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811.
by zaphar 5y ago
I'm of the opinion that this is unsolveable. I can envision no solution that is not worse than what we currently have. I wish you luck in proving me wrong.
812.
by zaphar 5y ago
I do not believe there is such a thing as an API for copyright assignment. You probably require real life paperwork in the form of a contract. That or you can wait until you get the opportunity to test out your smart contract to see if it s
813.
by zaphar 5y ago
It sounds as if you are suggesting a change with no mechanism to mitigate the adverse effects of that change and no supporting evidence for the proposed benefit of the change. Decisions made based on "We have to do something and this i
814.
by zaphar 5y ago
They do give you a template for approaching certain problems though. Even if your implementation of the template in your head is specific and therefore easier to follow in the implementation. It's useful to have an understanding of the
815.
by zaphar 5y ago
The curse of those who have used and understood Monads is that we see them everywhere. Async, Exceptions, IO, State machines. Everywhere you look you see a monad.
816.
by zaphar 5y ago
I've managed people who were performing at a senior level after 3 years of experience and I've managed people who were performing at a junior level after 10 years of experience. Both categories are outliers but they do exist. As l
817.
by zaphar 5y ago
I fundamentally think this is not a solvable problem using certs. Short of calling up the company directly and asking no amount of signaling in the browser will help. Also why do I care about an EV cert as a user? does it tell me anything a
818.
by zaphar 5y ago
Actually the non-bitcoin fork is the one that didn't reverse the transactions. Bitcoin proper is the one that did reverse them if memory serves. I'll grant that sometimes memory does not serve though and I'm just too lazy t
819.
by zaphar 5y ago
There will always be a place for those of us who like tinkering with software and/or computer hardware, the nerds. We like using the CLI or Vim or Emacs. We go deep on compilers and PLT. But I personally welcome those who aren't n
820.
by zaphar 5y ago
I was and still am a computer nerd and I was never a pariah. I'm sure some nerds out there felt like it. But, anecdotally, that was not my experience.
821.
by zaphar 5y ago
Yeah, So the federal government unwound the transaction whether they wanted it unwound or not. Which is in fact how it works in banking institutions too. A reverse of the transaction is issued that in effect unwinds it. In the real world se
822.
by zaphar 5y ago
There has been at least one fork that reversed bitcoin transactions. They are in no way final in practice even if the "spec" claims that they are.
823.
by zaphar 5y ago
We aren't forgetting it. We just know the database sucks at being a database. * Transaction volumes are abysmal. Which means I have to build some kind of layer 2 transactional layer over it. (i.e. I have to build a second database to w
824.
by zaphar 5y ago
Way too little information to base an answer on in your question. However my general approach to exception handling and try catch is to group the error into two possible categories: 1. Errors that someone up the call chain should be handlin
825.
by zaphar 5y ago
The problem isn't new but the previous best practices involved giving the tool super user. Usually through an installation process. See most other VPNs. UserMode TCP/IP stacks aren't very common in practice. This is why what
826.
by zaphar 5y ago
All the stage setting for them Kyiv on Trump's watch. If Trump had won a second term it would still have happened. We ascribe entirely too much power to the office of the President sometimes.
827.
by zaphar 5y ago
It's not a real negotiation unless you are willing to walk away from the table. You already know what you need to do. Start looking for a different position. If you really want to stay at this company but don't feel like they valu
828.
by zaphar 5y ago
miekg/dns literally only handles building/parsing the dns packets. Which may be a complicated activity and perhaps for you equals "doing all the heavy lifting" But it is absolutely not doing the "recursive resolve&q
829.
by zaphar 5y ago
I think what raised these above other simple shareable examples though is the low cost of engagement. No login, No signup, No Install. Just load page, and sharing was via the built in clipboard. Starting was essentially 0 cost. Sharing was
830.
by zaphar 5y ago
The most effective form of lying is lying by omission. It's harder to detect, easier to defend as just ignorance, and is perhaps more effective than outright false claims.
831.
by zaphar 5y ago
Yeah but the city streets department isn't actually going to repair, replace the bridge. They'll hire an accredited engineering firm who will in fact be at least as competent as the Army Corp of Engineers to build it. Heck the ins
832.
by zaphar 5y ago
If you don't trust local municipalities to fund it properly why would you trust the federal government to do so. The federal goverment is just as politically motivated as a local government and even further removed from the problems th
833.
by zaphar 5y ago
On every device I consume HN from, Mobile (android), Desktop (Chrome and Firefox), from both high bandwidth wifi and as low as 3g mobile, it works to the extent that I literally do not notice load times, render glitches, or any issues at al
834.
by zaphar 5y ago
HN has had the same layout and look for a very long time. It works and there has been no need to change it. Keeping up with trends is usually not a good reason to change something that is working perfectly for it's intended use case.
835.
by zaphar 5y ago
I think IRC is way easier to automate. IRC bots are some of the easiest bots to write compared to any of the successor chat protocols or applications. I still hang out in some channels but the ones I dropped out of were because everyone els
836.
by zaphar 5y ago
If you automatically serve an index.html when the url is /resource/ I presume you would also serve the same page at /resource/index.html which in practice means that you are again in same content at two different URLs la
837.
by zaphar 5y ago
I actually think as a language Nix's runtime semantics are worse than borgcfg. Both have an obtuse and confusing syntax it's true. But Nix's extreme approach to laziness in the language means it essentially has "come fro
838.
by zaphar 5y ago
I think you might be vastly understating the advantage here. I've been the guy who shipped software that "worked on my machine" but didn't work in production because on my machine there was a system installed dependency
839.
by zaphar 5y ago
So basically you are saying that in the average C codebase there are millions of landmines waiting to silently fail on you. This is not a ringing endorsement of the language it's more like a ringing indictment instead.
840.
by zaphar 5y ago
Exactly, If I wanted to be operating of the level where I am worrying about registers and stack smashing and such I would just drop down assembly directly. You use C because it has an in-theory abstract machine that I can target and avoid n

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