maxbond

49 ms·

751.
by maxbond 2y ago
Assuming the parent comment is correct, editing the subject comments (which I haven't read) to be a dot is very respectable. I write a lot of comments that would start flame wars. The extent to which I succeed in not starting them is t
752.
by maxbond 2y ago
Hello xtrapol8. I've read some of what you've written. I don't agree with all of it. In particular I don't believe a lot of your metaphysical claims. I think the idea of intelligence as understanding how probabilities ar
753.
by maxbond 2y ago
I think it's a trilemma between security, convenience, and architectural sophistication (NB: I'm deliberately not saying complexity, because the code doesn't necessarily get more complex). It is usually physically possible to
754.
by maxbond 2y ago
s/512/1024
755.
by maxbond 2y ago
There ought to just be a property named something like `defer-validation` that does the right thing. But I'm sure I'm not the first person to suggest it, there's presumably some logistical or technical difficulty. If I'm
756.
by maxbond 2y ago
There are no benevolent dictators. People who are serious about building community will put their trust in others. They will delegate. They will listen to advice. They will compromise. They will be imperfect; they will fail to do the best t
757.
by maxbond 2y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if P is not equal to NP, then we ought to be able to derive as much entropy as we need from a key which is non-brute forceable (at least for symmetric encryption). Eg, if we believe 1024 bits of entropy can
758.
by maxbond 2y ago
Not presently! I'm on vacation and intentionally left my laptop at home. But if you send me an email I could send you a link when I push it to GitHub; my email is in my profile. Otherwise, I'm planning to do a Show HN around mid N
759.
by maxbond 2y ago
I can't say I understood and evaluated all the physics here (I skimmed parts) but I was pretty surprised by how small the estimate was. I would've assumed that, were we to have one or two thousand years more cryptographic history,
760.
by maxbond 2y ago
I'm writing a build tool for SQL. I like to write SQL directly and to use it's more powerful features (like stored procedures and Postgres' ltee extension). But this is gets difficult to manage in a linear, "migrations&q
761.
by maxbond 2y ago
The point is that it's an overloaded term, which makes it easy to talk past each other. If you wish to see usages like I described, have a look here. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&amp
762.
by maxbond 2y ago
Pick a stack and dive into it. If you find yourself getting analysis paralysis, just pick one arbitrarily; you're not getting married, you're just getting started. Make things and get feedback on them. At the end of that process y
763.
by maxbond 2y ago
GP is correct that the argument contains an informal fallacy[1], and people often express this criticism by saying "your argument is tautological," and you are correct that a tautology is a statement which is always true [2]. [1]
764.
by maxbond 2y ago
What comes to my mind is that decipher has a well established common meaning, but decrypt just means "dis-encrypt".
765.
by maxbond 2y ago
Oh I see what you mean. I misunderstood, I also don't like slash as a separator.
766.
by maxbond 2y ago
Seems like a reasonable thing to me. { "makes": { "toyota": { "models: [ ... ] } } } "I need all the models of Toyota cars." Or "Toyota came out with
767.
by maxbond 2y ago
You've gotta click "tree". https://git.sr.ht/~evanhahn/setBigTimeout/tree/main/item/mod...
768.
by maxbond 2y ago
Noted ontologist Pirate Software would argue that cats are a Wellington, not a soup. https://youtube.com/shorts/MnAegCmJ7Xk
769.
by maxbond 2y ago
I agree, but this is a method on an object in the standard library! https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-sync.html#asyncio.... Could've been called fire() or activate(), perhaps. This is also the kind of
770.
by maxbond 2y ago
I have to imagine it's about as old as propositional logic (so, as old as the hills). I most closely associate it with Gödel and his work on incompleteness.
771.
by maxbond 2y ago
Maybe you could ignore that test by default, and then write a shell script to run your tests in two stages. First you run only the should-fail test(s) and assert that they fail. Then you can run your actual tests.
772.
by maxbond 2y ago
Not GP but when I feel like I'm going crazy I insert an "assert False" test into my test suite. It's a good way to reveal when you're testing a cached version of your code for some reason (for instance integration t
773.
by maxbond 2y ago
You know what, I do use a small font size in my editor. I like to see a lot of code at once. And if memory serves I spotted this in the browser, where I do the opposite. I'll have to look into hyper legible monospace fonts. Or maybe I&
774.
by maxbond 2y ago
> It's not enough for a program to work, it has to work for the right reasons. Code working for the wrong reasons is code that's going to break when you least expect it. This reminds me of the recent discussion of gettiers[1].
775.
by maxbond 2y ago
Interesting. Thanks for the correction and the reading material.
776.
by maxbond 2y ago
Apologies, I oversimplified while trying to summarize, what I meant was that they didn't understand that it was an unusually wet period and that the Colorado was subject to megadroughts. It's my understanding that they also oversu
777.
by maxbond 2y ago
The problem isn't activists, it's the climate. The Colorado River system has been in a drought for 20 years, and for all we know it'll be in a drought for 100 more. (It's not clear to me this is anthropogenic, my impress
778.
by maxbond 2y ago
To be fair, Chess.com said that they had identified 24 other GMs who they believed had cheated (who they declined to name). His cheating may have been more normal than is comfortable. It's entirely possible Carlsen was on that list; we
779.
by maxbond 2y ago
It's not really that the solutions are bad but that a lot of these "problems" are fundamental parts of the UI, and shouldn't be taken away without a compelling reason. You may well have compelling reasons, I assume each
780.
by maxbond 2y ago
This would appear to be the quote they're referencing: > Another bright spot is Threads, which is about to hit 200 million monthly actives. https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2024&#x2

More ›