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by stackghost 3mo ago
I think everyone knows that this is a consequence of git's design. Nobody's disputing that. Unfortunately there are many people who think git is a panacea and is suitable for all version control tasks of anything.
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by stackghost 3mo ago
This is absolutely how IEDs are made. You buy an old Nokia phone and wire the speaker/ringer to the detonator. Call phone -> boom. In fact, TFReadme directly references Electroboom/Mehdi Sadaghdar who did this with an old-sch
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by stackghost 3mo ago
I'd say it's much worse than it used to be.
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by stackghost 3mo ago
HN has always been notorious for groupthink.
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by stackghost 3mo ago
Oh, excellent. I didn't catch that in the portions I skimmed.
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by stackghost 3mo ago
This was my thought as well. I think the workaround is to have the device present itself as a captive portal type of thing, like you might encounter at a Starbucks, so that when the user is prompted to "Sign In" they immediately
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by stackghost 3mo ago
"Alaska" carries reasonably strong connotations of ruggedness and durability, and probably the arctic associations are also beneficial if you want to sell a server advertised as "running cool", or whatever. It's ju
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by stackghost 3mo ago
Whichever field of study these backwards E symbols are from, I've never taken a course in it. So for me it's "Backwards E a raven Italics Backwards E the vector of hours" and I closed the tab there. After reading this co
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by stackghost 3mo ago
In their defense, the "rewrite it in rust" crowd can be really grating.
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by stackghost 3mo ago
That's interesting, because I found it trivial to win with the largest boat. Tank one hit, lead your target, blast away. I remain undefeated with the largest boat. By contrast I found winning with the medium boat required the most sk
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by stackghost 3mo ago
>Why don't we use AI to generate lofi samples for tracker music? Because generating lofi samples is already pretty easy with waveform generators and existing tools. Burning millions of tokens worth of compute just to make a bass ki
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by stackghost 3mo ago
>Bootstrap ships components. I haven't used it in ages, but it used to be that Bootstrap also shipped drop-in CSS that would give you decent-looking styles on all the common elements, so a single minified style sheet would give you
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by stackghost 3mo ago
Not a clue, but if there are only 7 seats then all 10 provinces can't be represented anyway. I highly doubt political opinions about surveillance are aligned with provincial borders.
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by stackghost 3mo ago
Right, and even with those extra two seats from the Senatorial clause, they only get 4. Ontario the juggernaut gets 122.
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by stackghost 3mo ago
Saskatchewan and Manitoba are also over-represented. BC, Alberta, and Ontario are under-represented. Ontario, for example, is about 39% of the population of the provinces, but only 36% or so of the seats. The allocation is an imperfect for
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by stackghost 3mo ago
It's the tyranny of the majority. Ontario and Quebec together are like 65% of Canadians. I'm in BC and have made my peace with that. I would imagine people in PEI feel a similar way. Probably people living in Hope or Quesnel als
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by stackghost 3mo ago
>There is no reason you can't be gracious, courteous and polite while refusing to accept or even to review the PR. I agree, and I never suggested we cannot do these things. I'm saying we should normalize immediately telling p
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by stackghost 3mo ago
https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1/bill/C-22/first-r...
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by stackghost 3mo ago
>I would suggest data centres near the arctic - it's close to most of the Northern hemisphere's users, presents an easy option for cooling (the place is a heat sink), and, with collapsing glaciers, there will be abundant hydro
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by stackghost 3mo ago
>So a $4b data center on Earth delivers the same value as a $40b data center in Space? It may do so, initially, compared to a new-build DC. But, critically, you can upgrade the racks in an already-built DC without demolishing the entire
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by stackghost 3mo ago
>And telling maintainers how to act will not fix anything. Indeed. For too long, maintainers were expected to be gracious, courteous, and polite at all costs lest they be labeled "problematic", except for a few who were too in
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by stackghost 3mo ago
There's no doubt in my mind they would if they could.
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by stackghost 3mo ago
Cheapest mac mini I could spec out on the apple store right now is about $750, which if you consider how much more capable its M4 processor is than the pi, is a pretty good deal tbh.
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by stackghost 3mo ago
It's amazing how inscrutable calculus can be when you return to reading it after not doing so for a period of time, much like lisp or forth. I don't think I've actually done an integral or taken a derivative in years. I can
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by stackghost 3mo ago
I fully expected the origin of "Molly Guard" to be apocryphal, akin to something your boomer uncle sends you in 2008, that's been forwarded 1000 times and you can see all the fwd: address lists in the message ("Hey Susan
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by stackghost 3mo ago
>The irony is unreal. Where's the hardware? It's the rotary phone and the raspberry pi, of course. Don't gatekeep. The fact that microcontrollers are so cheap now means for most (but, sure, not all) applications they&#x27
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by stackghost 3mo ago
>In hindsight, they were entirely correct. Sure but when serial grifter Sam Altman said it was "too dangerous" what he meant was that he wanted regulators to create him an artificial competitive moat so Anthropic et al couldn&#
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by stackghost 3mo ago
Yeah, the US FDA allows artificial growth hormones in dairy so let's drop this comical charade that US dairy is good.
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by stackghost 3mo ago
Valve famously has a very flat org structure so it's possible that that problem just isn't sexy enough for someone to pick it up on their own, without being told by a higher-up. I wish they offered remote; I'd happily work th
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by stackghost 4mo ago
Sure but the act of actually securing VC funding is a small part of running a company. Those VCs are not going to recoup their investments if they pick people who optimize for funding and not for product vision and good leadership.

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