gambler

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by gambler 5y ago
>Pretty much. IT as a field is a toddler. It's exactly as old as nuclear engineering. If it's a toddler, it's because of the mentality of the people involved, not because there was no time to figure things out.
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by gambler 5y ago
YouTube has been seriously ramping up its censorship for at least couple of years and it goes way beyond anti-vaccine videos. Comments on HN related to this subject routinely display ignorance of the issue or deny it outright. Moreover, a
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by gambler 5y ago
What exactly do you expect me to link to? A thousand "this video does not exist" pages? YouTube does not track its own moderation. That's part of the problem. Here are some well-written examples by Matt Taibi: https:/&#
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by gambler 5y ago
If only Hacker News crowd noticed when thousands of videos with interviews, medical lectures, news footage and even congressional testimonies were removed for political reasons within the last couple years.
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by gambler 5y ago
In short, they provide clean API for checking on completion and error states of a long-running process from another thread without blocking that thread. This is an essential pattern for UI-related tasks, including web pages.
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by gambler 5y ago
Yeah, I don't like Go in most respects, but their approach to concurrency is way more intuitive than async/await. That said, Go doesn't have any standard promise or futures libraries, which is quite ridiculous. Yes, you can
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by gambler 5y ago
>Every time I read about what the EFF is doing I get the sense that their priorities are clear, they’re fighting a good fight and in my case they’re generally acting in line with the values/beliefs I hold around the areas they get
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by gambler 5y ago
The amount of groupthink, propaganda and "boiling the frog" hacks around communication control in US is getting absolutely insane. Reddit is a great example. Its front page now reliably has some story where people cheer on death
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by gambler 5y ago
From the article you're commenting on: "We recognize that this is a change to long-accepted practice and is substantially more rigorous than the standards that are typically currently applied" Meta-analyses generally follow
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by gambler 5y ago
When an article starts by listing a bunch of tools using phrases like "easy", "simple" and "commonly used" as explanations why the tools were chosen, it's not an article about architecture.
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by gambler 5y ago
As a reminder, 6 questions about technology outlined by Neil Postman: What is the problem to which this technology is a solution for? Whose problem is it? What new problems might be created by solving the original problem? Which people and
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by gambler 5y ago
I've fought with several auth systems a long while ago. Eventually came up with a pattern that worked well for all my needs. Here is what I did. Big picture: user <-> something <-> ... <-> something <-> acti
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by gambler 5y ago
>Are these researchers soley focused on their next grant only Yes, they are. Anyone who is saying otherwise is either gaslighting you or speaks out of their ass. The way science is funded right now is incredibly broken. This is admitte
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by gambler 5y ago
Nice funding scheme you have here. Develop a threat, write it up as if you're researching it for prevention. The more you work on it, the bigger the threat will get, the more money you can ask for to research "prevention" in
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by gambler 5y ago
The problem isn't a single instance going away. The problem is what happens when for whatever reason the owner stops maintaining the project. This is a common problem and despite all the bluster and buzzwords, the IT community hasn&#x2
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Jaron Lanier: Virtual Reality, Social Media and Future of Humans and AI [video](youtube.com)
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by gambler 5y ago
Any large communication platform has a choice: either accept some form of content neutrality or become a petty and chaotic tyrant constantly reeling from one public backlash after the other. YouTube made its choice. Now, random videos and c
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by gambler 5y ago
Using Wikipedia as an example of a seemingly naïve idea that was ultimately proven to work is a pretty bad argument that completely ignores how Wikipedia operates at the moment. It's routinely used for propagating smears: https:/
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by gambler 5y ago
> If your team is using their tools daily since years, and you decide to change to a different one just to avoid a small license fee, that feels hypocritical From engineer's perspective the difference between a free tool and a &qu
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by gambler 5y ago
"An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity." Yes, and most of the idiotic complexity on the web today is the result of people insisting that instead of clearly defined execution and communication models all we nee
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by gambler 5y ago
DOM for SVG allows applying the same code that manipulates HTML to SVG with very little changes. You can splice it in with AJAX, change it via styles, etc. It facilitates writing generic scripts that can be reapplied to widely different use
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by gambler 5y ago
https://www.phe.gov/Preparedness/legal/prepact/Pages/default... https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/03/17/2020-05... The Secretary must also state that li
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by gambler 5y ago
How would a consumer know that they are "harmed" by Google's shenanigans when those shenanigans involve deleting the competition before it gets the chance to compete? This sounds like a catch 22 type of definition of monopol
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by gambler 5y ago
It's pretty obvious that most poster here don't understand and don't want to understand your article. Most of them are invested in software. Pretty bad software, probably. It seems the only way they can feel good about what
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by gambler 5y ago
Does /e/ foundation ship stuff to US yet? Last time I checked they didn't. I see this now: https://esolutions.shop/shop/e-os-teracube-2e/ Anyone used this thing?
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by gambler 5y ago
Too many words, but the basic analysis is good. A lot of what's being currently said about "disinformation" is completely incoherent and makes little sense if you just track it over time. As late as in 2014 social media was p
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by gambler 5y ago
A few years ago I tried to formalize my thoughts on why some people/teams create good software while others don't. I narrowed the problem down to couple of things. The biggest one was people not considering alternative solutions a
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by gambler 5y ago
>School is a closed-world domain—you are solving crisply-defined puzzles Bingo. When people from US tech culture say "hard problems" they really mean "hard puzzles". A lot of those people are very proud of their puz
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by gambler 5y ago
They're not stupid. It's part of a sophisticated long-term strategy. They deliberately make things complicated to maintain so that you give up and use their services. This strategy is working. Many small and mid-sized businesses t
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by gambler 5y ago
>Imagine that everything known about the COVID-19 pandemic was based on people giving their best guesses about whether they have the virus, instead of highly reliable medical tests. Now imagine that people who actually have the virus ar

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