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by tshaddox 1y ago
I thought the point was more that you can't be required to use companies like PayPal in order to use the underlying technology.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
What are your thoughts on computer hardware which is much more restrictive? Video game consoles, for example, require all code to be cryptographically signed, meaning that third parties can't publish any software whatsoever without t
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by tshaddox 1y ago
Is that so? I presumed they would always be open as normal stores, but prepared to stay open as “emergency stores” when necessary.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
"Threat to democracy" is definitely broad (but not "extraordinary"), and reasonable people can disagree with specific accusations. That's not my point. My point is simply that you can't simultaneously say &quot
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by tshaddox 1y ago
No, I’m saying that “being a threat to democracy” is an actual thing. I’m saying that you can’t simultaneously say “calling someone a threat to democracy is inciting violence against them” and “what does being a threat to democracy actual
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by tshaddox 1y ago
> I'd say the appropriate read there is to slip the word "unjustified" into a few key slots. "You shouldn't do anything unjustified" is an uncontroversial and useless prescription.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
This might be the worst argument against type checking I've ever heard, in a strong field! This author would apparently also argue that, because I rely on handwritten labels for the dozen or so storage bins in my garage, I must have cr
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by tshaddox 1y ago
> The standard answer is scale. “Small programs don’t need types,” the reasoning goes, “but large programs become unmaintainable without them.” There's not really a JavaScript program so small that I wouldn't use TypeScript. Ok
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by tshaddox 1y ago
> Usually fascist gov enlarges the state but in this case they’re shrinking it to loyalists controlling the tech. Privatization and increasing state authority are not mutually exclusive. On the contrary, fascist regimes in the 20th centu
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by tshaddox 1y ago
> He can deny you entry virtually at will. CBP officer is god at the border. Do you know what the actual laws/regulations are for this stuff? My understanding is that there are in fact valid and invalid reasons for denying entry to
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by tshaddox 1y ago
IMO it's a pretty reasonable claim about experience level, not intelligence, and isn't at all an ad hominem attack because it's referring directly to the fundamental design choices of protocol buffers and thus is not at all a
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by tshaddox 1y ago
> Name another serialization declaration format that both (a) defines which changes can be make backwards-compatibly, and (b) has a linter that enforces backwards compatible changes. The article covers this in the section "The Lie o
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by tshaddox 1y ago
A piece of knowledge is a claim about some property of reality, which is another way to say that it's a claim about what is true. Thus knowledge can contain truth and can also contain errors, and importantly it's impossible to gua
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by tshaddox 1y ago
Yes, I meant to imply that the problemsetters are to blame.
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> the problemsetters underestimated the contestants Except for problem C, which was only submitted by 4 teams, all unsuccessfully.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
> Scientists realized there is no "Truth", only a series of better and better models approximating it. I don't quite agree with this, unless what you mean is that there's no procedure we can follow which generates kno
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by tshaddox 1y ago
Indeed, as a long time fan of prog metal and tech death I'm quite aware of the importance of counting (and the existence of people whose counting abilities far surpass my own)! But I think the quote is also referring to casual enjoymen
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by tshaddox 1y ago
> Thelonious Monk once said “All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians“. I haven’t heard that one. I think I prefer this one, attributed to Leibniz: “Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being awar
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by tshaddox 1y ago
That's unrelated to the complaint I'm responding to, which is simply that you can only provide a single middleware file. This is merely a DX problem. You absolutely can develop your own composeMiddlewares function and import diffe
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by tshaddox 1y ago
I don't see how this particular case makes anything better or worse for Vercel. It's just a poor developer experience to need to come up with your own composeMiddlewares function (or find one of the many that people have posted in
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by tshaddox 1y ago
> Or should internet companies decide what should be allowed in other countries despite those countries and their populations disagreeing? Internet companies (like all companies) can and indeed must choose how they behave. "We follo
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by tshaddox 1y ago
The fact that it's their "stated goal" does not exempt them from criticism.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
Very similar stuff has been in the press often this year. Everyone mostly forgets each case after a couple of weeks (did that end up being a real gang tattoo or not?, etc.).
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by tshaddox 1y ago
I think the suggestion is that people who have less free time might be in more of a rush to complete the test, and that surely affects test results without indicating cognitive ability.
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I think it’s mostly about your level of interest in taking the test. This can obviously be influenced by your priorities and other responsibilities. Incidentally, I think IQ tests and similar “cognitive tests” are all mostly just measuring
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by tshaddox 1y ago
So is the goal to predict someone’s future income? Or to inform someone of how much money they supposedly should be making based on their test results and the supposed correlation between test results and income? Surely the test results are
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by tshaddox 1y ago
Wait until you see the terms of service documents your corporate lawyer will tell you that you need in the footer of your website.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
That's right. I bought a DS1019+ in 2019 and it's been running constantly for 6 years (except for a handful of power outages and house moves). The power adapter did fail last year and I had to buy a dodgy (albeit well-reviewed) th
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by tshaddox 1y ago
It seems like you're suggesting that mathematicians replace the reals with the computables. This is a reasonable thing to try, and is likely of particular interest to constructivists. There's even this whole field: https:/&#
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by tshaddox 1y ago
If a number if computable, it means you can compute it to any given precision using an algorithm which halts. It doesn't mean that you can compute a complete representation in decimal (or any other positional numeral system) of the

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