MsMowz

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by MsMowz 5y ago
I guess I assumed reverse engineering was understood to mean explaining how a phenomenon actually occurred. They've recreated a similar outcome, but haven't given any evidence that it's related to what happened in Cuba. If I
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by MsMowz 5y ago
What's the difference between "reverse engineering" and speculation in this case? It's widely debated whether any device intentionally caused these symptoms. The article doesn't shed any light on this.
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by MsMowz 5y ago
I’m not saying it’s minor apropos of nothing, I’m talking about it in relative terms to the consequences of the Gang of Four’s downfall.
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by MsMowz 5y ago
I think we must have different understandings of what causes power struggles within leadership. The comparison to the 1953-1956 period in the USSR also feels a bit misplaced to me, as although there was a minor power struggle during that pe
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by MsMowz 5y ago
This overlooks many changes that have occurred in the recent decades, such as the restructuring of the PLA (including their decoupling from state business), the development of the socialist market economy, and the further development of the
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by MsMowz 5y ago
The centralized, unitary structure of the Chinese government and the CPC make it unlikely that there will be a power struggle — there aren't many levers that would-be power players have to pull to achieve their goals (unlike after the
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by MsMowz 5y ago
I really like Vivaldi, but at this point it’s not performant enough for me to use it on all devices. On a new MacBook Air, the UI visibly lags at times, and when doing video calls it’s unusably slow. I’m looking forward to future versions w
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by MsMowz 5y ago
What makes you think the setting is unrealistic? And why is it an issue that the housing looks pleasant? I’m sure it won’t look exactly like, but for the types of customers that are in the market for consistent 1.5 MWe at $0.06/KWh (th
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by MsMowz 5y ago
Perhaps more notable than the headline is the more rapid decline in support for capitalism. Presumably, this is related to the 60-80% of people who have expressed disapproval of Congress in recent years and the widely written-about erosion
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by MsMowz 5y ago
Corporate means acting as a single body in this context, it’s not about business corporations.
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by MsMowz 5y ago
Isn't that really a pattern that the runtime adopts (i.e. not the language itself)? For ES, the libraries are dependent on the runtime environment; for browsers, there are the web APIs, and for Node, there's npm. I'm not sure
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by MsMowz 5y ago
> Using it as a reason to say "oh, but this other super power totally wouldn't do that" is at best naive and at worst shilling. That’s not what they said though. They made an argument that it’s against the interests of Hua
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by MsMowz 5y ago
They're making a comment on the HN/general paranoia around Huawei in the face of the actual privacy concerns regarding the US government. Does someone need to be a Chinese agent to find this paranoid behavior objectionable?
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by MsMowz 5y ago
This is just playing a game with semantics; the form, canvas, dialog, and keygen elements are also first class. Nobody is saying that the web isn't primarily documents.
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by MsMowz 5y ago
I don't think that's really true; in the original WWW proposal[1], Tim Berners-Lee specifically talks about using the web to build applications and he considered hypermedia applications to be only a matter of time and resources (a
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by MsMowz 5y ago
When Drew Houston first posted Dropbox on HN, BrandonM had the top comment that doubted its viability/usefulness as a product. It's been the topic of a lot of discussion since then, including between the two themselves. >I have
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by MsMowz 5y ago
In my experience (startup product development), product requirements and constraints are constantly shifting in order to support new use cases. In my practice, that has translated into only formalizing specifications after the fundamental n
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by MsMowz 5y ago
>For an experienced programmer eschewing conventions with this "resume", I am surprised by this comment. They only have about a year of full-time engineering experience, so they might not recognize this yet. (Not trying to talk
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by MsMowz 5y ago
I think you may be (or I may be) confusing "i.e." for "viz."; I intended to use "i.e.", as I was specifically referring to the ATCs as industrial workers.
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by MsMowz 5y ago
It is industrial work, and industrial work is not purely physical; even working in a modern factory often requires cognitive work. Tire production is a great example, and if you visit a Goodyear factory you will notice a profound lack of Ta
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by MsMowz 5y ago
"Middle class" in this context refers to the level of their income and standard of living, where "working class" refers to their relationship to production (i.e. industrial wage workers).
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by MsMowz 5y ago
> I don't understand how we continually believe the governments know how to spend money better, HN is littered with examples of government projects that have been woefully inefficient with the money they've taken. This is of co
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by MsMowz 5y ago
Many countries, including the US and UK, have indirect elections for high offices. Are they also non-democratic? Personally, my answer to that question is yes, but I’m willing to apply principles equally. Again, this is beside the point of
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by MsMowz 5y ago
I understand your point, but what I was asking for is a non-ideological distinction. Every point you have made is from the ideological position that supports liberal democracy, but those who support people’s democracy would levy the same ac
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by MsMowz 5y ago
I'll try to strictly source my remarks and refrain from commenting on the political content of the HK demonstrations to keep this purely factual, as I think this could be a rather controversial thread; however, it's interesting ho
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by MsMowz 5y ago
Any major city in the United States has all of these features
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by MsMowz 5y ago
I'm not sure if this is sarcastic, but there quite literally is not a "free market based mechanism" to do this. If there were, there would not be the market failure that we can observe today. There are plenty of market-based
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by MsMowz 5y ago
This isn't true unless your substitute is to eat nothing.
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by MsMowz 6y ago
>Basically all uses of const in JavaScript are pointless. I have asked many times for someone to show me an example of a bug that shipped that would have been prevented by const as it exists in JS. I'm still waiting. You have it bac
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by MsMowz 6y ago
The answer is the same as it always was: you'll have "normal" libraries when somebody writes them (it could even be you). Most new application development relies on web servers, where JavaScript is very relevant and normal.

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