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venomsnake··on There are no open issues or pull requests on Flask
The larger the codebase, the greater the need for stronger typing.

When dealing with JS this typing should be in the head of the developer. Too hard and too unreliable.

Typescript seems to be having it's heart in the right place though.

venomsnake··on SARS-CoV-2 variant A.30 is heavily mutated and evades vaccine-induced antibodies
The question is are outcomes in vaccinated people comparable to flu - if yes - we can freely ignore it. Or people that have natural immunity. Or unvaccinated.

I have a bad feeling that with focus just on antibodies we're ignoring the important metrics. Which is outcomes.

venomsnake··on Tesla crash in September showed similarities to fatal Mountain View accident
I think you misunderstand the GP - he is stating that - even if pilots with their rigorous training can make such disastrous mistakes, with car autopilots it will be way worse.
venomsnake··on The Dirty Secret of ‘Secret Family Recipes’
The recipe is the easy part. The execution and getting the right ingredients is all important.

Granma X was awesome not because of the recipe but because she practiced her whole life making it.

venomsnake··on The Most Expensive Mile of Subway Track
Boring itself is highly optimized - the oil industry likes their holes long, stable and cheap. So the tech is there. It is the other stuff that bogs down a project.
venomsnake··on What People Think You Can’t Say in Silicon Valley
I can think of one taboo opinion - supporting prop 8. Results - being fired. Also it was made effective with back date. The firing of Brendan Eich was as chilling effect as possible.

In the current climate you could get a pitchfork mob after you extremely easy for even stuff perceived as homophobic - as the recent suicide of August Ames showed.

venomsnake··on German military kicks off heavy lift helicopter competition
The laws of physics have progressed even less since 1965
venomsnake··on Tails 3.0 Released
Has there been any pure x86 processor in the last 10 year at all?
venomsnake··on What could happen if you refuse to unlock your phone at the US border?
They were definitely welcome in Bulgaria and the Balkans
venomsnake··on For the First Time, Wind on the Plains Supplied More Than Half Region's Power
Real investment usually means lots of real jobs. So win win.
venomsnake··on Encrypted email is still a pain
All of those are controlled by a single company. A single point of failure. Untill there is good enough protocol anyone can run a server of and it is - pgp stays the least worst option.

All of those messingers are terrible - in email you cannhave multiple conversations with the same person by design. In thoae you can't. There is no messinger with decent history search.

venomsnake··on Considerations on Cost Disease
Different culture. People like, use, and depend on subways so they like the extensions and expect their governments to get shit done. And in Europe the power of a single individual to block major project is limited.
venomsnake··on Considerations on Cost Disease
I think I can explain the subway costs - the construction itself is relatively cheap - tunneling and excavating is something mine companies do regularly on a bigger scale.

It is the NIMBY, regulations and not breaking anything. Unlike China you cannot rule by decree - there be subway here - dig.

venomsnake··on Considerations on Cost Disease
> Is there any reason to not adjust for inflation?

Lies, damned lies and statistics. It is easier to mislead if you don't adjust.

venomsnake··on Anyone Can Become a Troll: Causes of Trolling Behavior in Online Discussions [pdf]
Politics doesn't get flagged because people on general love to fight about it. We love to humiliate, mock, gotcha, and insult the adversaries, and banning them deprives us of that pleasure.
venomsnake··on The Parachute Generation
240 is also on the low side. I would prefer 480 to keep the amps on the low side. Buuut that is what happens when nobody future proofs fundamental standards.
venomsnake··on Saudi Arabia builds 600-mile border wall equipped with Airbus radar and helipads
It it is fast and lightweight and cheap shooting it down also won't be hard. you don't need a missile, you need a bullet.
venomsnake··on I'm Loyal to Nothing Except the Dream
The reapolitik is the only valid view in international relations (outside of one pole empire, but it is impossible on the current scale of the planet with current state). We live in realpolitik world currently - case in point Saudi Arabia on the human rights council. This is possible only in realpolitik world. In any other type of world relations it will be impossible.

