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by lopatin 6y ago
AI is good enough to do some planning for you. Looks like we're just getting to the point where they can engage in dog fights. But there's a fine line. You don't want AIs replacing human generals, because generals need to mak
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by lopatin 6y ago
Because that one input had the word "year" in it. 1password confused "expiration year" for "$ / year". It's a good bug. Both substack and 1password are responsible to some degree, and it will be figur
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by lopatin 6y ago
> people wouldn't have tried to downgrade to 3.0.1 again What's the point of having versions if you can't install them?
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by lopatin 6y ago
> but it's how this program works Or how it doesn't work , in this case. > If you don't want it to do that, then uninstall it And use what? There are no alternatives. Should I quit my job while I'm at it? Maybe
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by lopatin 6y ago
"bug" vs "feature" is a silly debate about semantics until someone uses it as a justification to push back releasing a fix. Bugs get fixed immediately, but feature requests can wait. And also, who says that mis-designe
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by lopatin 6y ago
I'm astonished by the pushback from the Docker devs on this. rflay, ThomasNegeli, and Nuru did heroic work by gently and thoroughly explaining why mandatory, automatic updates are unacceptable for a dev tool. I would not have been so p
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by lopatin 6y ago
They didn't fail to test their backups. They tested them, they didn't work, and then they said "this is fine".
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by lopatin 6y ago
The irony of the link being down right now is great.
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by lopatin 6y ago
Love the idea. An app that evolves from a spreadsheet is pretty brilliant, mate.
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by lopatin 6y ago
Gotcha, yep I could have phrased that better.
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by lopatin 6y ago
I didn't say that it has to be for illegal things or avoiding regulation. I said it's a trust-less global payment infrastructure. Say I need to send $500k to a relative in a third world country at 12AM on a Sunday. A completely le
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by lopatin 6y ago
A public ledger can be achieved without a blockchain right? My understanding is that a ledger can guarantee that your vote was counted, but it can't guarantee that all the other votes are legitimate.
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by lopatin 6y ago
Largely agree. It's what makes Bitcoin different. Bitcoin's killer app is the network itself. The fact that you can send money/transfer wealth instantly without a bank to tell you what you can and can't do IS the value o
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by lopatin 6y ago
Languages that do Result + panic, or languages that do checked + unchecked exceptions. Which is best? IMO, I think "Result + panic" works better because it's a cleaner separation in the sense that handling panics is strongly
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by lopatin 6y ago
Follow up question, as someone who knows even less about forensics, what kind of traces stay on a hard drive if you just delete a file?
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by lopatin 6y ago
I found myself asking "why" at first. Then remembered we're on HN, and "why not" would be a sufficient answer. Well done!
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by lopatin 6y ago
I have two thoughts on this: One is that tools like scalafix no-doubt rely heavily on static analysis to ensure correctness of their program transformations. I'm not sure a hypothetical "pythonfix" tool will be quite as feasi
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by lopatin 6y ago
Is this satire?
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by lopatin 6y ago
Yes plz. No one wants to know the difference between those two. Of course, you still do need to. But don't make the problem worse by writing code breaks when you mistake one for the other.
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by lopatin 6y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that was at the end of the trading day, when people already made it clear their original BS blog post wasn't convincing anyone. IMO Robinhood is clearly in the wrong. It may not be as malignant as the
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by lopatin 6y ago
Thank you for validating my troubles with a write-heavy ~500GB db in the midst of a TB-measuring contest :)
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by lopatin 6y ago
Not that they don't do this but I'm not sure selling data is their main source of money. I think their ad placements are actually that valuable. Click-bait sells extremely well when it's manipulative enough and displayed to a
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Ask HN: LISPers, do you use homoiconicity (code-as-data)?
3 points by lopatin 6y ago|7 comments
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by lopatin 6y ago
Great reading, thanks
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by lopatin 6y ago
It warms my heart to know that astronauts are using LISP in space because they want to. On the other hand, I wonder how practical it is. I've more or less converted from LISPy langs to Python for real work because I was tired of re-inv
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Ask HN: In your experience, are new Macs less reliable?
1 points by lopatin 6y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Any procrastinators here that have waited on upgrading Solarwinds?
1 points by lopatin 6y ago|0 comments
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by lopatin 6y ago
I know that the point of this book is stated to be "that there's a clearly visible coarse-grained order that drives biological and social life." I'm sorry, I'm probably dumb, but I'm not getting the "point
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by lopatin 6y ago
Looks like this is what happens when unique companies with a vision hire mediocre business execs. I'm sure there are other ways to monetize while keeping OSS actually free. But you won't get there when your top decision makers tre
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by lopatin 6y ago
Yeah, you're right. I should make the time to learn more stuff and never make excuses for why I don't. On the other hand, I don't think you fully understand where I'm coming from. "Optimizing for stagnation", &

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