jonahx

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by jonahx 2y ago
You are replying to the wrong post. I was quoting the GP.
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by jonahx 2y ago
Because it's faster and more convenient, and gives you roughly correct answers most of the time. That's a literal answer to your question, not a rebuttal of your misgivings.
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by jonahx 2y ago
Well you are ofc free to give applications full reign if you want. But you should at least be able to say, "No, desktop calculator I just downloaded, you can't do anything but compute and draw things in your application window&
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by jonahx 2y ago
I think you misunderstood. Among the coarse grained capabilities I mentioned would be "access to folder X and it's subfolders" (read or write). But to answer your question there are, eg, tons of programming packages in any
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by jonahx 2y ago
Nothing in the container space would qualify as "easy" for me. I am talking about native OS features. Also linux only (afaik)... Or even, for that matter, some sane capabilities for browser extensions.
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by jonahx 2y ago
> Capabilities taken literally are more of a network thing (it's how you prove you have access to a computer that doesn't trust you). On a language, you don't need the capabilities themselves. You may be thinking of the te
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by jonahx 2y ago
Capabilities are the only way. It is insane to me that in 2025 there is no easy way for me to run a program that, say, "can't touch the filesystem or network". As you say, even a few simple, very coarse grained categories of
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by jonahx 2y ago
I had the same thought but maybe on old hand writing they can't? EDIT: I tried giving the sample to 4o and it gave: The following is the declaration of James Lambert, a soldier of the Revolutionary War in North America. The said James
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by jonahx 2y ago
Something like "distributed cache" is valid jargon. I already conceded that it can be useful. But the majority of it (by raw numbers) is the kind of stuff of the OP is lampooning -- business and office jargon. Of course there
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by jonahx 2y ago
I am making an empirical statement. The majority of its actual use in life is to achieve social/political ends, not to improve communication. If you want to say the majority of its use is misuse , fine. But the misuse is intentiona
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by jonahx 2y ago
In this case, I assure you it does not add depth, clarity, images. You're just using it as a kind of in-group joke.
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by jonahx 2y ago
> but the reason for its existence is precision In some cases yes, but the majority of the time jargon is primarily used as a shibboleth to establish group identity, camaraderie, and a sense of exclusivity.
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by jonahx 2y ago
How is "like UDP" clearer than just saying that?
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by jonahx 2y ago
Correct me if I'm missing something, but isn't tptacek's point that if the DKIM's keys are public, I can now just make up any email I want with a "correct signature" and claim it was sent from X and I found it
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by jonahx 2y ago
> To satisfy DKIM's design goal, you only need a "current" DKIM key that is secure for a window of time. When that window of time passes, you rotate the secret and publish your own key, repairing (hopefully) much of the pr
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by jonahx 2y ago
All of the replies to GP sound like desperate attempts not to self-identify as a middle manager. GP's definition matches common usage: To people not invested in this game, if you are manager at a large company and not C-suite, you&#x27
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by jonahx 2y ago
I would suggest trimming the 15m intro video down to 1 minute or less.
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by jonahx 2y ago
It's true as I noted there is no final god-like arbiter. But that is not really an interesting observation imo. Taking that perspective to its logical conclusion we end up in a world where values are utterly flat and relativist, and
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by jonahx 2y ago
> There's nothing we can say about a thing with "quality" we couldn't also say by tediously listing every single property it has. The only thing that only "quality" can add is information about what the spea
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by jonahx 2y ago
> Proponents of small functions argue that you don't have to read more than the signature and name of a function to understand what it does; it's obvious what a function called last that takes a list and returns an optional val
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by jonahx 2y ago
I wasn't saying it's bad or untrue necessarily. Just funny how the same thing is said while the goalposts keep moving, buttressed by this vague, unspecified notion of "the real creative work" or "the things only hum
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by jonahx 2y ago
This insight was all the more remarkable given that Menabrea saw the Analytical Engine primarily as a tool for automating “long and arid computation,” which would free up the intellectual capacities of brilliant scientists for more advance
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by jonahx 2y ago
I agree. Stephen Wolfram seems to get a lot of hate on HN, but for doing experimental math, puzzle solving, quick data viz, and much more, Wolfram is a deep and lovely language. The integrated notebook, mouse hover docs, and (shockingly) si
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by jonahx 2y ago
Wow. This solves a problem that's been open for at least 58 years.
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by jonahx 2y ago
Very much agree with your attitude here. What happens is that nice to have features like email reset/email magic login/social logins/etc accumulate and you don't want to be on the hook for implementing them all yourself
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by jonahx 2y ago
which do you recommend?
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by jonahx 2y ago
I think that was just an "arbitrary" constraint of the problem, inspired by the practical constraint of using it to cut an onion?
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by jonahx 2y ago
It's possible it could help but it wouldn't be lead to a typical clean DP problem, because you need the full mixed strategy vectors at each level. That requires N real numbers that sum to 1, for each player. Assuming you've
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by jonahx 2y ago
Technically true but if real numbers are allowed you don't have a puzzle. Rather, you have a silly puzzle that consists in checking if the interviewee will say, "Waaaiiiit a second, is any number allowed? Because then you can
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by jonahx 2y ago
I'm not asking about web workers generally. I'm specifically asking about their use as a client side cache as described in the article.

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