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by ufmace 5y ago
I see this a lot on here especially, where people regard themselves as being well-informed, at the bleeding edge, etc due to reading and quoting scientific papers, especially ones with interesting or counter-intuitive results. But one paper
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by ufmace 5y ago
Basically everyone else in Asia hates their guts due to their conduct in WWII.
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by ufmace 5y ago
Social media manipulation is a tricky problem. I'm sure HN has plenty of active measures against various types of abuse and manipulation, and I'm sure they can't tell us about them, because the people doing that read HN too.
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by ufmace 5y ago
The CCP seems to be quite good at practical censorship. They have a history of this - they know the Great Firewall isn't perfect, and don't seem to make a tremendous effort to plug every single hole or find and lock up everyone tr
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by ufmace 5y ago
FWIW, there definitely are people who drink 10+ drinks a day every day. The top few percent of drinkers in the country drink an epic shitload.
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by ufmace 5y ago
I'm suspicious of bold claims like that from people observing a selected subset of a population. An alcohol rehab center, particular the type that accepts people sentenced there by a court, is likely to get few to no voluntary patients
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by ufmace 5y ago
From what I've read, Japan never had anywhere near the industrial capability to pull any of that off. Even landing troops and maintaining a garrison at all on Midway and the Hawaiian islands would stretch them to the limit - they argua
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by ufmace 5y ago
I've also read that while the IJN was quite good at carrier aviation, their lack of long-term experience fighting naval battles and focus on the offensive led to a severe deficit in damage control and efforts to reduce e.g. the risk an
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by ufmace 5y ago
> Or we don't want to deal with stupid bureaucracy and an arcane process to set up the sub. More like this IMO. There tends to be a lot of process with this sort of thing, which makes me reluctant to bother. Especially if I'll
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by ufmace 5y ago
Maybe, but if they were going to do that, why bother telling us they were going to continue supporting blocking webRequest at all? They'd be in perfectly good company if they maintained the exact same API as all the other browser vendo
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by ufmace 5y ago
I'd rather not make any one adblock extension the single blessed one that's included with browsers and given exclusive permission to actually block ads reliably. Browser makers and extension authors have gone bad before and surely
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by ufmace 5y ago
Slack is one of the new breed of applications that really tries its best to get you to pay attention to it all the time. Nevertheless, it's pretty manageable if you spend a little time going around and muting channels and turning off O
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by ufmace 5y ago
Possibly, but even if it's airtight, good luck with actually filing a lawsuit about it, getting it through the courts, getting a decision in your favor, and actually enforcing it against a corp with a much bigger legal budget than you
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by ufmace 5y ago
Personally, I like it better sometimes for having less features. MS Word has such a massive number of formatting features that interact in complex ways that there's plenty of ways for your document to end up formatted in a weird way an
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by ufmace 5y ago
Agreed, I hate that. I don't want to hear about test failures, syntax errors, compile errors, or anything like that until I ask for it.
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by ufmace 5y ago
I've become a lot more sympathetic to this attitude lately. I kind of enjoy working with Rust, and have written a few minor utilities to interact with AWS in it for work. I found and fixed a few bugs in the library for it, Rusoto. I ob
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by ufmace 5y ago
That was pretty much my impression on the issue, from conversations with several people who lived there. It's a huge country, and all of the regions have their own language, and it's rare for one of the regional languages to be un
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by ufmace 5y ago
I'm a little sad that it's removed. Votes on HN are a fickle beast, a popularity contest. IMO, it's usually worth saying what you really think even if it might not be received too well. Especially if it's a unique and ge
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by ufmace 5y ago
They seem to do this kind of thing all the time. Just recently, I ordered a few low-value-ish things, like $75 total. Email and app said it was delivered, but no package to be found, even a couple days later. Spent like half an hour digging
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by ufmace 5y ago
Their web console UIs vary widely by service. IMO, the UX for most of their simpler services, specifically SQS, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, are really easy to use and work nicely. If you want to start with a Docker image, send it to AWS, and have
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by ufmace 5y ago
> I think that's the strongest criticism of incels as well; having a romantic and sexual relationship is not a requirement for a happy life. Let me take this in another direction than most of the other comments: Say you're talk
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by ufmace 5y ago
I don't think it can be "solved" in that way. If you're going to have a physical lock, it needs to have a physical locking mechanism somewhere. If you watch lock picking youtube, you'll see that virtually all electr
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by ufmace 6y ago
> Looks innocuous, but I guess past behaviour from this group left enough of a bad taste for Greg KH to be suspicious. The idea of the kind of research they previously did is to submit patch requests with some kind of trick or hidden age
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by ufmace 6y ago
I assume you're right on those techniques, but 2 things: 1. It sounds like they'd have to be pretty well targeted against the precise systems of that particular company in order to work. Which would tend to suggest more targeted s
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by ufmace 6y ago
I upvoted, if nothing else it's a perfectly reasonable comment with an interesting hypothesis. HN karma is a little weird. IMO, if you've never been downvoted to -4, then you've never said anything really interesting. It&#x27
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by ufmace 6y ago
Yeah, that's why the stated explanation sounds weird. Suddenly advertise this never-used block, and you're just going to get a massive torrent of previously-internal traffic from bazillions of organizations all over the planet tha
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by ufmace 6y ago
That isn't really how it works anymore. It's possible (and standard) to push any political agenda without ever stating an opinion directly. It's all about which specific facts you choose to report and which you choose to igno
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by ufmace 6y ago
10PB is a crazy amount of data. Far more than any normal business would ever have to deal with. Presuming you aren't crazy, you must have an unusual business plan to legitimately need to handle that much data. That means it's toug
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by ufmace 6y ago
Man, I don't know. I like and have used both. It sounds like you kind of want a language with parts of both, but that doesn't seem like it would be possible. What is possible is calling Rust packages from Ruby, and I think you can
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by ufmace 6y ago
It's occurred to absolutely everyone. What doesn't seem to have occurred to many people is that there is no such thing as a review process robust enough to prevent malicious contributions. Have you ever done code review for code w

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