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by gryfft 5y ago
As a straight man, it is not my place to enforce what anyone wants to call themselves-- as an ally the best thing I can do is listen, but it's important to speak up, too, to use the privilege I have for good when I can. I'll note
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by gryfft 5y ago
>Right. And what does any of that have to do with work? For you? Nothing. For your LGBTQIA+ coworkers? It means having to figure out how many times a day to bite your tongue when somebody "apolitically" makes an "innocent&
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by gryfft 5y ago
Interesting example of identity politics here. "Don't talk about things I don't like or else you're a communist. You don't want to be a communist do you?"
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by gryfft 5y ago
>company-sponsored political struggle sessions This is a strawman. I was not advocating company-sponsored political struggle sessions. Does a company-sponsored presentation discouraging unionization count as a "political struggle se
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by gryfft 5y ago
>Living "outside of politics" means having no self-preservation instinct It's also a privilege enjoyed by those who are allowed to think of their normal lives and needs as "nonpolitical". There are people living
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by gryfft 5y ago
People who huffily decry "politics" also tend to have political beliefs which they feel are apolitical. Examining and unpacking those beliefs is "political," however, so that the net result is "I just don't w
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by gryfft 5y ago
I work with teams across the globe and I can say this has been true in my experience. The experience of communicating with others for whom English is not only a second language, but a lingua franca used to communicate across other languag
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by gryfft 6y ago
When you click the three dots, it's the second option from the bottom.[1] It's not perfect, but I feel that eliminating entire channels at a time from my recommendations is a proportionate response to the engagement-maximization a
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by gryfft 6y ago
I use the same rubric but go one step further and tell YouTube not to recommend any videos from that channel.
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by gryfft 6y ago
My experience with strong types is limited-- I'd done the thing of learning some C, doing professional stuff in Ruby for several years and then discovering the ridiculous power strong types can have and doing some professional stuff in
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by gryfft 6y ago
Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20200721041615/http://www.inthel...
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by gryfft 6y ago
Well, there is no problem that cannot be solved by adding a layer of indirection, except the problem of too many layers of indirection.
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by gryfft 6y ago
How expensive are they?
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by gryfft 6y ago
Oh, good. Trolling. That's never been a serious problem before.
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by gryfft 6y ago
The fact that you continue to think this is true after this guy has been selling this snake oil for thirty years makes me think you've given money to him. If so, I'm truly sorry he took you in like that, and I suggest cutting your
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by gryfft 6y ago
The difference is that nuclear fusion has happened before. In fact, if you go outside and look up on a clear day or night, you can see it happening right now. Nobody has ever created hydrinos. They are not real. If they were, he would be
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by gryfft 6y ago
Policed by skeptics? That's the POINT of Wikipedia! Are you saying that a communal resource based on accurately documenting actual reality should be run by credulous people who will accept any statement without applying one second&#x27
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by gryfft 6y ago
Ahem.[1][2] "We'll see?" This guy has been milking this since 1991. As Aaronson's article so sardonically points out, there's nothing there to debunk. Every claim that can be made about the "hydrino" can
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by gryfft 6y ago
Considering they've apparently been claiming for years to be able to convert the humidity in the air into the same mysterious dark matter that makes up much of the universe but whose composition and nature is currently unknown? Yes. It
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by gryfft 6y ago
Is this a joke?
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by gryfft 6y ago
Little enrages me more, especially when the forbidden special characters betray a shockingly backwards mitigation for injection attacks. [1] https://benhoyt.com/writings/dont-sanitize-do-escape/
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by gryfft 6y ago
I don't think this is what you're looking for, but Coding Machines[1] is a great little story in which the Ken Thompson hack[2] plays a role. [1] https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines&#
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by gryfft 7y ago
In this vein, I set my PS1 to bold red capital letters on bastion hosts and alias sudo="echo 'You're on a jump box moron :p'" I do the tmux color trick too-- color coded by environment for each bastion.
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by gryfft 7y ago
Processing the implications of that was the point while reading this that I got really excited to try this out. I wasn't expecting to see so many curiosity-piquing features.
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by gryfft 7y ago
I dislike write-ups like these where the "researcher" styles themselves some kind of roguish hero, protecting the world from the lazy and incompetent by exposing their vulnerabilities for all to see. I'm not opposed to respon
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by gryfft 7y ago
Sorry for missing this, but as other commenters noted, I'm using the Key2. I can't recommend it for everyone, but since you're reading HN here's the hacker pros/cons: Pros: * Every physical alphabet key can be mappe
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by gryfft 7y ago
I'm enjoying this greatly, occasional typos aside. I'm pretty certain there is a typo in the `where` block in the definition of `Hold`: bind ma f = (composeK (always m) f) Unit should, I believe read bind ma f = (compos
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by gryfft 7y ago
I have one of the few Android phones with a physical keyboard and I have the dollar sign key mapped to ctrl. I was pleased to discover ctrl-z works the way it should. This doesn't help the vast majority of users, I know, but it's
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by gryfft 7y ago
While your statement is technically correct, it does not address the issue.
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by gryfft 7y ago
See: the 'Head-on' advertising strategy.

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