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by simias 6y ago
Neutrality is implausible. What matters is honesty. Sometimes I will find a political article written by somebody whose views I disagree with but the author attempts to be thorough, doesn't reason backward from their conclusion and tri
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by simias 6y ago
I don't use a DE myself but I do package software that's meant to run on "normal" Linux distros and the lack of a desktop on modern Gnome is absolutely baffling. I make industrial software so these machines are really si
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by simias 6y ago
Remember that Rust is supposed to be an alternative to C or C++, where the "this problem comes up with GCC so use the LLVM backend" is really rare and generally a sign of a bad codebase (exceptions being things like the Linux kern
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by simias 6y ago
I agree with you, but that was my point, in order to get people to react it's probably more effective to identify more "local" (for a large definition of local) threats. This particular coast is going to be flooded, this part
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by simias 6y ago
I have a different take on this, I suspect the problem is not necessarily self-serving ad clicks and revenue. I think there's pressure within the scientific community to come up with concrete and tangible threats linked to global warmi
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by simias 6y ago
These website clearly radicalize some people. I too lurk from time to time on thedonald.win and far-right subreddits, you can see that over there reality is completely distorted, calls to violence are constant and they just feed off each ot
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by simias 6y ago
Everything to do with warez for one, even sites that didn't directly host IP-infringing content, would very often get the boot because it's a huge hassle for hosts to deal with the amount of trouble these websites generate.
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by simias 6y ago
Signal's devs, for better or worse, are very opinionated. If you don't do it moxie's way then you're doing it wrong. I was once shut down on HN by the Signal posse because I said that I'd like to have a Signal clien
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by simias 6y ago
I'm very skeptical of WhatsApp's security but I'm also very skeptical of these ad claims. We've seen a tone of those over the years, these companies would have a lot to lose if they did that. Chances are that you're
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by simias 6y ago
I had one screenshot before it was taken down because I couldn't believe what I was reading: https://svkt.org/~simias/up/20210107-164543_trump.png
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by simias 6y ago
Signal UI is mediocre. I want it to succeed, but both WhatsApp and Telegram are simply a lot more convenient to use. WA and Telegram have a pure web client when you want to quickly have access to your chats without installing anything. If y
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by simias 6y ago
I may be misunderstanding this legalese vocabulary but doesn't "unable" mean "technically incapable"? As in, there's no technical way of matching users? Because if so, man, whoever wrote this must have laughed
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by simias 6y ago
Go uses compiler magic to have effectively generic collections, why not hardcode a Result type in the same fashion? It's not very elegant, but it's pragmatic and error handling is important enough that it may well warrant it.
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by simias 6y ago
I love Rust so dearly that I wish I could marry it, but I still feel that it's a massively more complicated language than C.
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by simias 6y ago
To me Rust is more like "C++ done right". It's massively bigger, more complicated and slower to compile than C. The C ABI is also the de-facto lingua franca for language interop, something that's not easily achievable wi
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by simias 6y ago
My main small day-to-day usability gripes with C are lack of type inference, lack of destructors and terrible ergonomics for error handling. Go solves two out of three, but it really dropped the ball hard on error handling which is very dis
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by simias 6y ago
On RSA-style prime-based crypto potentially but barring a much stronger result than merely being able to cheaply find primes things like ECC would probably still be safe.
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by simias 6y ago
My problem with that is that while it looks nice, I find it visually very frustrating if it's in your field of view. Those points of light that go in and out as your hands move over them are an annoyance for me. If you don't touch
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by simias 6y ago
My keyboard uses the open source QMK firmware, which means that it's entirely open source and you can hack it to you heart's contents. At this point I'd never consider getting an expensive keyboard with a closed source firmwa
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by simias 6y ago
>Edit: for those in relatively more corrupt, tenuous circumstances then BTC is a net positive, of course. Even that I'm not sold on. You could argue that it gives incentives for the rich and powerful to maintain the status quo since
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by simias 6y ago
Well the original example was obviously flawed because if all that's left for the employee to do is literally just press a button, then it would've been automated as well. In a company like Google the argument that the workforce i
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by simias 6y ago
>Imagine a company that spent billions to automate every process requiring only a single human to push a button every 10 minutes to produce its output. This company would be making "billions per employee", but it wouldn't
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by simias 6y ago
If you manage to replicate bitflips every few days your RAM is broken. It's the "once every other year" type of bitflip that's the problem. The proverbial "cosmic ray" hitting your DRAM and flipping a bit. That
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by simias 6y ago
I also wouldn't do this one, but that's because in my English accent I simply wouldn't pronounce them the same way. Also the word sequence "should of" is extremely uncommon in proper English, so it catches the eye m
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by simias 6y ago
It can be a concern, that's true, but personally most of the stuff I edit end up checked into a git repository or something similar. And I mean, we all spend all day editing test messages and comments and files on non-ECC hardware, yet
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by simias 6y ago
I mean, my native language is French where "your" is "ton" and "you're" is "tu es", yet it (rarely) happens that I mix them up in English. If I proofread I'll spot it almost every single tim
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by simias 6y ago
The problem is that, if you don't have ECC to detect the errors, it's very hard to know what exactly caused a random, non-reproducible crash. Especially in kernel mode where there's little memory protection and basically any
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by simias 6y ago
Then you'll have to pay a huge primer for that privilege. I can assure you that your standard computer components are not rated for century-scale use. That's why I've always been on the fence with this ECC thing. For servers
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by simias 6y ago
For a 2nd language speaker making these homophonic mistakes is actually a sign of fluency. It means that you just transcribe a mental flow of words instead of consciously constructing the language. The first time I wrote "your" in
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by simias 6y ago
I used to be pretty skeptical of ECC for consumer-grade hardware, mainly because I felt that I'd always prefer cheaper/more RAM over ECC RAM even if it meant that I'd get a couple of crash every year due to rogue bitflips. Fo

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