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I remain banned for not giving up discussing religion. Your ability to judge some of my contributions may be hindered, depending on your "showdead" setting. Beware of this unspoken policy if you're weighing contributing to this site.
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paxcoder··on MISRA C
I deprecate early returns (at least for happy cases). What article are you referring to?
paxcoder··on Breakelse: When Compiler Developers Get Bored
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by multiple bindings? With if-let, binding to the variable is conditional, and it only happens if all parts of the chain return an actual value. Otherwise, as soon as one returns null, a jump can be made to the alternative branch. Am I missing something?
paxcoder··on Breakelse: When Compiler Developers Get Bored
Optional binding can refine the type.

https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-pr...

paxcoder··on Breakelse: When Compiler Developers Get Bored
Restricted to `.case(:else: breakelse))` in the conditional, there seems to be no advantage to this over optional chaining.

And allowing `breakelse` in the branch obscures control flow.

Disclaimer: I am a return/break/continue skeptic. I think they obscure control flow too.

paxcoder··on Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude
From what I've gathered from Catholic exorcists, demons adopt different personas, and shouldn't be trusted about anything they say. The only questions the exorcist asks are those pertaining to the case, all in the interest of breaking the claim of demons and expelling them, in the name of Christ, the stronger man from the parable. As the Lord says, Satan is a liar and a murderer from the start, and when he lies, he speaks his native tongue. What I'm saying, keeping a database of demons makes little sense.
paxcoder··on We built the fastest CI and it failed
That is not at all the conclusion the author draws from this experience of his. Here's more of the paragraph, you quoted:

>Earthly being open-source, you could already run your own Earthly remote runner (since we use Buildkit underneath, it was essentially a remote Buildkit), connect Earthly to it, and get similar benefits to Satellites even before this was a commercial offering. And so people did this on their own, hosting it in their own environment, without us managing it for them. Once we had this packaged up in a managed offering, people were flocking to it, mainly because they did not want to manage remote runners on their own.

The author blames the failure on not validating what the were building was what clients wanted.

paxcoder··on The inventor of the troll doll only made a sliver of the proceeds
TL;DR Didn't put a proper copyright on the dolls and - I reckon because there was no Berne convention at the time - copycats flooded the market
paxcoder··on GPT-4 System Card [pdf]
It could give better reasons not to do it and warn that affection is an issue without instructing you how to cut.
paxcoder··on Florida lawyer argues pregnant inmate’s fetus is being illegally detained
If a child is conceived, it is not a usurper, it is the most innocent party involved. When people have sex, they risk conceiving a child. This new human being is created in the woman's body, the place designed to host it. So unlike my hooking up to your bloodstream, the baby's dependence on you is perfectly natural. The two things aren't equivalent. I have no claim to you (plus you probably aren't responsible for my condition - not that the child is dying, nota bene). Besides, can you kill an infant in your home so that you don't have to feed them before foster care can take them?

I support your choice to abstain from sex. I do not support your choice to end the life of your child just so that you don't have to provide for them. To deliberately cause death of an innocent human being is not a right. Unless the child acts with an intention to kill the parent, the parent may not use deadly means against them (Disclaimer: Even in self defense, one must not act with the intention to kill - see the principle of double effect)

paxcoder··on Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney
Sex and gender are the same thing. I'ts precisely that choice that promotes the ideology that gender is separate and maleable, which is what children are vulnerable to.
paxcoder··on Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
Makes me think Matomo's doing something right
paxcoder··on Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice?
Same here. Lauds before work, Vespers in the evening. I'm currently praying what I think is a Franciscan Secular Order variant. I also pray a short prayer at 15:00 (Our Father and Glory Be) which is purportedly the time when Jesus died on the Cross for us, which is also very beneficial. Sundays I read Scripture, following what is really a daily Coming Home Network schedule [1] - a couple of chapters from the Old Testament in order, a Psalm or a a short excerpt from one of the books of wisdom, a chapter from the New Testament

[1] https://chnetwork.org/free-resource-updated-version-of-our-r...

paxcoder··on Cultures where men and women don’t speak the same language (2017)
The two Dublin schools (not far from each other) adopted different approaches to the sign language as it was being developed. That's unfortunate
paxcoder··on YouTube Sponsored Freedom of Expression Award Goes to YouTube CEO [video]
Hello from the censored side.
paxcoder··on How SSH got port number 22
I must say you're conflating my conversations, and misinterpreting my words. I don't think it needs explaining, but if you disagree, I am willing to say (and repeat) exactly where and how.

