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by ithinkso 5y ago
> a lot of it is context dependent I think you nailed it here what I couldn't put in words. I don't mind context-dependency when it's in the code I'm writing (calltree, variables, flags etc.) but for some reason if it
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by ithinkso 5y ago
I haven't tried Ruby at all to be honest. If I need to do some quick'n'dirty scratchpad calculations on x86 I'm using python but I find myself still using 'C-like' approach instead of idiomatic python. I.e. eve
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by ithinkso 5y ago
I'm actually on the opposite side of this. I know HN is more web-focused so embedded isn't as much represented but I'm scared every time I'm trying to learn Javascript or even Rust. Syntactic sugar complicates code for m
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by ithinkso 5y ago
Yes, I often feel like 'refactorability' is way undervalued. The focus is on writing abstractions that can be easily extended to handle more cases but as soon as some case doesn't fit, it will be hacked in because the code is
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by ithinkso 5y ago
What do you mean? You pay in the country you live/work in. You get back your pension wherever you are, from every country you've worked for in your life. Sounds pretty fair to me
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by ithinkso 5y ago
It's also problematic in other way, my friends moved to US for a job for few years and had kids there. US gives you citizenship by place of birth so the kids have US citizenship. Now that they are back they are in a bit of a pickle not
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by ithinkso 5y ago
Reinette were always my favorite apples, sort of popular in Poland but nor very 'presentable' [1]. Still, the best imho [1] https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reneta#/media/Plik:Egremont_Ru...
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by ithinkso 5y ago
> it's the same sort of trivially-blatantly-obvious thing as > "quantum superpositions never actually collapse" Popsci is fun, Never stop learning, even if it's obvious.
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by ithinkso 5y ago
Yes, I agree, but that's not what I was objecting to (pun intended). I'm not from the US though so bankrupting private individuals through court costs is a science fiction for me
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by ithinkso 5y ago
I understand what you're saying (in the first paragraph). I really do because I also went down this path. Self-reference is very tricky and it's way easier to trick yourself into proving things than to prove things. You are refe
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by ithinkso 5y ago
This is a common misconception, proof beyond a reasonable doubt is only needed in criminal cases. In civil cases most often preponderance of the evidence (i.e. 'more likely that not') is enough
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by ithinkso 5y ago
Or in other words - software isn't written to be used, it's written to be sold
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by ithinkso 5y ago
Well, if you're powerful enough you can always fork to create Horcruxes
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by ithinkso 5y ago
> If you farm the set of all possible x and try them to see what works you do not have an inverse function in your hands. I'm not sure I follow, what do I have then? Could you give me an example?
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by ithinkso 5y ago
In cryptography either you only need 'an x', in cases that the original x does not matter, or if it does, then you can just as easily find all x of size less than large enough N and find 'the x', it is still solely restr
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by ithinkso 5y ago
That's how maths works. Hashes are trivially reversible, all it takes is time, no miracle needed. Oracles in complexity theory are a bread and butter concept
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by ithinkso 5y ago
To this day, constructive mathematicians at eBay are trying to close the remaining loophole in the ban's reasoning
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by ithinkso 5y ago
It was serious. You haven't seen what I've seen. ENV variables at every step? print them, build has a parser/codegen step? print everything it does, sanity check scripts? I always need to know what they did, setup scripts? Th
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by ithinkso 5y ago
And even those that are planning to live off of welfare... what else can you do. Welfare isn't that great and a vast majority (by a huge margin) has aspiration to have a better life so you only need to support those who can't work
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by ithinkso 5y ago
What I don't understand is why (at least in places I worked at) CI/build systems are configured to print absolutely everything they do, who reads that? Hopefully error msg is at the end so you can go to the end of the 100kB worth
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by ithinkso 5y ago
You'd think that if this was a legit defense they would use it in court, instead of "There has been no data breach, and no customer data has been exposed to any third party" clinging to anything irrelevant, as I'm sure t
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by ithinkso 5y ago
Selling/collecting - I'm glad that GDPR seems to treat them at almost equal footing, even harder to prosecute if you leave a huge backdoor It's my data - fuck off, I'm interested in the business you're offering, not
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by ithinkso 5y ago
> In every GDPR related thread people complain that the law is not achieving its objectives (which you’re almost doing here also, with your “maybe it will eventually work” comment), but the law is doing exactly what it’s designed to do.
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by ithinkso 5y ago
> you may not realize how accurate that is because the amount that will end up being paid is far far less after all the bribing Sources? (Actually curious if there is some published statistics) Bureaucracy with all it's faults still
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by ithinkso 5y ago
As long as fines are priced into the cost of doing shady business they'll be paid. Hopefully they will rise enough so that it's no longer profitable to risk them - we'll see then if the 'tariffs' as you call them w
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by ithinkso 5y ago
I love the fact that 'at night' is still a correct term but it's only 45 min for ISS.
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by ithinkso 5y ago
It's in Europe the same way it has always been. UK is no longer in the EU
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by ithinkso 5y ago
You are being downvoted, as should you, but I still want to answer your questions. > Not sure what language you speak natively Polish >but no one corrects Italians for saying "Germania" instead of Deutschland, nor Spaniards
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by ithinkso 5y ago
Ej, co kurwa? Jeszcze mi powiesz że wychodzi się na dwór a nie na pole ;)
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by ithinkso 5y ago
Susan Wojcicki - polish people would immediately assume it's written online and would correct the surname to Wójcicki because it makes much more sense grammatically speaking and I think that's what it was originally before being a

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