ajross

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by ajross 4mo ago
IMHO those are both lipstick on a pig solutions. Ultimately all this stuff is just a variation of "make releases harder to publish", which isn't going to do anything but train people to evade them. Notably, neither would ha
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by ajross 5mo ago
While true, tarring Arch here is a little unfair. AUR isn't enabled by default. It can't even be used via the same package front end, and in fact the "official" usage model requires that you clone the source yourself.
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by ajross 5mo ago
PyPI and Cargo are, 100%, vulnerable to this same class of compromises. That NPM sucks isn't a statement that everyone else doesn't.
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by ajross 5mo ago
AI can't make the Mandalorian or The Last of Us play, though. This may have been fixed or worked around now, but for sure Disney+ and HBO were holdouts that refused to work on a Linux Chrome, Widevine be damned. I mean, sure, I can to
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by ajross 5mo ago
ptrace works fine on crostini. The guest kernel has Yama enabled, which restricts it to root for boring security reasons. You can do your debugging at a root shell or turn the setting (yama/ptrace_scope) off via sysctl.
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by ajross 5mo ago
You're losing me. Your first reply says "A computer that meets my needs must provide a choice of OSes", your second says "A computer that meets my needs must run one specific OS". To be blunt: your reasoning here
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by ajross 5mo ago
That works great until you inevitably need to launch some streaming service that doesn't work on Linux Chrome or whatever. The needs of "general consumer junk we all deal with" are real. I spent decades on the "I don&#
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by ajross 5mo ago
> The key here is your needs. Well... yeah. Likewise your post is clearly about your needs, which are different. But that's not what you said, you said it "wasn't a computer" and you couldn't use it "like
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by ajross 5mo ago
That sounds like an opinion baked in 2013 and never revisited. A modern chromebook with Crostini can run basically any Linux desktop stack you want. Like, what exactly are the tasks you need from a " computer that you could use like
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by ajross 5mo ago
Not sure why this is downvoted. This was an example from the same article. And the answer is that the FBI wasn't involved. That was a threat the pilot made, which comes psychologically from the same place as terrorist bomb threats
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by ajross 5mo ago
> It can only mean that their Linux user base is growing, ie. more commercial operators are turning to Linux. Well, more correctly that they think the commercial base has grown, and that there's revenue on the table by forcing the
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by ajross 5mo ago
The administration 100% did not say what happened, not correctly. The position of the Trump administration is that the US invaded and conquered the country and now runs it and is extracting its resources for our profit. None of that is
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by ajross 5mo ago
It was a coup, not an "operation". We provided assistance to a domestic takeover. The only Venezuelan forces acting in opposition were the ones who didn't get the orders to stand down in time.
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by ajross 5mo ago
> If it's not rational it's not reasonable. That seems needlessly pedantic, even for HN. I genuinely thought the scare quotes were spelling out the distinction I was making, but for the record: "Rational" is used in
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by ajross 5mo ago
I mean, the wastewater issues can be real in some environments. It's not a completely insane idea and like all things can be reasonably discussed and mitigated. It's not like these things have the ecological impact of steel foun
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by ajross 5mo ago
That's misunderstanding the paper. The correlation here is with outcomes, not support. Republicans may very well be more "jaded" with the healthcare system. But that doesn't explain why they die early.
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by ajross 5mo ago
That's... not really a reasonable characterization of LA's urban growth patterns. To begin with, Hollywood quite clearly predates the aerospace buildout in the 40's and 50's. It was an oil production and refining hub b
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by ajross 5mo ago
> Sergey Korolyov [...] explained: "[...]" Not relevant to the discussion, but while it's fairly bland and feels right, I can't find a reference to that quote anywhere. Is this a hallucination? Where did you get it?
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by ajross 5mo ago
Shitting on Google in a thread about the tech industry is fine. Hijacking a thread about literal state surveillance dystopian policies to talk about advertising (!!) is certifiable. What it tells me is that the commenter is unserious about
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by ajross 5mo ago
> we need a social chnage to make serving someone ads based on their observable behaviour about the same level of social acceptability as crapping on their doorstep Every time. Every ?!%@# time on HN. "Here's a story about p
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by ajross 5mo ago
> Oh we have to worship our ex presidents like kings? No, but we shouldn't excuse wrongdoing by one by reference to something vaguely related by the other. It's fine to criticize both Trump and Obama. It's not fine, a
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by ajross 5mo ago
> Better to [...] That's undeniably true. Nonetheless "Better than the shuttle, which sucked" isn't the design goal. The question is not even just "is it better to blow up 12 Starships?", which would probab
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by ajross 5mo ago
The point was more that there is a point where (to borrow the software terminology) "iterative design" becomes "death march". Trying a few times in the early days and being willing to throw stuff out and start over is a
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by ajross 5mo ago
The space station thing is a side quest that has nothing to do with the linked article. I'll happily concede the point, even though it seems pretty questionable to me. It's still not remotely true that (sigh) "Obummer&quot
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by ajross 5mo ago
Which is true, but at the same time: this is Starship Flight 12. The whole point of Starship is that it's a reusable vehicle with easy turnaround and quick maintenance. And in particular it's supposed to be different than the ot
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by ajross 5mo ago
> it's not about adding income tax rate to someone that already pay income taxes, it's about making wealthy people, who don't currently pay this tax rate, pay the same rate as people living from their income. That's e
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by ajross 5mo ago
It's worth pointing out that Crichton coined that term during a period in his life where he was rapidly descending into conspiracy and iconoclastic thought, and this is of a piece with that. Gell-Mann's observation was a sincere a
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by ajross 5mo ago
> Not the article's main point but I've never liked the "google killing products" complaints Exactly. I mean, you can argue forever about the stuff that got killed. But you know what didn't get killed? All
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by ajross 5mo ago
> I have never seen a helpful ad in google search, but well I have been using adblockers forever so I would not know. That this self-awarely-self-contradicting quip is the top comment on the page is about as essential a summation of HN
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by ajross 5mo ago
> Migrate off vscode already. It's not the IDE, though. Any extensible, customizable display editor can be coerced into behaving badly by installing external code. Even this one: https://www.gnu.org/software/e

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