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by foldr 1y ago
Just don’t minimize the window. Removing a window from the alt-Tab list is basically the only reason to minimize it in the first place on Mac. (Not reflexively minimizing windows does take some time to get used to if you’re coming from Wind
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by foldr 1y ago
On a factual point, you don't have to verify your legal identity. You can also do age verification by uploading a selfie. (I'm sure that won't change how you feel about this legislation, but let's not spread inaccurate i
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by foldr 1y ago
It’s not “wishful thinking” because I don’t have any reason to care particularly whether less porn gets watched or not. I don’t wish for it. I just think you’d be surprised at how much small inconveniences will affect the behavior of averag
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by foldr 1y ago
To an extent, but people can’t have this both ways. If the checks really are trivial to get around then why complain about them? In reality we know that most people are lazy and have poor technical skills, so it’s rather likely that this wi
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by foldr 1y ago
Assuming you live in the US, I sincerely recommend that you take all the energy you’re expending decrying the UK’s supposed slide into authoritarianism and see if you can find a way to use that energy to do something about masked thugs kidn
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by foldr 1y ago
I don’t support this legislation, but I think your argument is weak because everything relating to age checks is full of holes in all kinds of contexts. People under 18 can obtain alcohol and cigarettes without extraordinary difficulty, for
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by foldr 1y ago
There must be a misunderstanding here. I said in my post that some servers are indeed gated on age verification. Just not all of Discord.
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by foldr 1y ago
It seems to be an outlier because news coverage in English-speaking media tends to report on the UK more than other European countries, for various reasons. It’s super easy to find examples if you look for them. In fact, this example from S
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by foldr 1y ago
I’ve had too many circular discussions of this issue on HN already, but arrests are a low bar. You can find examples of people being arrested for stupid reasons in pretty much any country if you google for it. The exact reasons might vary,
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by foldr 1y ago
Yes, that’s what I meant. You can still access Discord, just not any content that’s detected as NSFW. Generally speaking that content will be on NSFW servers (the kind that e.g. the iPhone app would block you from accessing by default). Obv
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by foldr 1y ago
There’s no such thing as a public police file in the UK. What I assume you’re referring to is that these records are accesible for the purposes of certain kinds of police background checks (which, as in many other countries, are required fo
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by foldr 1y ago
You don’t need age verification to access all of Discord, just NSFW servers. You can certainly argue that that’s an unjustifiable interference in people’s freedom to access the internet services that they want to access. But please don’t ex
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by foldr 1y ago
Right. It’s unlikely both because the 64-bit value space is huge and because on most systems pointers have some of the high bytes set whereas typical integer values don’t. IIRC this combination of factors is what makes conservative GCs like
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by foldr 1y ago
> Laynez-Ambrosio was charged with obstruction without violence and sentenced to 10 hours of community service and a four-hour anger management course. You have to admire the sheer gall of this. Perhaps the masked thugs kidnapping US cit
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by foldr 1y ago
Nothing is forcing Facebook to provide services to people who are under 18. What are you talking about?
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by foldr 1y ago
Seeing a regular photo of an attractive person with clothes on might arouse someone. That doesn’t mean it’s a sexual photo.
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by foldr 1y ago
It probably depends on how exactly the corruption happens. If you overwrite a pointer with an integer value, then the integer is statistically unlikely to correspond to a valid memory address. On the other hand, if you overwrite a pointer w
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by foldr 1y ago
The inconsistent data thing could happen in Go too. A segfault is not guaranteed, it’s just one of the more likely possibilities.
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by foldr 1y ago
What else would it mean? Logically you can either exclude users who are under 18 or provide a different experience for them. Otherwise there would be no point in checking their age in the first place.
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by foldr 1y ago
Fully agree with this based on similar experiences. IME most devs hired without previous Elixir/Phoenix experience don’t end up liking the tech stack very much, even though they become productive quite quickly and don’t struggle too mu
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by foldr 1y ago
>Isn't there some kind of optional typing in Elixir? It’s in the works and recent versions of the compiler already catch some type errors at compile time, but it’s nothing remotely close to what you get from Typescript, or from any
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by foldr 1y ago
I just mean that people who invested in Airbnb made money. Do you disagree? The “value creation” language comes from the comment I’m replying to.
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by foldr 1y ago
I think there’s definitely a market for this if it works. Lots of people who’d love a more convenient way to use classic film cameras. However, historically, there’s been a series of products like this that have turned out to be vaporware.
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by foldr 1y ago
Airbnb has created a lot of value for its shareholders. I think it’s an open question whether it’s been a net negative or positive for the world at large when you consider all the externalities.
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by foldr 1y ago
I’m afraid this is nonsense. Elected officials aren’t irrelevant. The majority of them support this legislation and that is why it got enough votes to become law. You don’t have to like it (I’m not a huge fan either), but it’s a perfectly s
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by foldr 1y ago
> which of course may be the case in the UK People aren’t prevented from using VPNs in the UK, in case anyone is unclear on this.
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by foldr 1y ago
They're obviously referring to the vestibular system. If that system is bad, that only makes the brain's job harder, not easier.
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by foldr 1y ago
> But I think it's a mistake to shrug it off and assume the fact it was the Post Office had nothing to do with how it played out. I agree. My only aim here was to correct some of the wild misconceptions about the powers of the Post
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by foldr 1y ago
It's not unheard of for airliners to use a sideslip when landing in a crosswind, so I don't think structural strength is likely to be an issue at landing speeds. https://code7700.com/pdfs/bca/bca_cross_wi
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by foldr 1y ago
I don’t think there’s much connection between a plane’s ability to do a sideslip and how well it glides. A sideslip is just what naturally happens if you apply opposite aileron and rudder inputs. I think the issue is just that it’s a rather

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