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by coldpie 1y ago
Thank you. > Your phone stores the document, with cooperation from a secure element that binds the document to the phone. The website you visit verifies the proof. So it does require a "blessed" implementation, and I have to t
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by coldpie 1y ago
Yeah I'm also interested in some of the details here, but the linked library repo is a bit too low-level for my current understanding. For example, in the usecase of providing a proof-of-age to a website: who provides the verification
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by coldpie 1y ago
No, it isn't. It's directing the bug to the people who are able to fix it.
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by coldpie 1y ago
You are going to have a very short, frustrating career in software if that's your position. Bugs happen, report them, get them fixed, chill out, and don't be a dick.
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by coldpie 1y ago
I am taking no stance about their responsibilities. What I am saying is they should have made the ownership of the next steps clear. Who the owner is depends on their responsibilities, which I don't know.
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by coldpie 1y ago
> OP said it quite clearly and so did you: that it's the reporter's job. I don't agree that it was stated clearly. That's the whole point of my comment. Leaving it unclear is bad, tasks should always have an unambiguo
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by coldpie 1y ago
Of course. They chose to resolve it by saying the underlying software should be fixed. That seems perfectly fine to me.
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by coldpie 1y ago
I agree that's the ideal solution in a vacuum, but I don't know this person's responsibilities regarding the projects in question, so I don't want to make assumptions about what they can or should do.
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by coldpie 1y ago
What do you disagree with, exactly? The bug is in an underlying library, so it should be reported to that library. That all seems correct to me, I don't see what there is to disagree with there. The problem with the comment is it does
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by coldpie 1y ago
Sunk cost fallacy, plus being told through my entire youth that the only way to get a good job is with an undergrad degree.
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by coldpie 1y ago
Now the student is going to walk away thinking 0x1234 means 0<unspecified things>1234, in decimal. That's crazy, man. That is not good teaching.
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by coldpie 1y ago
That doesn't seem better, I think lying to a student when asked a direct question is a pretty lame thing to do. Especially since the correct answer ("that indicates it's hexadecimal") is not complicated.
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by coldpie 1y ago
I think there's a third explanation, which is that computer science professors are made to teach computer programming courses to students who want to learn computer programming and not computer science. If you're a skilled comput
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by coldpie 1y ago
Software engineering programs have come around in the past 5-10 years, but prior to that and probably still to this day at many schools, computer science is pretty much the only program for people entering industry to develop software. So,
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by coldpie 1y ago
I had a professor tell the class, in response to a student's question, that the "0x" in the "0x1" memory address on the slide meant "a bunch of stuff that doesn't matter," like the "x" was a
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by coldpie 1y ago
I guess I consider it part of one's ethical duty to research the places you work and decide whether you are willing to put your life's efforts behind supporting the company's behavior. Oracle very famously attempted to comple
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by coldpie 1y ago
> I think it’s kind of sad that you would have that opinion. Yeah. I don't like it either, but that's the world we've built. I wish an industry as important as ours had some standards of ethics, like doctors and real engi
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by coldpie 1y ago
I would never hire someone with Oracle on their resume. The complete lack of morals it takes to work there is immediately disqualifying.
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by coldpie 1y ago
Sure, why not? My desktop environment hasn't significantly changed since I first set it up in 2007. The screenshots here[1] span more than 20 years (XFCE 4.0 was released in 2003) and, aside from different user-selected theming choices
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by coldpie 1y ago
Arch Linux if you're comfortable using a terminal and doing your own admin work; Linux Mint if you'd rather not.
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by coldpie 1y ago
Video games are a good place to start, especially for old consoles like the NES. The impacts of your experimenting are immediately visible, and they're simple devices (though the hardware "APIs" can be pretty unintuitive to
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by coldpie 1y ago
Fair enough, agree to disagree. I do want to say thanks for engaging me on this, and for digging up that study link. This was the most productive conversation I've had about the topic on HN.
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by coldpie 1y ago
Please double-check my math here. Minnesota delivers about 70,000 million cubic feet of natural gas to customers in the coldest months[1]. 70,000,000,000 cf of NG is about 72,730,000,000,000 BTUs[2]. That's equivalent to 21,315 GWh[3
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by coldpie 1y ago
> You're again asking for simulations about Minnesota specifically which doesn't make sense. No I'm not, I have no idea how you are getting that idea. I'm asking for an analysis showing that Minnesota's winter ne
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by coldpie 1y ago
Is your argument that new generation capacity in cold climates should be built with fossil fuel plants because it's cheaper, and the saved funds should be directed to areas that are more friendly to renewables?
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by coldpie 1y ago
> What I've never seen is a nuclear roll-out simulation that argues that's a good option. Do you have one of those? I don't know what a "nuclear roll-out simulation" is, exactly. As stated earlier, my position i
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by coldpie 1y ago
> Minnesota, Russia, Buffalo, et al are not a reason to delay significantly ramping up renewables in other places. Wait, what? Who in this discussion suggested it was?
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by coldpie 1y ago
> I'm confused. Who has agreed that solar+wind is off the table? Ah okay! That's our disconnect. Do go run the numbers on how much natural gas we're burning up here. It's a lot, like seriously a lot. How many batter
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by coldpie 1y ago
Huh? This seems like a non-sequitur, but if you want the answer I guess you'd want to ask someone familiar with Iranian weather patterns, which ain't me.
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by coldpie 1y ago
Well, our power needs are going up, and so we have to build new capacity. The question is what to build? These make for interesting discussions because there are many options on the table for places like Minnesota. No one's discussi

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