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by callalex 2y ago
Following imperical studies is not a world view though, you’re making that part up which is why I dismissed it as a strawman.
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by callalex 2y ago
Can someone name me examples of where a bash script is actually the _correct_ tool for the job in modern times? Or is it still used only because it’s the easily available tool?
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by callalex 2y ago
Ah, teacher always told me that HTTP is idempostent after all.
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by callalex 2y ago
I make no value judgment on this policy, I’m just pointing out that systems have a natural outcome based on the incentive structure. Or, as Charlie Munger put it much more eloquently: “Show me the incentives and I will show you the outcome.
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by callalex 2y ago
This article doesn’t speak at all to the fraud potential. Also the real answer to the question posed in the headline is that the most powerful voting blocks will naturally receive the highest subsidies in a democracy.
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by callalex 2y ago
Liked “You'll be glad to hear that SMS already doesn't have reactions”. It’s really the most clunky backfill that Apple chose, I suspect on purpose.
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by callalex 2y ago
How do you undo, for example, an HTTP request?
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by callalex 2y ago
Are you white?
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by callalex 2y ago
A strawman made up by religious fundamentalists so that they can feel superior to others.
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by callalex 2y ago
Apple has a corporate writing/speech style guide that they adhere to religiously. Anything done by anyone in the company present or past is always “we”. Notice how all their keynotes and product press releases almost always include the
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by callalex 2y ago
That just means the interview process is selecting for only completely uninformed idiots. What does that say about the resulting organization?
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by callalex 2y ago
Do they still compete on battery life while running a corporate email client, corporate chat client (Slack/Teams) and an editor (text/code/spreadsheet) in the background while completely idle? You’d think such simple idle wor
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by callalex 2y ago
Unfortunately, there is a huge amount of cargo-culted cruft lying around in various Linux-on-workstation-wiki guide sites that hasn’t been modernized since the 2000’s. I don’t normally like to rant without providing a solution, but this is
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by callalex 2y ago
It’s also subtly inhibited by Apple after installation. For example when I pull down on the Home Screen to get Siri Suggestions it will refuse to show me any PWAs even though they are the most used apps on my device.
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by callalex 2y ago
Not being sure that your brand new invention will even be useful, and therefore not bothering to think about international politics while inventing packet switched networking is now “American exceptionalism”? That’s just absurd.
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by callalex 2y ago
Can you teach me how it’s meaningfully different in terms of securely running a JIT compiler? What components should I be learning about?
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by callalex 2y ago
HN is not a forum for “gotcha!” posts like this. If you mean to say something like “by carrying a cell phone you are already enabling AT&T or T-Mobile to legally sell your fully identifiable and detailed location history to anyone with
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by callalex 2y ago
It's really incomprehensible, whatever minuscule revenue Apple is getting from running this protection racket, I mean ad network, must be minuscule compared to the potential damage they cause to their users and brand. But I guess that&
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by callalex 2y ago
Nope. Apple participates in the same pay-for-search-placement scheme, and therefore will happily distribute the same kinds of scams. https://usa.kaspersky.com/blog/dangerous-apps-in-app-store/2...
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by callalex 2y ago
From my Bay Area perspective, Girls who Code is still going strong and doing great work. Any reports that all diversity initiatives have died are greatly exaggerated.
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by callalex 2y ago
Do you have any citations to back up this “fact”?
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by callalex 2y ago
You need a pro version in order to be allowed to sign into your own computer with your own user and not involving the internet.
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by callalex 2y ago
If you think that living life requires you to constantly put down others, I just feel sad for both you and all the people who have to be around you.
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by callalex 2y ago
Apparently it started as a series of xhits or whatever they’re called this week.
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by callalex 2y ago
I never bother writing app reviews because it’s a waste of time: my human efforts are 100% guaranteed to be drowned out by bot reviews anyway. Leaving a 1* review on a scummy app is a waste of time because the scummy apps just buy review bo
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by callalex 2y ago
What are the chances that anyone goes to prison for this? If the answer is “none” this will just keep happening.
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by callalex 2y ago
That effect is 100% done in software. Full black on screens is just really good now. If you don’t believe me look at a photo in full screen while zoomed in.
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by callalex 2y ago
Getting repair parts can be impossible though, because they’d rather put the limited number of parts they have into new cars. I’ve had friends with broken windows and seats that took more than a year to fix. A whole year with a trash bag ta
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by callalex 2y ago
Flood and fire are only getting more and more common.
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by callalex 2y ago
Who drew those boundaries at 15/85? What makes those boundaries useful or correct?

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