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by fivea 5y ago
This sort of exercise tends to have a mix bag of successful predictions (infinite monkeys typing Shakespeare and all) but it surprised me that the rate of successful predictions in that thread is so close to 0%.
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by fivea 5y ago
> I don’t see how anyone can have this opinion. If you are producing code for which VS was designed (.net for example) it is obviously and definitely one of the greatest IDEs ever produced. Hard disagree. VS makes code harder to navigate
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> I’m never going to remember a domain with a silly tld. I doubt this assertion is grounded in reality. Sites that resort to puns from cc TLDs like lobste.rs don't suffer from name recognition problems, and no one ever had any probl
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by fivea 5y ago
> In practice URLs often cannot be more than 2K characters. It's also more work to type and bytes to transmit and harder to see on small screens. The longest vanity TLD I could find was .travelersinsurance. Two dozen characters are
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by fivea 5y ago
> I feel it takes away from the standardization or uniformity 2 and 3 char TLDs bring to domains. One of the original TLDs is .arpa, and I don't see any of that uniformity in a world where second-level domains like .co.uk domains ar
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by fivea 5y ago
> The real issue with the vanity TLDs, and many of the newer ones in general, is that they have zero recognition. They are most worthless. I disagree. No one was born recognizing .com domains, and outside of the US non-.com domains are a
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> Basically, non-local control flow is dangerous (...) This is the crux of the error you're making. Exceptions are not about control flow. Exceptions are a transparent and clean way to handle exceptional events. Exceptions are not i
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> I always hear about the easy setups, but never about total (man-hours included) cost of ownership through a couple release cycles on each component. I run about half a dozen web apps on a single node on Hetzner with Docker swarm mode +
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> (...) taking incremental backups of the entire VM is the best way to ensure you can hit the big undo button if anything goes wrong. What if your server is already compromised? Doesn't that approach ensure your server remains compr
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> (...) anti-secure software propaganda (...) Enough with this cargo cult belief system. Even if your choice of bicycle has training wheels, you can still fall down and scrape your knees if you don't know what you're doing. I m
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> (...) my example was just designed to be something that might be somewhat more recognizable (...) If your goal was to use that poor example to support the idea that people stick with subsets of C++ because of reasons, that example fail
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> (...) such as Google's famous "no exceptions". If I recall correctly, Google's rationale regarding exceptions is that their legacy code is not exception-safe, and so they were faced with the choice of either rewriti
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> Why do you need more than one C++ compiler installed? Sometimes you need to upgrade your compiler but can't/don't want to rebuild the whole dependency graph. Because sometimes you need to import prebuilt libraries/m
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by fivea 5y ago
> As has been said many times in this thread. It’s not Apple’s factory. Apple does have much higher standards than this, and has a program of enforcement. That makes no sense. I mean, all you need to do to check if the factory subjects w
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by fivea 5y ago
> They are. They are held to higher standards than any of their conpetitors. Are they, though? I don't see people claiming that "crowded dorms without flush toilets and food sometimes crawling with worms" is totally fine i
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by fivea 5y ago
It's also important to keep in mind that fraud is rampant in NFTs, such as the same person faking transactions by essentially buying his own asset with a flash loan. This means that the paper trail is left behind but no sale actually h
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by fivea 5y ago
> I suspect the experience varies pretty widely based on what languages you use and what you’re trying to do with it. I second GP's assessment that Bazel is pretty developer-hostile if you are not Google or have Google's resour
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by fivea 5y ago
> Thanks, but "past" link does not show past discussions of the posted article, just older states of HN. No, not really. It shows a list of past submissions, which of course include the corresponding discussions. Take a look:
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by fivea 5y ago
HN already provides a link to past threads. Check out the "past" link right next to the submission.
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by fivea 5y ago
Your comment makes no sense at all and is based on an attempt to surreptitiously invert the burden of proof. No one has argued that "not know how something works" implies that "any explanation is therefore true." That wo
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by fivea 5y ago
It was a tongue-in-cheek comment, playing with the absurdity of NFTs being used as certificates of authenticity in art scams.
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> 99.9% probability it's a forgery. But many people stand to make a lot of money if it's sold so they'll try to find enough experts to say it's legit and everyone wins. If only there was a NFT assuring it's prove
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by fivea 5y ago
> And the biggest "hmm" is why/for what reason do we have a specific neuronal circuit/capability to tell us that some god/presence is near us[0]? I'm not sure you read the article you cited, but it clearly s
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by fivea 5y ago
> It's an elaboration of the fact that brain meat is not magic, and can't be magic, and everything we understand about the laws of physics leaves no room for magic. This assertion is rather short-sighted and presumes, wrongly,
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by fivea 5y ago
> 'The mind is the brain' -- his very first premise is a controversial assumption, one that's a long way from being universally accepted. Without that assumption, the rest of his argument falls apart. You wrote a rather le
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> Vaccine: A product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease I'm not sure you hit an eventual consistency thing while you read the source you cited, but the definition of a vaccine in it do
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>>Makes sense. You could own an ebike or scooter for years, but the shared ones have a much shorter lifespan, sometimes as little as a few days or a week. Vandals, people riding 2 to a scooter, etc. Your personal assertion bears no re
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by fivea 5y ago
> 21 infections is classified as a 'super spreading event'? What is 100 or 1000 infections, a super duper spreading event? Wikipedia defines a super spreading event as an event where an infectious disease spreads much more than
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> There are fates worse than death (...) ...said the person who hasn't died of COVID. Meanwhile, those who died from COVID typically undergo an excruciating death. https://www.vox.com/2021/2/20/2228081
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by fivea 5y ago
> My understanding is that one group literally believes that the President was elected undemocratically, and are trying to correct for the mass fraud that was used to install the current President illegitimately. That blend of belief is

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