alkonaut

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721.
by alkonaut 2y ago
> Wow you mean the whole program becomes unresponsive? Crazy! Yes a normal single threaded GUI normally becomes unresponsive if the user invokes blocking IO on the main (UI) thread. By "unresponsive" in this context I mean &quo
722.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Yes, and blocking is usually faster. It's entirely correct for code to be blocking by default because it shouldn't be assuming that there is any interactivity going. If I want to make a console utility that scans some files then I
723.
by alkonaut 2y ago
> What will the state of your UI be when that happens? If you can't do anything else until you know whether it was a success or failure, then you ensure that. E.g. you disable every single button that allows the user to do something
724.
by alkonaut 2y ago
The tradeoff in Go as I understand it is that you can't know whether the runtime will opt for single threaded concurrency or parallelism? That seems like it could be a headache, but there will always be a headache somewhere in concur
725.
by alkonaut 2y ago
What I meant was, I thought I had a proposal that was both impossible, fringe, and at least somewhat novel. Seems it was neither.
726.
by alkonaut 2y ago
I'd like it to show how much work it does, relative to how much work it could theoretically do in the current state, and/or how much more work I could give it. Not just "how utilized is it at the current clock speed, which co
727.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Opt-in probably means you‘ll never get a good sample size. It has to be representative. If it’s 5% there’s a risk of it being unrepresentative even if it’s a large sample. The risk is a particular type of user or users from a particular reg
728.
by alkonaut 2y ago
In what sense is anonymous usage stats “malware”? Because it does something you didn’t expect it to do? It did say on startup that it collects anonymous usage stats. It’s not “quietly enabled and opt-out has to be searched for”. It says fro
729.
by alkonaut 2y ago
If telemetry (in the context of software that’s already is making web requests to my server) if somehow at all a privacy problem, then it’s not anonymous telemetry. Anonymous telemetry is be a non-issue for privacy.
730.
by alkonaut 2y ago
The problem with opt in is that people don't opt in. Not because they don't want telemetry, but because they don't care. Most of them are happy to enable it once you describe what it is and how it works. The middle ground is
731.
by alkonaut 2y ago
I'd like to add some more constraints, like "I'd like to maximize my time off around christmas", where you can see different alternatives e.g. using 3 days off, you get 7 consecutive days using 4 days off, you get 9 cons
732.
by alkonaut 2y ago
I visited London this weekend and found even many underground _stations_ were without mobile service, 15 years after I got used to having spotless end-to-end mobile coverage even in deepest tunnels. I don't know why the London Undergro
733.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Yes. But I don’t think this type of regulation should care about whether it’s technically possible to do today. You could make a New York proposal type ban e.g banning algorithmic feeds to minors, even if it’s difficult to tell who is a min
734.
by alkonaut 2y ago
> "a functioning digital ID solution" A functioning digital ID solutions seems like table stakes for anything in 2024.
735.
by alkonaut 2y ago
How is a bicycle helmet a bad idea? Many countries have that for minors. And obviously most(?) western countries have seatbelt laws and motorcycle helmet laws. It's also a natural effect of having publicly funded healthcare I guess. &
736.
by alkonaut 2y ago
> I guess the logic is that if a user is lying about their age, it's not the sites problem. If the law is to have any teeth at all, it should be the problem of the service provider. Say for example that a banned feature for minors i
737.
by alkonaut 2y ago
I don't think lawmakers should describe HOW things are done necessarily. Here it's enough to say that "unless you can be 100% sure your user is above age X, then you can't provide them service Y or feature Z". It mi
738.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Hot take: most reddit discussions are every bit as good as HN comments. There is no need to make HN "not Reddit".
739.
by alkonaut 2y ago
They do lots of journeys. They'll be graded by people with every idea about what a 3 or a 4 means. The average they eventually end up at is some combination of the average of people's idea of how a 1-5 scale works, combined with t
740.
by alkonaut 2y ago
> And in this case, whether a driver ends up with a score above or below their peers will just reflect which customers they were fortunate or unfortunate enough to have. Yes. But as a customer I also have no idea what these scores are fo
741.
by alkonaut 2y ago
> Sweden you can only buy Alcohol from government stores. It's super expensive and they close early (3pm IIRC). So if you wanted some beers for party or a bottle of wine for dinner you're S.O.L. if you didn't buy on your l
742.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Hot take: I dont care if others think 5.0 is acceptable while 4.8 is disastrous. I’ll rate 1-5 on a scale normalized at 3.0 and meaning ”meets expectations”. Luckily scores in Europe seem to be much less lopsided than in the US so giving
743.
by alkonaut 2y ago
> I would hate that default The default, as made clear in the article, would be to do nothing different than today. This describes an optional feature.
744.
by alkonaut 2y ago
It's available in most IDE:s but I'd still argue that the best and most important way to accomplish symbol overview is in the text itself. Because it's so jarring to go between different views of the same outline. The outline
745.
by alkonaut 2y ago
What does A == B == C even mean? I mean I know what mathematically A=B=C means. That A, B and C are all equivalent. But then is the mathematical '=' really a binary operator that maps two numerical inputs to a boolean output? It f
746.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Wait so this person used to say people should be measured on output using tools, and people listened to them then? Why is anyone still listening?
747.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Drones with flamethrowers are used to de-ice power lines. Can’t see why an individual would need one.
748.
by alkonaut 2y ago
It’s a multi step process with voice too though (at least if you have to enable the listening with a button, because there is zero chance I’m having a hot mic in my pocket or on a shelf somewhere).
749.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Did they really anchor this idea with consumers? Or is it one of those “consumers just want a faster horse” things where they believe they can present users with what they really want rather than what they say they want? Because I have ne
750.
by alkonaut 2y ago
My IT gave us right to run a few things as admin. Among them, n++. And guess what, it has a "Run" menu item so you can launch any child process. Perfect.

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