ornxka

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by ornxka 4y ago
Alternate take, the people who keep mucking up the perfectly fine UI[1] that I've been using for years should get on that bus, so the rest of us never have to worry about waking up and everything is in a different place for absolutely
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by ornxka 4y ago
Oh, well I guess it's not just me then.
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Ask HN: Has the quality of Google search declined for anyone else, or just me?
72 points by ornxka 4y ago|101 comments
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by ornxka 4y ago
>I know the resurrection is a fact, and Watergate proved it to me. How? Because 12 men testified they had seen Jesus raised from the dead, then they proclaimed that truth for 40 years, never once denying it. Every one was beaten, torture
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by ornxka 4y ago
Different resource usage patterns aside, why do people think that robots are somehow less "legitimate" consumers of data than their human operators? Do the authors of this article think that humans only use data for purposes sanct
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by ornxka 4y ago
"Reality is that which doesn't cease to exist when you stop thinking about it", they say. Or, to elaborate, these things have a cost whether people are aware of it (and care about it) or not. Maybe it's not so high now,
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by ornxka 4y ago
Wait, Chrome is now requiring HSTS for localhost ? This is absolute madness. Somebody needs to sit down with the people responsible for this and explain to them that this is not solving anybody's problems and is just making life more
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by ornxka 4y ago
Swap has always been so slow for me that I just disable it on all of my machines. I would rather the OOM reaper just SIGKILL whatever is using all my RAM than deal with slowness (which often persists after the OOM situation is gone).
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by ornxka 5y ago
>Bitcoin is a silly idea based on scarcity that doesn't exist. If its scarcity isn't real, then why can't you conjure up an arbitrary number of bitcoins at will?
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by ornxka 5y ago
The point is that as long as telemetry is delivered over the internet, it is also tracking. There is absolutely no difference whatsoever unless your telemetry is delivered via Tor or some other mathematically proven means of nearly-anonymou
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by ornxka 5y ago
>Which is a big problem. Is it? What if the alternative is that people feel the wrong way about things?
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by ornxka 5y ago
Five's how many fingers I have.
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by ornxka 5y ago
That's a good point about the critical path - I was thinking it would be a bit bigger and slower since you'd have to decode it, but I hadn't realized what an impact that would probably have. No bit-perfect round trips is also
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by ornxka 5y ago
I'm not really sure why it has to be that hard, like, why don't we just use base64-encoded JSON or something?
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by ornxka 5y ago
>Postfix is written in C, and none of us should be comfortable with that qmail is written in C, and it has never had a serious security hole that I am aware of. Not all C code is unsafe.
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by ornxka 5y ago
But most of those are terrible! Google has actually gotten worse over the years, literally all I've ever heard about fraud detection is the vast amount of both false positives and false negatives somehow, speech to text is utter garbag
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by ornxka 5y ago
I'm pretty sure their "path to profitability" is actually intimately related to the fact that it is free to use.
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by ornxka 5y ago
Actually, you'd be really surprised about that: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1229641258370355200
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by ornxka 5y ago
Thank you for posting this, I will now forever wonder who, if any, of the people I meet throughout my life will have been secret cardinals. The answer is almost certainly "none at all", but you're right, how would I know!
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by ornxka 5y ago
Am I the only one who thinks that no travel + tactile feedback actually sound like two highly desirable properties for a keyboard? Whenever I use someone else's butterfly keyboard I'm impressed and a bit jealous, but as I've
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The relationships between Shift JIS and its variants, graphed(upload.wikimedia.org)
12 points by ornxka 5y ago|2 comments
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by ornxka 6y ago
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by ornxka 6y ago
Well, it's definitely suspect now that RSA is broken.
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by ornxka 6y ago
Their behavior makes Firefox unlike literally every single other program with a text box, except the singular other browser people actually use. Neither browser should be different for the sake of it.
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by ornxka 6y ago
Nobody is addressing the elephant in the room, which is the reason why there are only two viable browsers in the first place - because the endless and ever-growing list of specifications and standards web browsers must comply with has grown
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by ornxka 6y ago
>Checked C has low performance overhead (only 8.6% on selected benchmarks [25]) Isn't that actually kind of significant?
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by ornxka 6y ago
>its arcane and bizarre command-line syntax I actually like dd's command-line syntax the most out of the Linux coreutils, and I wish more programs used a similar "key=value" argument system. It's pretty easy to rememb
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by ornxka 6y ago
If people are going to make crappy half-baked software that doesn't work, they need to be upfront about it so people stop expecting it to do its job. If they're not going to do this, people are right to expect a basic level of qua
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by ornxka 6y ago
Something similar happened to me once - I used faulty ram for about a year (it worked most of the time, and when it didn't, it typically became apparent within a few minutes of booting the system, so it was a minor annoyance at worst).
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by ornxka 6y ago
Not him, but the difference to me is that all of those systems are meant to be amenable to debugging - you can't run strace on an iPad.

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