freshhawk

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by freshhawk 6y ago
Ah yes, the opposite of "totalitarian" is "no questioning how society works at any level other than the political parties". Makes sense, the totalitarians are always lax about having rules about what you can talk about.
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by freshhawk 6y ago
Agreed. When we focus on the part of the spectrum of optimizations that do require talent, we're thinking of the exceptional, interesting, makes-a-viral-post-on-HN stuff. The bulk of the work, in my experience, is simpler than the prog
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by freshhawk 6y ago
If you think impersonating another browser's user-agent string for compatabililty reasons as a full fledged "real" browser is an edge case ... You should remind yourself what the Chrome user-agent string actually is.
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by freshhawk 6y ago
I think a lot of people are forgetting that Google saying "the browser must not try to impersonate another browser" is a fairly funny part in itself. Everyone remembers the User-Agent for Chrome starts with "Mozilla/5.0&
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by freshhawk 6y ago
"for the collective" ... what collective? This is textbook top-down control, a small elite group spying on the masses. And when the masses find out it is considered a scandal.
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by freshhawk 6y ago
So many engineers live and breathe P.O.S.I.W.I.D. (purpose of a system is what it does) in all technical areas and then are violently opposed to that kind of thinking when it comes to politics or sociology. I'm honestly baffled by it.
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by freshhawk 6y ago
Sure, if you compare it to scenarios that aren't remotely the same. I think we were supposed to take it as an obvious given that this applies to scenarios where the side giving away the power is watching the side that was given the pow
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by freshhawk 6y ago
Being a rube isn't a great hobby either, that's why "fool me once ..." is a famous saying. As are the various versions of "who benefits?". Pretty decent rules of thumb. And at a higher level ... who cares if th
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by freshhawk 6y ago
That's the distro with the giant text on the website saying it's a bleeding edge rolling release distro right?
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by freshhawk 6y ago
That's the portion of the Democratic party that lost the fight for control, has nowhere to go in a two party system and can be completely ignored. See: the makeup of Bidens cabinet, which is a republicans-from-10-years-ago's dream
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by freshhawk 6y ago
It's real politics though, it's not cynical to not be a complete rube.
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by freshhawk 6y ago
Exactly, one is 2 individuals purchasing policies in an undemocratic fashion and another is a subset of a particular upper class group purchasing policies in an undemocratic fashion. It's like comparing the weight of a pound of bricks
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by freshhawk 6y ago
Journalists have to leave this kind of thing mostly implied for ethical reasons if nothing else. The answer is clearly: because his research showed that this particular messaging (this story and the book) was the most advantageous to his po
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by freshhawk 6y ago
I've heard some good stories of VMs and obs to circumvent all this insane stuff. It's good. I remember learning about networks to pirate stuff back in the day and that's much less of a thing now. Now kids have their own incre
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by freshhawk 6y ago
Isn't it more like "literally any LEO or pseudo-LEO in a 'friendly' country" at this point based on what we know at this point? I think the threat model here is less about a hostile actor subverting the backups than
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by freshhawk 6y ago
It's definitely easier to talk about coding while you do it. I make heavy use of voice notes myself. A transcription of those voice notes isn't something I've found useful. I have one, since it's just a little script but
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by freshhawk 6y ago
But the trick is to put a crap lock around both something that can be copyrighted but is unimportant and things that cannot be copyrighted. Now all legal uses of everything behind that lock are illegal for circumvention reasons. It's
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by freshhawk 6y ago
> Also, does the fact that YouTube doesn't supply a download feature constitute a "technical protection measure"? My understanding is that basically anything at all, if it is in any way "technical" and shows inte
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by freshhawk 6y ago
Older children learn things faster than younger children, why would reading be an exception?
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by freshhawk 6y ago
Weird, that hasn't happened to the ones I've been on for years. If someone tried to build an app on one of those systems where you were forced to accept messages by default until you blacklisted them then it probably would. It wou
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by freshhawk 6y ago
Obviously that depends. Here is another way to phrase your question: You spend 10 years telling John some stuff every day for hours and Jane is someone you just met. Which one is easier to lie to? Sounds to me like it completely depends on
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by freshhawk 6y ago
> School's purpose is not to teach obedience or even getting a job. It is there to teach us critical thinking, and consequently, how to be a good citizen. That's an interesting use of "purpose". That isn't what o
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by freshhawk 6y ago
"If you and a friend started walking straight north, both at the equator but a long distance apart, you would gradually get closer to each other until you collided at the north pole." I always thought that was a nice way to drop o
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by freshhawk 6y ago
Tabs are better in theory, obviously. However people insist on using spaces. Like between words in sentences or between tokens in a line of code. Spaces are better than mixing tabs and spaces, especially with "modern" (newer than
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by freshhawk 6y ago
I think everyone knows the rabbit hole problem that this kind of article is warning against. Especially for beginners. But as a counter-example: I've done most of those "types of vim porn" I guess, then moved to spacemacs, th
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by freshhawk 6y ago
Heh, I thought the same thing. And leaving a note for a 5 year old while you leave them alone is an absurd thing to do. I just assumed the author was older than 5, but felt that their tantrum was embarassing for their actual age so aged it
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by freshhawk 6y ago
That's probably why they said "it's harder to oppress people with guns, so they do it less" and didn't add "and if it is hard to oppress people that makes you effective". Basic "necessary but not suff
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by freshhawk 6y ago
Yup. Simple perpetual motion machine if it works. This seems, to me, to be the simplest explanation of why it almost certainly doesn't work, but that isn't mentioned frequently, am I missing something?
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by freshhawk 6y ago
But if you really cared about "election interference" then attacking media monopolies would be at the top of your list and you wouldn't make this argument. You need to pick things that aren't directly connected if you wa
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by freshhawk 6y ago
Because it does do you harm, obviously. If they were just printing money for themselves, and using inflation to lower the value of your money, you would see it and be upset. They're doing the same thing with power.

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