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901.
by knorker 4y ago
Yeah we could give deeper into this question. Yes, the US has not adopted the technical solutions for quick (usually essentially instant) and free payments that Europe has. And Europe isn't perfect either. E.g. in Sweden bank transfers
902.
by knorker 4y ago
Some of the delays are effectively by law, so what you're really saying is "without any laws I may be breaking inserting their opinion, and any pesky police causing surprising delays". Reminds me of how GWB said that it would
903.
by knorker 4y ago
Why is your assumption that they would be? I think the author is skipping a step in their logic. Happiness doesn't come from succeeding in your goals. This seems childishly naive, like "if only I got that promotion then I'd b
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by knorker 4y ago
Yes. My wife and I chat basically all the time, and some of it is timely questions. If the only way to get a timely response would be to call, then she'd he to call. And i would have to pick up. And maybe she's in a meeting. Maybe
905.
by knorker 4y ago
Stack the deck in your favor. After 10 years of doing a thing every day you'll be better than someone who didn't. And what's more they're likely never going to catch up, unless you completely stop and they start using yo
906.
by knorker 4y ago
Forgettable in the same way that The Wizard of Oz or Citizen Kane is forgettable. That's to say: only to the extent that you don't even understand how it shaped so much else. People today don't even know when they're usi
907.
by knorker 4y ago
Not American, but I hear things like this often from Americans. Like the phrase "make pancakes from scratch". Yeah… what else do you make it from? Oh, you have your own chickens and… oh… oh no don't tell me it's normally
908.
by knorker 4y ago
Revenue, yes billions. Profit? We'll see soon if it's changed. Q2 earnings report is on Tuesday. You can find previous reports at abc.xyz
909.
by knorker 4y ago
Ok, I see what you mean. To me this sounds like you not taking a simplified example for what it is. In a perfect system all you say can be quantified down into money, and be priced in when comparing 25 and 50 year bridges. In the real world
910.
by knorker 4y ago
The fair comparison is 25 extended to 30 vs 50 extended to 60, though. In terms of cost per year of having a bridge.
911.
by knorker 4y ago
>>Will you build a bridge that’s inexpensive, but will have to be replaced in 25 years, or will you spend twice the money for more concrete and more steel to make it last for 50? > Of course the second (which is what is actually us
912.
by knorker 4y ago
Everywhere in the world you design for what the local conditions are. I bet Mumbai doesn't mandate winter tyres in winter, right? Sweden does. If suddenly one winter you see -10℃ in Mumbai, would you appreciate Swedes mocking you for n
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by knorker 4y ago
Your servers can run at 100℃ ambient temperature? Oh, I guess you mean F? Yeah, servers can run just fine at 40℃. Well… unless they fail because of it. :-) That is: The ones that don't fail work just fine. If you have a DC with 10&#x27
914.
by knorker 4y ago
It happens with other things, but Bluetooth is not other things. It doesn't need high speed. Just barely enough to get some audio through. Bluetooth should have been perfected over a decade ago, and chips with perfect operation should
915.
by knorker 4y ago
And for those who don't know, that's not actually a particularly big difference. The inverse square law means this is just the difference between 1 meter and 3 meters. And your WiFi has no problems at 3 meters from the AP.
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by knorker 4y ago
No, that's not it. That's not why my bluetooth disconnects every single time I unsuspend my chromebook, about 2 minutes after connecting bluetooth it'll disconnect again, and will be permanently on the second time. That'
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by knorker 4y ago
Sometimes people make excuses for bluetooth. Like "it can do so many things, that's why it's so complex and can get bugs". No. Just no. 99.999% of use cases is "get audio to my headphones, and possibly from its mic
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by knorker 4y ago
We don't do that here. You may want to familiarize yourself with the Hacker News guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
919.
by knorker 4y ago
> I can't bare the endless meetings It's an unfortunate fact that in order to get more done you'll always be more effective if you manage to steer a team the right direction than to do it yourself. Doesn't matter if y
920.
by knorker 4y ago
If it were just that then porting it to Linux would not have taken this long. OpenBSD were able to copy things from Linux (e.g. some grsecurity/PAX stuff), and vice versa. But in this case the org model is getting in the way. OpenBSD i
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by knorker 4y ago
Yeah I said "compare" just as an illustration of the control that OpenBSD can and does exercise over the interface between user space and kernel space.
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by knorker 4y ago
Like i said: it needs cooperation with both kernel and libc. You have libc, which does mean it's in sync with dynamically compiled binaries against your libc, with the other drawbacks I mentioned too. And you need kernel maintainer coo
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by knorker 4y ago
I too would love pledge() in Linux. But as I pretty much implied in this comment thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32097649 ) the project here won't get us there, and it does need to be part of the kernel. Of
924.
by knorker 4y ago
I'll admit to not knowing this context around it, but I guess yes if you only support binaries linked against your own libc (and only dynamically), and only on one architecture, then it should work. But as you say, it's quite limi
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by knorker 4y ago
Having tried this myself i don't believe in this implementation. The list of syscalls is not only dynamic across kernel versions, but even different between architectures. You REALLY need a committed team to maintain this, and likely a
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by knorker 4y ago
> Pirates are partially responsible for why we have DRM in the first place. I'm not sure that's true. DRM has never prevented piracy. It's to the point that I'm not even sure they were trying to. > Physical media (
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by knorker 4y ago
Well, for the string case empty string is… the empty string. Storing the exit code and stdout of a program run Oracle allows the state "it's not finished yet" to have exit code representation of NULL, but you cannot say the s
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by knorker 4y ago
Yeah that's true. All the database can say is "I don't have a value here". Not "there exists no value for this column". But this doesn't mean that two NULLs are the same. Two people with NULL tax IDs are n
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by knorker 4y ago
NULL means "I don't have this data". It doesn't guarantee that the data doesn't exist anywhere. It's semantically ambiguous, yes. But it's not ambiguous that the database doesn't have the data. It&#
930.
by knorker 4y ago
E.g. if you have a "tax ID" column, and two people in your database don't have tax IDs because they're not <your country> tax payers. Or "payment vendor processing ID". You may have multiple entries not y

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