brlewis

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by brlewis 3y ago
In companies, most languages have some kind of system to enforce style guidelines and restrict which dependencies can be used. Companies already restrict the flexibility of the languages they are already using. So flexibility is not the rea
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by brlewis 3y ago
Esperanto is difficult to read and understand. It's an accent circus. I'm having fun with Typescript these days, but parentheses are what I miss most from my Scheme days. They're objectively better.
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by brlewis 3y ago
The same reason as why Esperanto is not the most popular spoken language. It's historical reasons and network effects.
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by brlewis 3y ago
I may have misunderstood your initial comment. Was Vignette a nemesis because letting people migrate to Django from it while preserving URLs involved commas, or was it just a nemesis in general and you're pointing out a flaw in how the
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by brlewis 3y ago
From a more popular site: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl,_Interrupted_(film)
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by brlewis 3y ago
Doesn't have to be MUD. Thanks!
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Ask HN: Which MUDs have good writing?
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by brlewis 3y ago
You lose a trademark if you don't defend it. I don't believe the same is true of patents.
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by brlewis 3y ago
> https://patents.google.com/patent/US5662332A/en (Magic The Gathering) Thank you. I concede, this one is proof that an application that's essentially board game rules can be accepted. Whether rules not ti
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by brlewis 3y ago
The troll can price their licenses slightly less than the presumed legal costs. Then most victims won't fight. Presumption of validity is what makes patent trolling more lucrative than other forms of predatory litigation. You're g
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by brlewis 3y ago
It is not reasonable to expect humans to assess the novelty or obviousness of software "inventions". Too many of them can be created too fast for any conceivable patent office to handle. The only solution is for Congress to write
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by brlewis 3y ago
> Board game rules fall under patents Please supply evidence. All links in your comment relate to a patent to an invention where lasers are an essential part of the claims. I'm not convinced that rules alone would be patentable subj
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by brlewis 3y ago
I'm not the OP, but probably https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2024/01/30/arizona-proposes-sola...
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by brlewis 3y ago
I didn't even know about the acme1 deprecation until you just now told me. Apparently certbot 0.31.0 handled it fine. You're right that DNS isn't architecturally analogous to TLS. The way it's analogous is that if the ce
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by brlewis 3y ago
> Sure QUIC may be faster, but only as long as you keep getting permission from your TLS CA. Once that stops it's very, very, slow. QUIC is fragile and like other CA TLS things: anything built with it will have a lifetime of only a
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by brlewis 3y ago
That doesn't fit my experience. Google's stock price increased after a large block of layoffs. And they were making every effort to put as many as possible in a single block. For example, my department was "impacted by the la
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by brlewis 3y ago
I have a Framework 13 Chromebook. I find its aesthetic similar to macbooks.
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by brlewis 3y ago
> you start to realize _why_ there's a stack, rather than just a single technology to rule them all Architecturally, there are other cases besides message queues where there's no reason for introducing another layer in the stac
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by brlewis 3y ago
Did you try cutting the tailwind stuff out of static/styles.css? Maybe it will already do what you want.
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by brlewis 3y ago
$412/year doesn't seem that cheep to me. I think the less educated are being fooled into chasing extreme low-probability prizes. https://bigthink.com/the-present/poor-americans-lottery/
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by brlewis 3y ago
Citation please. Rational entertainment would predict poorer people playing the lottery less than rich people, which afaik is not how it happens.
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by brlewis 3y ago
In the U.S. capital gains and dividends are taxed at a low rate to benefit the rich, and "Income tax" is a working-class thing. Maybe the OP was referring to the U.S. concept of income tax.
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by brlewis 3y ago
How about redistributing the CO2 tax as cuts in payroll and income taxes? That would benefit the working population and create a lot of replacement jobs.
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by brlewis 3y ago
A significant fraction of commuting by information workers stopped during COVID. Nothing like the whole world stopping, but yes, it would make a difference if the reduction in commuting could continue.
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by brlewis 3y ago
>I actually thought that this sort of law would be disallowed by the fed, since they reserve the right to govern interstate commerce Yes, the US Constitution gives regulation of interstate commerce to the federal government, but this has
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by brlewis 3y ago
Mine is very much worth it. I have an old Humanscale mechanical sit/stand desk that lets me very quickly adjust the height between sitting and standing whenever I'm inclined to do so. I don't know if you can still get this ki
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by brlewis 3y ago
Ideally there are enough details in the study to where you can evaluate the truthfulness of it from its content rather than its funding. But FWIW: https://css.umich.edu/people/external-advisory-board
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by brlewis 3y ago
"Multiple competing options" ignores that there's a prevalent style already. https://github.com/prettier/prettier/issues/840#issuecomment... Consistency has more value than the subjective advan
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by brlewis 3y ago
My recollection from flying kites a long time ago is that operating a kite gets easy after a certain height. I imagine the Kite Control Unit (KCU) can easily keep it aloft once it's high enough. The tether is 352m long according to ht
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by brlewis 3y ago
Translation: You're right on the point that one can spell words more easily in other languages. But the important thing in this case is that people find what they expect. If the majority are looking for `} else {` it's better to g

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