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by macintux 2y ago
In discussions where HN has truncated/mangled a title, people have indicated that you can edit your submission after the fact to fix it. I don't know whether that's accurate, or whether there's a time limit.
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by macintux 2y ago
I’m reminded of a disagreement here probably a decade ago. Someone felt debates were won with facts; I disagreed, and feel that facts are not nearly enough to determine a course of action. Of course, political debates were more useful when
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by macintux 2y ago
I think your price analysis is predicated on the amount of friction. For me to sign up with a 3rd party service to pay a subscription: yes, $10/month is probably the smallest fee I'd bother with. To add a subscription through my A
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by macintux 2y ago
If someone still on X could send them the hn@ycombinator.com support address, that'd be useful.
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by macintux 2y ago
My apologies for misremembering. I’m glad you chimed in to correct the record.
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by macintux 2y ago
We were working on ways of making it easier (such as CRDTs to reduce the amount of work developers had to do to leverage eventual consistency), but these were pretty challenging problems to solve. One of our biggest disappointments: we had
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by macintux 2y ago
Speaking as a former tech evangelist/engineer at Basho, there were a few significant challenges. Riak is horribly unfriendly as a database: no SQL, it exposes eventual consistency directly to the developer, it’s relatively slow, and Er
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by macintux 2y ago
In some environments, deploying to production has a massive bureaucracy tax. Paperwork, approvals, limited windows in time, can’t do them during normal business hours, etc.
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by macintux 2y ago
Thank you, the headline was utterly baffling, and the README doesn’t provide that context.
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by macintux 2y ago
I’m betting it’ll be configurable via MDM.
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by macintux 2y ago
4 years on and a significant proportion of Republicans still believe the 2020 election was stolen. Just how many years will it take for that to true up?
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by macintux 2y ago
Phil Collins and Sting both went from hard-rocking tunes to elevator music with very little warning. It’s hard to believe Sting went from The Police to the sublime Bring On The Night to Fields of Gold .
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by macintux 2y ago
> Once they eventually find the info was wrong they'll be more sceptical of that source. If they’ve internalized/amplified it, they’ll believe the source, and disregard the contradictory information. This has been well-establis
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by macintux 2y ago
I'll freely admit to complete ignorance, but this seems like a bad idea. Much like we use well-defined but somewhat arcane terminology to talk about computers, because precision is important, I'm skeptical about the implications o
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by macintux 2y ago
Citation? I can’t find any information online about the White House response during the crisis, only a statement afterwards that Biden considered it an internal affair.
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by macintux 2y ago
Serious question: why not mount it upside down?
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by macintux 2y ago
You're correct, destructuring is the appropriate term. I checked the release notes, and the reason they removed it: no one was using it. I guess it's unsurprising, but sad.
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by macintux 2y ago
I mostly ignored Python until my job required it, about 8 years ago. Coming from Erlang, I was pleasantly astonished to find that I could use tuple pattern matching in function headers… until I discovered that was dropped in Python 3 and I
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by macintux 2y ago
I would wager that most diplomats come from a very privileged upbringing. As the article indicates, wealthier families can afford private English tutoring, which causes some friction with proposed changes to testing standards.
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by macintux 2y ago
They absolutely had the opportunity to give the president an excuse to stay in power. “The electoral ballots have been compromised, Congress is in disarray with its leadership killed. I’m staying in office for the duration of this emergency
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by macintux 2y ago
> Invalidate the election results and do a new one. The chaos that would ensue from this is staggering.
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by macintux 2y ago
Late this summer, Apple Weather finally lost me (I'm in Indiana). We had a storm roll through, and the temperature dropped 15º. Guess whose weather app continued to report the higher temperature? But the real problem: rain forecasts we
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by macintux 2y ago
There are some curious inclusions on that page, but the context link reveals that some highlights really aren't the comment, rather the discussion that it triggered. A "35 child comments" note or similar alongside the highlig
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by macintux 2y ago
I'm not sure how many chances they'll get to persuade developers that this time they really mean it. It sounds like Apple Arcade is a flop.
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by macintux 2y ago
AI can presumably integrate all of the forum discussions talking about how people really use the code. Assuming discussions don't happen in Slack, or Discord, or...
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by macintux 2y ago
I witnessed a driver make an aggressive left turn as soon as a light turned green, to beat the first car going the other way. Unfortunately that aggressive left turn ended abruptly when they hit a pedestrian crossing the street on that same
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by macintux 2y ago
I was observing a parade once and stepped into the stopped traffic to talk to a driver about his vehicle. I felt terrible later when I realized I had set a dangerous example for all of the kids around.
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by macintux 2y ago
Other comments have pointed out that intersections are difficult to cross safely because cars are coming from multiple directions, often in non-obvious ways. Between the intersections you only have two directions to worry about.
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by macintux 2y ago
When I was visiting Finland in 1990, my friend told me the police were so bored there that jaywalking was very likely to result in a ticket.
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by macintux 2y ago
> Complexity never goes down it increases over time. Recent discussion of Tog’s Paradox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41913437

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