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by pantaloony 6y ago
Much like Flash, not allowing third-party browsers could be explained as a cynical control mechanism on Apple’s part... or as their not wanting to see tech support volume shoot up as Chrome and Firefox users complain their battery life is t
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Notably, I doubt you could get family healthcare coverage in the US that reduced your financial risk as much as France’s does for under $25,000/yr. Even at that rate I bet your exposure’s still worse.
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by pantaloony 6y ago
To be clear I think settling Mars is cool and I’m not upset if someone tries—I’d love to watch that and cheer them on. I just think the “it’s a backup for humanity” angle is, at best, pretty weak.
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Content-addressing helps a ton. I wish links on the web, especially, had been automatically content-addressed from the start. Would have helped a bunch with caching infrastructure and fighting link-rot. Oh well. Does make updating more awkw
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Living on Mars is like living in a bunker on Earth while a global catastrophe is underway. Except it’s always like that.
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by pantaloony 6y ago
I can’t think of many things that make it better to be on Mars with no Earth support (even if your colony’s pretty well-developed and capable) than a survivor on Earth after a disaster other than something like a dwarf-planet-sized impactor
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Colonizing Mars is cool and I hope it happens for that reason, but it’s a really expensive way to make our species more resilient. A network of hardened bunkers and people paid to live in them part-time in shifts would be cheaper. And if Ea
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Man, do I ever miss chat services and chat clients not being so tightly coupled to one another.
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by pantaloony 6y ago
I also hit errors following links to twitter more often than not, reliably, on all sorts of environments. It feels like they’re doing some kind of cache-related routing based on headers. Often “refresh” doesn’t fix it, but hitting enter in
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by pantaloony 6y ago
> Trying to paint all business and developers as bad or as cheap because business requirements do not align with your view isn't really fair. Yes, that would be unfair.
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by pantaloony 6y ago
> Half the time the website doesn't even load (!!!). That's insane. I’d assumed Twitter showing me “an error occurred” on about 50-75% of inbound link-follows to their site, across multiple browsers on multiple operating system
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by pantaloony 6y ago
I’d figured it was mostly cheap companies driving the broadly terrible performance of modern software for often fairly small benefits to speed and dev cost, but it turns out there’s a much stronger contingent of software developers with not
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Seriously. This whole part of the comment tree has been fabulously enlightening. Great insight into the psychology of how we end up with chat clients that do less with 20x the resources than entire operating system + office suites of yest
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Hold up. Is the specter of existential angst, rising to outright horror if left unchecked, not just, like, a normal part of life that rises to conscious thought as soon as you’re not distracted, for the entire non-religious population?
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Again, the smart insider doesn’t have to write the vulnerability, they just have to (with much greater access to code and infra than an outsider) notice it and not say anything (except to the outsider they sell it to). Selling such a vulner
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by pantaloony 6y ago
It could be that companies are cheap, but I bet there's also tension between paying enough to get bugs reported and paying enough to encourage insiders to introduce (or, if they're smarter, find but fail to fix or report) bugs the
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by pantaloony 6y ago
I think it’s pretty funny that HN constantly promotes articles about how shitty tech hiring is, and the threads are always a mix of workers agreeing and then managers often also agreeing but 100% confident that their hiring process works
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Having kids took us from “will retire comfortably, probably early, without seriously having to sacrifice for it” to “uh, might retire only a little late, somewhat comfortably, with great effort and luck?” We’re also at much greater risk, fi
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Have you tried just having a conversation about pointers and recursion? Does that not work as well (or better)? Kudos for letting candidates know what’s going to happen, it’s just that when I see problems that are clearly just a stand in fo
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by pantaloony 6y ago
I’ve found a lot of the better comedies from that period (Chaplin, Keaton) to be damn near timelessly good. Art films are hit-or-miss but when they hit they seem, similarly, just as interesting and powerful as they must have been then. It’s
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by pantaloony 6y ago
I for one think the team behind it and especially Poettering have incredibly bad taste in software, which bleeds into their designs, and possibly the worst attitudes and culture of any major OS initiative, making Linus look tame (hell, at l
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by pantaloony 6y ago
I initially thought this was serious hyperbole and I still think it may overstate things a bit, but when I thought about it I actually had a really hard time coming up with counterexamples. Meanwhile it’s easy for Microsoft and Apple. Huh.
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Lots of room/house mates, possibly to the point of illegality (that is, beyond the legal occupancy limit).
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Oh, I wasn’t trying to be insulting. I think it’s a sign of 1) how legitimately hard “basic” math stuff is for a lot of people, and yeah, fractions seem to be the earliest point at which a lot of (even actually, truly smart!) people stop re
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Yeah, if the US does this the nickel ($.05) should go too while we’re at it. We’ve put off getting rid of the penny so long that even 5x a penny is worthless. Switch to $.10, $.50, and $1 coins.
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by pantaloony 6y ago
I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if half the adult population of the US has an understanding of fractions that falls apart if you move past what you need to read cooking recipes (which nb. is basically none whatsoever, unless scaling recipes u
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by pantaloony 6y ago
1. Unless all the stuff about how important peers are to future success is BS then it’s still a very good thing to have your kid in good schools, even if the schools are mostly good because of who’s there rather than instruction quality. 2.
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by pantaloony 6y ago
It’s hard to do unless one parent is comfortable with, capable of, and willing to spend years facilitating homeschooling (property near good schools is expensive). Then it’s still incredibly expensive in lost wages (and greater income insec
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by pantaloony 6y ago
His essay on (in part) cars drove (haha) me to run the numbers and despite being fairly conservative with how much closer-together my city would be without car infrastructure (esp. parking lots and massive, useless “green space” setbacks an
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by pantaloony 6y ago
It’s also part of why so many things that’d be better on TCP sockets end up being implemented on top of HTTP... and then actually see adoption in that form. A combo of JS limitations and firewalls aggressively blocking everything that’s not

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