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by p-e-w 3y ago
> Projects like Nushell essentially need to handle every type of output from any command, and every type of input to any command, which is an absurd amount of work, and just not scalable. I think you're misunderstanding how Nushell
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> Or you can note that some people did horrible things under the banner of your country and accept it as such, vowing to never let it happen again That requires having the power to keep it from happening again. Without that, such "v
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by p-e-w 3y ago
That's different. Apple as a trademark for a computer (or for a record company) is fine. Apple as a trademark for apples... not so.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Democracy is a scale, not a binary state. The actually relevant question is "could the average American have prevented Abu Ghraib?" And I believe the answer to be No, so 'Americans' cannot possibly be responsible under a
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by p-e-w 3y ago
No matter how mundane a random claim posted on HN is, there is always a user with expert knowledge willing and able to respond with a "well actually...", citing incredibly specific details that I've never even tangentially he
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> Who voted for governments that enforced the Corn Law? Not "the British people", if that's what you are implying. Until the Reform Act of 1867, only a tiny fraction of British adult men (and none of British women) had the
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Who benefited (indirectly) says nothing about who is responsible.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
What an epic failure by the trademark office. That's as if a company had tried to trademark "Hammer" as a brand name for hammers, and the trademark office just said "Yeah, sure!"
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> but in no way were tools breaking any sort of promise The Unix philosophy as usually stated includes the rule "write programs that work together". Most Unix commands don't work together in any meaningful sense. For examp
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by p-e-w 3y ago
And I would object to the claim that "Americans are responsible for Abu Ghraib" for the same reason.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Agreed. Nushell fulfills the Unix philosophy promise that the standard Unix tools have been breaking since forever. Traditional Unix commands feel like a hodgepodge of hacks by comparison, that only work together occasionally, and even then
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by p-e-w 3y ago
TIL that " duck tape" is actually the correct/original version, and " duct tape" is a modern derivative. I had always assumed it was the other way round, and some people simply don't know what a duct is so th
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by p-e-w 3y ago
It's relevant because if 99.99% of British people had nothing to do with the famine, saying that "the British" were a "pathogen" is somewhere between weapons grade bullshit and outright hate speech.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
But why is that a problem? That's literally how we speak every single day. In fact, given that this is how all the languages that humans are already familiar with work, it's hard to see why this wouldn't be the best approac
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> The bank charged multiple $35 overdraft fees for the same transaction "Consumer abuses" is an interesting way to say criminal fraud. Why exactly is this bank allowed to continue operating? An individual bank teller convicted
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by p-e-w 3y ago
It's actually a pretty interesting question why programming languages that work like that are a bad idea. From decades of experience, I know intuitively that they are, but I find myself unable to formulate a concise description of wh
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by p-e-w 3y ago
The only countries where American law is irrelevant are Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran. Go anywhere else, and on closer examination you'll find that American law is in fact very relevant, with local governments often bending ov
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by p-e-w 3y ago
I'm waiting for the day when we will finally admit to ourselves that the Semantic Versioning experiment has failed. The purpose of Semver is to allow software and people to determine, from the version number alone, whether and what h
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Both the "joke" you linked to, and the fact that you linked to it, are part of the problem I described. If you can't respect what you do, I promise you that others won't either.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
You're wasting your time. Despite the fact that computers literally run the world, the vast majority of software engineers have collectively decided that their work is only deserving of ridicule and stupid memes. Software engineering i
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Spot on. The subtext of the headline seems to be "... and therefore should be prohibited". Which is an incredibly dangerous and arrogant idea. Science is just one of many, many human endeavors. It's not something that's
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> As with other HTTP error codes, the real answer is that one should probably use whatever status code is most convenient. That's all you need to know. HTTP, like the other components of the web stack, is an organically grown monstr
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by p-e-w 3y ago
That's terrifying. This simple requirement would be trivial to enforce automatically, and yet nobody gives a fuck. It's unbelievable how fast-and-loose people are playing the topic of AI safety. If a strong AI is ever actually dev
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by p-e-w 3y ago
How can this be legal? I'm pretty sure that in order to legally process health data, an entity must have a plausible reason for doing so, at least in some jurisdictions. What could that reason possibly be for a social media app?
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> The need to have a for profit platform leads to perverse incentives. Only because, despite their immense importance, those platforms are essentially unregulated. Imagine water suppliers were unregulated. There would also be "perve
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> I’ll go further and say that you must specifically design the database schema knowing that it’s going to be used this way. If it ever turns out, at some point in the future, that you do need features from a standard RDBMS after all,
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by p-e-w 3y ago
I don't understand what the goal is here. Wherever the cloud is, there is PostgreSQL, and conveniently, PostgreSQL already solves all of the problems that "Cloud SQLite" creates, with support for concurrent access, higher per
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> Climate change -will- kill us if we do nothing. Horseshit. There is not a single scientific model that predicts human extinction from climate change. Parts of humanity, yes. All of humanity, no chance. There a plenty of models that pre
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by p-e-w 3y ago
No. Quite the opposite. Everyone else is in an echo chamber telling them that AI is a cool fad, a toy that will never fully replace people, etc., when in reality AI is the most disruptive technology since the Internet, and the most dangerou
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by p-e-w 3y ago
So his employer invested money that would normally have gone towards Bonilla's paycheck into a Ponzi scheme... but instead of losing everything as a result (which is what would have happened to 99.99% of employees), Bonilla will end up

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