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by gwd 2y ago
> It seems he wanted to be found. I talked to someone personally who at some point had committed a series of crimes, and at some point they started doing things that were more and more likely to get them caught; they told me they thought
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by gwd 2y ago
I came here to say this too. And I mean, sometimes ads are good? I have money and I like to buy things. How am I supposed to find out about something I've never heard of before? Plain, non-animated non-creepy banner ads I've ne
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by gwd 2y ago
> According to Jesus, God cannot and will not have mercy on a (n undeserving) man who does not have mercy on (undeserving) others. There is no forgiveness for those who do not forgive others. Bringing death on others is asking for death
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by gwd 2y ago
> Not all sin is avoidable, a sinless choice is not guaranteed. I've heard people say this all my life, but I've never agreed with it. Not all harm is avoidable, not all violence is avoidable, but at every point in time, t
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by gwd 2y ago
Always super satisfying to take a 1.2s calculation and make it orders of magnitude faster. Recently I had a complicated calculation mostly done in SQLite (with some C callbacks to do core floating point ops) that was taking 1.5s; rewrote i
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by gwd 2y ago
In bash you have "eval", which I've used for some monstrosities in the past; but at least doesn't need to be visible to the user as you're doing it!
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by gwd 2y ago
Decided to look it up. Ah, memories: https://www.atariarchives.org/creativeatari/SelfModifying_Pr...
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by gwd 2y ago
> Line numbered BASIC is homoiconic: you can edit any line of code and continue the program. Oh man, anyone else remember those self-modifying BASIC programs, which would: 1. Clear the screen 2. Print a bunch of new BASIC lines on the sc
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by gwd 2y ago
Does reading HN count as self-improvement? I can't say how many "leads" in technology or ideas I've got by spending time on this site; and I'm sure I never would have quit my job to be a solo founder if not for the
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by gwd 2y ago
He did't use version control for his master's thesis because he never even knew about version control until after he left university. And he's saying that when he's in control of his own time (i.e., for his own projects
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by gwd 2y ago
Make sure and watch the video -- excellent satire on the "local ambulance chaser ad". These guys are having a lot of fun.
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by gwd 2y ago
> The petition to the USPTO also accuses Oracle of committing fraud in 2019 in its renewal efforts for the trademark by submitting screen captures of the Node.js website. “Node.js is not affiliated with Oracle, and the use of screen capt
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by gwd 2y ago
His criticisms include: - No sum types - Default zero values - "Go is an island": Fully integrated toolstack makes it easy to use the same tool top-to-bottom, but makes it difficult to use with any other project None of those are
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by gwd 2y ago
OK, but the LLM is still playing without a board to look at, except what's "in its head". How often would 1800 ELO chess players make illegal moves when playing only using chess notation over chat, with no board to look at?
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by gwd 2y ago
To be fair to those projects, the type was introduced only three years ago: https://github.com/golang/go/pull/49359/files Before that, doing a string compare was basically the only way to detect that spe
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by gwd 2y ago
Good catch. So in a sense this isn't really Hyrum's Law (which would be more appropriate to things like the Sim City / Windows 3.x UAF bug described in a sibling comment); it's more like, if people need to do something,
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by gwd 2y ago
The frustrating thing is that the error in question already is a sentinel error -- Grafana (the top-level culprit in the linked search) should be using `errors.As(&http.MaxBytesError{})` rather than doing a string compare. The whole p
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by gwd 2y ago
Loving the place and culture where you grew up because it's yours is no different than loving your own family because they're yours, or loving yourself because you're you. Far from being problematic, being connected to a sen
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by gwd 2y ago
At this point I don't think S3 counts as a new technology anymore.
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by gwd 2y ago
> It is very unusual for AWS not to issue refunds in situations like this ...when asked to. But what percentage of mistakes like this end up just being "eaten" by the end-user, not realizing that they can ask for a refund? Wh
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by gwd 2y ago
> Which would have made sense in a mostly-male audience (the Navy at the time). Also, use the male form for when you meant both men and women was at that time the prescribed grammatical "style" (as in "A Chicago Manual of
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by gwd 2y ago
OK, I think I see what you meant: Not that the "misnomer" arose in the Victorian era, but that the Victorian era was the last era in which you would expect to encounter this "misnomer". As a counterpoint, I recommend rea
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by gwd 2y ago
> Victorian era misnomer Isn't this exactly the opposite? Read Aristotle or Aquinas and they have all kinds of definitions about why humans are fundamentally different in nature than animals; and Darwin, whose work made it much mor
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by gwd 2y ago
A friend of mine and I both read it about the same time and discussed it afterwards. I thought it was pretty good, he thought it was not that great. What we agreed on was that in spite of there being many fantastic aspects to the book, on
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by gwd 2y ago
This reminds me of a scene in "A Fire Upon the Deep" (1992) where they're on a video call with someone on another spaceship; but something seems a bit "off". Then someone notices that the actual bitrate they'r
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by gwd 2y ago
I think we basically agree then. As far as I'm aware, the Democrats didn't attempt even to make the "making the best of a bad hand" argument, much less make a case for how they were going to address the situation. One t
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by gwd 2y ago
I'm trying to treat people like adults. They're suffering because of worldwide macroeconomic conditions that are out of Biden's control, but Biden's administration has managed to make the suffering less than in other pl
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by gwd 2y ago
> The fact is, we were ok that time, it’s gonna be ok this time too. Trump has always wanted to be a tyrant; he has always wanted to run the country like he runs his businesses -- he says something and it's done, he makes decisions
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by gwd 2y ago
> War is not good and signing peace deals is not a bad thing. The logical conclusion of this is that we should always just surrender whenever some other army comes knocking at our door. Let Putin walk all the way to Portugal, let Kim Jo
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by gwd 2y ago
> Coupled with that, most people ignore testing for error conditions or simulating errors, so the error handling has a very high likelihood of having bugs. Er, is Rust any different in that regard? As I said, I tend to think the `?` ope

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