buzzkillington

>Shame on you guys. When you're on your death bed, none of this will matter. Do good things and build great stuff. Atleast I will reflect back that I made the users, you know the ones that provided me with a living wage, happy.

Users are welcome to pay the real price of the product if they don't want it to be spyware.

At any rate, if you're thinking about work on your deathbed you have more things to worry about than how happy users are with the junk you made while living.

I use termux and boox 3 for this and it works amazingly well. The main reason why I haven't switched 100% to not using a laptop is that I haven't found a portable keyboard to go with it yet.

>Useable e-paper displays might change that one day, but the technology is still in its infancy.

I run termux on top stock boox 3 as a thin(ish) client and it works amazingly well. It's some of the most enjoyable terminal time I have had in years because it's so limited.

HN is literally a reddit clone.

>The majority of users will use the app.

In the same way that the majority of users use pintrest. Until you train them to close the site out of reflex.

>Turing completeness, accidental or not, is a silly metric that doesn't say anything about a game.

You can literally crash the game so you never know if you've won or lost.

> was exceptionally well planned and very carefully evolved over decades

Have you seen the number of banned cards?

Or the fact that it's accidentally Turing complete?

This is a card game, nothing more nothing less.

It's great they are finally moving to the 19th century.

So is GCC. The point is you still need to look at where the error is because the closest syntactically correct program to what you wrote is probably not the program you wanted to write.

>“Missing semicolon on line 427.” To which I’d reply “If you know what is missing, and you know where it is missing, why not add it back yourself? You useless piece of crap!”

Because what you mean and what the closest syntactically correct program to what you typed are two very different things.

Natural monopolies are best run by the government.

That's why Mussolini got the trains to run on time. He also used them to ship all the Jews to concentration camps, but what's a few million lives compared to being slightly inconvenienced?

That is a feature, not a bug. Fragmentation leads to protocols instead of products which is why we have the internet instead of whatever monstrosity Bell would have produced had the arpanet never happened.

>Still, it has been part of capitalism since its dawn...

So was slavery. Yet somehow we managed to legislate that away.

Ascii records have worked better than json, xml, s-expressions (better as in provide the same bang for a lot less buck) in every case I've used them for.

I have no idea why I am the only person I know who uses them regularly.

Same, I've built toy shells [0] that used xml, s-expressions and ascii delimited text [1]. The last was closest to what unix pipes should be like. Of course it breaks ALL posix tools, but it felt like a shell that finally works as you'd expect it to work.

[0] Really just input + exec + pipes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delimiter#ASCII_delimited_text

Which is much less of a problem when you can charge the drones from a carrier.

If you want to understand how the parts of a working Linux system come together build Linux From Scratch once, fully manually while going through every step.

Arch Linux is like every other binary Linux distribution, only more difficult to admin for no reason. Hell if you squint hard enough even Gentoo has more of a reason to exist. A package managed that is source code first.

The difference is that Six Flags doesn't use visitor built roller coasters, unlike facebook and twitter who depend on user content to survive.

Or in other words, don't use lazy metaphors for lazy thinking. Facebook and Twitter are nothing like Six Flags.

My my company might support dictatorships that murder millions, but at least it has more rainbow flags than yours.

A good rule of thumb is to abstract inherent complexity and not incidental complexity.

Loggers are examples of incidental complexity. There is nothing fundamental about sending the warning by email vs slack vs irc. The way to deal with this is not to keep adding more and more options, because you end up with combinatorial growth in the number of interactions, it's to make it company policy that you only use email and discipline anyone who doesn't.

If I wanted stable and safe I'd use Ada. You're still not selling me on Rust.

Remember that Kennedy won because the mob stuffed ballot boxes for him.

The only thing that's changed every election is that you're 4 years older an paying attention.

I have never been promoted at a job and my longest tenure was 3 years right out of university. I've gotten a 10%-50% increase in every job I've taken when I've jumped ship.

Staying in the same job for longer than it takes you to learn how to do it is career suicide.

That's a very fall of man rhetoric.

All electronic networks, from the original arpanet to tor, have suffered from the same problem: someone needs to pay for them yet each individual transaction is too small to matter.

Surveillance capitalism is the one model that scaled better than 'let the army and universities pay for it' and it's the one we're stuck with until Xanadu becomes something more than vaporware.

>Would he defend your right to say it in his living room, though?

Twitter is not a living room.

Arguing from bad faith does no one good.

Censorship by the church is not illegal under the first amendment.

Less hard than you think.

I really just need a closet in SF with my own gear and off to the races.

It's a shame slavery doesn't exist any longer. I'd sell myself to a company owned by a shell company I control in a state where slavery is illegal and siphon all my income that way.

>Today, the government relies on machine learning and AI in predictive policing analysis, family court delinquency proceedings, parole decisions, and DNA and forensic science techniques, among other areas, producing a fundamental conflict between civil rights and automated decisionmaking.

Most of the methods used for this are basically large matrices with no human understandable way to represent them. Getting the values would only let you recalculate the results, not discover why the results were produced.

>Btw, does anyone have good reading materials on this topic?

I had a slide deck somewhere from when I was at a broker trader and leap seconds mattered (they (can) happen around 10am in East Asian markets on Jun 30).

The moral of the story is: time measurements are fractally wrong, it doesn't matter what format/time system you pick, there will be a use case that breaks it badly. Local time + timezone, epoch, UTC, ATI, doesn't matter it will break somehow.

Because when I say fanny I don't want to hear from HR.