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by stouset 2y ago
I would say moreso it’s that the NSA is at least on some level beholden to the will of the U.S electorate. Foreign governments not so much.
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by stouset 2y ago
You can literally go to any other competing platform and shout the same thing from the rooftops.
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by stouset 2y ago
> …aren't we really saying voters are not individual agents but rather a mob subject to manipulation by propaganda? …yes? Is that even slightly controversial? If it wasn’t the case, why would propaganda even exist?
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by stouset 2y ago
I’m that guy who’s always killed day one. The worst part is there’s actually nothing you can do about it. Decide to clam up and stop making yourself a target? Super suspicious, he’s the werewolf this time for sure!
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by stouset 2y ago
Yes, if you live in the United States, our elected government has the ability to supersede your right to general-purpose computing which is—as far as I’m aware—not in either the Constitution, the bill of rights, nor in later amendments.
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by stouset 2y ago
> Why do species survive? Because they did, and because the objective of life is to survive. But why? In evolutionary biology, that definitionally is the ultimate answer. One species survived, another didn’t. Sometimes that’s because t
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by stouset 2y ago
Yours is not a good design. First, passwords are terrible sources of entropy. Second, users want to change passwords without needing to re-encrypt every single block on their disk. The correct approach, generally, is to generate a complet
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by stouset 2y ago
For background, this is because the `undo` itself is an operation pushed onto the top of the stack. It is a little counterintuitive.
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by stouset 2y ago
Holy hell, I’ve used it for months now and had no idea.
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by stouset 2y ago
It is! I've fully migrated my repos over to `main` at this point so it's rare I have to think about the difference. You could also make an alias to `jj n` or something to make it even easier.
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by stouset 2y ago
The GP claims to be qualified as an accountant and gives a simple example of how this type of problem can have no clear answer. Your rebuttal is simply “of course they know the answer”. Is there any reason someone reading this thread should
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by stouset 2y ago
As someone who has some deep interests outside of tech, I’ll say that any time I see HN commentary stray into those interests the quality of people’s understanding takes a very sharp nosedive. The knowledgeable responses don’t get nearly th
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by stouset 2y ago
Nobody is saying it wasn’t prudent to divert. It would have been impossible for the pilot to know if that debris was shortly in front of them and at co-altitude or extremely far in front of them and at a significantly higher altitude. In th
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by stouset 2y ago
I haven’t thought about it at all but you’re right. It’s surprising how nice it is that I can enter a repo and `jj new main` without needing to remember any context whatsoever. My post was a pretty naked attempt to showcase how much less
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by stouset 2y ago
$ jj file untrack {paths-or-pattern} Alternatively if you have a bunch of files spewed everywhere with no rhyme or reason which can't be globbed or enumerated reasonably: $ jj status | grep '^A' | awk '{p
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by stouset 2y ago
Rewriting these for jj users. I'm prefering long option names and full command names for clarity here, but all the commands have shortened aliases and all the option names have single-letter alternatives. `@` means "the current re
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by stouset 2y ago
Both you and GP, please aim higher for comments on HN.
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by stouset 2y ago
Seconded jujutsu. It's 100% git-compatible and one of those rare birds that is both more powerful and simpler to use in practice due to rethinking some of the core ideas.
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by stouset 2y ago
I find it pretty telling that the two sides of this argument boil down to: 1. This is a platform owned within China which can easily be used to silently and effectively spread highly targeted propaganda to extremely vulnerable demographics.
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by stouset 2y ago
Have you considered that Reels is so bad precisely because you don’t use it? Mine: A bit from the SF Chronicle on the LA fires. A comedy/info bit by Alex Falcone. An Ad. A wrestling technique (I’m into judo and BJJ). A card trick. Co
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by stouset 2y ago
I think the last thing you could probably say about the teams involved in this is that they don’t care.
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by stouset 2y ago
I tend to agree. I also think both sides need to learn to better appreciate the other. Without people getting shit done with the tools we’ve built, there would be no demand for better tools and no need to write them. Without better tools, t
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by stouset 2y ago
> it's muuch faster on mobile This isn’t 1998. Mobile keyboards autocapitalize. You have to go out of your way to avoid capitalization on mobile.
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by stouset 2y ago
> Of course this isn't always going to be great. Debugging this code is probably going to suck, and even with the best engineering it'll likely accelerate big balls of mud. But it's going to enable a lot of code to get wri
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by stouset 2y ago
They are also extremely limited. Timestamp-based freshness is often broken by modern VCSes. Git doesn’t record timestamps internally, so files can (and often do) have their mtime updated even when their contents are the same, causing unnece
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by stouset 2y ago
I do?
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by stouset 2y ago
Public transit has a fundamentally local impact. It takes away some jobs but also provides a lot of jobs for a wide variety of skills and skill levels. It simultaneously provides an enormous number of benefits to nearby populations, includi
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by stouset 2y ago
I agree. But this is the society we live in now. We don’t live in one where we take care of those whose jobs have been displaced. I wish we did. But we don’t. So it’s hard for me to feel quite as excited these days for the next thing that w
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by stouset 2y ago
I'm not sure how I could have been more clear that I'm not suggesting we stop development on robotaxis or anything related to AI. All I'm asking is that we take a moment to reflect on the people who won't be winners. W
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by stouset 2y ago
> preferably, much cheaper than today's absurd Uber rates I just want to highlight that the only mechanism by which this eventually produces cheaper rates is by removing having to pay a human driver. I’m not one to forestall technol

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