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by ghoward 6y ago
Gavin here. Mask mandates from governors are not, in fact, rules. Executive orders are not laws. See https://gavinhoward.com/2020/10/executive-agencies-cannot-ma... . If a business decides to enforce their rule, w
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by ghoward 6y ago
Gavin here. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26293979 .
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by ghoward 6y ago
For why I used bc, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26293876 . For masks, see https://gavinhoward.com/2020/08/masks-and-carbon-dioxide/ and https://gavinhoward.com/202
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by ghoward 6y ago
Author here. The fact that I _could have had_ a cavalier attitude towards C memory safety, but didn't, shows (I believe) just how much the Cryptography authors fell short because _they were writing crypto_. If anything, they should hav
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by ghoward 6y ago
Author here. If you doubt my claims about my bc, I suggest you break it and post it here. Embarrass me. Yes, I am throwing down the gauntlet because I am that confident in my work. Prove me wrong with actual data.
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by ghoward 6y ago
Author here. Thank you for this. I will update the post with this information.
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by ghoward 6y ago
Author here. Cryptography is not far off of bc. It is deterministic and should be easily testable. My bc is battle-hardened because I did my due diligence. The authors of the Cryptography library are writing _crypto_, which requires such du
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by ghoward 6y ago
Author here. If you read deeper into the post, I do, in fact, talk about how supporting those less well-known architectures is important. Edit: Also, those arguments were made plenty by others, so I didn't feel a need to rehash them mu
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by ghoward 6y ago
Author here. What they did wrong was making promises to users and then breaking those promises. I also tried to make the case that they either did not do their due diligence, which they should have done because they used C in the first plac
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Rust, Zig, and the Futility of “Replacing” C(gavinhoward.com)
24 points by ghoward 6y ago|122 comments
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by ghoward 6y ago
Yes, please do! The SCM space is horrible right now. I would love to see prior art.
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by ghoward 6y ago
I agree. In fact, I wrote about that fact on my blog. https://gavinhoward.com/2019/11/recommendations-and-radicali...
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by ghoward 6y ago
I guess you could use it against those that know nothing about the process of science, but then they would just ignore you because they really don't understand what you are saying. However, in my experience, that phrase more often come
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by ghoward 6y ago
I read: > We might require that they have reasonable arguments concerning the theory or data’s flaws that do not presuppose, as some anti-vaccine arguments do, the existence of a large-scale conspiracy to distort the truth. Fair enough.
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by ghoward 6y ago
I am not the GP, but when someone says, "The science is settled, I also ignore them, and this is why. "The Earth is flat. The science is settled." "No, it's actually round." "Okay, it's round. The sci
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by ghoward 6y ago
I had a doctor chew me out for expressing skepticism about something the medical industry was saying. This is why I have skepticism. This is also why there are some conspiracy theories. This was a conspiracy, and who knows what other conspi
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by ghoward 6y ago
I let my wife know. Thank you. :)
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by ghoward 6y ago
For the most part, that can be worked around as well, with careful use of unsigned arithmetic. See https://git.yzena.com/Yzena/Yc/src/branch/master/include/yc/... for some examples. All ar
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by ghoward 6y ago
Please tell me who this "equal competitor" is. I would like to compare it to Rust.
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by ghoward 6y ago
You are spot on. I had the same experience. I wrote about it here: https://gavinhoward.com/2019/12/performance-matters-jekyll-v...
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by ghoward 6y ago
My wife, an employee of freetaxusa.com, said that you can write in to them with more details (I showed her your comment, and she wanted more details), and they will fix the problem. Usability is super important to them; I am the one that ha
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by ghoward 6y ago
I don't know who the cheaper competitor that the GP refers to, but I use freetaxusa.com, and they are great. (Disclaimer: my wife is an employee, and they are great as employers too.)
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by ghoward 6y ago
Thanks to you, I had to look that up. [1] [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYji9PECfH4
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by ghoward 6y ago
I admit that I liked the live action _Cinderella_ better than the animated version, but that's because the director made it different. In fact, I would have been okay if he had removed the mice entirely. Oh, and it's a film where
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by ghoward 6y ago
You're welcome. :)
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by ghoward 6y ago
I'm no expert, so take what I say with a grain of salt. There are two ways economies can grow: * More customers. * More value. The first is obvious, just grow the population (and it's one reason a shrinking population is bad), but
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by ghoward 6y ago
I wrote about this phenomenon at https://gavinhoward.com/2020/01/corporations-create-perverse... . I think it's a real thing.
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by ghoward 6y ago
I think you are somewhat correct here, but I do think there's a solution. As a sibling says, I think changing social media to where users are the _customers_, and not the _product_, is the answer. I wrote about doing that here: https:
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by ghoward 6y ago
I wrote about why free speech is still important here: https://gavinhoward.com/2019/11/recommendations-and-radicali... . Basically, the problem is not free speech. It's the social media drive for addiction.
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by ghoward 6y ago
tl;dr: With decentralized identities, we could have a messaging system based on the Signal Protocol that does not use central servers at all. There seem to be a lot of opinions about whether it is possible to do better than Signal, and if s

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