity, it should increase its prices
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> why a cash customer paying the same price as a credit card customer should be considered paying more The credit card customer gets rewards often amounting to around 2% of the value of the item. Those rewards come out of the money the m
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by TheDong 2y ago
A 3% fee for a card makes perfect sense to me. That's not far off from what the merchant is losing for credit card customers, so their options are: 1. Charge the same for credit cards as cash, and make cash paying customers effectively
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by TheDong 2y ago
I dunno, I've had to spend like two or three hours each month on updating mine for its entire lifetime (of over 5 years now), and that includes losing entire nodes to hardware failure and spinning up new ones. Originally it was ansible
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by TheDong 2y ago
The richest company in the world became the richest company in the world in part by forcing its users to buy new hardware regularly. Linux doesn't have a financial incentive to delete the code that supports 5 year old processors, but A
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by TheDong 2y ago
I think the point of the comment isn't to have this finishing layer to make things "better", but to make things "legal". Humans are allowed to synthesize a bunch of inputs together and produce a new novel copyrighte
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by TheDong 2y ago
Apple is happy to take 0% of offsite payments if you don’t link to them though, so clearly apple is fine with an app store fee of 0, ie for spotify. The only difference is if the app error says “You can’t pay in-app” or if it says “You can’
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> lost on the anti-steering provisions Also from that article: > Apple allowed developers to include [information about other payment methods] but required that developers give Apple 27% of all sales made within seven days of being di
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by TheDong 2y ago
I remain utterly confused how apple's rule that you can't link to a purchase page, and can't mention the 30% tax in-app, hasn't had its day in court yet. Like, you can have a free app in the store, with a website where y
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by TheDong 2y ago
People who rave about Go's error handling, in my experience, are people who haven't used rust or haskell, and instead have experience with javascript, python, and/or C. https://paulgraham.com/avg.html
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by TheDong 2y ago
Yes, python and C also do not have properly statically typed errors. In python, well, python's a dynamically typed language so of course it doesn't have statically typed exceptions. "a better type system than C" is a rea
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> I think at best there will be a static analysis rule (in e.g. go vet) that tries to figure out if any matching is done on the string representation of an error. First they'd need to export the errors the stdlib returns https:&#x2
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It has typed errors, except every function that returns an error returns the 'error' interface, which gives you no information on the set of errors you might have. In other statically typed languages, you can do things like '
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by TheDong 2y ago
Why would it? Do you regularly visit "hot-iphone-porn-apps.info" and other untrusted sites? Do you expect sites you do visit, like "google.com" or such, are going to serve up malware? Do you expect hackers who build thes
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by TheDong 2y ago
> reducing boilerplate is bad Programming is about building abstractions, abstractions are a way to reduce boilerplate. Why do we need `func x(/* args / ) { / body */ }`, when you can just inline the function at eac
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by TheDong 2y ago
"daily or hourly" isn't enough though. There's some AWS resources, like for example route53 hosted zones, which bill only once at the end of the month, and so a daily or hourly bill won't tell you anything about lea
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by TheDong 2y ago
I'm not giving rust credit, I'm giving Go a demerit for having a large stdlib which it does not have a good path to evolve around security problems. We do have stuff like `golang.org/x/<etc>` and `rand/v2`, bo
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by TheDong 2y ago
My own experience is that the Go stdlib has resulted in worse security than, for example, rust. The reason for that is that both the Rust and Go stdlib have a stability promise, so anything built into them can't change if it's ins
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by TheDong 2y ago
The "some access to the target" bit could just being on the same unsecure wifi network as them, such as a coffee shop or library. Still, I doubt anyone noticed this, and you'd also still need the victim to use qBittorrent and
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by TheDong 2y ago
If you can trick someone into installing a malicious extension with arbitrary permissions, you can already run arbitrary code on every webpage they visit, including their logged in bank, social media, etc. You think an attacker is right now
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by TheDong 2y ago
> How many 'r's are in the word 'ichigo'? GPT 4o: The word "ichigo," which is the Romanized spelling (romaji) of いちご, contains one "r." It appears in the letter "r" in "chi," as
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by TheDong 2y ago
> Maybe I should update https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipedalism to indicate training may not be required for temporary bipedal behavior in some dogs. That is against wikipedia's rules and thus will get reverte
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by TheDong 2y ago
And the "magic mouse" is actually just powered by electricity. "Intelligence", like magic, has vague and diffuse enough meaning that there's basically no chance of it being actual fraud.
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This is hacker news, we're all either founders who have 2 billion dollars in (illiquid) stock options, or FAANG employees making 600k/year, what else are we going to do if we want email? Sure, you could pay fastmail $40/year
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by TheDong 2y ago
It's quite trivial. 1. Buy a domain. About $10/year for a .com 2. Buy a /24 ipv4 block with good reputation (maybe like $10k) 3. Get a rack in a nearby datacenter, rack up a BGP-capable router and your servers for redundancy
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by TheDong 2y ago
If you go to the homepage: https://hyprland.org/ It says "Tiling Compositor" as its first words. That's what it is. It's not a "window manager" since that's an X11 term, and this is a Wayl
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I think you're trying to imply that it should be $50 for 1Gbit with that comment, but HE fiber and residential fiber aren't comparable. Apples and oranges. HE only has to run relatively short cables within a datacenter, which is d

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