Zamiel_Snawley

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   by Zamiel_Snawley 4y ago

   I agree, this could be a good solution for a lot of situations. People fret about the performance impact, but I'm confident that clever engineers could come up with a way to treat numbers within the typical range(say, signed 64 bit) ju
2. 122.▲
   by Zamiel_Snawley 4y ago

   I believe Gitlab does support IPv6.
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   by Zamiel_Snawley 4y ago

   Embedding Lua instead inventing your own DSL is often the right choice. Two projects that come to mind in this respect are Neovim/Vim and AwesomeWM/i3. Neovim and AwesomeWM use Lua for configuration and scripting instead of invent
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   IPv6 support for cloning Git repositories?(github.com)

   73 points by Zamiel_Snawley 4y ago|69 comments
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   by Zamiel_Snawley 4y ago

   Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.[1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidel
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   by Zamiel_Snawley 4y ago

   no petname system built on top of unix / web crap will ever be good. This claim is unsupported. If you have created or know of a better version of petnames, I'd love to hear about it.
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   by Zamiel_Snawley 4y ago

   According to this source, about ~20% of the value that has gone through tornado cash is thought to be criminal proceeds. [1] https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/08/treasury-tornado-cash-laun...
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   by Zamiel_Snawley 4y ago

   Would you say strong encryption vs government backdoored encryption is a false dilemma too? I think these are analogous issues, and we have seen several times that if there is a backdoor, you can not keep it so only the "good guys&quot
9. 129.▲
   by Zamiel_Snawley 4y ago

   I completely agree. Sending or receiving is explicit images is dangerous for children. "Think of the children" is often just a cover for ulterior motives, but it is sometimes an adequate or even excellent reason to do something.
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    by Zamiel_Snawley 4y ago

    I believe this would defeat the purpose of sortition. Giving all representatives such a large amount of money would instantly make them unrepresentative of the population they were selected from. They would all be in the uber-wealthy class,
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    by Zamiel_Snawley 4y ago

    > hand over the actual rule-making to unelected government bureaucracies. I think they mean executive agencies like the FDA, FCC, EPA, etc. These agencies make rules that effectively carry the force of law. For example, the BATFE is (in)
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    by Zamiel_Snawley 4y ago

    Secret voting is one of the characteristics of sortition[1] governance systems. Just like on a jury for a court case, people are randomly selected from the population to sit on the legislature. They naturally vote their conscience, and when