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by fargle 4y ago
I appreciate the sentiment, but: - there doesn't have to be "two kinds". Trivially you can fit both "types" at once, I certainly feel that way. And if there are 100 programmers, there'd be about 237 other reaso
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by fargle 4y ago
I was once driving along fine in the left lane and my female friend in the passenger seat suddenly yelled "TURN RIGHT HERE. RIGHT HERE! RIGHT HERE!!!" So I cut across two lanes, avoided several oncoming motorists and made a hasty
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by fargle 4y ago
Nice. Except I prefer Tawny Port, but I'll still remember it.
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by fargle 4y ago
When I was a kid in Minnesota we needed to learn port/starboard and the colors red/green. A trick that helped me remember is that "LEFT", "PORT", and "RED" are all the shorter words and "RIGHT&qu
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by fargle 4y ago
notwithstanding the obvious arguments that patents are spectacularly unhelpful at leveling the playing field for at least software and pharma, pedantically shouldn't it be: No Source Code => No Patent
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by fargle 4y ago
1. misleading headline. Should be "Breaking LUKS Encryption" (e.g. by brute force) 2. this is basically an advertisement
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by fargle 4y ago
well, it's the atlantic, but still. a smart, dedicated, tenacious person succeeds and writes an essay about how it wasn't possible to lift oneself up, and the very idea is harmful. while simultaneously providing an existential pro
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by fargle 4y ago
https://archive.ph/nu8vB
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by fargle 4y ago
not that this is the best written article, but: > Experts say that this kind of flattening makes sense in the short term — but is likely to carry negative consequences for those companies in the long term. Getting rid of middle managers
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by fargle 4y ago
https://archive.ph/68WtY
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Epic commit: LibWeb: Remove the call to “the end” during HTML fragment parsing(github.com)
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by fargle 4y ago
I think you are conflating assembly language vs. C and cross vs. native development. All four combinations were possible and all were used in the early 1980s too. Cross-assemblers, native assembler, cross compiler, native compiler. Not ever
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by fargle 4y ago
one stupid person can certainly be a lot stupider than 10 other people.
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by fargle 4y ago
You know a lot of avant-garde creative writing blog posts like this leave me feeling "guh..." I can't stomach them, they're arrogant and shitty and try too hard. But I don't dislike this. I managed to read to the en
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by fargle 4y ago
So it sounds to me like you have a urban sprawl and people problem not a truck problem.
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by fargle 4y ago
Oh, well I don't mind at all responding to your diatribes, whether I believe they are specious and misguided or not. I see it as a useful way to expand peoples viewpoints. I have had a lovely life so far and plan on continuing to do so
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by fargle 4y ago
> You're driving a car, too fast, and in a moment have to choose Did you really just try to reframe the trolley problem with lambs and rosebushes? So it's not an either or. I choose to drive my large heavy vehicles in a very sa
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by fargle 4y ago
While I appreciate your ability to make appeals to authority, particularly those who agree with you, those are not convincing arguments . The conversation is about whether there is a Moral Paradox involved in eating animals while believing
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by fargle 4y ago
And while that's a nice survey of one side of the argument, it doesn't mean anything. People that agree with you that meat => cruelty will, as it happens, agree with you. But I don't. Lots of other people don't. In
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by fargle 4y ago
+1 for the "Toorak Tractor" - I've never heard that before.
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by fargle 4y ago
Would it be OK to buy a truck for very infrequent towing, but then only use it when hauling or towing. Perhaps bicycling or running to work on a normal daily basis? Or having a responsible vehicle such as an EV or hybrid? Or maybe an E-Bi
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by fargle 4y ago
> Using negative values would only complicate things how so? as it happens computers handle this automatically when using a signed 32 bit integer. It's easy to implement because there is literally no extra work. > In 99.9% cases
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by fargle 4y ago
> Discussions are boring when they are simple assertions with no background or detail. I think I agree. For example: A simple assertion of the form "It would be more useful if he'd said what he was towing." by itself is
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by fargle 4y ago
Anecdotally I see a majority (90%+) people commenting on HN living in relatively urban areas and perhaps this is why you see trucks as wasteful - the closest thing to a working pickup truck they see is fellow commuters in vehicles that h
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by fargle 4y ago
It doesn't matter what specifically he is towing, he stated he needed the higher towing capacity. You made the argument that you believed people should rent a truck or use a smaller SUV to tow most loads. And only get a truck if they n
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by fargle 4y ago
You miss the point. On Jan 19 2038 at 03:14:07 UTC, the very next second of a signed (2's complement) 32 bit time will roll over from +2^31-1 to -2^31. Which happens to be -2^31 seconds before Sun Feb 7 06:28:16 AM 2106 UTC. So if you
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by fargle 4y ago
> If you exceed this then get a truck. Which he just said he did...
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by fargle 4y ago
here's an idea: instead of projecting a human concept of the roundness of a date onto the technical solution, let's use a value optimized for efficient implementation. Obviously if you move toward 64 bits, as most systems have a
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by fargle 4y ago
They didn't design it to be loud , they designed it to be reliable, less expensive to manufacture and to have excellent typing feel. The basic design was patented in 1971 and later variant in 1977. It's important for touch typing
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by fargle 4y ago
It's not the article, it's the comments on it that make this precious! > > I owe them 10k in credit card debt, is that ok? > This is the way > You may loose it if they go out of business

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