jancsika

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by jancsika 6mo ago
In the context of the article, this type of trust you linked has got to be the special case of all special cases. Since that trust is tracking the S&P 500, it has to be literally equivalent to its VOO ETF counterpart. If it ever rebalan
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by jancsika 6mo ago
> You might be interested in Chia's Proof of Space and Time... and how it collapsed! Because it was written by Bram Cohen, I'd be interested in reading two or three sentences about how it collapsed. Because it's a blockcha
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by jancsika 6mo ago
> The original shorting of GameStop back in 2021 gave them a bit of a boost back into the green. IIRC, the short (borrowing stock, selling high, waiting for a downtrend, then buying low to pay back the borrowed stock buy an agreed date)
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by jancsika 6mo ago
> Yesterday, I read a Wikipedia page for a book I’m about to review. Without buying a new copy of that Wikipedia page on Amazon and comparing it to an old copy from Ebay, there's just no easy way to verify this. It'd be neat if
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by jancsika 6mo ago
The most important part of Linus' project was day -1, when he sliced off all the chunks of work that depend on solving open research problems. You don't want to start your Saturday morning declaring an _action struct, then filling
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by jancsika 6mo ago
For the "<script>" stuff: regardless of how the thing is spelled or otherwise obscured, the HTML5 parser eventually knows when it's gotten hold of a script tag. Oops, we got one in a NOSCRIPTTAG context. Let's poo
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by jancsika 6mo ago
> and clueless about how power works, from day 1 September 26th, 1983: "Dear Mr. Stallman, it is I, gjsman-1000, a time-traveler sent back to tell you to rethink your upcoming GNU project because you are currently clueless about how
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by jancsika 6mo ago
I feel like this was a) written by someone on the spectrum, who b) worked really hard to learn to communicate effectively (great job!), and then c) dumped their original internal state in a blog assuming everyone else has their same challen
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by jancsika 6mo ago
Be careful when telling other campers that you think it's pointless to try to outrun a grizzly bear. They may outwardly appear to agree with your statement, but it may be for very different reasons than you think. Edit: clarification
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by jancsika 6mo ago
We're probably close to the point for social networks where authenticity/transparency is more valuable than network effect. You could probably have a workable social network just with the following properties: 1. Use combination o
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by jancsika 6mo ago
It's your duty as a Hacker News to subtly introduce the Free Software Foundation and/or GNU into a conversation with them. When they ask about it, throw a bunch of breathless praise on Stallman hacking the laser printer, building
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by jancsika 6mo ago
If we redefine our community to include tardigrades the outlook improves considerably. Example: a blog critiquing Mars colonization pointed out that humans cannot even live at the summit of Everest, and there is no "non-native microb
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by jancsika 6mo ago
Circa 2024[1]: > Note, however, that there are some serious flaws in LilyPond regarding Gregorian notation (especially the non-modern version), and right now there is nobody who works on improving that... 1: https://lists.gnu.
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by jancsika 6mo ago
The evil of global mutable state strikes again. This is why I only train my dogs in a pure functional language.
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by jancsika 6mo ago
> Forcing software devs to use open source or local models to do anything fun. Episode Five-Hundred-Bazillenty-Eight of Hacker News: the gang learns a valuable lesson after getting arrested at an unchaperoned Enshittification party and h
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by jancsika 6mo ago
tldr; holding powerful people accountable is very hard. Take Cheney's post-911 warrantless wiretapping program. You had Bush's own top DOJ officials threatening to resign over it in 2004, and Jim Risen with a story about it ready
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by jancsika 6mo ago
I was going to write a big long comment, but honestly it boils down to this: Whatever git's practical benefits over SVN and CVS back in the day (and I can go into the weeds as a user if someone wants that), git was the DVCS that took
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by jancsika 6mo ago
> We managed to put buttons on appliances that don't make the appliance explode, but failed to do that in email links, which are just buttons. Reminds me of the time I accidentally entered my bank PIN into my washing machine and hac
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by jancsika 6mo ago
* zero documentation * dev team is a ghost town * literal tons of boilerplate just to bootstrap single, empty container * hasn't had a proper release[1] in ages . Unless I'm completely misinterpreting you, I'd say this isn&#
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by jancsika 6mo ago
Channeling my inner Socrates: You want consensus from non-experts for a plan to use 20 smart bombs. Your opponent wants consensus for a plan to live-stream a demo of 1 smart bomb, and then use 19 dumb ones. Your team has more expertise. You
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by jancsika 6mo ago
Stick to the steel man. If our cash system deems dollars with certain serial numbers worth only $0.80 because they have history in the illicit drug trade, that cash is no longer fungible. How is that functionally different than a system whe
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by jancsika 6mo ago
Is that necessarily true? E.g., suppose I'm grocery shopping online and get put in behavioral histogram bin #1. You're in bin #2 because of stuff like impulsive browsing habits and low battery. Your bin's price for chips is c
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by jancsika 6mo ago
> German a mental illness being If your comment is an attempt to run the game directly in the HN comments, I'm going to guess "German" by the placement of your verb here. :)
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by jancsika 7mo ago
> The faith was that if they could’t pay, they’d let me know because I was actively digging their asses out of a hole they’d dug, and doing so tirelessly and professionally, without complaint. I get what the author is saying here. But it
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by jancsika 7mo ago
> Switzerland and California have the same population density. Why can’t CA build high speed rail? Go find the last major Swiss route that was built, and compare its land acquisition difficulties to what happened with the California proj
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by jancsika 7mo ago
You read the book. Did she have the receipts or not?
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by jancsika 7mo ago
Ooh, I really want to change those svg paths to svg circles. :)
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by jancsika 7mo ago
This is missing the most important step: get out there and practice. You're not going to succeed at steps #6 and #7 in situations as dire as what the author describes without practicing a bunch. You have to choose low stakes, real situ
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by jancsika 7mo ago
Conversely, I feel like a company with a cracker jack support team to match their sales team could profitably sell support for ALSA if they wanted to.
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by jancsika 7mo ago
Someone needs to create a kind of JSON for care homes, if you will. Something like a super simple spec of what a goddamned care home object is for, and the minimum number of actually fairly-paid full-time staff one needs to achieve that in

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