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throwaway5d097··on Marijuana, hallucinogen use, binge drinking at historic highs in U.S. 35-50Y
I guess dry mouth increases incidence of periodontal disease. Some people get cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, but that's somewhat rare. With long term, increasing use, I personally experienced insomnia, anxiety, and lack of appetite. Only with 1g of dabs a week. YMMV. I've quit weed and alcohol, but I consider weed usually a lesser evil. Alcohol really fucked my depression up.
throwaway5d097··on What motorcycles teach about maintenance
I abuse O-ring/X-ring chains on my dirt bikes, haven't had any failures besides a mangled master link clip I caught
throwaway5d097··on Yatri: First electric motorcycle to be made in Nepal
With languages that are not written phonetically with wide regional variations in pronunciation (English), I think it makes sense to not care as long as you're understood. Might as well demand that Japan be pronounced Neep-on or Cuba Cooba and not Cyooba.
throwaway5d097··on Freedom of expression is at a ten-year low globally, study says
>Constitutional rights don't matter for people if parties with vast economic power can render the exercise of those rights pointless

This is an interesting point, but I don't get how that follows from the rest of this post. More corporatism can often lead to worse quality of life as well.

By making the lack of rights explicit rather than implicit, the exercise of such rights is made even more difficult.

This seems like the kind of thinking from a lot of people in the PRC, and it's not working out very well for them, at least collectively.

throwaway5d097··on How I Switched to Plan 9
9p is perhaps a bit more advanced/clean/general? than REST endpoints/HTTP. You can still use whatever serializable formats you want.
throwaway5d097··on How I Switched to Plan 9
I guess you can run it on Linux/BSD with plan9port
throwaway5d097··on FreeBSD 12.1
Maybe combining jails with something like Ansible for building images and automating configuration would be close to good enough? Though more boilerplate? I wonder
throwaway5d097··on Early Retirement May Speed Up Cognitive Decline: Study
It's very hard with depression, but work is also hard with depression, though getting some stuff done is much easier with an actual job. Tried some woodworking stuff but it requires a lot of learning and patience. But I guess a lot of hobbies don't require that sort of effort, ie hiking. But you sort of need some sort of social contacts to encourage activity. It seems very easy to just stagnate in loneliness while consuming media these days.
throwaway5d097··on Compiling my own SPARC CPU inside a cheap FPGA
You could run something like Inferno without an MMU: "Limbo programs run safely on a machine without memory-protection hardware". It would probably be more efficient than emulating some other architecture. Arguably, it'd be better than Unix :p
throwaway5d097··on The Arrogance of the Anthropocene
There are fossils of hundreds of millions of years old, and microfossils of microorganisms over 3 billion years old. Why couldn't there be fossils of technology?
throwaway5d097··on Modern C, Second Edition
Maybe this is more about outrage culture (being upset over relatively small things like microagressions rather than "real problems", often argued to be a fallacy of relative privation, unless the small things are not a problem at all or the argument is that the response is disproportional to the magnitude of the problem) than about whether an SJW is of a feminist or some other persuasion. Some disagree that SJWs are necessarily feminist or vice versa. A lot of these terms aren't exactly clearly defined.

The argument could have been a lot clearer and less confrontational. At least it seems more consistent than anti-feminists being "reactionary" for the old times where we could make jokes about women but being offended by jokes about men.

throwaway5d097··on Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer
If it was a hard link, I suppose my way of thinking about it would make more sense, since all hard links are as valid, pretty much the same. That is, after running

  ln /some/file /other/file
/some/file and /other/file are hard links. So in this case ln is just copying a hard link, while afaik cp would be copying data, making a hard link pointing to the new data. In userspace? That seems to be what's happening here - https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/bin/cp/utils.c

This is made a bit more confusing by the differences in man pages. For GNU ln, it's shown as ln TARGET LINK_NAME, but for OpenBSD, ln source [target]. But the usage is pretty much the same?

throwaway5d097··on Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer
I think of it like `cp`. Source to destination, where destination is the soft link. so it's like copying a file somewhere but instead of a copy you're making a link
throwaway5d097··on Chinese people who show sympathy for HK protests risk getting doxxed by friends
Identity politics is such made up right-wing bullshit. It's clear that you have to belong to a certain group to discuss anything to do with them, unless you are telling minorities what's best for them because you know better.

