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by akerl_ 4mo ago
> Is being surprised somebody doesn't know something putting them down Yes. > is being unsurprised they are ignorant putting them down Again, the whole reason to just declare this as a rule is so that you’re not put in a position
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
The whole point of making it a rule is so those people can learn it and avoid accidentally putting other people down.
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
The Recurse Center, and Julia Evans, have correctly identified that it's a net negative social practice for people to on-the-fly decide that somebody needs to be mocked for not knowing something, regardless of how much you think they o
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
> What they are saying is when you are surprised somebody didn’t know something, don’t let it show. Thats about 50% of what they’re saying. The name comes from the other half.
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
Did you mean to link to https://wizardzines.com/comics/no-feigning-surprise/
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
Are we just ignoring all the major societal factors that happen to children before and during childhood?
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
Don't get me wrong, I think it would be nice if the skillset I happened to hone turned out to be the one field that stays lucrative for my entire career. I just don't think the market owes me or people in my field a job, and if we
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
Isn’t this the same thing every other industry and market has been experiencing with technology, automation, etc. for decades, while tech workers basked in their joy at being safe from being replaced because we were the ones powering the re
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
That seems pretty par for the course for every major advancement in technology. So maybe just “capitalism”? It’s hard for me to think of any piece of new tech that hasn’t been over hyped by the people selling it.
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
https://curl.se/support.html What do you mean by non-existent?
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
Reminder that what you're describing is "coordinated disclosure", and that there are in fact plenty of people who consider "full disclosure" to be preferable in some or all cases.
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
Curl maintainers are clearly going to still be using computers to provide support for paid customers. But the message is pretty clear: if you’re not a paid customer, you are not getting patches or support from upstream during this month. Pl
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
> If you ask it for a cute picture of you and somebody else it has no way of telling if you’re trying to improve your relations with your spouse or be a delusional creepazoid stalker. The chatbots which can make images are programmed to
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
No matter what you do, there will be some group of people that thinks you’re wrong. It’s up to each of us to decide which peoples’ opinions we actually care about.
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
Nobody is obligating open source maintainers to accept or read these reports.
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
Generally the vulnerabilities you can sell for money are ones that somebody can easily use to make money, as part of an existing money-making scheme they have. If the vuln can’t be used to make money, or the way it makes money requires that
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
What makes you say that?
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
Some people might suggest it’s crucial to publish if you’re aware of a serious vulnerability, so that people using the software in a vulnerable way can take steps to mitigate the risk.
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
Archive.ph returns different results to Cloudflare’s resolvers intentionally, preventing Cloudflare DNS users from resolving it correctly.
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
They’re the most obvious stakeholder… the regulation is going to directly affect them.
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
Maybe this should be a lesson about the dangers of rolling in hot with a bunch of insults?
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
I think we’ll have to let this comment tree rot.
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
Oh, you asked me if I disagreed with your point about gardens. That one is pretty obvious because community gardens that want to enforce a floor on amount of maintenance include that in rules that you have to agree to before they give you s
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
Yes.
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
If I have a garden in my yard and I say “I am the gardener of this garden”, what commitment have I made to you, a third party who just happened to be within earshot, about how much time I will spend working on the garden?
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
Can you cite the case law about an open source project having a reliance interest?
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
If you're asking me, I'm not the one who said this was what soft delete was for.
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
Does writing a kernel need to be justified?
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
Is it? Soft delete is really only a viable option if you're the provider. If you're Patreon and you get a court order with your name on it mandating that you take some content offline but preserve it for the legal proceedings, you
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
You've only had an account for under an hour, and 20 of it was spent crafting your post? I'd expect the intent is to help cut down on some of the wave of drive by Show HN posts by requiring folks engage with the site for a bit fir

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