chowells

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by chowells 5mo ago
It means making an informed choice that you know raises fatality rates.
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by chowells 5mo ago
They likely were inspired by Microsoft's innovation in skipping 4.x of DirectX.
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by chowells 5mo ago
You've never had to budget tightly, then? When I was in college, I knew what my typical order at every restaurant near campus would cost me, to the cent. It was a big deal in how I planned my days. Something costing $1 more could blow
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by chowells 5mo ago
So... you just apparate at Wendy's instantly without cost when you decide to go? Most of us aren't so lucky. We need to travel there, which takes time and resources. Sometimes we decide to go through the drive-through and there ar
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by chowells 6mo ago
If the products don't ship in a fit-for-use state, doesn't that make them defective?
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by chowells 6mo ago
If you run a game entirely between colluding parties, cheating speed runners can just hack it to do whatever they want anyway. See the Dream Minecraft thing from several years back. Speed running claims may be cheated in a thousand ways. It
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by chowells 6mo ago
That's not more of a problem than synchronizing the player names at game start. It's table stakes for an online game.
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by chowells 6mo ago
"Progress is at fault" only is a criticism of the criticism if it's actually progress. What if actually being forced to slow down and think about a thing is what actually makes you learn it, and anything designed to optimize
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by chowells 7mo ago
I think I agree with what you're getting at, though I usually phrase it differently: indirection is not abstraction. A good abstraction makes it easier to understand what the code is doing by letting you focus on the important details
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by chowells 7mo ago
Is it even possible for money to not be power? Like, how do you separate purchasing power from influence power? Purchasing is a very easy route to influence.
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by chowells 8mo ago
I want KYC. I want AML. I want reversible transactions. I also want all of those things to be well regulated by a responsive and reasonable regulatory body. They may have cases where they break down, but their net social impact is positive.
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by chowells 8mo ago
As someone with no firsthand knowledge at all, I am inclined to believe your position is correct. But I also think the Economist is making an important point: Russia's continued prosecution of this war will shred their internal economy
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by chowells 8mo ago
Basically all of the use cases in the article don't make sense with AES. That's not because it's AES. That's because its blocks are significantly larger than the data you want to protect. That's the point the articl
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by chowells 8mo ago
Please explain to me how you can hash n distinct strings into O(n) buckets in O(1) time. Please note that this process needs to work as n goes to infinity . Hash tables are O(log n) structures when you don't hand-wave away the "c
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by chowells 8mo ago
Good. Video games are being ruined by shareholders demanding returns over good games. The less public investment there is, the better.
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by chowells 8mo ago
The article addresses this, actually. Fetching any unsecured content is an attack vector. https://danq.me/2026/01/28/hsbc-dont-understand-email/#footn...
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by chowells 9mo ago
So you're saying... it's type inference of type classes, just like in Haskell?
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by chowells 9mo ago
Users matter a ton to windows. Specifically, the users with a hundred thousand or more licenses. Their unhappiness threatens Windows' profits in a meaningful way. Why do you think all the new secure boot and TPM features were added to
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by chowells 9mo ago
It's definitely a shock when something else changes the date object you've been holding on to. The problem with mutable values has never been when you (that is, the local context) change them. It's always that you can't
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by chowells 9mo ago
You've described three different features with three different sets of semantics. Which set of semantics is honored? Unknown! This is not software engineering. This is an appeal to faith. Software engineering requires precise semantics
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by chowells 9mo ago
I mostly agree with your sentiment, but saying "math is not art" is the same as saying "writing is not art". Calculation isn't art. But math isn't calculation. Math is a social activity shared between humans. L
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by chowells 10mo ago
I would die of embarrassment if I had bad code in a project for me . I am at my limit for tolerating bad code in projects for others, where the economics don't support taking the time that would be required to fix the deep problems. C
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by chowells 10mo ago
Basically irrelevant to taxpayers. Their salaries or triple their salaries will add up to a difference of a couple dollars on the average tax bill. Doge didn't actually cut any of the big expenses. It was only intended to cut the effec
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by chowells 10mo ago
Handling negative feedback on a PR is a necessary skill for a developer. A manager should only get involved if it becomes hostile. Negative is very far from hostile.
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by chowells 10mo ago
"Dark pattern" implies bad for users but good for the provider. Mens rea was never a requirement.
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by chowells 11mo ago
It's more a viewpoint thing. Any construct cryptographers find that runs in constant time is something that could be optimized to run faster for non-cryptographic code. Constant-time constructs essentially are optimizer bug reports. Th
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by chowells 11mo ago
Given that neither the police nor jails are relevant to corporate violations of the law, do you have a point other than that you don't understand either of those?
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by chowells 11mo ago
It's appropriate to think this way with LLM output because LLMs are still terrible some significant portion of the time. If you don't actually know what you're doing, you have no way to distinguish between their output bein
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by chowells 1y ago
"Ourselves" meaning people who have invested in Treasury Bills and other US bonds. Writing it off would mean eliminating massive amounts of wealth. That isn't really politically tenable for anyone.
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by chowells 1y ago
That person is a problem because low-trust environments are inherently low-privacy and low-efficiency environments. Allowing a small portion of the population to destroy trust and then justifying it with "well there was no explicit rul

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