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by nickelpro 2y ago
If you want this post to be a haiku, and you publish it in your collection of haikus so labeled, I would be hard pressed to argue otherwise. Fountain [1] is a sculpture because Duchamp placed it a fine art exhibit and labeled it so ("b
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by nickelpro 2y ago
These are elements of genre, any taxonomy of human expression naturally escapes the ability to be concretely defined. You can no more give a succinct, definitive differentiation between prose and poetry than you can between Rock&Roll an
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by nickelpro 2y ago
99.99% of people are exposed to math as multiplication tables, algebra, and geometry. I don't let that bother me when I need Fourier and Laplace, and I'm not interested in making others accept that there is more to these fields th
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by nickelpro 2y ago
I write application servers for a living, mostly for Python but previously for other languages. Nobody, nobody , writes application servers with the intent of having them exposed to the public internet. Even if they're completely memo
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by nickelpro 2y ago
We've been searching for the bounds of art, poetry, and music, for millennia without any hope of definition or finality. Thankfully HN user milesrout figured it out. That's a load off my mind.
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by nickelpro 2y ago
lmao the author specifically calls you, yes you, out in the post: > Talky free verse, prose poetry, or spoken word—while seemingly accessible—can also upset readers whose major exposure to poetry was through high school English. The abse
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by nickelpro 2y ago
> That's quite literally not the design, if by "dependencies" you mean including transitive dependencies. I don't. Your transitive dependencies are not your problem, they are upstream's problem. Anything regardin
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by nickelpro 2y ago
> Lockfiles are meant to describe the exact version of everything that should be in the environment to have exact reproducible behaviour (not just "working"), including transitive dependencies. It is wrong to specify the versio
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by nickelpro 2y ago
Then why even have the dependency file? If the dependency file is wrong, and describes versions that are incompatible with the project, it should be fixed. Duplicating that information elsewhere is wrong. Lockfiles have a very obvious use c
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by nickelpro 2y ago
This is not packaging hell, this is you having a personal problem with how other developers work. Python has come an immensely long way in the world of packaging, the modern era of PEP 517/518 and the tooling that has come along with i
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by nickelpro 2y ago
There's no existing black market of criminals extorting politicians and celebrities over Youtube comments (also how you go from an email address to an identity is itself iffy). You are imagining a potential market, the exploits are pri
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by nickelpro 2y ago
Compile-time reflection is by far the most useful It replaces the plethora of code generators that currently surround C++ like flies
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by nickelpro 2y ago
And yet all of these systems basically work for day-to-day operations, and fail only under obscure error conditions. It is totally acceptable for applications to say "I do not support X conditions". Swap out the file half way thro
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by nickelpro 2y ago
Legally, no, it doesn't
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by nickelpro 2y ago
That's not true, distributors of the app are fined. Meaning, very specifically, app stores. From (2)(a)(1): > (A) Providing services to distribute, maintain, or update such foreign adversary controlled application (including any s
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by nickelpro 2y ago
Speech and immigration are completely different areas of the law, there's no useful legal point of comparison in this context. The motivation is largely irrelevant to the analysis of this case. What matters is what effects the law has
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by nickelpro 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate_scrutiny
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by nickelpro 2y ago
The law does not care about who financially owns the company, only about designations of control made by the president (along with a 30 day notice). The law actually skips this step for ByteDance / TikTok and directly adds them to the
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by nickelpro 2y ago
SCOTUS fully agreed that the law violates the First Amendment as written, it wasn't even a question at any level from the district court on up. The decision was balanced on strict or intermediate scrutiny. At the distict court level it
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by nickelpro 2y ago
That's not how the law works. The law levies fines against distributors of the app, it doesn't ban possession or block the operation of the app itself. Ie, Google and Apple are forced to delist TikTok or face heavy fines
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by nickelpro 2y ago
The case is entirely about speech, and the various levels of scrutiny that apply to laws that violate the First Amendment. You should read the decision before commenting on what was argued and decided in said decision.
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by nickelpro 2y ago
Facebook / Meta are not controlled by a foreign adversary as designated by the "Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act". Thus they cannot become subject to the distribution restrictions design
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by nickelpro 2y ago
The arguments presented to the SCOTUS and the opinion itself are totally contained within the context of the First Amendment. No one is even arguing about anything other than the First Amendment and the exceptions permitted to that amendmen
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by nickelpro 2y ago
The SCOTUS opinion does not rely on a national security interest to justify itself, merely that the ban is content neutral and thus is subject to intermediate scrutiny.
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by nickelpro 2y ago
There weren't any laws passed banning Soviet associated agencies from publishing based on chain of ownership. Nothing to do with SCOTUS. Read the opinion, the law was upheld on intermediate scrutiny. It doesn't ban based on conten
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by nickelpro 2y ago
This is a separate problem, but a notable one. Lighting up the entire grid is still the goal, you're describing the problem of ensuring the right set of squares is illuminated for each piece of archived content. One is a problem of arc
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by nickelpro 2y ago
You said: > From a strict point of view, they've released new editions of these books. And this is clearly a semantically worthless distinction from the point of view of the archive. When different editions have different content, a
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by nickelpro 2y ago
> Steven King wrote two books named The Stand, and one isn't anything like the other Then those two texts would map to different ISBNS, or perhaps each maps to multiple different ISBNs, it doesn't matter. That some texts exist
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by nickelpro 2y ago
Worthless semantics in the context of the mission of the project. What you've described is that the archived content can be mapped to multiple ISBNs. It's clear the only element of concern here is the content itself. The failure t
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by nickelpro 2y ago
Everyone uses Google Docs, everyone, even people who don't use Google Docs have some interaction with Google Docs. You use Google docs.

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