mindslight

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by mindslight 4d ago
The Sharpie works!!
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by mindslight 4d ago
Games could clearly be an exception - they're the only place the locked down computing paradigm has a reasonable argument. The multi-user productivity apps you listed would most certainly be better off as separate clients and service
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by mindslight 4d ago
> if someone writes an app with a backend service or library, should they be required to document the API for people to build their own tools on top of? Yes. Network services and client software should be considered two separate produc
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by mindslight 4d ago
Documentation for hardware subassemblies produced by different manufacturers isn't getting conveyed through hallway conversations. Pure software can indeed be quite sloppy, but for vehicles we're talking about large scale cross-st
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by mindslight 4d ago
> at what size or capacity should you be required to document and publish these things? The reason there is an opaque number in that open source utility is precisely because of a lack of open documentation for that register definition.
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by mindslight 4d ago
Given how each tractor manufacturer is essentially associated with its own specific country, I'd say this industry is a great example of how mature industries tend to consolidate into monopolies while getting propped up by regulatory c
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by mindslight 4d ago
> I’m not a mechanic or a farmer So the author is looking at one third of the problem (from the perspective of an IT worker), in a comfortable stage-managed experience put on by Deere themselves. A sensor with a disconnected cable - a
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by mindslight 5d ago
My question is not whether those who voted for Trump 2024 are going to come to their senses and sour on this incompetent, destructive, and corrupt con man. My question is how long their reality checks are going to last before they start lea
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by mindslight 6d ago
Your understanding of LLCs is a bit off. The LLC (or other corporate) structure does not protect the nurse from liability, nor any of the other directly-involved workers. The LLC protects the owners of the LLC - ie the ones turning the
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by mindslight 10d ago
It's understandable when you see that the ethos is to have software that represents the user in charge of the rendering, rather than centralizing it all on the server. There is a major difference between common "app store apps&quo
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by mindslight 10d ago
> too much time being the "defund the police/eat the rich" sidekick to Biden It seems like you're merely demonstrating one dynamic by which people are able to maintain that proud ignorance - buying into simplistic f
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by mindslight 10d ago
Actual terrorists have a right to speak too, you know. Intrinsic to the whole idea of rights is that even people we don't like (or are even mortally opposed to!) still have them. The problem with "firebombs on anti-abortion preg
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by mindslight 11d ago
> Most Americans clearly don't approve Except they did . Votes for Grump in 2016 were completely understandable, sympathizable even. Responsibility for the train wreck of a first term didn't fall at the feet of the voters -
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by mindslight 12d ago
No, that's proxying the service . Presumably if your younger brother had asked you to buy ten handles of pure grain alcohol, you would have asked some questions. Proxying the credential means something like letting your brother use yo
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by mindslight 12d ago
Move over mahi-mahi, here comes maha tuna.
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by mindslight 12d ago
De/centralization is not an either or, but more like a yin and yang. There are aspects of IP that are highly centralized. 1. Assignment of addresses is centralized. Even though it's federated (ie distributed), authority still flow
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by mindslight 12d ago
(Sorry for the delay in replying. There is definitely an analog of Gresham's law for discussions) I completely agree about the feedback loops. They're mutual feedback loops though, and causality can go both ways. We're curren
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by mindslight 12d ago
> I don't know why HN rails against it [ZKP for age verification] constantly Because on its own as often presented, it still has the glaring shortcoming that anybody can proxy an ID verification for anybody else without any form o
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by mindslight 13d ago
> I don't believe government regulation is the answer While I agree with where you're coming from in spirit, if you want to push this then you've got to do the work of actually coming up with workable concrete approach
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by mindslight 13d ago
It seems like you should probably spend some effort on trying to learn at least a few more things?
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by mindslight 14d ago
It's disingenuous to invert the issue. It's not some matter of " don't like ", but rather defaulting to not believing a habitually lying con artist. That is the smart thing to do, right? The real question is why s
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by mindslight 14d ago
Yeah, it's much better to be standing so you can toss the bag of food into the subway car right before the doors close.
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by mindslight 14d ago
The whole point of the label "smart" is to fill in vague positive thoughts for the customary "..." that comes right before "profit" in the standard /. business plan. And the real problem is that it works.
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by mindslight 14d ago
The big problem is that there has been, and is still, basically no political will in the US for GDPR-style privacy rights [0]. The current ID systems (DL# and SSN#) are already being flagrantly abused by an unaccountable surveillance indust
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by mindslight 14d ago
That explains how he got the votes on election night in 2016 . A vote for Grump in 2016 was completely understandable. But he should have plainly been a one term president, after his abjectly terrible handling of Covid (for starters, we ne
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by mindslight 14d ago
It's also abusive for Amazon to delay your order for a week with their Super Spiteful Shipping, pushing you to sign up for their sunk cost fallacy subscription. When I'm in the middle of some project, I've got no qualms about
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by mindslight 15d ago
It feels like we need to tweak the analogy for the surveillance industry. Something more like if all of your friends are pushing people off a cliff...
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by mindslight 15d ago
Yes I am talking with a US perspective. I would hope the GDPR would prevent such things in (most of) Europe. But I also personally wouldn't assume so given that there are still the same dynamics of keeping the info flows private to avo
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by mindslight 15d ago
That's the application software side. I would assume the IMEI and IMSI are both going out to the cell network though, and I would presume that it's trivial to tie a phone number to those with how the mobile industry generally sell
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by mindslight 15d ago
What we actually need to do are things like ranked pairs voting, a recall election dynamic for president/congress/judges, constitutional amendment to enshrine splitting executive power into agencies with heads elected separately f

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