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by vacri 9y ago
If a project actually follows semver, then you know that unless the first number changes, there won't be any (significant) backwards-incompatible changes - eg, your config files will still work as expected.
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by vacri 9y ago
Ubuntu has made the commitment for 6-month releases, so that makes sense for them. Debian releases "are ready when they're ready", so they can't predict the month (or even the year) ahead of time, and the version number
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> Is that not against his own interests? The effects of higher tax rates on Buffet's quality of life are entirely negligible. In the words-ish of Bill Gates: once you're eating $30 hamburgers, the extra money doesn't rea
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by vacri 9y ago
I still have a hard time hearing people complain about environmental regulations, when articles like this post say things like "The river caught fire a number of times". When your river is catching fire, surely that's a sign
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by vacri 9y ago
The US's high living standard is due to all the cheap crap it can import. You can't just slap super-high tariffs on China, because the manufacturing will just move elsewhere. You'd have to slap tariffs on almost all the high-
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by vacri 9y ago
> b) issues with ethics On a tangent, I've found it an interesting marker if a commentator speaks of the Three Laws of Robotics as if they are part of a solution. We can't even explicitly codify how those laws (ethics) should
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by vacri 9y ago
Superintelligence is a fearmongering book with little internal consistency. It makes quite a few leaps of logic, and seems to be more about dreaming up doomsday scenarios than thinking about them. About the only realistic scenario is
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by vacri 9y ago
In addition to all the other reasons, the IT industry is much, much younger than other industries. The 'web' itself is only 26 years old, shorter than a single person's career. Punchcards were still in common use in the late
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by vacri 9y ago
An alternative explanation is that there is simply an oversupply of scientists. I started and aborted a PhD in the mid-90s, and we were being treated like cattle back then. Computers slated for us for number-crunching were being given to ad
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by vacri 9y ago
What about the 39 nations above the UK in the RSF listings? My point was that the First Amendment is not the only legal control on freedom of speech in the US; merely adopting that one line of law doesn't make the rest disappear.
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by vacri 9y ago
Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking the First Amendment. I'm just pointing out that the situation is more complex that people usually appreciate. The First Amendment is just a plank in the arena of 'free spech', it
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by vacri 9y ago
And yet Reporters Without Borders rates the US down at #43 when it comes to press freedom, marginally below the UK at #40. https://rsf.org/en/united-states An example of why it rates so low: https://rsf.org&
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by vacri 9y ago
Exporting data incorrectly isn't a missing small feature. It's data corruption.
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by vacri 9y ago
> most of us are here to discuss business and learn HN stopped being about business quite a while ago. It's a general-interest board now. For example, I literally can't recall the last time I saw an article on A/B testin
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by vacri 9y ago
From The Fine Article: > Location Services is still enabled, Apple devices (like Apple Watch and Pencil) stay connected, and services such as Handoff and Instant Hotspot stay on. > The only way to turn off the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth r
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by vacri 9y ago
Here is a common enough non-techie use-case where this new behaviour is clearly a regression: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15413902
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by vacri 9y ago
Apple changed the behaviour of something that people have been using since the first smartphone (before, even), without indicating that to the user. Saying that the option is there when it's poorly-discoverable doesn't really coun
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by vacri 9y ago
Can you please provide some real-world examples of what you mean, because I can't figure the kind of things you're talking about when you talk about excessive empathy being a problem for others.
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by vacri 9y ago
> The jews in Nazi Germany spoke german. Oh, ferchrissakes, you're really scraping the bottom of the barrel now. The OP did a 'name one' gambit, and I pointed out that there were plenty. Now, I'm not sure if you kno
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by vacri 9y ago
What does an Apple have to do with electronics? Would you say that Apple's marketing department leaves much to be desired?
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by vacri 9y ago
Love letters rely more on emotion, allegory, and subtext than the news, especially modern-era news.
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by vacri 9y ago
Google translate is... iffy. Here's an example from this morning, where I asked a colleague about how the mooncakes were at last night's mid-Autumn festival: were the mooncakes good last night? -> google translate -> 月饼好吗昨晚好
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by vacri 9y ago
> Name one current conflict in which language and the inability to communicate is a barrier. It'd be easier to list the wars in which language wasn't a barrier. Excluding the category of civil wars, there aren't many w
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by vacri 9y ago
Pft. That's an empty slogan to make puritans feel better about themselves. Plenty of smart people swear. They just don't swear to extreme, and control their swearing when they're speaking formally. As a ridiculously obvious e
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by vacri 9y ago
> Between that and all of the other shit you have to do in a day (commute, chores, eating, exercise etc.), it seems like there's little to no opportunity to just have a life. It's a cultural marker that you define 'eatin
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by vacri 9y ago
The "extreme view" I'm referring to with Poe's Law is the phrase "far too much empathy". "far too much" is synonymous with "extreme". I was saying that "far too much empathy" is no
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by vacri 9y ago
The efforts of the EU (and other things, of course) have helped the major powers in Europe avoid war for over half a century now, a rarity in European history. Why wouldn't that be worth recognising? I mean hell, on this page we have p
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by vacri 9y ago
Perhaps look at it another way - assigning a Nobel peace prize is a way of putting wider attention onto someone, and maybe works as a soft pressure to keep them behaving a little? For half a year or so after you get awarded a peace prize, y
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by vacri 9y ago
> The United States is 50 small countries in one big country I see this sentiment touted a lot, but is there really that much difference between a Connecticuter and Rhode Islander, or a Mississipian and an Alabamian? A North Dakotan an
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by vacri 9y ago
> There is far too much "empathy" in the US. > But I don't want to pay for an obese persons knee surgery. This is Poe's Law writ large.

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