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by akersten 5y ago
I think Ethereum is silly too. But you have to realize that their argument is "we'll make our own contracts, and what the computer says is the absolute truth - no judges or kings." In that world, there is no such thing as ste
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by akersten 5y ago
> A person can believe whatever they want, but when push comes to shove, it's a country's court of law that ultimately determines who legally owns what. I think you've answered your own question - a true crypto believer do
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by akersten 5y ago
No third party/private solution is appropriate here. The government that oversees the issuing of these IDs and attests that they are sufficient for government use (Real ID) cannot themselves validate said ID? Corruption or incompetence
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by akersten 5y ago
If anyone's curious, the correct response to a fire, presuming you couldn't immediately extinguish it, is to pull the fire alarm and evacuate the building.
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by akersten 5y ago
> you can avoid arcane business logic around GET by various caches, loadbalancers, proxies, and other software that made who knows what terrible assumptions around GET payload shape. I wish standards bodies weren't afraid of angerin
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by akersten 5y ago
> Like what are you even arguing? It is impossible to "correctly reverse a string" because "reverse a string" is not well defined. We explored many different potential definitions of it, to show that there is no meani
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by akersten 5y ago
> the fact that there exists a correct answer for every piece of text that will be obvious to readers of that text which is the definition of a grapheme cluster. No, I insist there is not a single "correct answer," even if a
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by akersten 5y ago
People want to ascribe some kind of agency to the self-driving car, like it is a thinking mind. It's not. It is a vehicle whose prime directive is the safety of its occupants, and secondarily the safety of others. It is not making judg
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by akersten 5y ago
> imagine handing a Unicode string to a human. They could without any knowledge look at the characters they see and produce the correct string reversal. I really highly doubt it. How do you reverse this?: مرحبًا ، هذه سلسلة. Can you do i
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by akersten 5y ago
> Impact: An application may be able to access a user's files What does this mean? Back in my day that's just what a regular computer program did.
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by akersten 5y ago
It would seem browsers would benefit from an easily-toggleable "disable auto-focus" option. That seems like a win/win to me
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by akersten 5y ago
To be fair to me, I actually stopped reading when I got to the support response, and came here to post. So it's comforting that the bug reporter independently arrived at the same frustration.
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by akersten 5y ago
I assumed it was a developer because in my experience with issue trackers, it's always been developers who get assigned to fix things. And this looks more like an issue tracker than a tier 1 support site. But if that's the case, m
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by akersten 5y ago
I get it's a canned message, but surely part of that external triage would be "is there enough info here that we could reasonably just assign this to an intern to try out before needing to even ask for a crash dump [and insert cor
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by akersten 5y ago
What a horrible response by the dev investigator. The thread has all the info you need: the QR scanning functionality truncates TLDs to 2 characters. And provides a list of a dozen examples. The dev replies with "hi, thanks for the bug
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by akersten 5y ago
IMO it would serve the common person well if we changed the way the law works so that if a corporation sues you for a laundry list of things, if a single claim gets thrown out, then they all do. That prevents this insane pile-on where a hal
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by akersten 5y ago
Novelty of the demo aside, whoever named Project Fugu did a great job. Eating around the lethal guts of a poisonous fish is precisely how I feel seeing libusb accessible by JavaScript.
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by akersten 5y ago
I noticed one of the challenges is "reverse a string." Can I just rant a little about how much I hate that as an interview question? It's meaningless to reverse a string. Not just in the "there's no purpose to doing
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by akersten 5y ago
By your math, how many containers per day were being compromised were they to have said only a 100% increase in criminal rail theft?
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by akersten 5y ago
I'd like to take a moment to be grateful for the small graces of the current copyright climate that allow projects like this to exist. If the parameters of a few lines of US Code were slightly tweaked, or a few court rulings different,
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by akersten 5y ago
Ah jeez that's a very flashy GIF at the end of the page there. Might want to throw a sensory warning on that link as a courtesy
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by akersten 5y ago
> I quite like it, after having seen it in the, ahem, adult spaces. Those of us old enough to have witnessed the early days of YouTube remember that their previous video-preview-on-hover feature was also lifted directly from those same a
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by akersten 5y ago
How do you know they aren't providing value to the company? Do you watch them every second of the day to confirm? Unless it's your job to supervise them, it sounds like you are the one not doing work if so. If they're failing
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by akersten 5y ago
I just updated to Android 12 and the new border-radius on nearly every UI element is beyond absurd. It actually looks like someone just discovered that CSS property, and instead of being told by a designer "that looks goofy and childli
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by akersten 5y ago
You're missing my point, which is that you're assuming what YouTube wants is somehow more correct than what users want.
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by akersten 5y ago
> it's clearly not an intended way to interact with YouTube I'm curious how you reached that conclusion. The maintainers of YouTube-DL would certainly disagree!
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by akersten 5y ago
So it's really not about the "scraping" here, it's about the kind of business you're building. I don't think any of your definitions change if you simply employed people to check the websites instead of scripts
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by akersten 5y ago
> many terms of service prohibit interacting with their website in an automated fashion, Ignoring the fact that I didn't agree to anything just by virtue of requesting a page from a webserver (and, your server sent me the data! ),
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by akersten 5y ago
> why not simply create regulations which criminalize their specific harmful behavior It's a lot easier to say "break them up!" and get a rise out of anyone who has any vague sense of having being slighted by said companie
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by akersten 5y ago
> I have taken fair use into consideration. This is always a fucking lie, and I wish we (as a community) would band together to make it more painful for giant companies to just spam DMCA takedowns as part of their DRM strategy. Ignoring

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