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by ajross 1y ago
And my point, again, is that focusing on this particular criticism[1] seems like a transparent attempt on your part to deflect from the very serious story (ICE transparently harrassing "enemy" journalists without apparent cause)
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by ajross 1y ago
> It excludes the many, many more people Are these people actually attested? In my experience, virtually everyone I've ever seen make a strong argument against "DEI" ended up having some... unsavory attitudes more general
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by ajross 1y ago
> That's a separate issue though Right, which is why I called you out for bringing it up. Make your bland criticism of the Guardian in a journalism forum. If the standard for criticizing clear ICE overreach (and yes, an unexplained
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by ajross 1y ago
Please don't Gish-Gallop on HN. None of those links are about AP tuning or "Mad Max" mode.
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by ajross 1y ago
> I would also point out that we don't actually know why he was detained That's always the way it works with secret police. The idea of due process of law and norm following is (1) expressly designed to provide assurances in c
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by ajross 1y ago
This is all true, but in practice end consumer demand tends to be much more elastic for almost everything else in the chain. You don't get to decide not to buy toothpaste for more then $2.50 when you run out, you need a new phone wh
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by ajross 1y ago
Good grief. Can't it just be whimsy? Must everything be a conspiracy these days? They have a tunable threshold for when the car will attempt a lane change. Set it too high and it makes too many and annoys the occupants. Set it too
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by ajross 1y ago
This doesn't appear to be a memory safety bug. It's a data handling error, and the "RCE" in question is that the tar code can be fooled by a malicious tarball into writing files with arbitrary permissions at arbitrary p
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In practice, not principle. Virtually every non-trivial upstream package in debian/fedora/arch/whatever has at least a handful of distro-specific patches. Sometimes they're just configuration, sometimes they're di
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by ajross 1y ago
But the premise of the comment I was replying to was exasperation that journalists got it wrong!
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Uh... "Wh" is not a unit of power. Watts are units of power. Watt-hours measure energy. Probably journalists are getting this wrong for the same reason you are.
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The "syscall API" is part of libc too. The read syscall is a trap, you put arguments in the right registers and issue the correct instruction[1] to enter the kernel. That's not something that can be expressed in C. The rea
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by ajross 1y ago
Meh. Look, it broke code. "Still works like you expect" is 100% false. The deprecation argument is at least... arguable. It was indeed retired from POSIX. But needless deprecation is itself a smell in a situation where you can
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by ajross 1y ago
> Maybe it's more important to rewrite half a century of poorly documented and specified shell scripts Sounds like a plan. Let me know when you're done, and then we can remove fgrep.
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by ajross 1y ago
You're pretending that Trump's pardon is not a singular act but the result of some kind of imagined erosion of norms for which you blamed Obama specifically. That's textbook equivocation. A vote for Romney wouldn't hav
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by ajross 1y ago
> I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do then. Not equivocate.
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The fact that this arguable, but clearly reasoned and expressed comment is now deep gray kinda puts an exclamation point on the argument, I'd say. (Honestly I think the moderation paradigm at HN has some bad externalities too, but real
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> This is not a rousing endorsement of the Unix shell environment. It's surely not. The question wasn't how to rewrite the shell environment to be more "endorseable", though. The point is that we have a half century
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> How would you implement things like version history Filesystem or LVM snapshots immediately come to mind > or shareable URLs to files without a database? Uh... is the path to the file not already an URL? URLs are literally an abstr
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> the established politicians do not like him and did everything they could to stop him from running Again, this is a excuse-making whopper. The republican aisle in the senate refused to convict him twice , which would have prevented h
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"GNU grep implemented a change that breaks pre-existing scripts using a 46 year old API, but it's OK because the required workaround works everywhere but Solaris 10" seems like not a great statement of engineering design to m
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I don't buy it. A president that will literally direct his AG in public to prosecute his political enemies is simply not bound by norms, period. To pretend that he'd never have pardoned Zhao but for Obama's "increased
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> didn't throw errors, it would just send a warning to standard error Noted without comment. Except to say that I've had multiple scripts of my own break via "just" discovering garbage in the output streams. > Tho
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> these past few administrations I remain amazed at how, again and again, no matter how specific and unique an abuse by the Trump administration is, it is always, invariably, Really Joe Biden's Fault. Like, the frame has been adopt
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You don't attack coreutils. You attack the scripts. In this case it was an update script that failed because of an incompatibility. It's not too hard at all to imagine one failing in an exploitable way. Honestly, Rust-related h
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by ajross 1y ago
> If debt holders dump the 10-year bonds enough, it causes real issues for debt repayment. No, it doesn't, it impacts future borrowing . Third time, before my blood pressure spikes: that is an argument about future debt. It bei
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by ajross 1y ago
Uh... yes? That $76k is right about median household income, and a little under per capita GDP. Apply that logic to other sorts of finance: mortgage leverage is routinely five times that big , and no one freaks out about how you'll
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by ajross 1y ago
> Neither party has any intention of repaying any of the $38 trillion What are you talking about here? Federal debt is repaid on bond schedules fixed by statute. You can look it all up. You can argue about whether the debt load is too
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I'd submit if you want to make an argument about HN norms and conventions and what is "allowed" to be posted in a comment, demonstrating that you're actually a part of the community you're attempting to police is a
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> When a different side takes control of the justice department That's an argument about the degradation of the rule of law, taking as a prior that the rule of law won't degrade. It's... unpersuasive. The end goal of thi

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