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by xnorswap 2y ago
Do you have a source for this quote? Googling just returns this page. I was particularly struck by: > if I ever get cancer, I will refuse chemo and let myself die And figured this quote must be at least 20 or 30 years ago? Cancer isn&#x2
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by xnorswap 2y ago
Okay, I guess this is also a consequence of having long lived branches that multiple people contribute to versus short-lived continuous integration into main. I can also see value there if you're not squashing commits at the PR level.
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by xnorswap 2y ago
My point is that I don't understand where the driving force for desiring to change it at all is coming from.
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by xnorswap 2y ago
OK, I don't get it. There's lots of praise for this though so I must be missing something that lots of other people get value from, so perhaps someone could be kind enough to explain where's the benefit to this? I'm fine
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by xnorswap 2y ago
It wasn't just Stalinism, it was wider totalitarianism too, but that wasn't the point I was making, it wasn't a critique directed against the state of the UK at the time, but what it could become.
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by xnorswap 2y ago
Yes, but Orwell wasn't really writing _about_ the UK, you need to look at the context and background of the work, which is the rise of Stalinism and the fear of that brand of totalitarianism taking over.
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by xnorswap 2y ago
By that argument, 100% is also a factor, but you wouldn't interpret "100% cost increase" as an unchanged cost, so a 10x price shouldn't be described as a "1000% cost increase".
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by xnorswap 2y ago
It does seem expensive, but if it wasn't, then there'd be more temptation to simply white-label Kagi via it's own API while undercutting Kagi's own plans.
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by xnorswap 2y ago
I know this isn't really about Snake, but this implementation of snake is frustrating to play because: 1. It doesn't buffer inputs. If you are travelling Left and quickly tap Up then Left, it'll treat it as a no-op instead of
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by xnorswap 2y ago
It was 18 months ago, I may have misremembered the exact term the used. They wanted this list essentially: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref...
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by xnorswap 2y ago
I had an interview last year that left such a bad impression on me it still puts me off interviewing. The opening question was: "List all the C# primitive types" The next question was: "List all their sizes in bytes". Su
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by xnorswap 2y ago
> forcing companies using those products to clearly disclose the associated risks This is the last thing you should want for better health. What you'd get is an explosion of "This is known by the state of California to cause ob
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by xnorswap 2y ago
Is linkedin not already in a devolved state?
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by xnorswap 2y ago
I recommend that you step away from "research". Have you ever seen Congress debate laws around computing and the internet? Ever wondered how clueless they appear in that context? They're lawmakers, that doesn't make them
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by xnorswap 2y ago
Some argue that's how taxes work already. Taxation destroys money, government spending creates money. MMT (modern monetary theory) argues that taxation isn't about "funding", it's actually about controlling inflatio
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by xnorswap 2y ago
A hundred years ago you could say the same about the Bloomsbury Group. I don't know what causes such intellectual cliques to form, perhaps it's a result of an intersection of raw intellectual power and social dynamics.
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by xnorswap 2y ago
It's a bit philosophical, but I'm not sure you can really execute the same steps twice. A cycle would imply you can get stuck baking something forever. When you come back to do the "same" operation again, you're fun
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by xnorswap 2y ago
From a slightly pedantic point of view that misses the point of cooking or baking, I disagree about the ability to re-use nodes. If you have a recipe that uses 150g flour in step 1, then later uses 350g flour in step 4, then you actually ha
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by xnorswap 2y ago
Indeed, OP hasn't actually stopped to consider, what if BoA is right? What if it really was a fraudulent transaction as claimed? The merchant should consider what they can do to protect themselves in such cases, if they are not protect
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by xnorswap 2y ago
The comment stated they got the word wrong, the implication is that it was out of ignorance. Yet the article uses frame throughout where technically correct, and what was important to the author wasn't that any frame was transmit
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by xnorswap 2y ago
Only on HN could someone implement networking from scratch, only to be dismissed by someone in the comments implying they've no idea what they're doing.
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by xnorswap 2y ago
UK building codes (we call them building regulations) should also have prevented Grenfell. A large issue was that the companies involved were using materials which weren't up to code.
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by xnorswap 2y ago
Those are very valid but separate concerns. You can make social media illegal for under 16s without requiring online age validation. After all, a form of this already exists with the US COPPA [1] law, and the presence of that law hasn'
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by xnorswap 2y ago
Exactly, if cigarettes were currently available at any age, and it was proposed to be limited to 18+, you'd get people in here decrying the law, saying it's completely unworkable to prevent absolutely every under age person ever f
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by xnorswap 2y ago
Also shout out to HN for fixing whatever it was that caused threads as large as this to slow down the whole of HN to the point where loading any thread would take forever.
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by xnorswap 2y ago
It's a like a paradox of tolerance issue. You have countries that are willing to turn a blind eye toward their tech companies when those companies ignore laws to grow. In some ways it's "obvious" they'll outgrow com
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by xnorswap 2y ago
Indeed, that's exactly the problem I had with that mode. The fact you can get into that mode accidentally with no obvious way to cancel it is a UX failure.
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by xnorswap 2y ago
The Sony WH-1000XM4 approach. Taking them off pauses your stuff. Sometimes that's useful, but on a desktop that's most often just annoying, particularly if you're just itching or adjusting them. More mysterious is that tappin
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by xnorswap 2y ago
Pedants will rage but you're spot on. The DMCA is a terrible law that has ended up causing lots of knock on bad effects, because there isn't enough incentive to prevent bad actors abusing it, and not enough incentive for companies
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by xnorswap 2y ago
"Introducing" without actually just linking the search page. That's not an introduction, that's a teaser trailer. If they want this to be a viable search it needs to be available quickly, and anonymously from something q

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