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by lamontcg 3y ago
> Siri feels really abandoned. Apple has a fairly severe case of Apple Maps-related PTSD. They aren't likely to introduce a half-baked product in a rush to market like everyone else is doing. Apple is unlikely to release a fundament
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I really don't want to use a VPN and a fake e-mail address with Kagi to get the kind of anonymity that DDG at least claims to offer. [It would also be selling point to offer at least GDPR levels of privacy to everyone -- embrace it and
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> The world probably has never been as peaceful as in the last 50 years or so. Meanwhile Putin is itching for a rationalization to drop a nuke in Ukraine.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> I hope they fire and prosecute him. "He's a witch! Burn him!"
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Yeah, an unimplemented abstract method being called shouldn't really ever happen at runtime and should be some form of "Internal Error" and should aggressively try to blow up the program. I think this blog post just convince
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Inheritance is really just a public interface, a private interface and automatic delegation of those interfaces to the base class. The problems with inheritance are: - people shove code in the base class to dedup it without thinking about d
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Also: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/twistylittlepassagesallalik... Here's my try in ruby from a prior life: https://github.com/chef/mixlib-shellout/blob/main/lib/mixlib...
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Yes, so the insurance company should underwrite your roof for a fixed cost (adjusted for inflation) on your home. After 20 years of paying into that pool they shouldn't be able to just drop you now that your roof is old and pocket all
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> “If your roof is 20 years old and one hailstorm is going to take it off, you should pay more than somebody with a brand new roof,” If you've been paying for insurance for 20 years with one company, then I'd say that is certai
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by lamontcg 3y ago
But it means that it isn't possible to tell if a 28 year old will pull out of their depression given some more years, or if it really is life-long and untreatable. Show me a test that determines what their future is with some kind of
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by lamontcg 3y ago
This kind of reasoning is such a plague on the internet where if you argue (e.g.) one person was wrong, that implies the other person was right.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I don't think its up to me to determine a "proposed window", I think its on the other side of the debate to define what "terminal" depression is.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Sure but the problem is that Solaris/AIX will be very slow to actually install it, so you can't count on it being there, and those distros DO influence things like autoconf and configure scripts. And people who run them pay big m
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by lamontcg 3y ago
The problem is that a configure script takes a look at the system, right now, as configured by the end user, even with their home directory and whatever they've shoved into env variables like LD_LIBRARY_PATH and then builds the softwar
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by lamontcg 3y ago
It wont. And stuff like Solaris and AIX still lives on and uses /bin/sh and has been incredibly slow to embrace even bash, and configure scripts still need to support them. Plus any change you make today won't be remotely u
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> incurable depression sufferers? I'm just not sure that a 28 year old is really facing incurable depression. You can be in a pretty long deep depression in your 20s and pull out of it in your 30s and 40s.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
There's a whole lot of people on forums like HN that like to write in this intellectual style with a bit more "Queens English" sounding idioms and some $10 words thrown in. They increasingly sound like they're Generativ
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I was on the 8th floor of a brick building in Seattle. If it had been a shallow quake I would be dead. There was a whole lotta motion. Can't remember what it damaged, though, other than some glass bottles on top of the refrigerator
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by lamontcg 3y ago
The Nisqually quake in Seattle was a 6.8 but it was 57km (35 miles) deep. It was also on the other side of Tacoma sort of in between Tacoma and Olympia. The depth of that quake made it a lot less severe than it could have been, only killed
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I wish there was more appreciation of how difficult reproducible builds are and unwinding the decades of non-reproducible cruft that we have built up. Commenters on forums and issue trackers often seem to think like it could all get done to
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> Nowadays, the repo-tarball split is largely unnecessary, but the practice remains. I keep seeing this argument, but I don't understand why CI runners can't generate the configure script rather than offloading that onto the en
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I think LLMs have considerably more probability to make the world worse overall than cryptography does (the sheer level of information bullshit they can develop for pennies is going to transform our society and I doubt it is going to be for
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Open source community currently discovering that charity doesn't work and why governments need taxation to provide services. Libertarians in shambles.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
and previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9338708
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by lamontcg 3y ago
The SARS-CoV-2 early strains were pretty bad at transmitting. Most chains of infections actually died out. It was estimated that it took several introductions of the virus before outbreaks actually started. It still mostly infected peopl
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XZ Backdoor: Times, damned times, and scams(rheaeve.substack.com)
277 points by lamontcg 3y ago|170 comments
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Not really my point though. I just want to get the people who scream on HN about how software should never ever break backcompat under any circumstance, in a room with the people on this issue who are stunned by how convoluted this situatio
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by lamontcg 3y ago
The biggest problem is Garbage-In-Garbage-Out and your final analysis is only as good as your guesstimates for the initial probabilities. So initially the presence of the FCS in the SARS-CoV-2 genome was a "smoking gun" for the la
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Generally if someone only infects 1 person they're going to infect someone that they're close to. The lab leak of SARS-CoV-1 back in 2004 put two of the researchers in the hospital and killed the mother of one of the researchers.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
And this is the kind of convoluted situation that happens when you have software that can never, ever break backwards compatibility. It is probably entirely necessary to do it in this particular situation, but when people argue for no softw

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