samhwr

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by samhwr 5y ago
System programming is quite poorly defined in general. I’d call it “the kind of software usually written by people who write C instead of Python”, and leave it at that.
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by samhwr 5y ago
“There are far more people doing [thing that I personally do] than [thing that I do not personally do, and thus know fewer people who do it].” — everyone ever
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by samhwr 5y ago
It _affected_ the whole network, and _effected_ the whole outage ;)
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by samhwr 5y ago
It’s massively viral news about the exact stuff they specialise in. I’m not too surprised that they’d be putting out content. After all, Facebook is hardly in a position to do so ;)
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by samhwr 5y ago
>> eclipsing Intel > AMD had 2020 revenues of $9.76bln to Intel's $77.87bln. Ever heard of a solar eclipse? ;)
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by samhwr 5y ago
> though standing in a group on the road is maybe not the brightest idea I wouldn’t judge ravens too harshly. Insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan were notorious for booby-trapping bodies in order to take out first responders - so humans a
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by samhwr 5y ago
> One must keep in mind that the United States is and near or more always has been a welfare state. > If one must keep that in mind, may one ask what definition of "welfare state" has applied to the USA since its founding? T
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by samhwr 5y ago
Sorry, I was responding to the “not expressed so much in code I can look at” point. All these things should be expressed in code nowadays. I’m sure some Makefiles are excessively complex - and Terraform and K8s manifests surely as well - bu
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by samhwr 5y ago
Yeah, after wasting eight years of my life doing Latin at school I understand the basic etymology, but I’m confused because the English meanings aren’t very close. Your careful phrasing manages to get the word ‘hold’ into both of them, but
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by samhwr 5y ago
I’m not totally sure what you mean there? I’m not saying that all mentally ill people are prone to that, I’m just saying the inverse: that most people who are prone to that are mentally ill. It’s certainly a very very small subset of mental
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by samhwr 5y ago
> But how to build an executable I can wrap in a systemd process running on a different machine? Those are actions people do, not expressed so much in code I can look at. The former sounds like a makefile, and the latter sounds like a Te
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by samhwr 5y ago
Yes, I’m not a fan of lots of what Apple does, but I don’t see how these generalised complaints about Apple are related to this case. I don’t think your comments justify the notion that Apple is obliged to hire people at a loss to provide s
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by samhwr 5y ago
I’m not sure why having the money is relevant. Plenty of companies, people, and governments ‘have the money’. The question is why it is specifically Apple who are obliged to provide welfare for this person at their own expense. I have hug
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by samhwr 5y ago
Yeah, the complaining about this is ludicrous. It feels like there are increasingly two camps, one of which believes anyone fired for social justice reasons is being wronged due to some kind of cancel culture, and the other of which believe
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by samhwr 5y ago
Not only logged, but potentially subpoenable in lawsuits. Any reasonably large company usually ends up with the occasional lawsuit from some mentally ill querulant who feels wronged for whatever reason, and in one of those cases, at a past
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by samhwr 5y ago
I think it’s a harder question than either side is willing to accept. You have someone who isn’t of much use as an employee, but by no fault of their own. It’s a horrible situation for them to be in, and it’s one we have to think about as a
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by samhwr 5y ago
I don’t quite understand your confusion - did you read his comment as “at any point since its founding [i.e. just not before 1776]”?
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by samhwr 5y ago
> Their tenants were largely about taking care of each other. For what it’s worth, you almost certainly mean ‘tenets’. I don’t know why, but this malapropism has become increasingly common. Tenants are people who rent a property.
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by samhwr 5y ago
Hey, I know this is quite far downthread and didn’t get much attention - and there’s a 92% chance you won’t even see this comment due to HN’s bizarre lack of any adequate notification mechanism - but I just wanted to say I really appreciate
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by samhwr 5y ago
This is a complete non sequitur as a reply. The commenter you're replying to asked people to prioritise his grieving family's wishes over your own curiosity. He/she was absolutely right to do so. Your reply talks about other
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by samhwr 5y ago
Oh I see, you mean you were just making the descriptive statement that people will speculate if they are not given information? I took you to be saying that they (the family or whoever has the right to give out that information) were actual
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by samhwr 5y ago
This is certainly an inventive argument! But I would argue in response that your odds of being killed by whatever killed Dan Kaminsky, in the next 24 hours or so, purely because you weren't told soon enough how he died, are rather low!
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by samhwr 5y ago
Are you telling me why I upvoted, or (by implication) why his original post was downvoted by others? Because yes, I’d argue it was important. (I’m sorry if I’m not familiar with the rules here quite yet.)
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by samhwr 5y ago
Unless he was killed by a bear and that bear is still on the loose, or something like that, then I think we can probably wait a few days for his family to be informed. There are a lot of people here making very high-minded comments about ho
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by samhwr 5y ago
I agree, this was clearly voiced very respectfully and with good intentions, but I’m astonished the commenter couldn’t see what a classless thing this is to imply – especially about someone who just died. I was pretty dumbfounded reading th
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by samhwr 5y ago
I just wanted to say I agree with you and I don’t know why you were downvoted. This seems to me a well-intentioned and quite reasonable request.
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by samhwr 5y ago
They don’t need to do anything. People aren’t morally entitled to demand information from a grieving family just because it would sate their curiosity.
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by samhwr 5y ago
NXDOMAIN :(