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txru··on U.S. Rep. Angie Craig drops college requirement for staffers
I think a few things happened in 2020 that show that at least some of the general public are unhappy and want changes...
txru··on Emacs is not just an editor (2015)
This is such a flamebait-y throwaway
txru··on Tell HN: I just received my Equifax breach settlement check
Yeah we’d just have to legally mandate its existence…
txru··on Tell HN: I just received my Equifax breach settlement check
Oh of course if the CLO runs out of statistical life another would be appointed by the board only from the existing C-suite, even if the board is part court-appointed…
txru··on Tell HN: I just received my Equifax breach settlement check
(Hey, friend. I meant this as a lighthearted take. I have no power to write this into law)

I don’t think at all anyone should do this cheaply haha. And imagine if the CLO told the board the other C-suite were squirreling secrets away. And individuals can always be indicted for fraud

txru··on Tell HN: I just received my Equifax breach settlement check
I like the idea of a Chief Liability (or Lamb…) Officer, a person who serves with the understanding that they’ll be the person who serves prison time for the felonious crimes of the corporation

“I’d sign that purchase order, Bill, but our CLO is literally holding a gun to my head and sobbing saying it’s better this way”

txru··on Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now
HN relatively deweights posts that get a lot of argument without a lot of insight. Things about politics, or tech involved culture war, or continuous divisive news stories disappear from the front page quickly.

I would classify that as ‘generic moderation policy’ rather than censorship

txru··on Company ‘Hijacks’ Blender’s CC By-Licensed Film, YouTube Strikes User
Can we not keep Musk discussion to Musk threads? There seem to be enough of them, and this sort of comment just attracts cheerleading and booing with no analysis.
txru··on A Twitter Off Ramp: A Tutorial for Getting on Mastodon
I think you think the fediverse is far more monolithic than it is. Gab is there, so are a bunch of trans activists. Their content don't intersect.

I don't win if you're unfulfilled in friends and content, you don't lose if I have the most followers. Journalism broadcasting and sourcing is a model that might not work in mastodon, but mastodon doesn't have to be a 1-1 mapping of the existing social uses of Twitter

txru··on Extracting Zooming Shots from 600 Hrs of Police Helicopter Surveillance Footage
In theory, yes. In practice, what legal resources does the average person have to bring a case? How do their political connections compare? Oh, they died, no one saw, here’s a voucher. Have you looked at the odds of a cop getting charged with manslaughter lately?

And that’s just some positive action. Good luck proving there was malintent behind a helicam strategically losing focus, youre proving a negative.

txru··on Extracting Zooming Shots from 600 Hrs of Police Helicopter Surveillance Footage
While bodycams are generally a good and necessary thing, a general pattern that's now widespread is officers selectively covering up and turning off their cameras or putting up their car hoods during stops to avoid accountability and create selective narratives. And those are things that are supposed to be directly connected to their person. A helicam has many more degrees of freedom, and much less observability.
txru··on The unlikely odds of making it big on TikTok
Wow I absolutely love the styling on that page on mobile.

When you scroll past the "8 signs of successful musician" guide to the list of musicians, it pins the guide to the top of the screen so you can compare every musician. Really natural, should be everywhere.

txru··on Magnasanti – The largest and most terrible city of SimCity
Square laws are applicable in situations where a traveler can travel from any arbitrary point to any other arbitrary point. Bandwidth isn't considered, but it's definitely the greatest limiting factor for routine human travel today.

Example: crowd crushes are bandwidth spikes

txru··on Logging in Python like a pro
I sometimes prefer unittest too!

Pytest is very opinionated about how and when it's going to be run. If you want to put a test in say, Jupyter or a Markdown block, unittest is much more amenable to just doing what you want without having to read through documentation to break a whole bunch of magic behavior.

txru··on A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit
Yeah it's pretty hyperbolic
txru··on A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit
In this case the result was positive, and it netted the company a very productive team. That type of situation is definitely risky though
txru··on A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit
I believe the parent is referring more to referral/promo networks.

