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j16sdiz··on Global variables are not the problem
> If they were to design that today, I think they would require the initialization expression to be constexpr.

Why would they?

This (non-constexpr) semantic would be useful as lazy initialization. .. and C++ love tiny little features like these.

j16sdiz··on Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads
I think they are pretty clear if you read the documentation. Accessing to the exact value of these always need some privacy-related privilege on ios and android.

Without those privilege, all you can get is an approximate.

j16sdiz··on A mouseless tale: trying for a keyboard-driven desktop
Did you enable this setting? If yes, can you tell me more what's missing?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/guide/mac-help/mchlc06d1059/...

j16sdiz··on California law enforcement misused state databases more than 7k times in 2023
luckily(?), this kind of access is now very restrictive. Most of the employees can't do that.
j16sdiz··on Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024
Short answer: black ink pigment is used in other non-black colour as well. If they come premixed, they are less useful for other colour.
j16sdiz··on A Young Man Used AI to Build a Nuclear Fusor
I don't know what made this a story.

He knew what a fusor is, knew how to find more information, have contact with hobbies groups already, been warned how dangerous it can be.

At this stage, AI is just a glorified search engine.

j16sdiz··on Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion
We have multiple processes on a time-share system. This mouse is updating at 1kHz, it just doesn't make sense consistently rerendering everything when the screen aint updating.

We need to cut some deadline and doing it at vsync is the easiest way

j16sdiz··on Context should go away for Go 2 (2017)
It is not.

Link to previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14958989

> https://golang.org/doc/faq#What_is_the_purpose_of_the_projec...: "By its design, Go proposes an approach for the construction of system software on multicore machines."

> That page points to https://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article for "A much more expansive answer to this question". That article states:

> "Go is a programming language designed by Google to help solve Google's problems [...] More than most general-purpose programming languages, Go was designed to address a set of software engineering issues that we had been exposed to in the construction of large server software."

j16sdiz··on Show HN: Interactive systemd – a better way to work with systemd units
I tried, but found it very confusing around the user session. Apparently an environment variable need to point to a started dbus. I can't get consistent results over local session vs ssh vs su vs sudo
j16sdiz··on Is the world becoming uninsurable?
It works for Taiwan and Japan
j16sdiz··on Nokia Design Archive
This archive more about the aesthetics design, not technical stuffs.
j16sdiz··on Why is Cloudflare Pages' bandwidth unlimited?
- Not every peering is free. - You still have to pay for the fibre and router.
j16sdiz··on TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday
Search "小红书 毛語錄" in Google. You can see it is referenced in both way.

The name 红宝书 is popular in mainland China. Chinese from Taiwan or other se asian community just call it 小红书 or 毛語錄

j16sdiz··on TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday
RedNote don't have english user interface, and it have worse censorship compare to tiktok or facebook.

Unless you want to learn Chinese and/or spend time to navigate around the content modulation system (not very hard, it just different), the experience ain't great.

j16sdiz··on Don't use cosine similarity carelessly
I can't see these in this article, at all.

I think what it say is under "Is it the right kind of similarity?" :

> Consider books. > For a literary critic, similarity might mean sharing thematic elements. For a librarian, it's about genre classification. > For a reader, it's about emotions it evokes. For a typesetter, it's page count and format. > Each perspective is valid, yet cosine similarity smashes all these nuanced views into a single number — with confidence and an illusion of objectivity.

j16sdiz··on Google’s OAuth login doesn’t protect against purchasing a failed startup domain
> I've had a staff SWE also claim to me that they generated colliding UUIDv4s,

UUIDv4 is random. Could be a bad PRNG, or just very very very bad luck.

> and a separate staff SWE who worked in GIS claim that circles only exist in map projections and they're always distorted, and that you cannot have a circle IRL, nor project it onto a projection.

It is insanely difficult to project circles. Most of time we just pretend it never exist.

j16sdiz··on Google’s OAuth login doesn’t protect against purchasing a failed startup domain
very skeptical about this - I believe they are two accounts.

It is possible to create two google account linked with same email address.

I think I need more proof they are actually same account. For example, changing the profile pic in one session is reflected in another session.

j16sdiz··on Homomorphic encryption in iOS 18
> The two hops, the two companies, are already acting in partnership, so what is there technically in the relay setup to stop the two companies from getting together—either voluntarily or at the secret command of some government—to compare notes, as it were, and connect the dots?

The OHTTP scheme does not _technically_ prevent this. It increases the number parties need to cooperate to extract this information, hoping it would be caught somewhere in the pipeline.

j16sdiz··on ZFS 2.3 released with ZFS raidz expansion
No, if they need ZFS-like function, they just pay for NAS.

ZFS is not in the same market with AWS S3.

j16sdiz··on Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable?
dang edited it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42706248
j16sdiz··on Proof of location for online polls
or just sell ISP the routers you made.
j16sdiz··on Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers containing full desktop envs
HTTP auth can work with kerberos.

Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer -- all support some form of kerberos auth in HTTP/HTTPS.

j16sdiz··on Why is my CPU usage always 100%?
> computer architecture courses.

I guess it was some _theoretical_ task scheduling stuff.... When you are doing task scheduling, yes, maybe, depends on what you optimize for.

.... but this bug have nothing to do with that. This bug is about some accounting error.

j16sdiz··on Is XYplorer really written in VB6?
> They were the only "very senior" programmers...

Don't forget nodejs.

j16sdiz··on Who Can Understand the Proof? A Window on Formalized Mathematics
He is trying to do alternative theory of science.

It's like rewriting (and clarifying things here or there, putting in new analogies, etc.. not just translating) everything in Klingon, and creating new Klingon words while he is doing that.

Sure this is "interesting" in academic sense. Good luck finding a journal accept paper written in Klingon.

j16sdiz··on Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow
This happens all the time.

ReiserFS retain its name when Hans Reiser is convinced of murder.

There is no reason to remove one's name or close their account when they are convicted of a crime.

j16sdiz··on Automated accessibility testing at Slack
If you consider the real-time text-only chat, maybe.

As soon as you start thinking about the side features. they are not comparable.

j16sdiz··on Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option
Usability issue aside. ... Using SMTP as the only login factor sounds very insecure to me.
j16sdiz··on IPv6-only Network based on Jool
OpenBSD do stateless NAT64. You can do the same on linux using Tundra in userspace.
j16sdiz··on ISO 8583: The language of credit cards
You missed the footnote for [1].

Did you meant Apple Card, Apple Pay or the Apple Store?

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