XCabbage

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by XCabbage 4mo ago
Sorry, I don't get it. What's the chain of reasoning that connects "there are a couple of new Linux local privilege escalation exploits" to "don't install any new software"? Is the threat we're suppos
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by XCabbage 5mo ago
> If you had decided up front to not ship until all these features were in place it wouldn't change the work at all in most cases In my experience (of primarily web dev), this is not true, and the reasons it is not true are not lim
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by XCabbage 5mo ago
> Building a piece of software is or at least was orders of magnitudes more expensive than maintaining it This feels ludicrously backwards to me, and also contrary to what I've always seen as established wisdom - that most programmi
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by XCabbage 7mo ago
Ah, right, sorry, I misunderstood the definition of "axle weight" I got when I hurriedly googled it even though the name should've made the meaning obvious.
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by XCabbage 7mo ago
More importantly, employees with options are generally not sophisticated enough to realise liquidation preferences may exist and may dramatically devalue the common stock options they have, and even if they are sophisticated enough, they wi
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by XCabbage 7mo ago
Liquidation preferences that merely guarantee you get back the cash you put in before anyone else gets anything are a perfectly reasonable protection for investors. Otherwise, the risk is investors put in $1m for 10% of the company, only fo
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by XCabbage 7mo ago
At the heavy end, SUVs weigh about 3 tonnes, while at the light end buses weigh about 12, a 4x difference. 4^4 = 256. So if the claim about the fourth power is true, you'd need to replace 256 SUVs to break even on wear, which is obviou
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by XCabbage 9mo ago
I certainly claim that almost nobody "commits" that "fallacy" and that it is not a remotely notable viewpoint in the civic discourse of any country I know about. No doubt in a world of 8 billion people, there exists so
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by XCabbage 9mo ago
How did the title end up wrong on HN (schemes vs scenes) and what's the mechanism to get a mod to fix it?
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by XCabbage 9mo ago
I would guess that what matters most is stops for driving disqualified/uninsured/unregistered, DUI, running lights, and failing to yield (especially at crosswalks), and perhaps for speeding on non-highway roads where it has more o
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by XCabbage 9mo ago
Well, actually, no, not everyone is free to use alternatives. Anyone using CI for "Trusted Publishing" of packages to PyPI or npm needs to use GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD. CircleCI and Travis CI are not supported. So many
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by XCabbage 10mo ago
The 30% figure is "correct" if you look at the absolute number of deaths instead of deaths per VMT. But I basically agree with you; that clearly the wrong stat to cite if you are attributing the change to vehicle safety regulati
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by XCabbage 10mo ago
2020 wasn't just the start of Covid, but also the start of BLM. The narrative I always see from the American right is that BLM caused many police forces across the US to radically reduce traffic enforcement, since: 1. traffic offenders
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by XCabbage 10mo ago
I assume you're an American? As a Brit, your comment confuses me. Why would anyone ever have high beams on at all in anything reasonably described as a "neighbourhood"? Do built-up areas in the US not reliably have street lig
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by XCabbage 11mo ago
Hmm. That'd be pretty nasty to be on the receiving end of (and may well have been an outrageous abuse of executive power), but still, an administrative freeze is temporary and is not in itself a clawback. Even if it was a certainty t
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by XCabbage 11mo ago
> Why was the clause included if it's completely redundant? It's not and I didn't suggest it was. It gives the NSF itself the ability to litigate discrimination by grantees (in order to claw back its funds) instead of only
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by XCabbage 11mo ago
The burden of proof is "on the balance of probabilities" in both cases as far as I know, and there's no limit in principle on how high a breach of contract case can be appealed. Of course it has an effect, but that effect is
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by XCabbage 11mo ago
I don't understand what you're trying to say. It's obviously possible for the extremely weak claim made by statement 2 to be true (i.e. for some non-zero number of "deserving" nonwhites to exist and for existing hir
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by XCabbage 11mo ago
A point made deep in a comment thread by user "rck" below deserves to be a top-level comment - the clawback clause explicitly applies ONLY to violations of existing law: > NSF reserves the right to terminate financial assistanc
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by XCabbage 11mo ago
Uh, what? There's no contradiction, or even tension, between these three positions: 1. "DEI is about taking jobs from white people and giving them to undeserving others" 2. "the deserving are spread across different race
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Tell HN: Search your projects for "git://github.com". Any match is a bug.
6 points by XCabbage 1y ago|0 comments
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by XCabbage 1y ago
Well, not necessarily, on your last sentence. It might also be theft, depending on the precise nefarious purpose and on the jurisdiction. If you take somebody else's property without their consent, that's typically theft, even if
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by XCabbage 1y ago
Why? I don't understand the objection to this. If the app was sending off any data to Notion without consent, that would obviously be a privacy issue, but why is it a problem for a desktop app to simply check if your mic is being used
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by XCabbage 1y ago
> Could you or I be 100% certain we wouldn't react the same way? Probably not - but when I say that we should not deemphasise their agency, I don't think I imply otherwise. The opposite, in fact: to even ask or try to answer th
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by XCabbage 1y ago
Sorry for your loss. I agree with your final paragraph, disagree in part with your second, and disagree with your first. To the second: I don't doubt there's an implication of wrongdoing baked into the etymology of "committ
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by XCabbage 1y ago
I don't see the vulnerability. In fact, I think considering this a problem at all is ridiculous. Obviously it's impossible to block all ways of "bypassing" the policy. If you are a developer who has already been entruste
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by XCabbage 1y ago
Two journalists criticised how their daughter's primary school handled her disabilities and were arrested for it, ostensibly on the grounds that their doing so was harassment and was grossly offensive, and you think this isn't wor
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by XCabbage 1y ago
Of course it does, but this proposal entails banning search engines, right? I can imagine definitions of "advertising" that don't encompass search, but this author doesn't intend them; he explicitly states that he is not
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by XCabbage 2y ago
Obvious thought that I haven't tested: can you literally achieve this by getting it to answer in Dutch, or training an AI on Dutch text? Plausibly* Dutch-language training data will reflect this cultural difference by virtue of being w
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by XCabbage 2y ago
In my experience, blame for this basically never lies on grunt-level devs; it's EMs and CTOs/CIOs who insist on using third-party products for everything out of some misguided belief that it will save dev time and it's foolis

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