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gatlin

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I enjoy intelligent discussion, so I should enjoy visiting this site.

More info: http://www.niltag.net http://LinkedIn.com/in/gatlinjohnson https://github.com/gatlin

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gatlin··on A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification
Nope, just the normal one. It asks for your age and gates further interactions based on the answer, no? That's verification.
gatlin··on A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification
If it must be ignored, then it exists. The bill proposes age verification. You may think the measures employed are weak or trivial, and I would agree, but the bill proposes age verification.
gatlin··on A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification
> All this does is require the user to select a non-verified age bracket on first boot.

This is the age verification requirement which you rudely and incorrectly said doesn't exist. Nothing is done with the data (for now) but age is in fact verified on the assumption that the user doesn't lie.

Instead of lengthy condescending missives about the behavior of other users, you should instead write "I'm sorry for being negative and bringing down the quality of discussion."

gatlin··on Early Christian Writings
You seem to have an almost religious devotion to your worldview. Which makes sense: it works for you and you feel compelled to convince others. You also limit yourself to thoughts and practices that align with these views. Imagine for a moment that this is also true of other people for other beliefs.
gatlin··on Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?
Qwen3-Coder on 20gb of vram was able to do 90% of this: https://gist.github.com/gatlin/4bee9645b96e8b9e733960453b972...

Problem statement: given a start date and a bible book / chapter, produce a reading schedule for the remainder of the bible assuming one will read 3 chapters every day and 2 extra on Sunday.

So assuming an input of "2025-07-06 Genesis 1," the list would read "Saturday, June 6, 2025: Genesis 1 (3 chapters) \n Sunday, June 7, 2025: Genesis 4 (5 chapters)..." etc.

It created the types, data structures, and utility functions required, and even isolated the schedule generation to a function that used all of them ... and that function was busted. It printed the same book and chapter and date every line.

With a little elbow grease I was able to bring it home. Saved me an hour.

gatlin··on How SQLite is tested
That's really great and I'm happy for you but your experience is not universal.
gatlin··on The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence
How so?
gatlin··on Israeli-founded app preloaded on Samsung phones is attracting controversy
You're right - Palestinians don't deserve to be murdered by people who don't like them.
gatlin··on How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized
Discussing this topic with you is impossible because you have committed to spreading Israeli state propaganda regardless of what the actual facts of the situation are. If you are unmoved by the children being savagely blown apart by Israeli rockets because you equate that with some Arab states bad-mouthing Israel then I fear nothing will ever convince you that Palestinians are human. Have a good day and if you have kids, give them a hug and be glad they don't live in Gaza.
gatlin··on How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized
Ooh now try and name all the Palestinian children that have been murdered by Israel!
gatlin··on How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized
> They got

First problem: not Israel's to give.

> The problem is that the PA, who rules the West Bank are extremely corrupt, and Hamas is committed to Israel's destruction.

The Ministry of Strategic Affairs couldn't have put it better...

gatlin··on How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized
Perhaps also the illegal occupation, illegal blockades, the bombing, and the genocide. Maybe those things don't matter to you, though.
gatlin··on How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized
Also the repulsive and evil actions of Israel. That is also why people support Palestinians.
gatlin··on How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized
> Are you seriously suggesting Israel can just give citizenship/voting rights to all Palestinians and make a group that largely wants their destruction a voting majority?

Can you think of any reason why Palestinians might feel this way? Does anything come to mind?

gatlin··on Physical Media Is Cool Again. Streaming Services Have Themselves to Blame
You clearly understood the author's intent; was this lecture for the author of the comment or yourself?
gatlin··on IRS head says free Direct File tax service is 'gone'
Now do Clinton!
gatlin··on What will become of the CIA?
You mean when they fund domestic media projects, have their patsies write articles in domestic media, or impose regime change in our presidents?
gatlin··on What will become of the CIA?
I encourage you to read more about them.
gatlin··on FP8 is ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name has "cutlass" in it
Do you have any kind of example you're able to share? I don't mean to take your IP but I want to see this breathtaking vista.
gatlin··on Why English doesn't use accents
come to texas and experience a whole universe of dipthongs (one of which remedies this)
gatlin··on The Chan-Zuckerbergs stopped funding social causes
So, in other words, he has no backbone.
gatlin··on Therapy dogs: stop crafting loopholes to fair, reasonable laws
Fallacy fork: https://maartenboudry.be/2017/06/the-fallacy-fork-why-its-ti...
gatlin··on Introducing stronger dependencies on systemd
My task here was to reprimand you for arguing disingenuously, not to teach you language or do homework for you. What an appallingly entitled way to carry yourself.
gatlin··on Introducing stronger dependencies on systemd
Strong opinions don't make something not a discussion. Announcing to the room how aloof you are though does make you not very aloof.
gatlin··on Introducing stronger dependencies on systemd
Logs that I can read are objectively better. I must assert that point because it is true.
gatlin··on Introducing stronger dependencies on systemd
The claim was "shopped around" and if you are going to change people's words do not be surprised when nobody takes your challenge. And preemptively: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
gatlin··on Introducing stronger dependencies on systemd
> good tooling

My completely oblique, binary logs disagree. It won because it solved problems companies with money needed solved. There is no indication that it succeeded on merit.

gatlin··on The Art of Fugue – Contrapunctus I (2021)
I prefer to simply be taken along.
gatlin··on Dilbert creator Scott Adams says he will die soon from same cancer as Joe Biden
Curious that this comment went negative! HN mods, please address your pro-genocidal userbase.
gatlin··on Dilbert creator Scott Adams says he will die soon from same cancer as Joe Biden
I'm using my real first name here and I hope he uses his remaining time to contemplate the ethnic cleansing he has championed. He isn't done yet; I pray he reverses.
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