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by rectang 2y ago
Humans crave certainty. Doctors, politicians, executives, salespeople, and so on are rewarded for conveying certainty even — especially — when reality is uncertain. It’s not that doctors don’t care to ferret out the truth, but that the m
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by rectang 2y ago
> It's crazy how bad the mobile epidemic has gotten. It's crazy how well mobile's robust security model has protected the suddenly computing masses.
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by rectang 2y ago
> Bare excepts are syntactic sugar for `except BaseException`. I'm guessing that a `3to4` script would be provided which replaces bare `except:` with `except BaseException:`. We have the experience of `2to3` to draw on with regar
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by rectang 2y ago
Maybe I'll run it by my homeowner friend who suffered through the rat-chewed-PEX flooding that a PEX booster I came across considers her experience an "edge case". If I want to see her cry tears of blood, that is. For good m
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by rectang 2y ago
Do you argue against layered security in your day job? I'm making a case for reducing blast radius in the event of a breach. Of course rodent issues are related to PEX: now if a rodent ever does get in, the damage is multiplied when t
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by rectang 2y ago
Before then, those of us with homes that aren't 100% rodent-proof forever have to factor in just how much mice and rats luuuuuv chewing on PEX hot water pipes. https://www.bobvila.com/articles/rodents-chew-pex-pip
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by rectang 2y ago
I quit a gig that was great in a lot of ways — great product, great peers, great potential — primarily because of of an "overachieving founder mode startup" individual. This person was exquisitely talented and inspiring but ultim
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by rectang 2y ago
Gimme some more… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcRujcvfQeY
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by rectang 2y ago
Obviously not, as a trip to my profile page would have shown. And since you are not new either, you must have known that. So I infer that you were displeased that I posted a story that has been discussed before when posted from other sourc
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Couple in an Uber crash can't sue because of an Uber Eats order(cnn.com)
7 points by rectang 2y ago|3 comments
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by rectang 2y ago
I maintain that it's relevant because it illustrates how unreliably people assess just what knowledge is likely to be useful. If anything, the fact that it was retconned reinforces that such assessments can be wrong. For example, there
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by rectang 2y ago
A conversation between Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson from A Study in Scarlet , by Arthur Conan Doyle: > That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to b
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by rectang 2y ago
OK, I believe I understand the distinction you're making here. I had to fight my way through your aspersions about the motivations of the people who take part in OSI license discussions, some of whom I am personally acquainted with. I
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by rectang 2y ago
Fantastic summation — much easier to understand than the article itself or the referenced Wikipedia pages. In two short paragraphs I learned a ton about the distinctions between pidgins, creoles, and ("full"?) languages, in additi
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by rectang 2y ago
The difference between the AGPL and the SSPL is that while both relate to software which the end user interacts with over a network, the AGPL places no restrictions on what the software is used for, while the SSPL encumbers commercial SAAS.
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by rectang 2y ago
> So they are basically arguing that a restriction in the license is intended to stop hyperscalers, not that it actually restricts the usage of software in any field! Stopping hyperscalers is restricting usage in a field. The primary
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by rectang 2y ago
> The reason SSPL is not OSI approved is because Amazon pays an entire OSI staff salary a year and the SSPL costs Amazon money. This is slanderous nonsense. SSPL is not OSI-approved because field-of-use restrictions are not compatible
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by rectang 2y ago
> crime of creating their non-OSI-compliant licenses Just don't call it "Open Source" and you won't get nearly as many complaints. The big problem arises when somebody tries to leech off of the goodwill built up by Op
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by rectang 2y ago
Of course the topic of spirit-vs-letter of Open Source is worth discussing. (I've personally meditated quite a lot on "open governance" vs. "open source", which is tangential but related). But I think your portrayal
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by rectang 2y ago
Hmm. Source Available is fine by me so long as it isn't being misrepresented as Open Source in an attempt to sponge off of the goodwill generated by Open Source communities. So I'm not feeling the "outrage". And I spent
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by rectang 2y ago
It feels to me like the old lovingly curated and crafted internet sites are being pillaged and displaced by a wave of AI regurgitations — with the cheerleading of "information wants to be free" advocates.
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by rectang 2y ago
Thank you. I feel like you've saved me from being rickrolled. Withholding my individual clicks has zero impact on the clickbait economy, but I still feel a twinge of humiliation whenever I'm duped into clicking through.
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by rectang 2y ago
I don’t object to “it works for me”, but “it’s really not all that difficult” is a bad generalization. * If you need portability, Makefiles are hard. * The whitespace design of Makefiles is bad and has swallowed up countless debugging hours
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Generations of workers coveted Boeing jobs. Strike reveals how much has changed(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by rectang 2y ago|0 comments
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by rectang 2y ago
Compare with the first sentence of The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien: > There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Iluvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with hi
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by rectang 2y ago
That's a qualitatively different kind of security topic, though. On the one hand, we have a bug in a tool that reads a passive format with complete accuracy. On the other we have the need to sacrifice some amount of accuracy to avoid
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by rectang 2y ago
To what extent does reading these formats accurately require the execution of code within the documents ? In other words, not just stuff like zip expansion by a library dependency of rga, but for example macros inside office documents or
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by rectang 2y ago
> All these companies have in common that they didn’t read the Qt license agreement thoroughly and they didn’t evaluate alternatives to the QtDC license. They only have to blame themselves for their calamity. Well, no. I'm allowed
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by rectang 2y ago
I'm confused. It seems like "They didn’t even bother to think about anything less than $100M" describes "going after big fish instead of little ones".
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by rectang 2y ago
The vigilantism aspect is a guilty pleasure when reading this — with the IRS being deliberately defunded to facilitate tax cheating I read about this guy and hear in my head "this is the hero we need".

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