cwillu

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571.
by cwillu 8mo ago
Try not to take criticisms of tools personally. Phillips head screws are shit for a great many applications, while simultaneously being involved in billions of dollars of economic activity, and being a driver that everyone has available.
572.
by cwillu 8mo ago
And the correct response to this knowledge is to not try to optimize for the user that will screw anything up.
573.
by cwillu 8mo ago
> For incorrect OS answers, keep reading Nothing there responds to the question. If my 17 year old answers “I'm 23”, what exactly prevents them from posting to /r/nsfw? What constitutes “clear and convincing evidence”?
574.
by cwillu 8mo ago
That would seem to require that the act provide a shield against liabilities involving minors, which doesn't seem compatible with the notion that it's such a low-friction mechanism. A minor installs debian on a raspberry py, clic
575.
by cwillu 8mo ago
No, it's not a spectrum in any meaningful sense. There are scam companies (some with semi-respectable research departments attached to them) and there are research projects. Anyone selling devices with the promise that those devices
576.
by cwillu 8mo ago
No, there are none; the closest we currently have are various special purpose and more or less hard-coded machines that demonstrate that scaling exists; various general-purpose machines operating on handfuls of qubits demonstrating the vari
577.
by cwillu 8mo ago
All “industrial” quantum computers currently fall entirely in the former category. Anyone trying to tell you otherwise is selling snake oil.
578.
by cwillu 8mo ago
They can't solve np hard problems better than conventional computers .
579.
by cwillu 8mo ago
It was a joke.
580.
by cwillu 8mo ago
The headline should be changed because it was a joke: “Sorry folks, this issue was more of a joke (am I allowed to do that?) but I'll keep the issue open since there's some discussion here.”
581.
by cwillu 8mo ago
It's a common term that comes with a lot of criticism in the vein of noticing the skulls.
582.
by cwillu 8mo ago
“One country two systems” is definitionally not imperialism, and given that “One China” is still an internationally recognized thing, neither is Taiwan. “Imperialism” is not a synonym for “morally repugnant government policy”.
583.
by cwillu 8mo ago
It wasn't that long ago that Taiwan claimed to be the legitimate government of China; given that China still maintains the reverse claim, it's not outrageous that it would consider an outside country's defense to be interfere
584.
by cwillu 8mo ago
The democratic values I take for granted is under direct threat from the us. Your government is literally funding separatist movements in my country.
585.
by cwillu 8mo ago
@dang doesn't do anything; email hn@ycombinator.com and they'll do something quite responsively.
586.
by cwillu 8mo ago
Comment conversations are public; “everybody else” is part of the conversation.
587.
by cwillu 8mo ago
Please read the link, which you can also find in the hn footer under “guidelines”
588.
by cwillu 8mo ago
“Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.” -- https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > While interesting […] “On-Topic: Anything
589.
by cwillu 8mo ago
The point is that an or relationship was silently converted into an and relationship, which is a _very_ different relationship between two factors.
590.
by cwillu 8mo ago
There's a world of difference between 25kb and 2mb
591.
by cwillu 8mo ago
Sounds like the terminal (not vi) you're using has different defaults; backspace and delete are the two common keys that vary.
592.
by cwillu 8mo ago
You've retreated that we're no longer in the realm of “consciousness is supernatural”, and I rest my case. Retreating to an infinite hypothesis space that I can never fully exclude only helps you if there is no mundane explanatio
593.
by cwillu 8mo ago
Software is the blueprint, execution is the machine.
594.
by cwillu 8mo ago
> There is always the chance that the "Most powerful" is just not good enough for the task at hand. And that chance is not 100%, and so any given strength of telescope is in fact excluding some of the hypothesis space. That is
595.
by cwillu 8mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof
596.
by cwillu 8mo ago
So, not sane.
597.
by cwillu 8mo ago
The set of sane developers and developers who are completely ignoring security considerations are disjoint. You only get an overlap if you ignore words in the original comment.
598.
by cwillu 8mo ago
Wrong. It's not strong evidence of absence, but it absolutely is evidence.
599.
by cwillu 8mo ago
It's a repost of the original, because the original author died and his blog was shut down.
600.
by cwillu 8mo ago
Considered at length, and ultimately rejected due to lack of evidence.

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