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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
I still liked PHK's suggestion for removing cookies entirely from HTTP/2 [0]. I seem to remember that they advocated for instead having the user agent send a profile ID which is only meaningful to the user agent. That would allow
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
As a former Wikipedian, what's there to say? The evidence is still there, and was there for years and years. Deletionism was, and remains, a wrong-headed attitude that does not understand what makes WP qualitatively different from stan
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
At my last job, I called out the CEO for having a PAC and pushing politics in the office. At my position before that, I called out the head of HR for illegally trying to instruct employees to not discuss salaries. What have you done?
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
I still think that NDN [0], Named Data Networking, is the proper successor to TCP/IP. TCP is oriented around streams, but NDN is oriented around blobs of data and names which represent them; as such, NDN is much closer to the applicati
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
What is an ocean, but a sea of drops? It starts with employees speaking up individually. Raise your voice and be heard. Upper management won't learn moral lessons on their own; they need to hear employees nagging them to be better peop
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
You might be missing the concept of "face" [0]. This is only bad in that it causes Nintendo to lose face, and Nintendo hates losing face. For example, examine Wikipedia; Nintendo's page about legal disputes [1] is whitewa
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
You may be interested in the Repugnant Conclusion [0]: At large-enough scale, every tiny movement of massive actors is consequential to those around them. This is not merely a utilitarian curiosity, but highly relevant to how states treat t
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Sure, but at the same time, it is our civic responsibility as skilled programmers to deliberately starve Amazon of the labor needed to build their oppressive systems. It is not wrong to remind ourselves of that greater responsibility, espec
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
The author sounds distressingly prescient with their prediction that BPF will be the next venue for this sort of farce.
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
XML files have a tree structure. A katamorphism on a tree, often called a fold in functional programming, is simply a function which recurses through the tree and flattens its data into a single summary. I can't share the details of
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Better scaffolding leads to bigger, better buildings. Don't knock the auxiliary and ancillary techniques; they're still necessary for this sort of work to be understandable. Also, from my perspective, the exact real arithmetic isn
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
A few months ago, while employed at a shop, I wrote about a hundred lines of Python which performed a basic katamorphism on some XML, outputting a PNG. Nobody else on my team could conceive of this, and were mystified by the fact that I cou
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Here is one non-trivial insight: Every formal logic corresponds to a category. When we do logical deduction, we have facts and rules. We can apply rules to facts to get more facts. More specifically, formal logic is built from situations wh
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
I struggle to empathize with your experience. I try to be a regular patron of restaurants, and so I find myself putting in emotional effort, although not much, to overcome the hurdles you mention. I phone the restaurant, then walk to their
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
This is exciting experimental evidence for the concept of lithotrophy [0]; while we knew about the mechanisms of action for a while, and have previously found rock-eating microbes within otherwise-unliving rocks, this experiment shows us th
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Sadly, HN regulars neither understand nor respect the concept of neocolonialism. The typical HN user seems in denial about the existence of the American Empire [0], and it's not obvious that American expats form a network of global inf
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
I think that you're overestimating what dropshippers actually provide to the economy. Like Instagram-style influencers, dropshippers are ultimately advertisers; they create consumerist desires where none previously existed. To quote fr
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
I would compare and contrast this language with three others in the niche, Python, Quorum [0], and also Nickle [1]. [0] https://quorumlanguage.com/ [1] https://www.nickle.org/
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Dropshippers are literally rent-seeking [0] middlemen, though, and their actions are contemptuous on the surface, for the harm done to consumers. In addition, it seems like their relative wealth is creating wealth inequality in some Southea
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
I am from the USA, live in the USA, and have only traveled to Canada occasionally. Nonetheless, as the article points out, I am part of Canada's problem, because mass shootings carried out in Canada use firearms sourced from the USA. T
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
As a Confucian and legalist (among other philosophical positions), there is one obvious gaping flaw in this classification: Urbit is obscurantist, while Confucius would have preferred that Urbit clearly define its terminology and goals [0],
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Okay, so the contention is that humans did not invent the design of DNA, and thus we did not invent programming with DNA. However, we invented animal husbandry several millennia before finding the structure of DNA, and we invented the conce
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
This line from the abstract is the key takeaway for me: > The interviews revealed that programmers make failed attempts to relate a new programming language with what they already know. This is the map-territory problem. Folks think that
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Here [0] is but one example of Urbit's suboptimality: Their encoding into C is insecure, and they have no interest in changing it. Writing a new operating system is hard. Taking lots of questionable paths, like writing "jet"
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
What's your data integrity policy like? In particular, what's your privacy policy? What technical measures, if any, prevent misuse of uploaded data?
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Could you explain more? Tara sounds extremely like Jira, both in form and function. The original poster (who is pointedly not answering my question, probably because it is painful and embarrassing) used "alternative to Jira" in th
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
As soon as the protocol is stable enough, if it is useful, it will be reverse-engineered and reimplemented in more-legible source code. From this, I can deduce that Urbit is not yet useful.
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Hi. I worry that this sort of tool does not benefit engineering very much; in my experience, Jira and other time-management tools are used to allow product ownership and management to request ever-sillier features, while penalizing engineer
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Betteridge's Law would have saved me some time. The answer is no, not really; the only company doing well according to the article is Lambda School, and as we've explored here before, their money-making schemes have nothing to do
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
While folks might not be getting many papers done, the research has hardly stopped. There are many many maths seminars [0] moved online. [0] https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2020/04/online_seminar_...

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