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by foldr 1y ago
Lord of the Flies is a short book telling a simple story in which lots of very identifiable stuff actually happens. It’s not exactly Ulysses. Sixteen year olds used to routinely read more complex works of fiction for fun .
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by foldr 1y ago
Several million people migrate to EU countries from outside the EU every year, yes. The number will be lower than a million for most individual EU countries, but then the individual countries also have smaller populations than the US.
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by foldr 1y ago
>It became much more expensive than AWS, because it bundled the hard drive space with the RAM. Couldn't scale one without scaling the other. It was ridiculous. You can easily scale hard drive space independently of RAM by buying blo
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by foldr 1y ago
You think stabbing people on trains is an accurate description of the behavior of Muslims as a religious group? If not, what is your point exactly? Prejudice against Muslims, or those perceived as Muslims, is often closely linked to raciali
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by foldr 1y ago
I'm not personally a fan of Java, but if I was implementing a compiler, I'd pick a language with GC. There's pretty much no downside to a GC in that context, and it gives you more flexibility when working with graph data stru
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by foldr 1y ago
Intellectually yes, but it's surprising how hard a lot of 18 years olds fail at basic adulting. I've been indirectly involved with apprenticeship schemes here in the UK that place 18 year olds at various companies as software engi
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by foldr 1y ago
If you read HN you might get that impression, but that vast majority of software that needs security and good performance is being written in Java.
518.
by foldr 1y ago
Indeed. Mosley was imprisoned without trial during WWII, but we don’t remember Churchill as a brutal suppressor of political dissent.
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by foldr 1y ago
Never had any issues with scrolling or non-ASCII characters, personally. I’d use tmux for split panes if I wanted them, but I rarely do in practice. Also, the built in terminal does have functionality for placing terminal windows in differe
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by foldr 1y ago
What’s wrong with the built in terminal app? I tried Ghostty but I found it less usable overall (e.g. you can’t easily set different themes for different windows). Terminal rendering performance has never been something I’ve noticed as bein
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by foldr 1y ago
In fairness to Microsoft, this argument should have been correct. It ought to be possible for Microsoft to offer products with better polish and better support than open source alternatives, and that ought to more than compensate for any li
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by foldr 1y ago
I edited my post to say Medicare shortly after your reply (sorry). But if there’s evidence that Medicare is especially profligate with unnecessary tests and treatments then you should give that evidence, rather than arguing by strained anal
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by foldr 1y ago
We don’t have to imagine how Medicare works because it exists, so I don’t see the use of such analogies. I suspect that it’s mainly doctors who need to be more responsive to cost incentives as they’re often the ones recommending unnecessary
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by foldr 1y ago
Medicare has pretty good negotiating power, rather like the NHS. Medicare patients may not care how much Medicare is paying for their treatment, but the US government cares how much it spends on Medicare, and the IRA has given it some addit
525.
by foldr 1y ago
In the US care like that is rationed by wealth rather than by need. Your parents are getting MRI scans that they may not really need, while uninsured Americans aren't getting MRI scans that they may actually need. I bet we could cut do
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by foldr 1y ago
The vast majority of people working very long hours aren't pushing any frontiers. They are just trying to become partners in a law firm or get promoted at McKinsey. (Or, if we look outside our middle class bubble for a moment, they ar
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by foldr 1y ago
If these exceptional people are making it necessary for me to work very long hours too, then it’s fair enough for me to complain about that, no? Very few of the people you are talking about are curing cancer (so to speak), so why are the re
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by foldr 1y ago
> But often people still can't stand that there are such great teams and want to drag them down in one way or another. This seems like an unnecessary attribution of malicious intentions. The obvious explanation for why people often
529.
by foldr 1y ago
To add to the sister comments, you can quite easily remove such bridges by adding flux and then touching each individual pad with a fine tipped soldering iron. It sometimes takes a few tries, but eventually the solder that’s touching the so
530.
by foldr 1y ago
It takes about 10 minutes to take a single 4x5 photo, and you have to carry around a tripod and a fairly bulky camera to do it. So the time and effort invested in taking the photo is similar to the time and effort required to develop and sc
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by foldr 1y ago
It's what some people see as the point now. Back when film was the only option, the cost and time per frame were just negatives (if you'll excuse the pun). There was no romance in deciding whether or not to use one of your last th
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by foldr 1y ago
I enjoy film photography in some contexts (I do a bit of 4x5), but film photography basically sucks. I think possibly a lot of the people who find some kind of magic in it are those young enough not to have grown up in the era where shootin
533.
by foldr 1y ago
That wouldn’t work because boolean variables can be mutated (whereas you can’t mutate a zero-sized value).
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by foldr 1y ago
It does seem like a weirdly bad result. I got something more sensible that used DOMParser when I gave GPT-5 the following prompt: > Write a JavaScript function for sanitizing arbitrary untrusted HTML input before setting a DOM element’s
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by foldr 1y ago
I’d imagine that all of this stuff is extremely easy to fake if you’re willing to take a small risk of getting in a lot of trouble. Nobody is really “verifying” council tax bills or utility bills because there is no procedure for doing so.
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by foldr 1y ago
Not everyone can just choose to get 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep! I’d love to.
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by foldr 1y ago
Are those basics? You don’t have to use Safari, and I’ve never used remote management over the 20 years or so that I’ve been a Mac user.
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by foldr 1y ago
I don't disagree with this, but I think people sometimes miss the fact that even cheap commodity hardware is way more reliable than most software. Your site may go down more often due to bugs in your HA configuration than it would have
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by foldr 1y ago
I don't think the fine is performative. It's just the first sanction that gets applied. I don't understand why you think that's incompatible with Ofcom's stated goal.
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by foldr 1y ago
You can see who signed the letter here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministerial-lette... None of the signatories are specifically involved with the nascent digital ID scheme, as far as I know.

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