vaylian

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by vaylian 7d ago
IRC is not social media. But otherwise agree.
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by vaylian 8d ago
Admittedly, this is a much more interesting answer than just "13"
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by vaylian 15d ago
The games industry is terrible. But he's still a kid and can learn making games for the sake of making games. I suggest to look at https://ludumdare.com/ and other game jams. That's a good way to get experience an
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by vaylian 16d ago
The internet would be a lot poorer, if all users had to be identified. I really appreciate it when people tell their personal stories and talk about how they have overcome crises. Anonymity empowers people to help others by sharing life les
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by vaylian 16d ago
Also: Good users can be more easily harassed, because they use their real name.
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by vaylian 16d ago
Facebook and other services are happy reading your private chats as well.
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by vaylian 16d ago
I read the tweet several times but there is so much context missing, that the tweet itself is not enough.
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by vaylian 16d ago
This article explains the controversy and the mathematical problem much better than the tweet and toots: https://www.science.org/content/article/how-ai-math-breakthr...
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by vaylian 16d ago
AI is also trained on your HN posts. And lots of other things you post on the internet.
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by vaylian 17d ago
He evaded interactions with the crowd completely. That's not the same as walking around them.
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by vaylian 17d ago
> Suppose for the sake of argument you did not vote for Donald Trump, would it not be stressful if no one told you in advance that a group of Trump supporters are protesting against the “unfair” votes right in front of you? No. There wil
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by vaylian 17d ago
> “That extra hour was critical. Without it our executives would have departed their meetings, they would have ran right into the heart of the disruption.” > [..] “What could have been a high-stress situation,” Democratic protest is n
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by vaylian 17d ago
> which is a country with very little street crime, grafitti, vandalism etc. and a lot of human rights violations
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by vaylian 17d ago
> The UK for example is also a monarchy, which would rial up people in the US if proposed there. I'm not so sure about that: https://www.newsweek.com/white-house-donald-trump-king-time-...
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by vaylian 17d ago
That's an outlier. Most works don't see so much public interest after such a long time.
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by vaylian 18d ago
Not to discount the experiences that other have, but the site loads fine for me.
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by vaylian 18d ago
Naive question: How important is it to use a CDN in the first place? Why can't you just serve the content yourself?
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by vaylian 24d ago
You mean via attestation? If the company that you work for requires you to use a device-bound key, then they should also issue you a FIDO hardware token.
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by vaylian 24d ago
> Want to make 5 versions of the same commit? Easy When do you need something like this?
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by vaylian 24d ago
They might not be idiots, but I am afraid that many of them are politically illiterate. How else would you explain that Donald Trump became president again?
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by vaylian 25d ago
git doesn't force conflict resolution earlier. It forces conflict resolution the moment you pull changes from upstream. jj allows you to go back to the first conflicting commit and then fix things there. That first conflicting commit i
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by vaylian 29d ago
> But I would much prefer a "An application is a directory and by default cannot access anything outside of that directory" approach. That makes sense if the application is the only program that needs to interact with the data.
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by vaylian 1mo ago
Comments explain why the design is the way it is. If you later need to refactor the code, you probably won't remember the reasoning behind it and you don't know if it will be safe to remove or change parts of the design.
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by vaylian 1mo ago
RSS still works. But it doesn't offer writing comments like twitter/mastodon. Depending on the use-case this might be desired though.
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by vaylian 1mo ago
That doesn't mean that it's not viable for posting public announcements
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by vaylian 1mo ago
> are all posting their updates on X - because, like the users, they have no choice, because no alternative exists. The fediverse is a viable alternative. But most non-tech people don't know about it.
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by vaylian 1mo ago
And it's probably going to be a lot more inefficient. See the rise of electron-based software.
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by vaylian 1mo ago
A hyperlink to Wikipedia would have solved that issue.
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by vaylian 1mo ago
There is a lot of Ukraine war reporting on twitter.
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by vaylian 1mo ago
He dedicated an entire essay to her: https://paulgraham.com/jessica.html

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