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by falsedan 9y ago
> Your files are not moved or copied. :extremely pedantic voice: ITYM your data is not moved. Your inodes are. :normal voice: thank you for taking the time to explain clearly this in more detail.
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by falsedan 9y ago
> It is socially unacceptable to misquote. No it's not. If your defense against writing a terrible thing is, "you have to understand it in context", it's still a terrible thing you wrote. Plus: it's ableist! Yo
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by falsedan 9y ago
Then I should have said, type of developer. I see how 'class' has weighty connotations. > * no group of humans is being abused or discriminated against* I disagree, you make it abundantly clear that 'real' tools canno
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by falsedan 9y ago
When I visit the site for the first time Then I expect to see something related to the title from the HN submission Except I see a blank page and an app that has broken in a fundamental way that I do not have ex
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by falsedan 9y ago
I just downloaded an unsigned app ( https://www.bitcoinarmory.com/download/ ), and I see the usual `"Armory" can't be opened because it is from an unidentified developer.` message, with only an [OK] button
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by falsedan 9y ago
Hope you enjoy being angry all the time over literally pointless minutia
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by falsedan 9y ago
> behind the scenes it's doing a fresh install, then copying your files back across Are you thinking of the reformatting to APFS? That's kind of done like this. Aside from this, the OS upgrade is the same as it always is: ins
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by falsedan 9y ago
So an early version of the beta set up Fusion drives with APFS, and then the next version switched them back to HDFS. I don't know the exact issue, but I would roll back like that if I saw there were data corruption/data loss issu
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by falsedan 9y ago
beta has been public for like 3 months, most apps have updated already.
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by falsedan 9y ago
Not if your company goes out of business waiting for the Right Thing. Technical line management is a separate skill set to product & project management, dumping all that on a new manager is an express ticket to burnout city. edit let&#x
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by falsedan 9y ago
mailto:hn@ycombinator.com
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by falsedan 9y ago
> Wait. What? In 2017? There are instructions and I have to report broken equipment? I have to figure out instructions on payment system?! There's no button to handle it all on my phone? lol nice bit wait are you serious
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by falsedan 9y ago
Apparently flagging a submission doesn't get the mods attention, and we should email them if we see these kinds of errors in links/typos in titles. What's the email address to use?
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by falsedan 9y ago
If you say these things, but means something else, that's on you to adapt your communication, not on me to intuit your message. > But achieving that in shell language is so much harder than it needs to be. So, as an exercise, how
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by falsedan 9y ago
Class in the OO/taxonomy sense. I feel like you are projecting some of your existing issues onto this discussion.
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by falsedan 9y ago
> people will think still frames Video is still frames… you can't tell the difference between a 2-frame 24fps video and an animation of two photos taken 33ms apart. This holds as you add more images. The things that record video f
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by falsedan 9y ago
> Booking.com already knows that they are fighting a losing battle against AirBnB. lol Booking.com and AirBnB have different markets: fixed-overhead operations competing on a commodity, and owners selling a unique-experience short-term
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by falsedan 9y ago
> They make it sound as if you lose Prime right away. That might be the victim of taking phrasing from different markets. In the US and UK, when I've cancelled Prime, I immediately lose the benefits + get a pro-rata refund for the
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by falsedan 9y ago
> Perl is a bad language suddenly? Not suddenly, but when Centos 5 released in 2007 with 5.8.8 (from 2006), and Centos 6 in 2011 with 5.10.1 (2009). That froze the language environment for a lot of people and they couldn't benefit
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by falsedan 9y ago
I was talking about the question I asked you: > Could you imagine the point-of-view of someone who did find this helpful? I felt that your response didn't try to answer it, and thus I thought you cannot imagine such a person &
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by falsedan 9y ago
> Splitting the world into admins and programmers - that is elitist. That's what you do when recommend people who program in a particular language should learn a new one 'to produce rock-solid tools (which they need!)'.
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by falsedan 9y ago
why can't I upvote this infinite times
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by falsedan 9y ago
You don't put a limit on the length of the video: any movie or music video with 2 or more sequential frames of completely synthetic footage disproves your claim. Do you think composing real footage and generated together doesn't c
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by falsedan 9y ago
> I think you're being very uncivil. I'm sorry. I see how my questions come off as questioning your experience, and I didn't mean to do that. > I think you're taking this too personally. I think your reluctance
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by falsedan 9y ago
> I don't think so. You think it's necessary to let sysadmins know their place as "not real developers"? That's elitist.
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by falsedan 9y ago
> They often make great toys in the sense that toys are fun but it's harder to build robust things in bash scripts. Programming is hard, regardless. You're being very dismissive towards shell scripters, and it comes off as el
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by falsedan 9y ago
> A camcorder is the only instrument that can produce a series of still frames that look identical to what a human observer saw in the same spot. Like a camera? A non-colourblind human with perfect 20/20 vision and no incidental v
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by falsedan 9y ago
Or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15293011 ?
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by falsedan 9y ago
> And yet, no one has. :) Plenty of people have. How would you spot it in a movie or music video?
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by falsedan 9y ago
> That's not dismissive -- no one has ever made any program that outputs a string of images indistinguishable from a real camcorder. It's just that hard. > Note the important distinction: no one, anywhere, has ever create

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