Instead, here I will just point out that you're now equating talking about sin to bullying. This is harmful because it puts reconciliation with God out of sight and out of mind, but also because it tells bullies they are "no different" than those fighting sin: With blowing things out of proportion like this, you are doing an additional disservice to those sinners you're purporting to support. Note that I was generalizing because your argument allows it - at least to, say, pre-marital sex. And while there is a difference in subject sensitivity, I am not being a bully by simply countering the world when it claims either of these things are acceptable. One's cross is much greater another's, but so is the reward. No surrender, try again.

paxcoder··on How SSH got port number 22
I don't use this forum with the intent to spread such persistent truths as that gay acts are gravely sinful or that human life possesses inherent dignity (something that popped up a few times as well). However, I do and will proclaim and defend truth provided I see a need. I hope to do this to the benefit of any readers, not simply to counter. To this end, and because of the importance, I hope never to let myself be pressured into desisting regardless of how unpopular it may become to resist.
paxcoder··on How SSH got port number 22
I didn't say this shouldn't be of interest. I was defending the author of the original comment, which in light of the fact that both accounts belong to you means my intention was ensuring your attribution.

I felt no discomfort here, though granted I haven't read the whole comment. "Same-sex network connections" gave me a chuckle - I assume a reference to the "male" and "female" hardware connectors. I was actually weighing on commending you for the joke before I found out the same words were used elsewhere by another account.

I am surprised by the tone of your reply. I kind of hope most of my downvotes are from you then, as I would hate to see a rise in reposts. I also hope you have an automated way of finding non-positive comments, because knowing you went through them by hand would be somewhat discomforting.

Now, my morality certainly should influence how I view things - that's what it's for. If it is the case that here lies your problem with me, you should be aware that when I say gay I don't have in mind the mere attraction to the same sex, but indulgence, the practice of sexual acts of this nature (which is closer to the original sexualized definition of the term). The distinction may appear subtle, but isn't really. The grave difference is between temptation and sin. In recognizing the difference, one may become accepting of the human without in process compromising that human's soul.

paxcoder··on How SSH got port number 22
You shouldn't be. We have links for this. This is plagiarism.
paxcoder··on How SSH got port number 22
Wow, nice catch, how did you do it?
paxcoder··on Njalla – A privacy-aware domain registration service
Note that Peter Sunde is the co-founder of the company: https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-founder-launches-anonymo...
paxcoder··on The End of IKVM.NET
A guy who has worked on a project of this nature since the year .NET came out is objectively a .NET old-timer.
paxcoder··on Show HN: TorrentPeek – Distributed search engines using BitTorrent and SQLite
Is 640KiB not the whole index? Because partial download would mean having to request new pieces based on the previously-downloaded ones, adding latency to the mix. Assuming just 50ms latency, for 20 packets that would account for a whole second before seeing a result. And 20 decisions seems a lot, though I don't know how the index works.

What bothers me is that you've rounded the time down in your calculation despite ignoring throughput factors like packet overhead, piece message metadata, other protocol messages and processing time. I'd be interested to see some real time measurements. If you decide to do it (maybe for a research paper?), consider using kibis explicitly (and mind capitalization - b vs B).

paxcoder··on Show HN: Qt binding for Go with support for all major operating systems
Seems so: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LGPLStaticVsDynami...

It would appear that once again the FUD is unjustified, and in reality GNU/SFLC licenses well made

paxcoder··on Common Algo Problem Solutions
The link to hard interview questions is broken, the first letter of the file name is actually capital
paxcoder··on GNU bc ends 11-year beta test, releases 1.7
Does anyone know why the default scale is 0 (meaning division rounds down by default)?
paxcoder··on GNU bc ends 11-year beta test, releases 1.7
What reference am I missing here?
paxcoder··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
What do you mean you didn't read up on type theory? I'm guessing ypu've studied it at a university?
paxcoder··on Mexican Newspaper Shuts Down, Saying It Is Too Dangerous to Continue
I wouldb't call social conservatism bad nor "national pride" good. And I wonder if poverty isn't behind the wealth
paxcoder··on What is Congress browsing?
You can't wash your hands and blame everything on Satan. You are a human being with your own free will, responsible for your own choices. The legislators are morally responsible for the laws they support.
paxcoder··on We Have 24 Hours to Save Online Privacy Rules
The title and the article are missing "United States" somewhere.
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