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by shawnz 5y ago
The parent's point seems to be that Python is too opinionated. But aren't Rust and Go even more opinionated, particularly Go? What makes you think Go et al won't continue to make highly opinionated decisions like Python did t
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by shawnz 5y ago
Removing the prefixes is clearly a breaking change, but how is adding them back a breaking change? Anecdotally, I was mostly happy with the Python 3 transition and have been using Python 3 for basically all new Python code since. Not much w
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by shawnz 5y ago
The waste is the biggest advantage of nuclear. Consider that when you burn hydrocarbons, you produce waste, too. And much of that waste is simply dumped into the air where we all breathe it. You might say, well, hydrocarbon waste is much le
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by shawnz 5y ago
Previously tabs always took one line of text, but now they sometimes take two (e.g. to show the currently playing indicator, which is now text and not just an icon)
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by shawnz 5y ago
No. Smartscreen is not meant to single-handedly solve the entire problem of malware. It is just meant to warn you when you are running software that isn't commonly used. It is nothing more than an attempt to provide the user with a use
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by shawnz 5y ago
Smartscreen does not tell you that WinMerge is malware. It correctly tells you that the freshly compiled build from GitHub is not a commonly used software which makes it more likely to be dangerous. How is that a bad feature to have?
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by shawnz 5y ago
A simple experiment is to try thinking of some consumer product which you don't normally use and wait until you see an ad for that product. Make sure not to pick something you talked about recently or something you were reminded of by
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by shawnz 5y ago
How often do you open Facebook and see ads about irrelevant trash? Probably most of the time, right? So why is it so surprising that occasionally that irrelevant trash might align with something that happened in your day? Another thing to c
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by shawnz 5y ago
On-off or "bang-bang" control actually makes a lot of sense for home thermostats. For example consider: - With a home thermostat you probably want it to reach the desired temperature as quickly as possible. PID will never reach th
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by shawnz 5y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27273399
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by shawnz 5y ago
With s-expressions where that functionality is simply not provided as part of the underlying syntax at all, then every solution is a mutually incompatible bespoke solution. You could just use all string values in JSON and get the same effec
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by shawnz 5y ago
I don't think this would be the best thing to do for uBO users. This creates the possibility that the "Firefox internal uBO" could diverge in functionality from the one maintained by gorhill and get neutered by Mozilla manage
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by shawnz 5y ago
This is probably not necessary here but I'll try anyway. PID is a control loop algorithm: something which takes a desired value and an actual value from a sensor, and outputs something to some kind of actuator to try and get the actual
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by shawnz 5y ago
Check my reply to the other comment. WhatsApp has been extensively reverse engineered.
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by shawnz 5y ago
> But in the PoS corollary to Bitcoin v Bcash, coin-days staked would have no bearing on Bcash’s ability to continue making forward progress. How wouldn't it? The ongoing coin-days staked in that fork specifically is what allows i
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by shawnz 5y ago
I don't understand how the situations you are describing are different between PoW and PoS. In either case, after a fork, sympathizers of chain A or chain B will start mining/staking on the chain they like. In either case, members
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by shawnz 5y ago
When you are done with all the windows in your editor, do you open a new window by choosing File > New? You don't open a new window by clicking the dock icon? If you close all the tabs in a browser window, should it close the window
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by shawnz 5y ago
Right, so it's not a problem with Finder but actually the window manager. Why would you ever want to have a "menubar-only" app? It would be better if the design didn't create the possibility of that happening at all.
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by shawnz 5y ago
> PoS blockchains pos1, pos2, pos3 cannot be compared without overtly trusting central authorities to give you the “correct” answer. I have seen you make this point before on here but I don't see how that is true. Can you elaborate?
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by shawnz 5y ago
I think PoS chains typically use the chain with the most coin-days staked.
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by shawnz 5y ago
Being open source isn't necessary or sufficient to be able to audit a piece of software. Software can be audited even if it's closed source (for example by reverse engineering, although it's more difficult), and even if it&#x
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by shawnz 5y ago
Facebook doesn't have access to WhatsApp messages. WhatsApp uses the same end-to-end encryption protocol as Signal. We know this is true because the app has been extensively reverse engineered to create these third party clients among
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by shawnz 5y ago
See here where Justin Schuh says the sole motivation is for privacy reasons: https://twitter.com/justinschuh/status/1134092257190064128 I know it is easy to inject JS and that you can do it with the manifest file.
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by shawnz 5y ago
How many 1000s of people have permanently lost sensitive data because they lost their FDE keys? How many companies had user data compromised because they didn't implement encryption best practices properly? Certainly more than a dozen
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by shawnz 5y ago
You are implying that's an obvious judgement but the wide ranges of opinions in the daily cryptocurrency threads on here should clearly show you that it is NOT an obvious judgement. Why are financial instruments not important enough to
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by shawnz 5y ago
> New financial instrument using more power than most countries. Thought you might have got that by now. But you haven't justified why that is an irresponsible use. > Nobody is making that argument. This is just whataboutery. Yes
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by shawnz 5y ago
I never claimed you did. I am just saying that you haven't justified why Bitcoin is actually an irresponsible use of energy. What makes its usage level irresponsible? Why is it more irresponsible than other technologies which use more
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by shawnz 5y ago
That doesn't explain the rationale why such a thing in particular would be irresponsible and not other technologies.
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by shawnz 5y ago
I'm not saying we can never call anything an irresponsible use of energy. What I am saying is that we can't by default call all new technologies an irresponsible use of energy either. The fact that it uses energy is not justificat
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by shawnz 5y ago
This is no different than arguing "encryption is useless because most people don't use it properly".

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