ajross

54 ms·

871.
by ajross 1y ago
> There are US highways like US-101 or states ones like CA-99. Neither of which has anything but a vanishing fraction of areas more than 100 miles from a supercharger. Your other examples are real, though pretty spun. It's true! T
872.
by ajross 1y ago
A typical CALL is a 16 bit displacement and encodes in three bytes. A RET encodes in one. On arm64, all instructions are four bytes. The BL and BX to effect the branching is 8 bytes of instruction already. Plus non-leaf functions need to
873.
by ajross 1y ago
> There's multiple stretches of 100+ miles of highway around me that have no supercharging capability Genuinely curious where this is? It's not anywhere on the US Interstate Highway network for sure (OK, fine maybe there are a
874.
by ajross 1y ago
> What are most people using today for file serving? Google Drive. Or Dropbox, OneDrive, yada yada. I mean, sure, that's not the question you were asking. But for casual per-user storage and sharing of "file" data in th
875.
by ajross 1y ago
Right, that's "quibbling over 'classic'". You said "you'd be foolish to design CISC" meaning the hardware design paradigm of the late 1970's. I (and probably others) took it to mean the instruc
876.
by ajross 1y ago
> This just happens to be the consensus opinion for their group. That becomes non-falsifiable then. Everyone everywhere from every period in history has been part of some in-group or another with a consistent scripture/canon/c
877.
by ajross 1y ago
> The entire generation is less likely to express a non-consensus opinion than prior generations. I think that's pretty arguable, and I'd want to see actual research. Certainly kids today are wildly more likely to embrace St
878.
by ajross 1y ago
> you’d be foolish to make it a classical CISC design and would definitely choose RISC I think that's arguable, honestly. Or if not it hinges on quibbling over "classic". There is a lot of code density advantage to spec
879.
by ajross 1y ago
Ditto. I was sorely disappointed to click through "1984" to find a subheading on "setting up postfix".
880.
by ajross 1y ago
> A clever hacker will evaluate ALL the risks Once more, this is a no-true-scotsman argument hanging on your added adjective "clever". All the frausters and criminals in the linked articles were "clever hackers" unti
881.
by ajross 1y ago
That there isn't a free software implementation here is indeed bad. Trying to fight about software liberties at this moment when the apps are being de-facto banned is Just Not the Time. But absolutely start a project under a permissiv
882.
by ajross 1y ago
> No legitimate business person I have ever met holds this position Well, sure, that's true. But only because that's a no-true-scotsman fallacy in incubation. All these perps are "legitimate business people" until t
883.
by ajross 1y ago
> the enforcers dgaf about you. This is the attitude that lands otherwise-normal-seeming people in jail. They dgaf about you until they do. Maybe the prosecutor needs an easy win. Maybe they have a wealthy patron you offended. You do
884.
by ajross 1y ago
The reference was to the somewhat bombastic set that like to talk about the reason for the second amendment being a backstop against government tyranny or whatever. You seem to be hiding behind a variant definition that covers only advoc
885.
by ajross 1y ago
Is that ideal, though? I mean, the channel is the buffer. If you need more buffer, it should have been bigger to start with. Generally this reflects a resource exhaustion failure, which you don't handle by adding code. Fix the re
886.
by ajross 1y ago
> People use Waze to avoid speed traps. Not protest them. Exactly! So it is about protest then? You don't want people to show up and display their displeasure at the execution of a particular policy? Y'know, peaceably asse
887.
by ajross 1y ago
As gets pointed out, that justification is post hoc; the argument wasn't made when the app was introduced, only after the ban. It's also leaning hard on "can be" and just letting the reader infer what "malicious&qu
888.
by ajross 1y ago
> Slack and discord Slack and Discord aren't Google though? Not understanding the point here. You can use this argument against any product from any manufacturer, it seems like. Are you arguing against interoperability in general
889.
by ajross 1y ago
> Negotiated peace can be a thing if "This hasn't worked for 30 years, but this time it will for sure!" makes for pretty awful geopolitical strategy, historically. But you do you. (Your broader point that Putin's act
890.
by ajross 1y ago
> I am appalled at how many people use Gmail, giving up their privacy The article is literally about cross-vendor E2E email encryption. I mean, we all understand that you mean to invoke the Standard HN Litany Against Google here. Bu
891.
by ajross 1y ago
> Russia is the stronger party in that conflict In some sense that remains true, but the war remains a stalemate after three years nonetheless. It's become clear that Russia's per-capita war fighting ability is basically garba
892.
by ajross 1y ago
There have been literally (not figuratively literally, literally literally) zero diplomatic resolutions of military conflicts or tensions with Russia during the Putin era. None. The closest one you can see, if you squint extremely hard, i
893.
by ajross 1y ago
> Apple [...] has to obey the rule of law. No, Apple has to obey the law. The idea of "rule of law" is a shorthand for the set of norms and practices understood by everyone under a single regime, including both specific laws an
894.
by ajross 1y ago
The very existence of the Genius Bar falsifies your point, though. The fact that you, personally, are exceedingly careful about your devices isn't an argument against the clear truth that (1) the rest of us yahoos clearly aren't
895.
by ajross 1y ago
But my point upthread is that that "difference" is a post hoc rationalization. She needed to close that deal to save the company, in which she presumably believed. The money would change everything, right? She probably did pi
896.
by ajross 1y ago
> Objectively there is no bubble. Economic bubble territory is 100-200+ PE ratios. Not sure I buy that analysis. That was certainly true in 2001. The dot com boom produced huge valuations in brand new companies (like the first three on
897.
by ajross 1y ago
Oh, come on. Laptops are mobile devices that live in bags and backpacks and they break all the time. I've had more laptop failures than cracked phones, even. You absolutely need an answer for "what happens if my screen gets c
898.
by ajross 1y ago
Your desire to time the market typhoon caused by the abandonment of decades of US world monetary leadership is confounded by the need to time the market squall due to the current US government shutdown. And quite frankly also to time the i
899.
by ajross 1y ago
The fed exists through its charter by Congress in the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. Clearly congress gets to define organs of government by law, no one seriously tries to make a 10th amendment case that Congress can't define organs of
900.
by ajross 1y ago
The walled gardens go up around paid app stores because of the way court decisions landed in the US[1]. PWAs are an open standard, they aren't really part of the analysis. But yes, if you want them to stick around maybe consider usi

More ›