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onlycoffee
·4 years ago·discuss
Investopedia has an interesting article, search "dormancy fee", but it's about credit cards, still doesn't seem like it could be legal for Paypal either.
onlycoffee
·4 years ago·discuss
> How do you reconcile being a machine made of matter with the feeling that you're free to choose what you do?

We have a soul, unlike actual machines or animals.
onlycoffee
·4 years ago·discuss
I use https://www.directorylister.com/ to share my media files.
onlycoffee
·4 years ago·discuss
Wrong. deckiedan and swat535 have it correct. Scarcity of money isn't evil, being poor isn't evil. People survived fine for thousands or hundreds of thousands of years before the concept of money existed. It's about the evil of coveting what your neighbor has so bad it can lead to evil actions.
onlycoffee
·4 years ago·discuss
MacOS dumb UI choices like a global menu make it a a poor UX OS. VLC has it right.
onlycoffee
·4 years ago·discuss
> I'm 100% in the old-school, self-managed local media camp, but I'm well aware that I'm an extreme minority and can't expect mass-market companies to cater to my use case.

We are now the Eloi and mass-market companies are the Morlocks.
onlycoffee
·4 years ago·discuss
> It's not possible for humans to write correct and secure C code on an ongoing and consistent basis.

https://drewdevault.com/2019/03/25/Rust-is-not-a-good-C-repl...

"Safety. Yes, Rust is more safe. I don’t really care. In light of all of these problems, I’ll take my segfaults and buffer overflows."

"I understand that many people, particularly those already enamored with Rust, won’t agree with much of this article. But now you know why we are still writing C, and hopefully you’ll stop bloody bothering us about it."
onlycoffee
·4 years ago·discuss
1 million Mac and 3 million Windows users most of whom probably don't know what docker is let alone run it; would like to disagree.
onlycoffee
·4 years ago·discuss
What happens if 100% of people decide they don't want to be the chump paying for UBI and we all go on UBI? With no one left making money, there's no way for the country to make pay UBI payments.

Using UBI as an argument to eliminate theft crime is like paying terrorists, it doesn't work in the long run; you only end up funding a future, more effective terrorist or criminal who will demand more and more.
onlycoffee
·4 years ago·discuss
> all payment systems will just be Paypal

I wonder if Warren is trying to intentionally accomplish that?
onlycoffee
·4 years ago·discuss
> Podman has developed a heap of systemd hooks that effectively use that as the daemon.

Does that mean Podman is not technically ... rootless?
onlycoffee
·4 years ago·discuss
Weird, I have no need I can see for rootless and on multiple machines no issues installing Docker on Ubuntu including using either the Ubuntu repo or the Docker repo. It just works.
onlycoffee
·4 years ago·discuss
Google Mac hibernate issues. Over 1 million results. Windows, over 3 million.

I gave up on hibernation being a valid concept in the 1990's, there's too many things that can go wrong and computers are more complex today.I don't use hibernation and Docker has no issues.
onlycoffee
·4 years ago·discuss
Brings back fun fond memories, bookmarked, thank you.
onlycoffee
·4 years ago·discuss
Self-taught starting over 40 years ago for fun, then transitioned to FT around 28 years ago. Books, time and mainly a driving passion to write code, get it working and often even make it useful is how I got started. No college but several corporate paid courses in the interim and learned a lot from experienced co-workers over the years, some were degreed, some were self-taught and some of the degreed actually were very good.
onlycoffee
·4 years ago·discuss
It's the two words, "government enforcement", that bothers me. If your party is in control the words sound fine, otherwise, they sound ominous.
onlycoffee
·4 years ago·discuss
Depends on the use case, sometimes a list is more appropriate. On an old machine, Java 17 can iterate a list of 30 million strings looking for a match in around a half second. Just checked it in jshell. If the use case was that the map's keys could potentially change over the lifetime of the map or if the value's were not idempotent and if iterating 30 million items occurs fairly infrequently, then an ArrayList (in Java) might be the best choice.
onlycoffee
·4 years ago·discuss
It sounds like that was a horrific event. The inverse also happened under communist regimes though, since you bring it up, out of context of Java and AAA (triple A) gaming which is the definition most widely recognized by the HN audience in my view: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimes_against_humanity_under_...
onlycoffee
·4 years ago·discuss
I am not a morning person and this article hits home for me every day.
onlycoffee
·4 years ago·discuss
> can always claim they are hardwired and deterministic

Correct, AI is based on computer mechanics, a model, a model that can go south when even a single input medium provides sufficiently nonsensical input.