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Some of the past related threads: “They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26887670 (1954 comments) UMN CS&E Statement on Linux Kernel Research - https://news.ycombin
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I think it's amusing to imagine what the fifty-years-from-now equivalent of this might look like. "I built a fake 'cell phone' that lets my grandpa 'text' me, it translates the words into thoughts and beams the
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I don't think Greg was totally off base, though I do think he could have been more restrained. Aditya was essentially spamming the reviewers with bad patches and doing zero due diligence, including, significantly, not responding to any
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Aditya's commits--though some were low-quality and/or buggy, including the one you linked--were not part of the intentionally deceptive "hypocrite commits" project.
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Is there a relevant timestamp for those of us not wanting to invest 30 minutes in the full talk?
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> He specifically chose not to condemn riots No, he explicitly did. Even in the full context of the famous "language of the unheard" quote it is clear he is criticizing both riots (as being counterproductive) and the condit
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The collaborative editor seems seems to be struggling with the load test of visitors, combined with some people putting a lot of content into the editor--it looked like the entire Bee Movie script was in there.
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It might be coming; WebKit supports it now: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207750
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I think the population density matters, it's not uniform across the US. In larger cities I think the norm is more to keep to yourself and not to engage random strangers in conversation. I wouldn't be surprised if that pattern is c
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> looks like the 2nd time they're doing the same thing It's not clear that they're doing the same thing--we don't know that these recent patches are deliberately bogus. See this comment with clarifications from the
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> The author is incorrect that none of their attempts became git commits That doesn't appear to be one of the three patches from the "hypocrite commits" paper, which were reportedly submitted from pseudononymous gmail addr
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The tom7 link was posted here a few weeks back, if anyone is interested in that discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26667852 (167 comments)
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by re 6y ago
VAR is Video Assistant Referee, i.e. an off-field (human) official that manually checks calls using instant replay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_assistant_referee I don't follow association football at all
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by re 6y ago
> If that specific video exists and if it's common, this conversation could be had; but, it's relatively uncommon, making it a surprise. It is common: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate
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Previous discussion (from 5 days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26728774
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The Java ecosystem has historically used single-dash options, both the SDK tooling (e.g. `java -jar`, `javac -classpath`) and classic common libraries like Jakarta Commons CLI. It has moved away from it more in recent years so now you get a
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Video codec is Cinepak, which macOS doesn't support any more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinepak (Good thing there's VLC!) Audio is raw PCM (8 bit mono audio @ 11kHz) QuickTime wouldn't get support fo
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by re 6y ago
It sounds like a I-v-bVII-IV progression in F# major. If you want to get modal, you could call it F# mixolydian.
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GIMP plugins run in a separate process from the main process. My guess is that the main motivation is resiliency, to prevent crashes in buggy plugins from taking down the whole program. The plugin is essentially a standalone program that lo
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I know you put "problem" in quotes, but in case you haven't seen it, this document was posted here a little while ago: https://sqlite.org/np1queryprob.html It describes how access patterns that would be bad p
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Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #202: The justification for profit is profit.
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They're not private, they're "secret". The descriptive text when choosing between "secret" and "public" says, "Secret gists are hidden by search engines but visible to anyone you give the URL to&
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You can invoke it as `/usr/local/opt/sqlite/bin/sqlite3`. Or run `brew info sqlite3` to see how to add it to your path. https://docs.brew.sh/FAQ#what-does-keg-only-mean
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by re 6y ago
What was your motivation for making this? I see that you mention that it was a learning project but it seems like a specific enough tool that it is potentially solving some real-world problem for you.
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Did you click something else that requires being logged in, like "reply" or the upvote arrow (among other things)?
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https://www.cbpp.org/research/economy/the-legacy-of-the-grea... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_policy_of_the_Barack_...
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> I did not make this change retroactive, since that felt like going back on a promise. [...] I have noticed this has created some feelings of annoyance in the paying group, odd expectations in the one-time group, and a general confusion
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OP has resubmitted this multiple times, frequently when it's republished or mentioned on another site: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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> journalistic poison ... intentionally composed to compress the crowds The article addresses and explores this viewpoint and attempts to add nuance. > If you search for "compression effect corona" in Japanese on the interne
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Here's some info about the "Moana Island Scene" which was released by Disney a few years ago: https://www.disneyanimation.com/resources/moana-island-scene... https://disneyanimation.com/p

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