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by tombh 6y ago
> But to a large extent that egg cannot be unscrambled Well yes, that's exactly it! If we can't unscramble our eggs how can we can unscramble China's eggs?
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It was profoundly more than beating wives. The entire foundation of the West is based on genocides and mass theft that make the Uyghur crisis seem small. My argument is more along the lines of: our emotional reaction to Chinese colonial pro
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by tombh 6y ago
> So everyone in the West is guilty for everything anyone in the West has ever done Of course that's nonsensical and I agree with it. But I wonder what you think when it's positively framed? So everyone in the west can _benefit
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by tombh 6y ago
> China running the same plays from the playbook written by the Anglosphere war powers Absolutely. All the comments like yours are downvoted. The West doesn't need autocracy to maintain its propaganda, its own citizens do it for the
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by tombh 6y ago
I think this is an exploration of the somewhat surprising fact that type systems can be, and often are, Turing Complete[1]. A very naive view of type systems is that they're merely the next level up from code comments, except with the
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by tombh 6y ago
Here's a close up comparison so you can clearly see the differences: https://i.imgur.com/TP1QQpJ.png Edit: original is on the right
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by tombh 6y ago
Is there any overlap with Hyscale and Terraform's Kubernetes provider or Helm's Charts?
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by tombh 6y ago
I've always seen the story like this: It all started with Ruby. Ruby's syntactic sugar inspired the "syntactic sugar" of tooling, primarily Bundler and Rspec. Tooling, for what felt like the first time, became a first cl
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by tombh 6y ago
Does anyone recognise any of the streets well enough to find the same scene on Google Street View? So we can make a comparison?
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by tombh 6y ago
Anyone else using Rancher's Rio? They're PaaS offering? It's still early days, we're using for a microservices project and it seems good do far.
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by tombh 6y ago
I guess libsignal-service-java might be used in the Android app?
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Can someone shed some light on the landscape here? I thought there were only 2 possible ways to use Signal; the mobile apps and the desktop. Is this CLI app somehow talking to them? If anyone can make a client, then what's stopping som
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by tombh 6y ago
I love these questions too! I feel like the universe is still very much in its youth, but who knows. There's so many profoundly different evolutionary stages the universe could go through. Such a shame that I won't be around to se
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by tombh 6y ago
Ah yes, good point. And Conway's Game Of Life is a better example because yes, indeed, gliders are fundamental (as are molecules). And Conway didn't make GoL for the gliders specifically, they may have surprised him just as much a
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I sometimes reflect on the fact that, were it possible to be an intelligent fly on the wall at the moment of the big bang, molecules were not a foregone conclusion. Certainly I'd accept they'd be a good prediction, but molecules e
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by tombh 6y ago
Oh, I'm surprised the "blacklist" isn't just the standard English dictionary. I'm sure I'm just being naive though. Why not just blacklist any word that already exists in English?
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by tombh 6y ago
At the time Signal didn't have the swipe-right-to-reply behaviour, nor the ability to lock audio message recording so you can record handsfree. But it has both now! As far as I know yes Whatsapp uses some of Signal's tech but does
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by tombh 6y ago
I've been de-googled (and de-facebooked) for over a year now. I wrote about it here https://tombh.co.uk/deleting-facebook-and-google My main motivation is slightly different in that being a software engineer I am actua
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by tombh 6y ago
That makes sense, though I suppose for a road warrior setup the source IP might change every so often right?
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by tombh 6y ago
That's an interesting idea about using a unified network interface. Do you know how you might then get the right packets to the right containers/processes? Does that even matter with Wireguard?
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by tombh 6y ago
I think we all understand the usefulness of a road-warrior-style VPN. But it doesn't seem so clear what k8s is adding here? Anyway, on the topic of scalable UDP services, does anyone have any experience of load balancing a UDP service?
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by tombh 6y ago
I'm the one that made the original composite that set this whole thing off[1]! By "whole thing" I mean it's been this amazing meme-like recurring wave that's ebbed and flowed continuously in the 6 years since I made
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by tombh 7y ago
Wow, I loved watching that! Thanks for posting
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by tombh 7y ago
tldw; A mathematician devises a method for consistently shuffling sets of 100 letters such that all players have the same "bag" to pull unseen letters from. Clearly the method is vulnerable to players not shuffling in the same way
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Can you play Scrabble over a video call?(youtube.com)
1 points by tombh 7y ago|1 comments
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by tombh 7y ago
All my lonely days are over
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by tombh 7y ago
Same here. HN has changed my life. From getting exposure on open source projects to geting various contracts around the world. I'm incredibly grateful. Thank you Hacker News.
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'nm' is 'nautical mile', for anyone wondering
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by tombh 7y ago
A 43k year old flute! I never knew. That is amazing indeed!
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by tombh 7y ago
Did all your jobs get taken already!? The careers link you provide is empty of any available jobs. Edit: sorry, I needed to enable 3rd party JS scripts

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