naniwaduni

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by naniwaduni 4mo ago
You can't just actually shed all your low value users and then poach the high value users, because then you're only competing for customers who are already large and have already long since integrated one of your competitors. This
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by naniwaduni 4mo ago
It matters because while the choice of excuse doesn't really matter to the surveilling end, they still need to make the excuse with the fig leaf of plausibility. The worse their excuses look, the easier it is for you to convince ot
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by naniwaduni 4mo ago
> Kinda like saying "Throwing the British's tea into Boston harbor will only make us subject to harsher terms." I mean, that it... quite literally did? Yeah, you can externalize enforcement of sanctions against you to drag
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by naniwaduni 4mo ago
"We now have a complete, futureproof free software stack with decades of backwards compatibility! It just has win32 in the middle." (2019, from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21776370 )
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by naniwaduni 5mo ago
x86 bytecode isn't the native instruction set on any real hardware you're running games on either, just one of the lowest-level publicly exposed interfaces.
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by naniwaduni 5mo ago
Indeed, the Romance cognates of "library" even usually mean bookstore (or maybe bookshelf...etymologically it's just a thing that does something vaguely related to books). Most languages where a cognate of "library"
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by naniwaduni 5mo ago
> I had a very visceral negative reaction to this story, and found it disappointing that someone would hold that opinion. But I suppose it's a lot easier to take that stance when it's not you or someone you care about being fal
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by naniwaduni 5mo ago
I think by the time you're building a system that needs to generate (and persist!) billions of identifiers per millisecond, you're solidly past the point where all your design decisions need to be vetted for whether they make se
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by naniwaduni 5mo ago
The turn-off with Coke is usually the carbonation. The appeal of sugar is quite primal.
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by naniwaduni 5mo ago
The trouble is that a bank is not lending against the nominal value of the stock as collateral. That number is almost entirely fictional. Taxation of capital gains at time of sale is less a loophole than a reflection of the difficulty of
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by naniwaduni 5mo ago
People seem to get the weird idea that borrowing against their stock holdings is some special thing rich people get to do with products that the rest of us don't have access to. It's not. Margin loans are widely available to the t
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by naniwaduni 5mo ago
Which of your security layers isn't a trade-off?
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by naniwaduni 5mo ago
Stocks are a financing mechanism. They're useful for the economy independent of the price discovery aspect in the much the same ways that lending is, except that instead of receiving an obligation of future payment you're compensa
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by naniwaduni 6mo ago
If you make it expensive enough to pay ransoms outright, throwing money at security starts looking more appealing. A ban on paying ransoms isn't the right tool for this. Fine them, punitively, with a portion set aside to incentivize wh
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by naniwaduni 6mo ago
> This is not an approach any other app on any platform has historically used, and it doesn't seem sustainable if every app you install has to modify your hosts file to use a hack like this to detect whether it should handle files o
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by naniwaduni 6mo ago
The latter sounds absurd, nearly as ridiculous as the English it was translated from.
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by naniwaduni 6mo ago
Nobody cares about every part of GitHub working correctly. I mean, ok, their SREs are supposed to, but tabling the question of whether that's true: if tomorrow they announced a distributed no-op service with 100% downtime, you should
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by naniwaduni 7mo ago
The legal system does nothing to fix the harm done by murder to the person who's now dead, either.
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by naniwaduni 7mo ago
The Latin alphabet variant modern English uses has uses only ~11 kinds of strokes, where is this 26 coming from?
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by naniwaduni 7mo ago
Arbitrariness of the sign is a principle that requires so many epicycles to present as "true" that it's more of a warning against overgeneralization than an insight with any significant predictive power in its own right.
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by naniwaduni 7mo ago
Nearly all the security value of 1fa is that it keeps your users from picking the own passwords.
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by naniwaduni 8mo ago
From ChangeLog: * telnetd/utility.c (getterminaltype): Change the name `user_name' to `uname', as the former shadows a precious and global variable name.
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by naniwaduni 8mo ago
> and the people worried about this aren't the ones bringing the real revenue. It's this one. If you're in a position to refund a "cost accident", then clearly you don't have to enforce cost controls in real
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by naniwaduni 8mo ago
To be clear, you just answered "Do you care to show prices?" with No.
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by naniwaduni 8mo ago
Oh, they're very clear, just not explicit.
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by naniwaduni 8mo ago
It's not a novel problem. But yes, I don't think people quite appreciate how quick and easy it is for people who are in the habit of brewing up one-liners to solve simple problems to do that. I've done it here on HN for jq to
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by naniwaduni 8mo ago
There is value in maintaining the fiction that words mean things.
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by naniwaduni 9mo ago
It may amuse you to learn that tar headers are designed as straight up text tables with fixed-width columns, marred only by the fact that modern implementations pad with 0s instead of spaces. The numbers are encoded as octal digits!
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by naniwaduni 9mo ago
The human cost becomes negligible once the tooling is already integrated. You don't get to call it negligible until after the integration has been done.
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by naniwaduni 9mo ago
Adjective order in English is basically that most essential qualities of the object go closest to the head. There are lists out there that try to break this down into categories of adjective ("opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-mater

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