parenthephobia

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by parenthephobia 8y ago
It's impossible to pass around functions without arguments in Haskell, because there are no functions without arguments in Haskell. It looks like the same is true of Gluon. (So you don't really pass around the function name: you
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by parenthephobia 8y ago
Anything which passes "iface" through without sanitising it. The argument to exec is executed in a shell, so it can execute just about anything it likes, such as dialing out to a host under the attacker's control and giving i
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by parenthephobia 8y ago
Context is king. In this thread, RMS criticises Github as a place for hosting GNU projects . RMS, who leads the FSF, which owns GNU, thinks that GNU projects should not be hosted on services which encourage users to run proprietary softwar
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by parenthephobia 8y ago
His actual point, in context, was that GNUstep shouldn't be hosted on GitHub because in doing so the GNU project is effectively inviting users to run GitHub's non-free software on their computer.
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by parenthephobia 8y ago
> they will target you through payment processors and ad networks How will they do that, and on what legal basis?
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by parenthephobia 8y ago
> If you are under attack If. Much, if not most, server software is written under the implicit assumption that it will not be under attack.
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by parenthephobia 8y ago
Whilst "what a VC-funded startup should be burning money on" is something that the investors should have input on, I don't think random people on the Internet get to be the gatekeepers for what a company is allowed to do with
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by parenthephobia 8y ago
Legal dictionaries are useful for looking up legal terms of art, but they are not binding on courts. After all, anyone can publish one. In the US at least, courts prefer to use the common meaning of words whenever it's reasonable to do
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by parenthephobia 8y ago
oddjob isn't part of systemd and doesn't use systemd.
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by parenthephobia 8y ago
> It's OK to make mistakes. A sentiment that is harder to sell if people erase all evidence of their mistakes.
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by parenthephobia 8y ago
> it seems most developer prefer to build complex systems using simple languages, rather than build simple systems using complex languages According to TIOBE, 1% of programmers are using Go, whilst 23% are using Java or C++. If that is t
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by parenthephobia 8y ago
If we must make this comparison, most actual companies are totalitarian dictatorships. > We can all opt out of Facebook. Can we? What is the practical effect of doing so? Will they stop tracking us on the web? Will they stop gathering da
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by parenthephobia 8y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16710891
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by parenthephobia 8y ago
> something that's been working fine since the 1980s has recently been declared broken Void Linux uses runit, which was released in 2004, so I guess they agree.
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by parenthephobia 8y ago
None, intrinsically. But, receiving, storing, and/or processing personal data without consent is, in most situations, likely to be against the the Privacy and Electronic Communication Regulations and the Data Protection Act. Addition
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by parenthephobia 9y ago
> The sort package has addressed this concern. How? Looking at the documentation, you still have to write at least three functions for each type you want to sort.
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by parenthephobia 9y ago
I don't understand your point about sorting. What sort-related Java boiler plate are you referring to?
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by parenthephobia 9y ago
I think package URIs should include a secure hash of their contents. Although you won't get updates without asking for them - I'm not sure that's a bad thing - you can be assured that you'll either get the package you we
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by parenthephobia 9y ago
Major companies think the current situation isn't anywhere extreme enough. Their customers have some rights, and some courts will even let them exercise them: that's unacceptable. There's no chance Disney will be happy with
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by parenthephobia 9y ago
> Do you go into stores and demand they take down the displays that you don't like while you're shopping? No, but stores are usually happy for me to not look at the displays if I don't want to. Staff don't follow me a
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by parenthephobia 9y ago
> If you invite a friend to your house do you expect them to show up with 50 other people? But if you say no, your friend has the choice of whether to come alone. Anti-anti-adblocking systems prevent your friend from making that choice.
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by parenthephobia 9y ago
Ads appearing when you don't block them isn't really an issue. When you are blocking ads, do you click on them? I wouldn't: I'd instead be annoyed that I'm seeing ads when I have an adblocker running.
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by parenthephobia 9y ago
> This is a bit ridiculous, as the questions aren't specific. The issue is the editorialising the results, and not providing the other questions they asked, the actual results, or a more detailed description of the methodology.
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by parenthephobia 9y ago
Whereas I can set up a Paypal account in a few minutes, even if I'm not computer savvy.
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by parenthephobia 9y ago
> That's why I've never bought a computer - next year there will be a faster and cheaper one on the market. Computers are practically useful. If you buy a computer now instead of waiting, it's because the the cost of not b
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Bitcoin owners, you need to do these two things right now(hackernoon.com)
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by parenthephobia 9y ago
I don't want this to happen. On servers, in almost every situation, I'd rather have the server reboot than have some random process crash and leave the system in a potentially broken state. On desktops, in every situation, I'
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by parenthephobia 9y ago
Sounds like reverse survival bias to me. Experts are usually right, so people make financial decisions on that basis. When it turns out the experts were wrong, those decisions don't pan out. The worse the outcome, the more likely we ar
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by parenthephobia 9y ago
Lincoln, Nebraska. Population approx. 350k. Do you imagine that adding an extra million people would not effect the cost of living or the vibrancy of the economy?
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by parenthephobia 9y ago
What value do bitcoins have other than their price?

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