Also - any US leaning dictator getting a pass. Like Saddam, Noriega, Pinochett. Which met their demise after refusing to obey their CIA overlords.

For Iran - if Iran us enemy - which the current administration thinks so, giving their citizens education is bad unless you ban them from exiting US after getting said education. And prevent them from taking the know how there.

If Iranian people had the means to overthrow the theocracy they would have already done it.

venomsnake··on Saudi Arabia builds 600-mile border wall equipped with Airbus radar and helipads
Something ends, something begins. We are at a time in history which the textbooks describe with maps with arrows on them.
venomsnake··on I'm Loyal to Nothing Except the Dream
In the world of realpolitik humanitarian is not a valid reason.

Educating the citizens of a country that you may have to go war with soon is also not a way to further your national interest - if we define US interest as unchallenged US might.

It all depends on the perspective in which you view the other countries.

venomsnake··on I'm Loyal to Nothing Except the Dream
Still it is not. Because when you leave out China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Algeria, Morocco, Pakistan, Germany, Turkey, UK, France ... which each have a lot of Muslims there whether in relative or absolute terms.

The ban is only for arabs in very unstable countries and Iran. There is no good reason to allow entry of people from countries that are at (civil) war and Iran is adversary, so there is no reason for non diplomatic personal Iranians to enter US at all.

They way I see it there is no fundamental right of foreigners to enter US. It is a privilege given by the discretion of the executive branch.

venomsnake··on Chrome Widevine DRM can no longer be disabled
Just tell me where in Chromium to disable resetting user profile when it detects tampering - so I am able to migrate a profile just by copying and I will move to Chromium in a second.

The not being able to copy your profile between machines is terrible terrible decision. It detects "tampering" and nukes everything :(

venomsnake··on Succeeding Against the Odds Can Make You Sick
Is there info about social status. Because Trump should be on his deathbed now and Obama must be already very very sick.

And generally speaking successful politicians live long. Castro, Mugabe... And they did had a lot of adversaries. And won against the odds.

venomsnake··on [dead]
Note to self - open a shovel and ladder factory in Mexico
venomsnake··on U.S. judge finds that Aetna misled the public about its reasons for quitting ACA
They don't have the right to leave the senate hall I think. So I do think they will have to make number one and two from time to time. The answer also is as much as needed.
venomsnake··on U.S. judge finds that Aetna misled the public about its reasons for quitting ACA
You only need 51 votes. If Democrats really cared they could have just sit in the senate until the republican speakers collapsed. And it would have gotten to a vote.

It may have taken a couple of days but whatever.

Edit: Can anyone explain the downvotes please? A filibuster can be overcome by just siting and listening to the other side until they can no longer speak from exhaustion.

venomsnake··on An Inferno on the Head of a Pin
My expensive cpu lesaon. The person that designed lga 2011 had the brilliant idea to make notches on the cpu almost symmetrical. So it is possible with juuuust a tiny bit of force to put it the opposite way.
venomsnake··on Why the “WhatsApp-backdoor” is not a WhatsApp-backdoor
No it is a backdoor. Becuase the app fucks you on purpose, even if you go to great lenghts to verify the keys.

Also the vulnerabilty matches perfectly one scenario - when a person is in custody, the LEO cannot open its phone, but they can create account on new device with his sim card and continue "trusted" chats.

venomsnake··on Our continuing commitment to your privacy with Windows 10
Brilliant double speak. If Micrisoft cared at all they would have one big button called turn off all collection.
venomsnake··on If a Best Buy technician is a paid FBI informant, are his searches legal?
For a lot of stuff there is some form of client privilege.

In that case it is nit officer look in my trunk It is a mechanic that needs to pull up a spare tire from it and is on a payroll by the officer.

Mandatory reporters are stupid idea. I doubt it can help a lot. I also think that the false positives will be disturbingly high if people take the job seriously.

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