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by mordae 3y ago
It's not like they've scammed others with crypto or tried to overtake markets with price dumping tactics or bribed the governments to use their software or spied on billions for profit. They've just lorried stuff other poor p
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> Hacker News has a really juvenile attitude to DRM. The door is that way. Anyway. Sure, no one has right to YouTube, but they can't have their cake and eat it too. I think the EU trend is pretty clear: no tracking to make money off
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Tied to your IP, which makes it collection of personal information. Meaning you need to consent to it and they are not allowed to do it unless it's strictly necessary in order to deliver the service, bill you and so on. They can choose
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> This is about who will submit and manage the CSAM fingerprints. Not it's not. It's about "Why the fuck should I be under constant surveillance?" Our computers are practically brain extensions at this point. I don&#x
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Do you need college for that, though? I don't have one and still know how to implement a double-linked list, trees, tries, hash maps and what to test for when implementing binary search[^1]. Just keep your eyes open. [^1]: https:&#x2F
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I have a beef with the typing section: > grug very like type systems make programming easier. for grug, type systems most value when grug hit dot on keyboard and list of things grug can do pop up magic. this 90% of value of type system o
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Because generics are actually a powerful tool for simplifying the data flow. They make it possible to promise not to do anything specific to and based on the data involved.
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I want YouTube to become just one in the many competing video hosting services with various business and ownership models. I mostly like how nebula.tv runs their business (being owned collectively by the authors themselves, flat fee, no a
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I have pretty severe GFS and one part of it is that once you understand what you are building, you don't really wish to finish it and continue on a more stimulating tangent. On the other hand, teaching others stuff that doesn't (b
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by mordae 3y ago
> as I should You shouldn't do anything. It's your life and you live it like you want. All morals, shoulds and shouldn'ts and musts and mustn'ts are a pile of horseshit. You are only responsible to yourself and you ar
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You usually solve this by using a traversal helper that keeps the stack and next/prev for you without storing them inside the AST explicitly.
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Oh, is it? Just give M$ couple more years.
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No, but I laugh at closed source browser vendors waging a war against each other.
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Typed Racket probably.
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I usually teach HTTP with `nc example.com 80` and then `nc -lp 8080` plus a browser.
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Avoid architects who are not on pager duty.
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Because almost all programmers tend to add not only abstractions, but also shortcuts. And as everybody knows, shortcut is a longer but more challenging route.
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A young colleague of mine who has also started "framework first" with Vue + Django was recently confused about what a "serializer" was. They have "written some" within Django REST framework, but he was confused
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by mordae 3y ago
If there's enough people who were wrongfully banned for any reason on Facebook because their review process is broken, maybe it's time for a class action suit? Also, banning somebody and not keeping the relevant evidence, not show
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We are all risking our time on Earth, betting what we do with it will be a success that will help our descendants and other fellow humans. Somebody wasting it by fucking up the project by mismanagement or misappropriation is a loss for us a
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Glue is getting popular for ytong and similar already.
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It's frequently done by nonprofessionals with some oversight. Usually the future owners. At least over here in central EU. Ceilings, roof, plumbing, electrical wiring, facade are way more trouble. Glue is getting popular anyway.
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It coincides with several frequencies used by air traffic control in my country. I don't think it would be noticeable, but it still rises the noise floor. It's not that hard to wave a piece of nicked coax over such gadget and I ex
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Just record couple hours of phone usage IMU data and then feed it to them with random segments added together and they won't by any wiser. Or just rock the phone in it's cradle. There are companies with robots tapping the screens,
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by mordae 3y ago
"Profit, not usage, is a measure of success" I pity you. Think again when you visit a public library, ride on a public road, walk through a public park, breathe the air that's been freed from most of the 90's pollutants.
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That's OK. Capitalism demands growth, but infinite growth on a finite planet is impossible. As the attempts to extract value at all (especially reputational) costs ramp up, reputation of the whole system is going to crumble. People are
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> It should be uncontroversial to state that that arrangement has facilitated extraordinary increases in global prosperity. No it did not. Market economy combined with the positive feedback loop between science and productivity were the
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All non-free OS vendors but Microsoft and Apple who specialize in user facing devices have already folded. And Microsoft will eventually fold as well because wine is just better at their own backwards compatibility game. There is a steady p
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It's more like 50/50, though. So in practice it mostly just amplifies authoritarians telling us to either submit or go to hell. The other (loving) half gets so non confrontational we never hear of them again.
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They still have to borrow the money from the central bank. Fractional reserves mean that the credited account's bank must deposit a portion of the money bank at central bank. So there is a limit to how much money can the bank create.

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