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by zzzcpan 7y ago
There are plenty of videos about this nowadays. Here's a series of videos of a Ukrainian youtuber from this winter, biking into the exclusion zone, etc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=199KDKgO1Uc https://ww
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
They do grok it, they just don't trust that specific small group of people.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
It's hard to trust a bunch of people employed by a megacorp to make all the decisions about the project you rely on. But easier to trust independent people, closer to the users, maybe even voted in by the users, like democracies do, no
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> Everyone's upset that Go is Google's language, but no one would have adopted it if it weren't. Brand recognition is not that important for programming languages. It does skew decisions a bit, but people still have to mak
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Agreed. It was interesting to see self contradicting things in the post of how management doesn't control anything and yet people somehow get hired into the core team. And it's not just soft power. Google can actually hire people
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Does it even need to be slower? Almost every single website out there is not a javascript app and so side channel attacks can be mitigated by simply having an rlimit-style CPU time limit after say a user action on a tab.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> Even if they allow you to download the underlying data, it won't contain any personal identifying information of trial participants that you could verify. Yes, that's a problem. That's why you need multiple independent a
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
In simple terms I'd say there are authoritative opinions and there is evidence presented by authorities. You may trust some authorities to provide you with all the necessary evidence to form an opinion, seek evidence from multiple inde
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> that personal freedom and human dignity are optional Political freedom that is. Personal freedom and human dignity are optional in "open societies" too with many countries having it worse than in China.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Appeal to authority is a fallacy exactly because you can't trust New York Times just as you can't trust @TheyAreTryingToKillYou241234, but you do. An authoritative opinion is not an evidence.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Define works. Appeal to authority destroys engineering, scientific, critical thinking and decision making. You can't appeal to authority your way into subject experts, they might even openly criticize you for your bullshit.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
"War on drugs" in the US did scale well.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Yes, I think it's not ok to imprison people for financial crimes.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
You probably mean the more "democratic" a county is. Democracies require cover stories for anything. You don't just disappear, you commit suicide or get thrown in prison on rape charges, possession of drugs, child porn, etc.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Well, you are probably ok with mass incarceration, other countries don't oppose it. You find a way to justify imprisonment for non-violent crimes, consent to this is manufactured through media that you are exposed to. So you feel like
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Browsers rely on kernel/hardware mitigations. Google people even claimed it's impossible to fully mitigate those vulnerabilities in existing Javascript implementation in Chrome.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Redhat employee being against choice is somewhat expected. It's almost inevitable for big tech corporations to promote such attitudes into their culture. But choice is what makes Linux so much different from other desktop OSes. Like I
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
You can probably store all the information computers stored at the beginning of 90s on a single server today. That's how simpler 90s were.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Well, to be fair, there is almost no actual scientific programming language research to begin with, so anything goes.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> Managing services on CentOS is the same as managing them on Debian which is the same as managing them on OpenSUSE. It's not really the same, some systemd-based distros diverge a lot and anything non-systemd much more so, including
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Fundamentally different are at least timeframes and security. Think decades of operations and advanced persistent threats.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Why would that be too much work? I expect total cost of ownership for the government distro to be way less, than using those "well maintained" ones.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> It matters for websites, but only after fixing many other problems with performance and usability. Or does it? Once you fix major performance, usability problems and it starts to feel fast - other efforts become kind of pointless and m
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
I though we were talking about engineering challenges, research, not bets execs of large companies make for very different reasons, mostly hiring reasons.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
We are not in the dark ages anymore. Denying reality doesn't help anyone here. Shared memory is dead for concurrency, it can't be made neither fast, nor easy to use.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
You can always do better than GCed shared memory VM, especially in concurrent applications. And in general shared data structures always slow down concurrent applications. There is no future for JVM in concurrency at this point. Even a toy
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
It's not natural. It depends on your previous experience. Preferring C-style semi-OO stateful programming and OO merely shows what influenced your thinking.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> I learned pretty early that inheritance relations can be trivially refactored into a delegation based design You can go much farther and discover that OO state mutations across multiple methods can be replaced with higher order functio
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Perl was designed to be familiar to C programmers.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
I'd say fragmentation hurts retention, which only has secondary effect on adoption.

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