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lvass··on The Full Chess Cheating Report of Hans Neiman
It's also the sophist Thrasymachus' central point in Plato's republic: "Justice is serving the interest of the stronger".
lvass··on The Full Chess Cheating Report of Hans Neiman
I don't disagree at all. But there are people who just want to play the game by the rules. There are people who won't cheat for moral reasons. There are people who lack competence to cheat. There are people who are risk averse. Cheating should be expected, but you were implying every single person has more incentive to cheat than not, which just isn't true. You could even argue most people are in fact cheating and I might even agree with you, but without evidence it's just slandering, something even the world champion should be reprehended on.
lvass··on The Full Chess Cheating Report of Hans Neiman
Games are just games, they don't have to mean the same thing to everyone. The way you view them tells more about youself than about the games.
lvass··on RISC-V Laptop now available
>There's a dedicated security chip onboard

And thus, the newest laptop without an Intel ME equivalent is still around 14 years old.

lvass··on EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024
Words of Comission spokesperson, 2060: We're fully aware of Deukhoofd's words and even though they aren't in the letter of law, we're still working hard on approving a better connector. Unfortunately as all things in life, there are tradeoffs with every single change, so we're planning to come up with a new definition of the term "better connector" in the next 10 years. Stay tuned in our hard work and don't forget to vote on us if you want to see this finished.
lvass··on Brazilian vote counting (real time)
>was invalidated on the basis that the judge was himself corrupt

No, firstly the legal system changed and the veredicts given were considered insufficient for conviction. Then, they were annulled based on being outside the court's jurisdiction.

lvass··on Get things done with Emacs
>it was just poorly designed

This is actually true, but not an issue anymore. Control was near the space bar in the Symbolics keyboard, now it's in a much more comfortable position where it can and should be pressed with the left hand's palm, which is important even if you don't use Emacs. Vi uses control too.

lvass··on Closing a 30 pixel gap between native and web
Why are the window decoration buttons considered critical on Windows? People using Windows without a keyboard maybe? I always disabled those (or the whole bar) on any system I've used since I can remember.
lvass··on Ask HN: Ads triggered by WhatsApp “end to end encrypted” messages?
No, you have the option, disabled by default, to enable backup encryption. And there are two ways to enable it, one with a short password that when used Meta can always unencrypt the backup themselves and another with a 64 digit key, which AFAIK is unaudited.
lvass··on Next steps for Rust in the kernel
Which projects?
lvass··on Arm execs: We respect RISC-V but it's not a rival in the datacenter
I had no idea RISC-V was such a threat to them. Downplaying is done by those who fear, otherwise they'd just ignore.
lvass··on An X11 apologist tries Wayland
>in Firefox

ScrollAnywhere. It's much better UX than even the best scroll wheels.

lvass··on GitUI: Terminal UI for Git
At least until they add an elisp interpreter to vim.
lvass··on GitUI: Terminal UI for Git
It's quite linear if you're using the manual / C-h prefix. More like a spiral if you're like me and keep reaching for external packages to solve problems you're not sure you have. Either way it's really worth it.
lvass··on GitUI: Terminal UI for Git
There's vim-grepper but nothing really has a selection interface quite like Helm.
lvass··on Software engineers paying 75K to get 3 inches taller
Unless you're optimizing for sexual desirability of offspring, which essentially means you look for the same characteristics the majority does.
lvass··on Software engineers paying 75K to get 3 inches taller
Maybe not instinctively, but socially we definitely have at some point. Sharia, coverture, old testament laws, etc.
lvass··on Software engineers paying 75K to get 3 inches taller
Maybe we're just heading toward single motherhood with fewer but more prolific fathers which I think happened before. As a man without children relying on government assistance, the real issue is this arrangement these days tends to rely on welfare and therefore higher taxes for me who has no stake in it.
lvass··on The Ethereum merge is done
They're known.
lvass··on India is almost 80% IPv6
"Most devices", "should be, "unlikely case", "pretty unlikely". That's my impression too, and none of those are good enough. I have many internet connected devices (appliances) and really don't want to worry about someone remotely accessing them. Behind the NAT it just isn't possible.
lvass··on India is almost 80% IPv6
What is Homeland? I explicitly disable IPv6 because I don't trust the firewall, specially on an auto-updating device.
lvass··on India is almost 80% IPv6
>Even though they now have a public IPv6 address, the router's firewall should block incoming connections to it by default. That's the case for my router, but to be sure you should check it yourself for yours

This is why I won't enable IPv6 unless ISPs dramatically change how their hardware works. My ISP-issued modem+router doesn't even have a way to disable routing or automatic updates. I can test the firewall today, but what guarantee is there it'll just keep working?

lvass··on Go Developer Survey 2022 Q2 Results
I would dislike if my text editor asked me to fill a survey and would definitely not respond, hopefully they find a better way to randomly sample but surely it's nice to have the random vs self-selected split, I wish the charts showed it better. I'm sure the sample is also heavily biased with non-Chinese respondents, golang seems to be getting really popular in China despite being long past peak popularity elsewhere, unfortunately the survey doesn't give many insights on that.
lvass··on Ask HN: What Is Meditation?
Reductio ad absurdum: "I should be considered innocent for committing this crime, your honor, as I was unaware of what my thoughts meant at the time as it was not during meditation."
lvass··on AI is getting better at generating porn
If that's how it works, these AI models _really_ should prevent taking queries with "child" in them. Imagine you have one of these AIs installed, all you need is to stroke six keyboard keys to face a 20+ years criminal charge (of the type your ass is not spared). A bad actor with a few seconds in front of your screen could take this hell upon you. Having something like this installed in a laptop is equivalent to leaving your unlocked gun on a table pointed at you in public.
lvass··on The toll of dating app burnout
I gave up dating entirely in my early 20s, before dating apps were a thing. It was nothing short of a great decision. For me the juice isn't worth the squeeze, but a lot of people want it much more than I do, and they end up bitter if they take this path. Solitude isn't easy but it's amazing when you can appreciate it.
lvass··on The toll of dating app burnout
I'm trying to picture a distribution where this holds true and holy crap, dating apps should display a "Abandon all hope ye who enter here" warning to every man who falls below or near median ELO scores.
lvass··on SQLite: Past, Present, and Future
Keyword here is transactions, not processes. You can model any workload to be transaction-efficient, but it might not be easy.
lvass··on SQLite: Past, Present, and Future
Then it depends on the usage. You'd likely need to run with synchronous mode on, and even on WAL, multiple separate write transactions is a issue. If you don't have many writes or buffer them into not many transactions, SQLite is the most performant.
lvass··on SQLite: Past, Present, and Future
SQLite. The most performant configuration is unsuited to most usage, and may lead to database corruption on a system crash.
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