aaronchall

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by aaronchall 5y ago
I was thinking this every time I read the news back when Putin was saying this.
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by aaronchall 5y ago
I suspect Russia is going to have big problems with revenge-seekers.
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by aaronchall 5y ago
Why not build your own distro with NixOS? It seems to have all these upsides combined with a domain-based configuration that makes the configuration of what you need, whatever you need, quite easy, at least for the well-traveled paths. And
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by aaronchall 5y ago
Can you give any reasoning for why Gentoo would be an optimal easy approach, as opposed to maybe, SELinux for example? When I am in an advisory role, with my own reputation at stake, I must always recommend the hard choice known for superio
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by aaronchall 5y ago
Security is a high priority to me but I'm also optimizing with respect to a lot of factors. I decided on NixOS. The defaults start out locked down. The firewall has only port 22 open, so give your root user a decent password, and immed
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by aaronchall 5y ago
Ask the Democrats and judges if they think that's reasonable. And where will you ship them to? Smaller cities don't want them and they'll be inhospitable enough they won't want to be there either - they'd rather shi
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by aaronchall 5y ago
Mutually assured destruction means that his entire ass is destroyed - there's a lot more of NATO than there is of him.
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by aaronchall 5y ago
This is so obvious to me that I'm having trouble reading their post as anything but tongue-in-cheek. But perhaps they were indeed being sincere? EDIT: On review of their prior posts, it looks like they were.
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by aaronchall 5y ago
(I suggest you take it).
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by aaronchall 5y ago
They stopped me at one of those tables once and I'm not black.
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by aaronchall 5y ago
Comparing a font using all caps with a font using lowercase isn't a fair comparison, we know that all caps is harder to read (source: some paper at some point as an undergrad when I had no bibliographic database - and my own experience
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by aaronchall 5y ago
I'm pro-protestor (in this case) but this guy makes a valid point and I don't see why the comment was dead (downvotes maybe?), so I vouched for it.
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by aaronchall 5y ago
I'm not surprised. I'm only surprised that it took this long for the activity to be uncovered.
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by aaronchall 5y ago
So you got code reuse via copy and paste!
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by aaronchall 5y ago
That's a very good point, and I think it's a suboptimal filter. But I also think this explains the status quo.
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by aaronchall 5y ago
Steel man argument for the opposing position: At a certain point, no matter how well paid, you're going to want your future employee to do something that seems pointlessly redundant to them, and to do it as conscientiously as possible
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by aaronchall 5y ago
Should we police flat-Earthers? They seem to so desperately want the world to be flat that they will come up with any argument that whatever conclusively disproving new evidence they just looked at to prove their idea was somehow manipulate
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by aaronchall 5y ago
Does it put high-level business logic at the top or the implementation details at the top? Which is preferable, and why?
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by aaronchall 5y ago
Asbestos is an extremely stable mineral fiber and sharp like glass. If you get it on your skin it may penetrate but it will eventually probably slough off. If it gets in your lungs, it has nowhere to go and can continue damaging tissue for
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by aaronchall 5y ago
Although I know I'm wrong 99% of the time I sometimes get that feeling about my fellow programmers when I look at code...
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by aaronchall 5y ago
I'm not trying to judge you harshly. I'm trying to understand. In your first post in this thread, "high tier" NixOS users were called condescending sadists. This is a libel as far as I can tell based on my own experience
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by aaronchall 5y ago
Maybe you should look within. I'm still a long ways from understanding everything Nix/NixOS completely, but I've never gotten these kinds of comments apart from the extremely reasonable "you should start out by reading
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by aaronchall 5y ago
We all make decisions based on what we think we need and the reality of our situations. I feel badly for people who don't think about the second-order effects of their decisions, though. If one chooses to only do enough to get by start
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by aaronchall 5y ago
I enjoy the mainstream memes that are top ranked in r/antiwork - righteously quitting from unethical organizations where bosses routinely break their promises, labor negotiations that worked out (isn't that pro-work?), and PHB inc
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by aaronchall 5y ago
I presume they're looking for inconsistency that could indicate a lack of conscientiousness. At times when I have been anxious to get hired, I have had no problem demonstrating that I can fill out a bunch of redundant forms when requir
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by aaronchall 5y ago
I'd ignore that particular individual's comment. A full case study should include a qualitative discussion of the competition, and the more granular, the better. Far from unethical, it's a best practice. Source: I wrote a l
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by aaronchall 5y ago
It's my understanding that more upvotes and fewer comments is considered good on the HN ranking algorithm.
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by aaronchall 5y ago
Both or not is a false dichotomy. I would say, start with rust, which seems to have the most interesting ideas, then every once in a while, reassess.
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by aaronchall 5y ago
20 years ago I picked python, with just a business and political science degree...
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by aaronchall 5y ago
Perhaps you'll think I'm crazy but... I have long theorized that State Department infrastructure is intentionally insecure to allow the dissemination of information or disinformation that we want foreign interests to get.

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