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by ddevault 4y ago
Having Google on your resume is not a good thing depending on who's reading it. Googlers generally need to be extensively re-trained on reality outside of companies that cargo-cult Google's practices, and I'll have some quest
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by ddevault 4y ago
Hey Russ, I got your messages that my emails aren't coming through but I'm not sure why. As an alternative, you can reach me on IRC at ddevault on Libera Chat. I'm in CEST, but my bouncer is always online. Cheers!
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by ddevault 4y ago
And, of course, most of them are being hoarded by state-sponsored thieves, particularly the British.
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by ddevault 4y ago
I admitted that my comments about EFAIL -- four years ago now -- were in the wrong, and apologized for them. Unless you're going to argue that this issue should justify consuming 70% of my system's network bandwidth without recour
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by ddevault 4y ago
Correct: it was made clear to me in no uncertain terms that the only thing I was allowed to say was "yes" or "no" to this offer.
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by ddevault 4y ago
What you're thinking about, in my opinion, is best referred to as a spider.
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by ddevault 4y ago
We can behave like adults, ask why it's not satisfactory, and come to a more agreeable mutual solution, or we can blithely offer an incomplete solution, muzzle the other party, and just continue our DDoS.
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by ddevault 4y ago
Your comment in this thread is the first time I've seen anyone mention that it was being worked on since... June 2021? This despite repeatedly raising the issue up until I was banned without explanation. I was never told, and still don
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by ddevault 4y ago
1. We would like to have a more complex discussion than saying "1" or "0" to this specific offer 2. This specific offer is not satisfactory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34313802
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by ddevault 4y ago
Hi Russ! Thank you for sharing. I am pleased to hear that there is finally some progress towards a solution for this problem. If you or someone working on the issue can reach out via email (sir@cmpwn.com), I would be happy to discuss the is
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by ddevault 4y ago
For a number of reasons. For a start, what does disabling the cache refresh imply? Does it come with a degradation of service for Go users? If not, then why is it there at all? And if so, why should we accept a service degradation when the
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by ddevault 4y ago
I was indeed in the wrong when I made this comment four years ago. I have since apologized for it. I don't intend to re-litigate anything on HN at this point, but I have good reason to believe that this incident is unrelated to the rea
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by ddevault 4y ago
That's not how the proxy works. The proxy automatically refreshes its cache extremely aggressively and independently of user interactions. The actual traffic volume generated by users running go get is a minute fraction of the total tr
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by ddevault 4y ago
I would share their side as well, but I never heard it. This is a violation of their own code of conduct, which requires them to notify the affected person, explain why, and offer the opportunity to mediate the situation. This is not the f
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by ddevault 4y ago
Thanks for the tip, will update the post.
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by ddevault 4y ago
There's no need. Anyone who believes that general AI is within reach is not smart enough to strive for it anyway.
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by ddevault 4y ago
I'm getting pretty tired of these threads. We've seen them for years and years and years. At this point, anyone still using gmail is a PEBKAC error. Move!
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by ddevault 4y ago
I hope your meal will take place at KFC :)
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by ddevault 4y ago
It's true that luck is a big factor. Every time you try something difficult, you're rolling the dice, and most outcomes are failure. However, there is a strategy you can apply to maximize your odds of success: position yourself so
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by ddevault 4y ago
I advocate for democratic socialism, which is a mix of socialism and capitalism. Socialism for humanity's basic needs, capitalism for the wants. Yes, it is possible.
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by ddevault 4y ago
Intellectual property is intangible and cannot be stolen. Copying is not stealing; the original does not go away. https://drewdevault.com/2021/12/23/Sustainable-creativity-po...
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by ddevault 4y ago
That's not how rent seeking works. Rent seeking requires exclusive access to a resource, i.e. an apartment in the original metaphor. Nothing prevents the author from monetizing it, too, and they get first-mover advantage and other legs
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by ddevault 4y ago
No, I don't agree with that. In fact I'm a copyright abolitionist.
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by ddevault 4y ago
TAOCP is not a single entity; each volume has its own copyright term. The original purpose of copyright is not to enable rent seeking, but to encourage artists to keep making new works. So as old volumes of TAOCP fall out of copyright, it i
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by ddevault 4y ago
Fun is occasionally permitted on HN. This thread is about a joke add-on in the first place, you know.
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by ddevault 4y ago
2.5G is definitely excessive.
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by ddevault 4y ago
This project has been my go-to example of the absurdity of Electron since its inception. This is a thin wrapper around ffmpeg, which does all of the real work here and is a much more powerful and versatile tool. Why does this ship an entire
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by ddevault 4y ago
>In 1948, the United Nations Genocide Convention defined genocide as any of five "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group." These five acts were: killing membe
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by ddevault 4y ago
"The market" is highly unethical and anyone who sells exploits there is undoubtedly a black hat.
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by ddevault 4y ago
These numbers are similarly misleading. Read up on induced demand. Rail passengers in the US are small in number because passenger rail sucks . If it were improved, ridership would go up.

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