ben509

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by ben509 7y ago
Same experience, I had Bose and found that the ANC made speech worse . I'd add that Comply makes a line of memory foam tips that are much nicer than Etymotic's.
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by ben509 7y ago
But they have to own the source to be able to dual license it.
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by ben509 7y ago
Yup, anyone who is using Racket under the GPL is still protected by GPL.
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by ben509 7y ago
> "It's definitely very expensive, but it's also like an investment," Mr Ma says. This is a case study in post-purchase rationalizing.
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by ben509 7y ago
There's a solution to the congestion problem that works even without AVs: private ownership of roads and automated pricing. Right now, you don't really pay to use roads, you only pay a gas tax to drive on any road. If specific roa
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by ben509 7y ago
> I'm actually between arch enemies at the moment, so the position is open if anyone would like to apply. Is the lair a proper complex built into the side of a volcano? I'm not quite diabolical enough to make my minions work in
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by ben509 7y ago
> If the debt isn’t bad and is making you money why would you sell it? To liquidate it, or to replace it with an asset that has a better return.
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by ben509 7y ago
It's adding self-destructing messages, so there's that. But, yeah, the lack of protection from eavesdropping is a show stopper.
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by ben509 7y ago
It's insecure because anyone who intercepts the message can trivially decrypt it by pasting it into their browser. Yes, self-destructing messages are more secure than simply pasting plain text. But it's offering no protection agai
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by ben509 7y ago
> Seriously, ors are bad so union two queries as a cheaper alternative? They should be equivalent, letting you choose the notation that expresses the problem cleanly. If relations were sets of tuples, boolean expressions could be rewritt
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by ben509 7y ago
> According to our laws humans have some rights by just being a human. Being human means you can plan things out and recall the passage of time by sharing stories. Language and higher thought make us peculiar in that regard; they give us
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by ben509 7y ago
I think what we really want to fit the use case for shells is an ad hoc package standard that apt, dnf, etc can recognize.
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by ben509 7y ago
> There’s something to that, but it captures the central conceit of a dangerous assumption we seem to have made as a culture these days: that being right is a license to be a total, unrepentant asshole. I don't think this is true. I
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by ben509 7y ago
Hopefully, "names correspond to pronouncable words" is only false in a Fry and Laurie sketch[1]. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LopIroSjsU
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by ben509 7y ago
There's still an issue with the package managers requiring arbitrary shell commands to be run, often with sudo. From docker[1] there are steps like these: Install packages to allow apt to use a repository over HTTPS... Add Do
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by ben509 7y ago
It's been tried. You wind up putting all the people who provide those goods and services out of work. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1993/07/16/h...
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by ben509 7y ago
Looking at their history[1], they got commoditized. They were first clobbered as the OS vendors started to build in utilities that were good enough for most people, and later open source software was better. Add to that they wanted to captu
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by ben509 7y ago
It sounds like they're trying to sacrifice the remaining scraps of Peter Norton's reputation in order to make a horcrux.
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by ben509 7y ago
I'll add to this from my experience in the Army because they really grok this concept. If my platoon sergeant overheard me telling a private, "you don't know X and Y," he'd dismiss that private, and he'd be dem
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by ben509 7y ago
Agreed. It's especially important not to confuse a chronic issue with something like stress. If you experienced a major event and it forced you to work long hours, introduced a lot of uncertainty, strained your family, etc. you'd
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by ben509 7y ago
Once you fix the third world problems, you don't die from child-birth, malaria, pollution or civil war. You still die just as dead from diabetes, heart disease, suicide and cancer.
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by ben509 7y ago
But we only know it does because of physics, and without knowing there isn't a risk of banks floating away, people would be afraid of building banks. And, of course, mechanics generally are what enable the analysis of large static lo
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by ben509 7y ago
I think it's a vicious cycle. If you harshly punish people for saying certain things, you create taboos. That causes people to avoid discussing these taboo topics. Everyone knows that they're bad things, but there's none of t
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by ben509 7y ago
This thread digs into the notion that you probably don't need a solution as comprehensive as reCaptcha: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20158386 And the article suggests some alternatives towards the end.
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by ben509 7y ago
> This is one of the most useful constructs in all of computer science and Python rejects it due to what amounts to religious belief. What utter nonsense. There was extensive discussion, and it ran into the limitations of Python's s
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by ben509 7y ago
These two are syntactically equal and in Python there's no way a linter can distinguish between these two: if reductor = dispatch_table.get(cls): if reductor == dispatch_table.get(cls): A human being can only distinguish t
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by ben509 7y ago
After a while I wondered if he'd ever actually defend it, but he does: > Comic Sans, I have learned, is also a typeface favored by the British Dyslexia Association... > I like the spaciousness it allows between letters. > I ca
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by ben509 7y ago
Is mumble[1] a decent replacement for discord? I like the idea of the immediacy of voice chat for talking over ideas and issues. [1]: https://www.mumble.info/
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by ben509 7y ago
I hate star-based review systems. A review system should just be a series of factual questions that are aimed at determining whether a potential customer is likely to have problems, be satisfied, or enjoy their stay. And the scores should
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by ben509 7y ago
> The question is whether political speech can withstand the age of overwhelming scale, extreme anonymity, weaponised psychology and machine learning. Except no one has proposed banning bots, machine learning, or shutting down anonymous

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