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radicalcentriston Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake

I think you would be very unpleasantly surprised to see how many organizations deeply rely on GitHub. Think about how many open-source projects you've seen that have willingly tied themselves to GH-specific features, and then extrapolate to thousands of companies with masses of spaghetti code that are hopelessly reliant on their internal GH Enterprise features.

radicalcentriston Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel

I assume both? I'd be surprised to see a vulnerability fixed without first being discovered.

radicalcentriston Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?

Consider previous cases where companies like Reddit have unmasked their users at the behest of court order.

radicalcentriston Keep Our Servers Running

I'm not well-informed about this situation, but DDOSing does strike me as an action which is fundamentally counter to information freedom and archival, so that seems like a reasonable suspicion to me.

radicalcentriston Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July

Yep, a great lesson, and a relatively low price to pay for teaching my kids the honorable act of civil disobedience.

radicalcentriston Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff

Interesting, this reminds me a bit of TTS models that had poor quality training data inserting commercial jingles or background music into their output, although I would agree that in this case it sounds intentional.

radicalcentriston Ti-84 Evo

Are we expected to know latin, or is this supposed to be a little homework assignment for us? Ridiculous.

radicalcentriston The Myth of the ThinkPad

I believe there is a kernel of truth here, but having used both the mainstream products and their "underdog" alternatives, this is completely counter to my experience.

Nokia is a bit before my time, but I've used both iPhones and Androids and simply cannot suffer iPhones anymore. There are so many features of Android that are impossible to replicate on Apple products. Even something as simple as blocking ads is a fool's errand on iOS. I make extensive use of third-party app stores, patching .apk files, and my device's filesystem. I laugh when iOS introduces a new features that's been included in Android for half a decade.

I've had to suffer many work Macbooks and vastly prefer both the hardware and (Linux) software stack on non-Apple laptops. The history of Apple hardware and OS X (sorry, macOS) is littered with blunders such as the touchbar, keyboard issues, and now Liquid Glass. Is a ThinkPad the holy grail of PCs? Probably not, but they've been a lot more reliable in my experience.

NVIDIA's Linux drivers are especially laughable. After years of wrangling their drivers, struggling to make sleep work, and getting X/Wayland rendering working reliably, at this point I can't bother. I simply disable any discrete NVIDIA laptop GPUs entirely and use the integrated graphics. It just works better and doesn't drain my battery. On a desktop I'm with AMD all the way.

I promise you, I have plenty of experience with both sides and I am most definitely not "suffering under inferior tech", at least not anymore.

radicalcentriston I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersonated me

filing jointly

radicalcentriston The "AI 2027" Scenario: How realistic is it?

Well that's what I don't get, how is spending the money bad faith? Aren't they getting the money ahead of time so they can spend it before the world ends? If they have to keep the world-still-here money tied up in escrow I don't see why they would take the deal.

radicalcentriston The "AI 2027" Scenario: How realistic is it?

I still don't get how this is supposed to work. So let's say I give you a million dollars right now, with the expectation that I get $10M back in 10 years when the world hasn't ended. You obviously wanted the money up front because you're going to live it up while the world's still spinning. So how am I getting my payout after you've spent it all on hookers and blow?

radicalcentriston Show HN: Learn where countries are on the world map with Spaced Repetition

This is awesome, I got way more sucked into this than I expected. If you're open to adding more features, a "custom playlist" would be really cool. I'd love to drill myself on the Balkans or West Africa, for instance.

radicalcentriston Show HN: Learn where countries are on the world map with Spaced Repetition

Interesting, thank you for the link. This answers a few questions I had about preferred country names while trying out the game, such as Czech Republic/Czechia, Swaziland/Eswatini, Turkey/Turkiye. I also found the partially recognized states curious, especially Palestine being reduced to "West Bank".

radicalcentriston No Calls

No it's not called supply and demand, it's called price discrimination. The way things should be priced is based on the value it gives the market as a whole. Anything further is an anti-competitive attempt to vacuum up more of the buyer surplus.

radicalcentriston Nobody cares

They have an option to do an ACATS to another brokerage account. They do not mention specifically, but it looks like this would be considered a stock transfer "in kind" which should not be considered a taxable event.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Fidelity/comments/la7tj6/can_someon...

https://cash.app/help/5026-transferring-stock-to-another-bro...

radicalcentriston E.U. Agrees on Artificial Intelligence Rules with Landmark New Law

Sounds like 7% of revenue rather than profit. But I agree it seems weird to cap it at 7.

radicalcentriston You are never taught how to build quality software

To quote Donald Knuth, "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."

radicalcentriston 9th Circuit rejects TSA claim of impunity for checkpoint staff who rape traveler

Calling it a jobs program is overly generous. It's broken windows fallacy. Considering the ineffectiveness of the TSA as shown by multiple audits, opportunity cost of waiting in security lines, lost revenue to airlines, and increased road fatalities due to flight aversion, it's a massive net loss to the economy for no actual benefit to safety.

radicalcentriston The risks of cleaning with bleach and other disinfectants

Is that on the ground floor of the neutral milk hotel?

radicalcentriston Reddit has been down for more than an hour

I really hope this site doesn't become the next reddit. I don't think a massive influx of new users would be healthy for good faith discussion here.

radicalcentriston I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month

Okay this part has me convinced this post is satire. The hackernewsiness is simply off the charts. As the kids would say, ain't no way.

radicalcentriston Is remote work bad for the economy?

Great writeup. It seems like a strange variant of the broken windows fallacy to imply that workers need to be shuttling to and from work and spending money on brick and mortar restaurants and stores. Of course remote workers will have extra spending money that's still going into the economy, whether that's delivery services mentioned in the article, local restaurants in their personal time, etc.

radicalcentriston Disabling the Intel Management Engine

The risk of bricking isn't so bad as long as you keep a copy of the original firmware. If the patched firmware doesn't boot, you can always revert back.

radicalcentriston Cocaine Paraphernalia Ads in the 70s

Don't forget video games and rock & roll.

radicalcentriston Closure vs. derivation in the Nix package manager

https://archive.md/wpvR3

radicalcentriston Space Station 14 – Open-source remake of Space Station 13

Hahaha, the issues are hilarious! A few examples:

* You can put yourself into disposals while dead

* Bullets rotate with the station

* Pulling doesn't know what newton's 3rd law is

* You can select wires hidden under walls and zap yourself with them

Where are all the mundane build problems and crashes? Their issue page is full of the type of zany interactions gone wrong I love to debug.

https://github.com/space-wizards/space-station-14/issues

radicalcentriston How long does it take ordinary people to get good at chess?

https://lichess.org/@/PeshkaCh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tykhon_Cherniaiev

radicalcentriston The metaverse is bullshit

Hey now, you wouldn't download a car

radicalcentriston Our lawsuit against ChessBase

Have you tried ChessX, and if so, how would you say it compares?

radicalcentriston Nixos-unstable’s ISO_minimal.x86_64-Linux is 100% reproducible

Reproducibility is what allows you to rely on other maintainers' reviews. Without reproducibility, you can't be certain that what you're running has been audited at all.

It's true that no single person can audit their entire dependency tree. But many eyes make all bugs shallow.