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by ddulaney 2y ago
The article itself is terrifying. But also, what’s happened to Torrent Freak? I think of them as having a pro-freedom anti-restrictions stance, and they pretty uncritically reported a deeply alarming conference. Has there been a shift in le
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by ddulaney 2y ago
Can you elaborate a bit on what you saw as US-centric? At least a couple of parts of the essay were from people in the UK, but maybe there’s a non-US/UK perspective?
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by ddulaney 2y ago
Provided you make the source for any derivative works available to your customers. It’s not uncommon that in situations where that’s undesirable (e.g. a closed-source C library that statically links a GPL’d project) that the library owner
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by ddulaney 2y ago
Nope! The NFL has a long tradition of splitting off games into their own categories: most games are played on Sunday in the afternoon and are carried on the “big 4” networks in the US, then there are 1 or 2 games each on Sunday Night, Monda
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by ddulaney 2y ago
I’m not sure what the objections to PFOF are. Do you think you get worse execution than the public market? If so, it’s easy to prove: compare the price you got to the public markets price at that time. I don’t think you’ll see a worse price
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by ddulaney 2y ago
I don’t think it’s that surprising. Here’s two true statements: I don’t trust my phone on a fundamental level. I also have mentioned things out loud and gotten ads afterward about them. On the one hand, those two statements absolutely don’t
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by ddulaney 2y ago
For 1 — dude, please back off the “[the rules] are a farce”. Citadel and friends pay to trade with you because they think you’re dumb and they can make money off you. They’re giving you or your broker a better deal because they think they’r
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by ddulaney 2y ago
How are you tied back into the financial markets? Are you yourself an exchange member? Or are you going through a traditional brokerage? Or are there other middlemen? I’m really worried about putting my money into any startup after the Syna
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by ddulaney 2y ago
Presumably a combination of a flat-rate fee ($1/user/month) and payment for order flow. PFOF is a big moneymaker for Robinhood, but you get paid the more your users trade so people doing buy-and-hold index funds probably earn you
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by ddulaney 2y ago
The mechanism is kinda like the Spotify fake songs case: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/north-carolina-musician... In the same way, there was a fixed pot of money available split up by popularity, so making
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by ddulaney 2y ago
There's at least one major exception to this: Unicode normalization. It's possible for the same logical character to have two different sets of code points (for example, a-with-umlaut as a single character, vs a followed by umlaut
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by ddulaney 2y ago
Agreed in general, but the question is what we give up in going to a more-resilient system. In particular, lots of things are the way they are because of cost. Would you be OK with your food costs doubling or tripling because it’s local? I
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by ddulaney 2y ago
Oh gawd the worst. Where I work was acquired, so there’s a mixture of Slack and Teams. Because Teams threading sucks so much, people there get in the habit of doing everything in group DMs. It’s as bad as emails.
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by ddulaney 2y ago
Unfortunately, emails (at least in my context) are rich text, and they pretty frequently include images that I care about. I don't think gnus can handle that, given that it looks CLI-only. But also, it looks like I'd have to do so
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by ddulaney 2y ago
OK maybe I don't know how to do this right. I do that for automated systems, but do you filter entire conversations? Like, I'm on some random email thread, and dozens of people are replying. Making a rule feels pretty heavyweight
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by ddulaney 2y ago
I find that for me, it’s the opposite. It’s very fast to scan a Slack channel and only dig into interesting threads. But I get CC’d on endless emails that aren’t meant for me, to the tune of dozens per day. And I don’t have any way to unsub
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by ddulaney 2y ago
There’s a lot of good that shows up all across the economy from satellites. For example, how important is weather prediction to you? Genuinely, I’m not sure how much it is to me, but the value isn’t nothing. GPS is another thing like that:
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by ddulaney 2y ago
As the guidelines [0] state: > Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills. See the link for some examples, but I can also recommend looking at some old front
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by ddulaney 2y ago
Yep! That’s an unfortunately (or fortunately, for the hacker unconcerned with garage theft) the vast bulk of installed garage doors.
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by ddulaney 2y ago
I think that’s really important to reinforce! You probably know better, but lots of the less technical people I talk to don’t think that way. It’s not at all obvious to an observer who doesn’t know how this stuff works that a computer could
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by ddulaney 2y ago
In my experience, `zig cc` is great at cross-compiling (which is a hard problem that it solves!) but doesn't actually help with the rest of the problem. You still have to run cmake/autoconf/meson/whatever else, which is
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by ddulaney 2y ago
What you’re proposing here is essentially “if we fix the C/C++ build systems environment, this would be easy!”. You’re absolutely right, but fixing that mess has been a multi-decade goal that’s gone nowhere. One of the great victories
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by ddulaney 2y ago
I think that statement is pretty short-sighted. Bypassing corporate policy at work is risky . You might bring down negative consequences on yourself or your workplace. You have to understand what you are doing. You have to understand likel
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by ddulaney 2y ago
I think the person you were replying to was making a slightly different point. They were talking about Wilderness as a legal designation in the US, as distinct from wilderness as a concept. When an area is designated as a Wilderness, that r
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by ddulaney 2y ago
https://arrow.apache.org/ It’s a format for handling bulk columnar data.
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by ddulaney 2y ago
I’d suggest that Tesla is high rather than BMW being low. It’s the only way for a normal person who is a Musk fan to buy into any part of his empire, so you have demand from people who are Musk fans and express that fandom by buying stocks.
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by ddulaney 2y ago
Is this wrong? I always mentally replace "e.g." with "for example" (so this sentence is "it can chainload into, for example, an EFI image"). That sounds right to me. This seems like somebody doing it right :)
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by ddulaney 2y ago
> or even over PXE, I guess This is super common actually! Most built-in PXE only supports TFTP, which is pretty slow compared to TCP-based stuff. It can make sense to use the built-in PXE to grab a (small) iPXE image over TFTP, then hav
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by ddulaney 2y ago
I miss that era too. But the shift isn’t purely cultural: it’s an acknowledgement of the underlying reality that climate change is getting to be real bad. I worry about where a growth-at-all-costs mindset has lead us at least as much.
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by ddulaney 2y ago
That’s not the scary thing here. Better to future-proof it. Running presumably unencrypted SNMP over shared lines is sketchy.

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