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by samatman 2y ago
If a court subpoenas evidence, and someone destroys that evidence, that's destruction of evidence, which is a specific crime. My point is more general than that. The reason someone could be prosecuted for that, even though it leads t
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The major part of this post is about documentation, and would have benefitted greatly from reference to the 4doc model: https://docs.divio.com/documentation-system/ It's basically saying: don't just provide a
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by samatman 2y ago
This is directly against the guidelines. Please do not conduct yourself in this way here, if you need to insult strangers on the Internet, find somewhere else to do it.
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No, it very much should not be. We have an existing sort of crime for knowing participation in that kind of thing, it's called being an accessory. If someone buys, let's say a bike, off an online marketplace, and it turns out to
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by samatman 2y ago
I just found out today that WPEngine is not the same legal entity as WordPress. So yeah, from my perspective there's a real case for confusion of marks here. I have no opinion about the drama one way or the other, just providing a datu
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by samatman 2y ago
I think they had to get over the knee-jerk reaction that Zig was a, quote, "massive step back for the industry", frowny face. It seems they have, which is all to the good: the work to make custom allocators practical in Rust is an
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by samatman 2y ago
This seems excessively prescriptive. If we're using Wikipedia as the referee today, this is what it says: > Rent control is part of a system of rent regulation that limits the changes that can be made in the price of renting a hou
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by samatman 2y ago
Continued improvement is returns, making it inherently compatible with a diminishing returns scenario. Which I also suspect we're in now: there's no comparing the jump between GPT3.5 and GPT4 with GPT4 and any of the subsequent r
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by samatman 2y ago
If you want to read just an enormous amount of well-written bloggage about optimizing Guile Scheme, this is the spot: https://wingolog.org Andy Wingo is the maintainer and I get a kick out of everything he posts.
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by samatman 2y ago
The Thermos is properly known as a "vacuum flask" (or Dewar flask).
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by samatman 2y ago
Not really, unfortunately. The progress has been heartening, don't get me wrong, but it's more like $20B away from getting to the first steps of solving the next set of problems on the road to a fully functional fusion generator.
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by samatman 2y ago
Nah. Building your own, idk, mechanical keyboard? Hackerish thing to do, sure. But buying someone else's cool design is not against "the ethos", that's a silly thing to say. Supporting artisans in their craft is Good, a
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by samatman 2y ago
Given that background, the odds you've never seen this are exceedingly low. Nonetheless, and for the benefit of the Lucky 10,000, I must present: QWOP. https://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html
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by samatman 2y ago
Oh it gets attention on Hacker News to this day. Any time there's a thread about something Unicode one or another of our Japanese colleagues will show up to make a fuss about how Unicode is quite insufficient for Japanese, for this rea
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by samatman 2y ago
More interesting than a smartphone in some ways. Smartphones can form mesh networks with WiFi, but neither of the duopoly OSes have this as a built-in feature, it's left to apps, and that fragments the potential. The most powerful r
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Precisely. I appreciate that you understand my perspective here.
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No, this is not at all the obvious explanation. It could, conceivably, be the correct explanation, but it isn't the obvious one. Someone else mentioned two xx in the Medium name, there are two xx in the email in this post: https:&#x2F
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by samatman 2y ago
Must be a pretty deep conspiracy then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41613132 Created in 2011, that's quite a long con...
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As a resident, your opinion trumps mine. But mine is that the Louvres would be much nicer without that pyramid. I don't care for the aesthetics of it, nor the mentality it represents.
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by samatman 2y ago
It is! So kind of you to notice. Perhaps you could also notice that English is the language used on Hacker News. I'm quite sure a website centered in a different cultural landscape might choose a different convention. Good for them, I
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by samatman 2y ago
> a law prohibiting [private citizens] from recording everyone who walks by is most likely going to withstand a court review I'll take the other side of that bet. > sufficient laws about recording people without their consent
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by samatman 2y ago
The Linux kernel's license is copyleft, which has done all of zip, zilch, nada, zero, to prevent large corporations from benefitting from the enormous amount of free labor put into open source. Git is GPL, this didn't prevent GitH
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by samatman 2y ago
Someone always says this when a punycode link shows up. I'm glad they don't. What you see? That's the link. It's what the browser sends, it's what DNS resolves: it's the link. Displaying it as Unicode is just a
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by samatman 2y ago
Unfortunately the macron is the one missing dead-key accent on the US "ABC" layout. It's easy enough to hit the globe key when this comes up, but it annoys me a bit that Opt-y is ¥, and Shift-Opt-Y is Á, which is a duplicate
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Comptime also means that when endianness matches, using these functions is a no-op. I expect you know this, but those new to the language may not: the endianness check in the implementation happens when compiling, not when decoding structs
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> It's only a matter of time before the EU gets wise to this "gets wise to this" how, exactly? The EU can certainly set conditions which Apple must meet to ship a feature. They have no legal grounds whatsoever to demand
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That definition sounds very convenient for someone who wants to be racist to a group they've decided has institutional power. I can see why such a person would want to twist the plain meaning of an understood term in such a nakedly ma
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by samatman 2y ago
Pretty simple really. The EU can't fine Apple for not doing business in EU countries, including not rolling out a feature. But if they do roll out a feature, EU has decided it can fine them 20% of global revenue if it isn't just h
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by samatman 2y ago
I think this is applying pedantry in the wrong place. Language Server, you say? Ok, it serves a language. But how? Using LSP? Ok, sounds like an LSPS. The client would be an LSPC. LSP is not the only language an LS can speak, it's ove
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I've avoided XCode thus far, but I'm going to have to see if there's a way to add this by Python scripting LLDB, because there are certain kinds of tracing where sound is probably the optimal medium. It's mind-numbing to

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