animuchan

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by animuchan 23d ago
We don't have to have the same exact moral systems of course, but this is curious: if we (collectively!) support the thing, why not claim it's good?
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by animuchan 23d ago
Can't talk for all of HN, but I for one hereby praise most/all piracy websites. Anna's Archive is great, and Rutracker is also great. It's not a competition, and being a moral saint isn't a good KPI; being a net pos
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by animuchan 1mo ago
I guess the hopeful one, "Google always kills its products", suggesting that the bad product in this thread is also doomed. I hold this same hope, almost entirely unironically, about so many things.
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by animuchan 2mo ago
This quote is so egregiously stupid, I'm instantly disinterested in this product now. No reason to assume the rest isn't the same applied cretinism as the quoted sentence.
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by animuchan 2mo ago
True, but the current state of advertising is, charitably, kinda goofy. I'm not surprised the iteration we're seeing now is perceived as failing: on the few remaining screens where ads are still present for me, they're betwee
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by animuchan 2mo ago
It is amusing we pass laws to fix bad UX. But if it works, can't argue with it. I would like a law against unwanted popovers now please.
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by animuchan 2mo ago
That, and filing false claims should be incredibly punishable, like beyond all proportion. One disgusting CEO landing behind the bars over frivolous DMCA takedown would improve things dramatically, like for humanity (or a hefty chunk thereo
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by animuchan 3mo ago
OK yeah I didn't know they stopped allowing to root. Normal levels of DRM then, my mistake, you're right.
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by animuchan 3mo ago
Neat, thanks for this correction! Interesting, an entire new programming language.
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by animuchan 3mo ago
It's Android but without Google's services, there's an alternative app store. The irony of Chinese vendors providing a breath of fresh low-DRM air.
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by animuchan 3mo ago
You will not. Have a nice day though! Now with more time to spend on positive things. :)
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by animuchan 3mo ago
That group is against our political freedoms, so we're naturally against their political freedoms. Are we just doing tribalism and then intellectualizing? (I don't know what the answer is, but I fear it's a resounding "y
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by animuchan 3mo ago
Yep -- and it's good. Before: customer pays fines for bad security, rolled into the price of the offering. After: customer pays for actual good security, rolled into the price of the offering. If the customer doesn't care, no
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by animuchan 3mo ago
This thread reads as an example of anything BUT plurality of opinion -- most of the people here never in their lives considered that the country in question has political discourse at all, and what's going on in there politically, so
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by animuchan 3mo ago
I wonder if by this thread's logic, it is now my turn to virtue signal as if I'm leaving Mullvad as a customer, because now you said that don't like someone else's freedom of conscience, and I value freedom of conscience
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by animuchan 3mo ago
Yes please! Making PII leaks an expense (like rent and cloud costs) means it's paid by the customer. I strongly believe we should distinguish the price of doing the operation (aka rent) and the price of doing crime (ideally, jail).
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by animuchan 3mo ago
This is probably the most charitable explanation humanly possible. Surely for this specific example of managerial stupidity it just is, but I mean more generally, it's a beautiful posting. I aspire to have this much misplaced belief in
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by animuchan 3mo ago
Personally I'm (vaguely) anti-AI because I'm made to interface with it a lot. Every time I open my editor, there's another colorful popup about some AI feature or other, and it's never what I want. Product people don&#x2
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by animuchan 3mo ago
And in the end the big reveal is, it was a dude in VR all along, piloting the dumb things remotely. Every single time, without exception.
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by animuchan 4mo ago
This is why I'm thankful for Chinese LLM research. They'll keep us honest.
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by animuchan 4mo ago
Absolutely this, I'm the same as you. And I'm just afraid this is what cognitive decline feels like from inside the deteriorating mind.
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by animuchan 4mo ago
From what I'm aware of -- not manslaughter. Compelled suicide or what's it called is substantially different, you always want to serve the sentence on this and not murder. (Not legal advice of course.)
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by animuchan 4mo ago
Well, it's entirely lawful until proven otherwise in court. So 100% clean behavior from this POV.
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by animuchan 4mo ago
For most of the users on HN, the answer to "is bribe legal in your country?" would be a resounding "yup". US regulates over-the-table political bribes. Corporate political influence is functionally bribe-like, a reciproc
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by animuchan 4mo ago
I see the point, but nobody in their right mind would call a mere text message "please delete your work" to be malware, much like telling someone "please die" is very very different from attempted manslaughter.
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by animuchan 4mo ago
> Truly feels like the UI/UX is done by people To me it feels like it's done entirely by an LLM, starting from the product vision.
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by animuchan 4mo ago
This is so beautifully cursed, reusing the module loader state as your local state. We could have the familiar Python syntax of `from <key> import <value>` And a custom import hook eating the error. To get value(s) for a given k
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by animuchan 4mo ago
"The Good Parts"
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by animuchan 4mo ago
This is infuriating in certain video games, like the StarCraft II single-player campaign: you're in the middle of 4 different things, your base is being slowly nibbled on by a few run-by zerglings, need to expand, babysit workers, cree
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by animuchan 5mo ago
It's a bit insane, but the cost of switching to regular NodeJS is low (for all but most bun-specific projects). All valid points though, I'm pessimistic about Anthropic still actively diverting resources to these side quests when

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