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by jasode 8mo ago
>POSIX-compliant Which, FWIW, doesn't mean Linux. AFAIK there is no Linux distro that's fully compliant I read author's use of "POSIX-compliant" as a loose and fuzzy family category rather than an exhaustive
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by jasode 8mo ago
>But I also don't think the auther meant Things you can do in Linux but not Unix I wasn't claiming that. I just thought the ggp had a useful comment about renameat2() which led to gp's "correction" which wasn&
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by jasode 8mo ago
>Title says Unix, You're misinterpreting the title. The author didn't intend "Unix" to literally mean only the official AT&T/TheOpenGroup UNIX® System to the exclusion of Linux. The first sentence of &qu
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by jasode 8mo ago
>That's why I prefer Terraform's approach of having a "plan" mode. It doesn't just tell you what it would do but does so in the form of a plan it can later execute programmatically. Then, if any of the assumptio
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by jasode 8mo ago
>In traditional industries like manufacturing you don’t hire 500 factory workers unless you have a production line that needs them. You don’t over-hire based on a guess. Traditional factories do make wrong guesses about the future and
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by jasode 8mo ago
>I get why those apps matter to you, [...] I am just saying that the answer "no but I checked the app I like on iOS and a handful of them don't exist on Android" was kind of one anecdotal data point in the discussion. No
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by jasode 8mo ago
>Also Android has a bigger market share in the world than iOS, by a lot. The tone of that seems like you thought I was taking the discussion into fanboy evangelism and therefore Android needed to be defended. That wasn't the inte
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by jasode 8mo ago
>I don't see any iOS advantage with the apps anymore. That was maybe true in the very beginning, during the gold rush time of the app store. But not since then. In which category are there better iOS apps? I researched iOS vs And
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by jasode 8mo ago
>This is not an issue in Europe, due to effective regulation. This article's author complaining about Proton overriding his email preferences is from the UK . Also in this thread, more commenters from UK and Germany say companie
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by jasode 8mo ago
>The spam was advertising AI, the point of the article was how aggressively AI [...] It seems like this is very much about AI Yes, the gp you responded to already said the same thing that the particular email was about AI (Lumos) when
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by jasode 9mo ago
>That's because they put their alerts in the gmail web interface :-/ I agree and that's what I meant by Google's "web apps" having promos about Gemini. But in terms of accessing Gmail accounts via the IMA
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by jasode 9mo ago
>I disagree: in as much as I have noticed this far more with AI than any other advancement / fad I agree with gp that new spam emails that override customers' email marketing preferences is not an "AI" issue. The p
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by jasode 9mo ago
reply to multiple comments : mjdv : > it wasn't clear to me that just opening and trusting a directory andy_ppp : >obviously I wasn’t explicit enough in explaining I’m talking about code execution simply by opening a director
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by jasode 9mo ago
>2026, the killer app for many Windows users is now a text editor that has ran in Wine since 2012. Your comment is a little confusing since the author already mentioned Wine with the following sentence that's after the one you quo
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by jasode 9mo ago
>Moreover the git maintainers were unwilling to work with Facebook to improve git to solve some of these problems. Mercurial was a better fit More add-on discussion including Microsoft+Git spurred by your previous comment about this:
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by jasode 9mo ago
>Why is this a problem for HTML - and only HTML? Your premise is not correct because you're not aware that other data formats also have parsers that accept malformed content. Examples: - pdf files: many files with errors can b
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by jasode 9mo ago
>Are we really running URL-unaware password managers in the year 2026? URL-aware browser plugins for autofilling passwords can also make people _more_ susceptible to phishing . The password managers plugins sometimes not working corr
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by jasode 9mo ago
>It's regular small talk. Also, people here seem to downplay it, but doesn't it tell you a lot about a person what they do roughly half of their waking time? What they chose to do with their life? Having a natural ebb & f
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by jasode 9mo ago
>For some people, their work/job is just such a big part of their identity, that for them this is a problem. That's only 1/2 of the dynamic. People also like to assign an identity to others . For example, if I say, &
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by jasode 9mo ago
>I'm not sure why a convenience wrapper is even needed, Author wanted yt-dlp to be fed with a custom text file: "playlists.txt" The script loops through that text file, parses it, and then launches yt-dlp for each valid
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by jasode 9mo ago
The repo should mention a warning about usage. Be aware that downloading large playlists with lots of videos from Youtube can get your ip address throttled/banned. The ban could last a week or a month. It's also not a good idea
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by jasode 9mo ago
>In 2026 it does not. IPv6 support is now more than adequate, Youtuber apalrd periodically revisits the Ubiquiti Unifi devices to see if they finally support IPv6 and he concluded it still doesn't work correctly. The linked commen
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by jasode 9mo ago
Whitelisting doesn't work if one doesn't know the email domain name the service will use. An Amazon verification email will be sent from "account-update@amazon.com". It's intuitive to predict "@amazon.com&quot
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by jasode 9mo ago
>the support staff start to become the ones who effectively make the decisions. Yes, that's a variation of : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_state
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by jasode 9mo ago
There's another section below your quote where the author also wrote: The Challenge [...] 3. Try debugging without breakpoints The alternative to breakpoints is to study the output logs. He wrote: Real Growth Requires D
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by jasode 9mo ago
Fyi... this blog article also mentions another article, "The Deathbed Fallacy" . HN discussed that a few months ago and the most upvoted commenter happened to have a terminal illness and disagreed with some of it. https:/&
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by jasode 9mo ago
The submitted title is missing the salient keyword "finally" that motivates the blog post. The actual subtitle Raymond Chen wrote is: "C++ says “We have try…finally at home.”" It's a snowclone based on the mem
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by jasode 10mo ago
The first leftmost column of most common causes of death (heart disease, etc) ... would be a "dog bites man" story. The rightmost columns of media coverage (homicides, terrorism, plane crashes, etc) ... are "man bites dog
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by jasode 10mo ago
The timing of this article and the submission seems to coincide (and possibly a reaction) to the other story on HN frontpage: Working quickly is more important than it seems (2015) (jsomers.net) To clarify, some are misunderstanding Jame
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by jasode 10mo ago
>I think cooperative game theory[1] better models the dynamics of the real world. If cooperative coalitions to resist undesirable abusive technology models the real world better, why is the world getting more ads? (E.g. One of the

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