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by oalae5niMiel7qu 2y ago
Credit cards are trivially traceable to your legal identity, since anti-money-laundering and know-your-customer laws require that credit card companies keep this information. The government can subpoena this information just as easily as th
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 2y ago
Putting the recirculation door on a servo was another dumb MoDeRn car idea. Bring back the mechanical control that never failed.
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 2y ago
>I created an automated system controlled by a temperature dial. This, in turn, determines the fan speed and seat heating. If the cabin temperature deviates significantly from the set temperature, the system will increase the fan speed a
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 2y ago
>I'm optimizing for a large, complex corporate projects, not beginners on toy projects. There's nothing about large, complex corporate projects that demands that languages impose arbitrary restrictions on code, except the fact
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 2y ago
I saw this in my codebase firsthand. At first, we had to communicate with one device. Then two. For that second device, I subclassed the class that handled the communication with the first thing, and changed 3 methods in the subclass. Now i
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 2y ago
> When was the last time you had to debug TCP at the level of packets? For most of us, the answer is never. Who are you people who never have to debug TCP problems? I've had to do it on multiple occasions.
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 2y ago
The more you contribute to Java, the bigger the problem gets. Java will never die if people keep feeding it, and it'll never be a good language, because that's impossible.
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 2y ago
I don't think it's a winning strategy, but I'm in no position to make hiring or programming-language decisions, and I don't have the market insight that would be required to start my own company.
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 2y ago
The real problem is you cannot ever marshal an army of cheap Lisp programmers, because Lisp programming requires not only learning but raw ability. The big companies are searching for a language that any idiot can learn in a week, with th
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 2y ago
When the code needs to do something that it can't do, there is a massive cognitive load associated with figuring out how to do something approximating it. When the language or a framework is associated with lots of "how do I X&quo
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 2y ago
People's choice of editor is influenced by what they're editing. For example, virtually every Lisp programmer uses Emacs, even though there are many alternatives out there, including VS Code plugins. And virtually every Java progr
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 2y ago
>The point generalises beyond semicolons; everything you leave to context is something other people have to load up the context for in order to understand. This is not true, because an editor can add any on-screen hints that are needed t
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 2y ago
If some program can generate that code automatically, the need to generate it, write it to disk, and for you to edit it is proof that there is some flaw in the language the code is written in. When the generator needs to change, the whole p
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3y ago
It goes further than that. If you find someone who's almost dead but not quite, you can steal that person's organs, netting you way more than metals, weapons, or anything else you're likely to find on a battlefield.
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3y ago
This is also how Linux became the server OS of choice for most companies, while Windows NT remained a niche product only found at a certain kind of company. And before that, easy availability of UNIX to students made it the default OS of an
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3y ago
So what if people respond to truths? Is there something wrong with that?
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3y ago
There are millions and millions of people streaming across our border as you read this. Perhaps people moving between countries (or at least, from certain countries to certain other countries) is more common than you think.
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3y ago
Treating sociopaths is not the same as lying about sociopaths or sociopathy because you think doing so will prevent sociopathy.
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3y ago
You just admitted you know of two things that will get you banned everywhere. Then you said that taboos (such as against the things that will get you banned everywhere) are only needed to hide possible truths. Connect the dots.
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3y ago
It's less likely that those people are truly independent, and more likely that they simply brought the orthodox beliefs of their countries of origin to the Bay Area.
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3y ago
> To paraphrase @izs "if you build it, they will come", is a misquote from a Kevin Costner movie about baseball ghosts That movie was a remake of a much older movie.
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3y ago
How did that cause ChatGPT to be honest? Whenever I catch it in a lie, it always doubles and triples down, while denying that it ever lies.
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3y ago
> And therefore want to do things-which-seem-pointless-to-everyone-else to an algorithm to guard against it. Or, more likely, to exploit it.
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3y ago
>I think everyone here is pretty clear how they would ethically view such a thing, but view it from NIST's (/ NSA's) perspective for the sake of argument. Maybe there's a specific threat where NIST (or presumably the
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3y ago
The open-source community will continue adopting "next-gen" "encryption" even though it has back doors, just like they didn't question elliptic curve encryption even after the NSA got caught putting out a compromise
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3y ago
That's plenty sketchy. They can track you wherever you go.
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3y ago
They don't include street cameras in their data.
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3y ago
They can't rely on the odds, because scammers would step in and increase the odds if the possibility existed to exploit Apple's behavior. IMO, this is what should happen given that Activation Lock is enabled. It's a separate
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3y ago
The software in question is open source, which means it would be legal even ìf they directly copied and modified it.
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3y ago
Reload only reloads one copy of the module. If there are other modules that imported the same module, your new definition will not be seen by them unless you find all the copies of foo in memory and reload them also. Since there's no

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