macintux

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   by macintux 8mo ago

   Definitely true for me. What’s particularly problematic is code I need to review but can’t effectively test due to environmental challenges.
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   by macintux 8mo ago

   Yeah, there's always someone saying "Just delete your Facebook account" as if that solves the underlying "Facebook is actively encouraging divisiveness" problem.
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   by macintux 8mo ago

   There's a related (apocryphal?) story from Interplay about adding a duck to animations so that the producer would ask for it to be removed, to make him happy, while leaving the rest alone. https://bwiggs.com/notebook&#x
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   by macintux 8mo ago

   > Trump said without tariffs, "everybody would be bankrupt". Always useful to have a grasp on reality.
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   by macintux 8mo ago

   I had a guy who lived two hours from me threaten my life…over 30 years ago, on a MUD. I don’t think there has been much of a firewall between the internet and “reality” for a very long time.
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   by macintux 8mo ago

   As a byproduct of wandering southern Indiana, I’ve taken several shallow dives into the history of people whose names I’ve found in cemeteries, or the counties I’ve explored, and it’s addictive. There are so many interesting stories out the
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   by macintux 8mo ago

   The Trump administration feels that accountability is only for the people who report accurate data. They get fired.
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   by macintux 8mo ago

   It should be possible to leverage previous case law without PII.
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   by macintux 8mo ago

   Or if it potentially gives different (but still positive) results to different parties?
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    by macintux 8mo ago

    Notable for this audience but perhaps not widely known: JMS engaged with Usenet to promote and discuss the show; if I remember correctly, the B5 newsgroup was active even before the pilot aired. Obviously there was no social media at the ti
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    by macintux 8mo ago

    I think they’re describing a difference in chat behavior vs API. The API must have fewer protections/be more raw.
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    by macintux 8mo ago

    Failures happen. That sounds like a death trap (literally, since EVs are challenging to escape after a failure).
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    by macintux 8mo ago

    And "tariffs that are utterly unpredictable and can change after barely-concealed bribery" are unhelpful to plan a business around.
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    by macintux 8mo ago

    Technically option-shift-dash. option-dash is an en-dash.
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    by macintux 8mo ago

    Or do what I do, and also makes backing in (or pulling through) easier: park further away. Obviously not an option for everyone, for a variety of reasons.
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    by macintux 8mo ago

    There are other threads for articles inspired by it. Those with comments: Parsix - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27166162 TypeScript - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28425435 C - https:/&
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    by macintux 8mo ago

    Population growth has rarely been a problem in poorer societies. Every fully developed country (afaik) has seen birth rates decline; that's the context.
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    by macintux 8mo ago

    A frequent visitor to HN. Tip: if you click on the "past" link under the title (but not the "past" link at the top of the page), you'll trigger a search for previous posts. https://hn.algolia.com/?qu
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    by macintux 8mo ago

    It has been frequently demonstrated that capitalism is terrible at pricing in externalities. In the U.S. it used to be industrial waste in the environment; now it's climate change and addiction and culture wars.
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    by macintux 8mo ago

    I’ve only started using it, so maybe I’m holding it wrong, but the other day I asked the IntelliJ plugin to explained two lines of code by referencing the line numbers. It printed & explained two entirely different lines in a different
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    by macintux 8mo ago

    Google was such a revelation after the misery of Alta Vista and kin. I miss the days when I liked them.
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    by macintux 8mo ago

    I've favorited a fair number of compiler discussions here. Some you may find useful, either for the linked content or the discussions therein: - Writing a Compiler is Surprisingly Easy - https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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    by macintux 8mo ago

    In general, my impression has been that you don't want to architect your solution at first for massive scaling, because: * You probably aren't going to need it, so putting the effort into scaling means slowing down your delivery o
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    by macintux 8mo ago

    This has been a popular topic nearly every time the post makes the HN front page. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40769362 (2024, 169 comments) * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31846902 (2022,
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    by macintux 8mo ago

    How many people have to die for aesthetics?
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    by macintux 8mo ago

    There's another front page article right now with someone using it in a very cool way. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46918824
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    by macintux 8mo ago

    I haven't looked at the files, nor followed the technical analysis much, but in case you missed it, some of that incoherency may be a processing glitch discussed a couple of days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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    by macintux 9mo ago

    There appear to be a relatively few possibilities. * The reporter lied. * The reporter forgot. * Apple devices share fingerprint matching details and another device had her details (this is supposed to be impossible, and I have no reason to
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    by macintux 9mo ago

    > The Justice Department failed to tell a magistrate judge about a 1980 law protecting journalists in its application materials for a warrant https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/politics/doj-pre
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    by macintux 9mo ago

    There's a fair bit of dispute about whether this is valid. The active criminalization of journalism is worrisome.