arcbyte · HackerLangs

7 saat öncediscuss

That's not really true at all. You just think that because you never hear about it. Stare decisis still applies at a trial level, but its scope is obviously much narrower. Moreover, most things really aren't that novel. Most importantly, its quite hard to research on this level and usually pointless because theres usually a higher level case anyway.

arcbyte

13 gün öncediscuss

Lol. I would have said exactly the same thing at 20 years old and be just as disgusted by it at 30. People grow up.

arcbyte

2 ay öncediscuss

I'm curious if there's a way to merge multiple key/value pairs into a single cryptext (without just appending or exploding the size of the result) such that everyone securing their information into this scheme stores a copy of the same encrypted blob, but their key decrypts a different value from the blob.

In this way, people could act as backups for one another with plausible deniability of what's being stored.

arcbyte

2 ay öncediscuss

I feel this sentiment. I think its a good one.

The approach I take is that every law should expire after a standard, unchangeable time - probably several terms of Congress, say 6 years to account for one full Senate turnover.

Congress can just repass verbatim old laws if they wish - its already written and can be a simple, fast vote. Or we can have debate over outdated provisions like we should have.

arcbyte

3 ay öncediscuss

This is not true at all. Not even a sliver of truth.

There must be a word for this style of post where you take your own inadequacies and fears and project them on to others?

arcbyte

3 ay öncediscuss

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3 ay öncediscuss

I play an odd number of levels in either direction of you.

arcbyte

3 ay öncediscuss

Seems cool but its just not quite responsive enough on Android Firefox. It seems to almost fit, but i think things are cut off. Controls dont seem to work - i think the materials are off screen because the directions say to select materials but I dont see where to do that.

arcbyte

4 ay öncediscuss

> But in the USA that doesn't really fly. Talking is transactional, either a business deal is going on or shut up.

This is regional within the US and obviously differs by person even then. Just remember that the people you are talking to may be the kind of people that need articles like the above to teach them how to talk to people. Their defenses go up when someone approaches them and while they are well practiced at appearing relaxed, they are not. Conversations are short because its emotionally difficult to stay in a heightened awareness state while someone is trying to pull you out of it. But you can certainly provide offramps

arcbyte

6 ay öncediscuss

I think you've identified analogous functions, but I don't think your analogy holds as you've written it. A more faithful analogy to OP is that there is no better flight crash investigator than the aviation engineer designing the plane, but flight crash investigation is an actual failure of his primary duty of engineering safe planes.

Still not a great rendition of this thought, but closer.

arcbyte

6 ay öncediscuss

Lets be real. The only connection an EHR has to patient health is whatever minimum standard the hospital needs to avoid malpractice lawsuits. The rest of the EHR is all about billing insurance companies and Medicare.

Nobody cares about emoji except the poor folks who have to login to it everyday, and it makes their lives a smidgen better. Lets chill on the criticism of emojis.

arcbyte

6 ay öncediscuss

I’m honestly curious what drives this kind of response. You’re aiming a lot of negativity at someone who’s voluntarily spending his own time and money to do something that, until recently, simply didn’t exist at this level of detail. Yes, there are scientific limitations and fair critiques to be made—but the tone here feels less like constructive criticism and more like punishing the effort itself. That pattern is exactly what drains the internet of anything generous or experimental: people stop sharing when every imperfect attempt is met with hostility. It’s a bit like being stranded in the desert, dying of thirst, finally offered water, and rejecting it because it isn’t cold enough. You don’t have to call the work perfect to acknowledge that it’s valuable, imperfect progress rather than something deserving of contempt.

arcbyte

6 ay öncediscuss

Nobody was benefiting from the oil nationalization, least of all the Venezuelan people. All their oil engineers left! You can't walk around Doral, Fl; Katy, Tx; or Alpharetta, Ga without tripping over young venezuelans with petroleum engineering degrees who have fled the poverty and repression of Maduro's Venezuela.

arcbyte

6 ay öncediscuss

Based on where I was born and my background, I should not know as much as I do about Venezuela. Improbably, life led me to develop close ties to some Venezuelans, and with them as a window, I've learned a lot about that country.

In this case, the people of Venezuela are desperate to get rid of their socialist government. It has, predictably and inevitably, led them directly to poverty, starvation, and violent repression.

I have a lot of reservations about the way in which Trump is operating and in this case, the legality of every aspect of how he is doing this operation in Venezuela. Despite all those reservations, this is a rare situation where this action benefits everyone and the world.

arcbyte

6 ay öncediscuss

I agree with you and have agreed with you for a long time. However, I definitely see the writing on the wall. More than one person in my circle have traditionally been Android users and the lack of innovation from both Apple and Android have them comparing devices on specs MUCH more. I include myself in this list on my next upgrade. I'll be looking largely at specs on the next upgrad because honestly there's not much day to day difference in usage between apple and android anymore

arcbyte

7 ay öncediscuss

This is hilarious

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7 ay öncediscuss

Slack is a necessary component in well functioning systems.

arcbyte

7 ay öncediscuss

> W.r.t. query speeds on your columnar storage engine, you will obviously have much better writes that row oriented storage engines.

This should have said reads, not writes. Columnar storage takes significantly more effort to handle writes because it must do many more IOs across the different columns, potentially more de/compression cycles, etc.

arcbyte

7 ay öncediscuss

Interesting ideas. Im very interested in database ideas that bring new capabilities or better ways to acconplish old ones.

W.r.t. query speeds on your columnar storage engine, you will obviously have much better writes that row oriented storage engines. This limits your write capabilities though. Any effort you put into restoring write speeds necessitates an extra step to the maintain the columnar stores - which puts you back into the group of databases naintaining indices that you criticize above.

I think modern databases are bringing new ideas on how to accelerate both write and query speeds simultaneously with tradeoffs around CAP.

arcbyte

7 ay öncediscuss

Before I read the blog post I would have agreed with you. It's pervasive, well understood, and the meaning is clear which you point out is what really matters.

But after reading the article I find myself asking if that's really true? I'm doubting it now. Certainly, the Floppy disk icon is clear to computer users who experienced at least a few years of the 90's or early 2000's. That's becoming less and less a percentage of computer users. For most users, that floppy disk has receded into being just a nonrepresentative shape associated to save.

I think it's that the blog post convinced me to reject nonrepresentative shapes as icons. You can't look at the extremely illustrative menu filled with icons that clearly describe window management actions or text formatting actions - where the icon itself conveys clearly, if abstractly, exactly how reality will look after you take the action - and tell me that a menu filled with random nonillustrative shapes has even a similar experience. I can't shake the idea that the menu icon needs to be more than just a logo or branding - it needs to be self-explaining.

The floppy disk did exactly the above when floppy disks were where the data was actually saved. But in 2025, we have to accept that it no longer illustrates anything. Today its just a nonrepresentative shape.

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