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Grue3

4,020 karma · joined March 13, 2013

Smug Lisp Weenie

Current project: http://ichi.moe (Japanese to English translation tool)

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Grue3··on Blocking Kiwifarms
There is at least one CF customer who was doxxed by Kiwifarms after expressing displeasure with Cloudflare's initial decision. CF CEO (eastdakota) blocked this customer when he complained about it [1] So much for free speech + great customer service!

[1] https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1565629001862873088

Grue3··on Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach
So you agree that Cloudflare should be criminally liable for hosting extremist content? (yes, providing CDN service counts as hosting, as the content is stored on Cloudflare's servers)
Grue3··on Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach
So, Cloudflare is basically saying they would host Daily Stormer, 8chan etc. from this point on. I bet this policy will go over like a lead brick in media coverage.
Grue3··on Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach
When was a platform for doxing and harassment a tenet of liberalism? "Your liberty to swing your fist ends just where my nose begins".
Grue3··on Python 3.9
The fact that you can overwrite built-in functions is not a point in favor of the language. Imagine you do this in a library and everyone using print() in their project would use a modified print instead. You could've just modified sys.stdout instead.
Grue3··on Python 3.9

    for v in data_values: print v
Is exactly the same length but much more readable.
Grue3··on Python 3.9
This. It's hilarious how the parser knows what you're trying to do when using print statement in ipython and such, but still raises an Exception instead of printing the damn thing. Am I in the REPL to work on something, or to be frustrated by the ridiculous syntax? Just DWIM, Jesus Christ.
Grue3··on The Era of Visual Studio Code
For Python work I use a pretty much out-of-the-box Emacs, with "magit" being the only plugin of note installed. And I also used "web-mode" when I was doing webdev. magit is the best Git interface ever, and a built-in Emacs feature called TRAMP allows for remote editing. I'm running ipython in a separate terminal. I don't really understand why you'd need something more than a text editor to edit Python code.

Now for Common Lisp I use SLIME, which I guess does count as IDE, seeing as it's much more powerful than most IDEs.

Grue3··on Learning How to Learn Japanese
I'm using 2 Anki decks to learn Japanese: one was something named "COREplus" with keys in kana and the answers showing kanji and definition of the word. I figured it would be useful to pick out words from their pronounciation alone, despite the amount of homophones. The second deck I generated myself [1], it includes kanji and words containing kanji, and also statistics on how often each pronounciation of kanji is encountered. Finishing this deck allows you to read quite a lot of things (although it doesn't cover words containing non-Joyo kanji).

Now when I wanted to take an JLPT exam, I realized that my listening skills are awful, and my grammar skills aren't very good either. I started watching grammar lessons on Youtube in Japanese, as well as random videos in Japanese (mostly about trains/traveling). In the end I just barely passed listening (JLPT N2) but my grammar skills were really good.

[1] https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/831167744

Grue3··on Louisiana voter registration portal mysteriously shuts down on Registration Day
If voting doesn't matter, why do authoritarian governments try so damn hard to suppress it? Riddle me this.
Grue3··on Disney criticised for filming Mulan in China's Xinjiang province
There are a lot of countries that don't currently engage in genocide against ethnic minorities. Some are even named "China" [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China

Grue3··on Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You
The funny thing is, if you type print with space it recognizes what you meant, and still wouldn't do it, raising an exception instead. It would've cost them literally nothing to support both ways to write print, since the parser has to detect statement print anyway.
Grue3··on Python 3.8 Makes me Sad Again
>This works because regular dicts have guaranteed ordering since Python 3.7

But the API is different! OrderedDict has more methods that have to do with order, and `reverse` works on its `.keys()` and `.values()`. Or did they fix this in 3.8?

Grue3··on Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under national security law
>And what does Apple get in return?

Not being complicit in genocide isn't enough reward by itself?

Grue3··on Men rescued from Pacific island after writing SOS in sand
>Is SOS known to all cultures?

At least all cultures who listen to ABBA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvChjHcABPA

Grue3··on Google adds "Black-owned" business attribute to local listings
What's next, marking Jewish-owned businesses and LGBT-owned businesses? We don't learn from history at all, do we?
Grue3··on New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases
Docker overriding iptables rules, in my case. I was using somebody else's project distributed via docker-compose config, which made the port for elasticsearch public, which I was not aware of (I don't normally use docker or elasticsearch). Luckily I was able to regenerate the data stored in elasticsearch, though I had to do it twice because it got wiped again after regeneration and then I had to google what the hell is going on.
Grue3··on Why is the Fessenheim 2 nuclear power plant closing in France?
Why should France care about what they think? Germany could try not importing French carbon neutral nuclear energy if they hate it so much.
Grue3··on Yamato becomes Japan's first city to 'ban' use of phones while walking
My point was that this law makes 12% of pedestrians illegal, which is too high, not that nobody does this.
Grue3··on Yamato becomes Japan's first city to 'ban' use of phones while walking
Drunk driving had to be banned because it's just too dangerous. It had to be eradicated at all costs even despite many people violating this law. On the other hand there's no indication that texting while walking is more dangerous than walking while drunk. Walking is a low-risk activity which doesn't require a license and people routinely do it while being under an influence.
Grue3··on Yamato becomes Japan's first city to 'ban' use of phones while walking
If you're proposing a law, and a study says that 12% of people would violate this law, it's a major indication that this is a bad law.
Grue3··on Conservatives are flocking to the social media app Parler
>folks are getting banned for imitating politicians

Why is this bad? Freedom to impersonate other people is an issue orthogonal to free speech.

Grue3··on Perceptions of musical octaves are learned, not wired in the brain
Did they try to sing along to the original notes? Perfect pitch needs to be practiced, but it should be immediately apparent when you sing out of tune if you're even slightly musically inclined.
Grue3··on Reddit started banning accounts that voted for content “against their policies”
They still defend indefensible things like Holodomor or Tiananmen Massacre.
Grue3··on Please turn this ship around, Phil Schiller
If they allow installing software from outside of the store, that would be fair. If they forbid installing software entirely, that would be fair too, but would turn iPhone into a dumbphone.
Grue3··on Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea?
I think there were studies that black text on yellow background is the easiest to read. Yellow Mode when?
Grue3··on Japanese rules for writing your ABCs are surprisingly strict
I learned all Joyo kanji purely visually via spaced repetition (Anki). I can't actually write them from memory because I don't learn the exact strokes, just the shape of it and some specific radicals that distinguish a kanji from similar ones. I also know the general stroke order algorithm, which I use when I need to input an unknown kanji from a book or a sign, but I just use kana input method for anything else.
Grue3··on Nextdoor’s ‘Karen Problem’
>Nothing sexist or racist about it.

What about Dane Cook?

Grue3··on An interview code submission that wasn’t even submitted changed our process
Yeah, this sounds like a typical "idea guy" who won't be able to write a FizzBuzz. Seriously, minimax for tic-tac-toe?
Grue3··on Show HN: `fzf` * `Git` done right
It works just fine for me (though my repos are small), however it is extremely slow when ssh'ing through Tramp onto a Linux host. I still put up with it because the interface is so good.
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