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by rectang 2y ago
https://thehill.com/homenews/5170019-european-union-diplomat... > EU’s top diplomat: ‘The free world needs a new leader’
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by rectang 2y ago
The ascent of Europe is the sort of outcome I might hope for — speaking as an American who believes in American values that my country no longer represents.
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by rectang 2y ago
…for now. With the US acting in concert with Russia against Europe’s interest, it’s time for Europe to reconsider whether those bases should stay.
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by rectang 2y ago
Ukraine’s situation is better than many people realize, and the US, in siding with Russia, may be betting on the wrong horse. The EU has provided more aid to Ukraine than the US, Ukraine drone production is through the roof. Europe needs Uk
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by rectang 2y ago
As a programmer, I hope that your answer continues to abstract away the problems of concurrency from me, the way that CPU designers have managed, so that I can still think sequentially except when I need to. (And as a senior engineer, you
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by rectang 2y ago
Ten years ago, I had lunch with Patricia Shanahan, who worked for Sun on multi-core CPUs several decades ago (before taking a post-career turn volunteering at the ASF which is where I met her). There was a striking similarity between the p
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by rectang 2y ago
And of course, people and entities (private or as in this case public) who have a lot of resources take advantage of that, a state of affairs which often serves to perpetuate injustice indefinitely.
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by rectang 2y ago
A private company wouldn't want to divulge their DB schemas because it's advantageous for competitors to see how you're doing things. That doesn't apply to government databases.
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by rectang 2y ago
(replying to myself after some further research...) Issues for me with Google Authenticator: 1. The cloud backups are not encrypted: https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity_help/comments/1fysqij... 2. There&#x
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by rectang 2y ago
Looks great, but unfortunately it's not an option for Apple devices.
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by rectang 2y ago
Indeed, it looks like this feature was added in April 2023: https://security.googleblog.com/2023/04/google-authenticator... I still have Google Authenticator on my phone, but I hadn't been using it. I see th
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by rectang 2y ago
*sigh* I've done another round of research into Authy and I see what you mean. I was aware that some people don't like Authy because they object in principle to multi-device sync altogether, which I understand but am not willing
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by rectang 2y ago
I was hoping that by enrolling the first key, the offsite backup would also be enrolled. Is that impossible? I don't want two distinct keys so much as I want two copies of the same key (akin to spare house keys). If I'm unlucky
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by rectang 2y ago
I've been using Authy for TOTP in conjunction with Bitwarden Premium for passwords. I considered using Bitwarden Premium for TOTP, but dislike having passwords and TOTP codes in a single-point-of-failure backup location. I looked into
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by rectang 2y ago
"No wonder that didn't work."
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by rectang 2y ago
Yes, human "good intentions" are very, very real and a great driver of history. It is human nature to believe fervently that your own actions are just and right — to which cynicism, or at least skepticism, is the proper response
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by rectang 2y ago
If Russians were sufficiently empathetic towards the suffering of Ukrainians, if they truly felt the pain of Ukrainians as keenly as if they had experienced it themselves , they wouldn't freaking invade. But since empathy is a weak f
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by rectang 2y ago
It made me disconcertingly furious on behalf of that customer to read your message, which, however you meant it, echoed in my mind as "you have no hope, don't show up in person, don't do anything except accept that BigCo scre
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by rectang 2y ago
All those Ukrainians basking in that tremendous Russian empathy… It only takes a moment for you or your loved ones to receive death or grievous injury, but not to worry because they’re “spending an exceedingly small amount of time engaged i
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by rectang 2y ago
My tests might of course be faulty, but statistically speaking adding some will reduce the number of bugs in the main code that get through. The tests don’t have to be perfect to have a positive impact; in fact my impression is that the lo
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by rectang 2y ago
I'm primarily responding with skepticism to JumpCriscross about humans minimizing "sentient suffering" — which would be measured by the aggregate of total suffering inflicted by all members of a species. The extremes contribu
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by rectang 2y ago
I already brought up orcas and baby seals in a sibling comment[1], forty minutes before your response appeared. Have you grappled with my reasoning there? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43035760#43064754
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by rectang 2y ago
Bears with baby elks, cats with their prey, orcas playing catch with baby seals... none of them come close to what humans are capable of when they put their reasoning to work in service of inflicting agony. Have you ever visited a museum ex
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by rectang 2y ago
The thing that drives me nuts about these threads is that people vastly overestimate their ability to write code that isn't broken. I distrust myself, and therefore I write basic unit tests which validate the code I've written to
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by rectang 2y ago
Humans are far and away the most cruel species that has ever walked the face of the earth. No other species has the capacity to invent torture, using our analytical abilities to keep the victim alive indefinitely while inflicting the most
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by rectang 2y ago
> payoffs Exactly. ;) (Per cogent upthread analysis about maximizing revenue.) But even casuals may get excited about e.g. the last few games of the Premier League season which determine the league winner (as well as who survives the
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by rectang 2y ago
There are multiple independently organized tournaments, e.g. FA Cup, Coppa Italia, Champions League, Europa League, World Cup, etc. But it’s true that the lack of a tournament which determines the league champion makes regular season games
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by rectang 2y ago
On which side would the US join the fight? Its movement towards Russia and away from NATO is accelerating dramatically, and it’s not clear where the trend will stop. Culturally, the US is increasingly at odds with scolds of liberal Europe
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by rectang 2y ago
A fun prank to play on someone with absolute pitch is to play a favorite recoding of theirs detuned by 20 cents or so. It will drive them crazy. This same prank would have no impact on someone who memorized approximately where A440 is by l
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by rectang 2y ago
Well, with the USA now distancing itself from NATO, and aligning itself with Russia more closely than at any historical moment after WWII — even sabre rattling about expansionist conquests of its own and abandoning preservation of the inter

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