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by msla 4y ago
> There has been a complete loss in any interest in meeting a middle ground There's no middle ground between wanting to kill someone and wanting to let them live in peace. If a person thinks someone is a born child molester (a &quot
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by msla 4y ago
It doesn't matter how much you paid: You aren't the customer, you're the product.
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by msla 4y ago
It's been done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racter The story is that there was a program, Racter, which allegedly created a book titled "The Policeman's Beard Is Half-Constructed" back in the 1980
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by msla 4y ago
"Whimsical" now means "making pointless work for yourself and everyone else" and seems rather close to "speed-running" ("slow-running"?) a bureaucracy for social media clout. Really, really pitiful so
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by msla 4y ago
"Whimsical" now means "making pointless work for yourself and everyone else" and seems rather close to "speed-running" ("slow-running"?) a bureaucracy for social media clout. Really, really pitiful so
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by msla 4y ago
What?
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by msla 4y ago
I get that it's an Indian source, but I doubt many people here know what a "crore" is so consider changing the title.
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by msla 4y ago
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/solaris/Solaris10X8... Here's someone comparing Solaris 10 to Linux: > the sysadmin experience on a modern Linux is much better than on Solaris 10. There
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by msla 4y ago
> Seems the article missed an opportunity to provide actionable information instead of the usual doomsaying The action the article wants you to take is to be mad and keep clicking.
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by msla 4y ago
He pushes the pseudoscience of Ayurvedic "medicine" and gets rich off of it. More to the point, though, it's a matter of keeping the place clean: Pick up the small pieces of trash before the trash-spreaders think they're
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by msla 4y ago
Abstracting over the physical reality of the machine is part of the point. The physical reality of the machine isn't the focus in programming language design or theory, and it certainly isn't the focus of making maintainable code
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by msla 4y ago
> CompuServe was a walled-garden pre-AOL dialup internet site I guess we've reached the point where all computer networking is "internet" now.
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by msla 4y ago
> Weak typing and type coercion is a major footgun in a language. Type coercion is an expression of strong typing, and it's inevitable if you want a language that's usable. For example, "array of int of length 5" is a
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by msla 4y ago
The Cathedral might make a better GUI, but damned if the Cathedral can stick to a single GUI and not gratuitously break workflows.
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by msla 4y ago
What should 0x40 == 64 equal? Ought hexadecimal integer and decimal integer be the same type? As long as conversion between representations is well-defined and not hugely surprising, what does it matter?
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by msla 4y ago
> Weirdly, ß is pronounced "s" "z", written as a ligature of s & z, but when unavailable, is replaced in Latin text with "ss". Not quite: ß is nearly always a lowercase-only letter, and it is capitalized
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by msla 4y ago
Very Julian Jaynes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameral_mentality > Jaynes uses "bicameral" (two chambers) to describe a mental state in which the experiences and memories of the right hemisphere of th
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by msla 4y ago
Inspur K-UX is a Linux distribution that is officially a Unix.
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by msla 4y ago
Even as a US-focused history, it still doesn't focus on the hobbyist culture the Apple II formed out of: > Instead, as historian Laine Nooney shows, what made the Apple II iconic was its software. In software, we discover the materi
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by msla 4y ago
> Do you know in the Bible, when Pharaoh took away the strawmen from the Hebrews so they had to make bricks without it? Yes, that's an origin myth with no basis in fact. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Exo
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by msla 4y ago
These thought experiments rest on the assumption that human brains are magically complex such that being "just" anything we can understand is inherently lesser. Searle's Chinese Room experiment falls for the same fallacy, mor
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by msla 4y ago
BASIC as it was and VisualBasic are mostly not the same language, like how you can't say C is going strong in business because C# is so popular. Even Classic VisualBasic is more like Object Pascal than the line-numbered BASIC dialects
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by msla 4y ago
You know what's really great, too? When a website is loading dynamically, and the UI is being reshaped on the fly with unpredictable delays, so you move your mouse to the widget you want to interact with and, by the time you actually d
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by msla 4y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32069418
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by msla 4y ago
Some people really need to internalize the fact that anyone can put up a sign, and signs don't make the law.
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by msla 4y ago
Being mean is noise: It's something the listener has to cut through to get to the actual message, assuming there is one. The fact the noise is in the form of the listener's emotions doesn't really matter, assuming you want to
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by msla 4y ago
> there is no such thing as truth. Motte and bailey alert. This can mean either: 1. There is no such thing as a final analysis completely free of bias. 2. There is no such thing as facts. It's related to the old "social constru
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by msla 4y ago
> I didn't read the fine print of Bing using it to augment its search engine, but that is definitely a very interesting case. This might be going against the pro-business attitude of HN, but there's limits to what fine print ca
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by msla 4y ago
Banning everyone from social media is not possible, especially not based on whatever pseudoscience you're pretending to know about this week.
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by msla 4y ago
Soon, they'll discover the advantages of unshielded twisted pair and recapitulate the development of Ethernet up to the 1990s.

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