For a positive example, I knew one of my senior managers basically brought 15 people from his previous company, to the point where a comfortable majority of people under him were from the company.

This can be nefarious when the network arises from abusive or unhealthy environments.

txru··on A vision of a multi-threaded Emacs
As mostly a heavy user, most of the time I find emacs quite snappy.

Where do you find your package code most throttled? Do you have a top-3 wishlist you would want the core team to put in?

txru··on Bing contract prohibits DuckDuckGo from completely blocking Microsoft tracking
It's interesting for me to imagine explaining this comment to a person in 1995

At the very least I think it relegates people to buckets of either "People who believe tin foil hats give them privacy", and normal people.

Either way I don't think it's a productive dichotomy.

txru··on What Is JSON Patch?
Generally, any time you have a pairing of an "op" to a variadic list of arguments in a transfer format, you have an s-expression. This method, like many others, introduces a bunch of new characters:

- "op", "path", "value"

- quotes around paths

- colons, commas

- curly braces

In exchange for parentheses.

More generally though, we have an isomorphism. If transformation between the forms is trivial, then use what form is more comfortable for you, but I think being able to identify the 'op' -> 'var-args' pairing is a good thing to keep an eye on. It's macros' bread and butter.

txru··on Maslow never proposed a pyramid
In my experience of psychology/sociology classes, the concept is called a hierarchy and depicted with a pyramid.

In practice always accompanying a thing with a metaphor isn't too different from naming the thing after the metaphor.

txru··on Parking kills businesses, not bikes or buses
An inner city road doesn't need to be 4 lanes wide if it's primarily carrying small box trucks to local stores.

And I think it's pretty apparent that quite a lot of restaurant employees rely on public transit, or feed a substantial portion of their income to one car, whose breakdown causes loss of employment. Forcing people to need cars from arbitrary point to point is a regressive tax.

txru··on Elon Musk owns 9.2% of Twitter
I fully recognize that people exist in shades of gray.

However, I also believe that there are actions that people can and do take that put them beyond what contrition could repair-- and Musk hasn't publicly apologized for this, even.

txru··on Elon Musk owns 9.2% of Twitter
Man but the bad 10% is so rough. The Thai diver situation wasn't some off the cuff rant, that was someone wealthy and influential in concerted effort to utterly destroy someone who had done some good in the world. Intellectual genius but moral void can still apparently be admirable?
txru··on Honey, he shrunk the watches
I quite like this site name

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hodinky

txru··on San Francisco police linked a woman to a crime using DNA from her rape exam
One could use an argument much like this to argue for compelling other self-incriminating testimony.
txru··on Land-use changes across Europe linked to mortality during the Black Death
I'm guessing it was quite a lot easier to guess who was an outlander if they were travelling through the country. Far fewer people travelled great distances, travel required burdensome preparations, and if you wanted to bring any kind of business with you, you had to travel in some way that was manifestly obvious what you were doing.
txru··on Charm – Tools to make the command line glamorous
They're providing quality software for free, you not liking the presentation feels like part of the joke. Spongebob needed a Squidward

Seems like they charge for optionally providing hosting though. E.g. Bitwarden

txru··on “I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996)
Since that's an hour-long video, what do you consider the most salient points of his plan for Java that it ended up embodying eventually?
txru··on On Emacs 28’ context menu and Unix mouse-usage in general
https://www.ruiying.online/post/2021-07-02-install-and-use-e...

The byte code compiler uses gccjit to compile elisp to elf files. That, in conjunction with the use of libjansson for json handling, makes emacs substantially, noticeably faster for lsp (language server protocol, which most editors at least have support for now).

If you haven't looked at lsp yet either, I'd highly recommend it. It provides a common set of language server apis so you can have a unified completion experience between languages. I can remember all the unpleasant tricks to getting jedi mode for python, meghanada for Java, and having to memorize two totally separate apis. This is so much nicer.

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