People are not getting their views strawmanned leading to their characters and careers being destroyed and being inundated with death threats unless they deserve it, clearly.

throwaway5d097··on Chinese people who show sympathy for HK protests risk getting doxxed by friends
One can think that parades in general are disruptive but should still be allowed due to the right to free assembly, and you did not address the "almost naked leathered men". Which I don't think is a big deal, but I can sort of understand the whole "think of the children" argument.

And the problem is that everyone deviating from the party line is strawmanned into "having horrible views" and thus it's perfectly okay to harass them mercilessly and cause them economic harm just for being stupid or whatever.

throwaway5d097··on BPF port-based firewall for systemd services
https://skarnet.org/software/s6/ also supports socket activation, Obarun, Gentoo and Void support it so far. Would be interesting to see how it'd compare to systemd's use cases with wider adoption.
throwaway5d097··on The Impact of Meditating Every Day
I too am autistic and had an experience similar to yours, although I'm not sure if the effect on productivity was nearly as much, but still definitely there and it was a form of escapism.

Still, I had plenty of time to reflect and mature while not really getting very high due to very high tolerance, although I also had anxiety problems almost like psychosis. Still managed to get out, sort of interview although probably much worse than sober, and barely work on some code. Eh, been a few weeks now and I still barely code. Only did what was required for school after burning out, before becoming addicted.

Almost got CHS after dabbing plenty of CBD (which can also cause CHS, although rare) as well as hash oil. Thankfully I only puked until my stomach was empty, didn't last long and wasn't painful, but I had most of the pre-CHS symptoms. Sometimes I think I could just do a tiny amount as a reward here and there... that it wasn't that hard to quit... maybe I'm fooling myself.

throwaway5d097··on Student hacks high school software and finds “SQL injections galore”
He didn't damage anything, apparently not beyond displaying a message for every user in the school district. Jail time is incredibly draconian and would only make him disillusioned with the system.
throwaway5d097··on Student hacks high school software and finds “SQL injections galore”
Jail time for reporting vulnerabilities? This is some Poe's law shit.
throwaway5d097··on Ask HN: Alternatives to MVC
"View oriented" like https://www.liftweb.net/
throwaway5d097··on Legit-Looking iPhone Lightning Cables Will Hijack Your Computer
First thought was whitelisting USB vendor and device IDs, but I guess those could be spoofed. A button above every USB port?

Going back to PS/2 could be an option? Guess that wouldn't be too different from allowing all devices only on a single USB port.

throwaway5d097··on Why is modern web development so complicated?
It's actionable in the sense that it's definitely^Woften correct.
throwaway5d097··on Battery-Powered Ships Next Up in Battle to Tackle Emissions
Or fission...
throwaway5d097··on Why is modern web development so complicated?
I agree that there are much better choices, but most frontend apps are done with onion oriented development with thousands of dependencies that constantly get vulnerabilities, and aren't any more maintainable in my experience.

If it's simple enough and they understand PHP well, it could easily be better.

throwaway5d097··on On Signal
So what's wrong with Signal's business model? I followed the link, and none of these seem to apply to Signal, which is a funded free and open source project.

Although I don't get why Signal Messenger LLC was formed alongside the Signal Foundation non-profit. Why not just have the non-profit? Still, it's open source.

Signal is easy to set up, it shouldn't be too hard to convince your contacts to use it. The exception is that some parts of the world have really restricted internet access and only allow certain apps like WhatsApp.

throwaway5d097··on 8chan Is a Normal Part of Mass Shootings Now
I think I sort of get it now.

Moderating spam is easier. Apparently it's hard to tell between "we should kill these people" and "these people are being killed" due to a language barrier sometimes, and it's hard to automate.

But wow. You all think "let's kill these people" somehow has more value than "buy my shit/here is a malware link", nice. downboat away

throwaway5d097··on 8chan Is a Normal Part of Mass Shootings Now
The closest such edge cases I found were mixups between enticement and reportage about Syrian war crimes and Rohingya genocide. What edge cases have you seen?

I don't mean banning racism, but enticement for violent action.

throwaway5d097··on 8chan Is a Normal Part of Mass Shootings Now
A global ban for promoting genocide or murder doesn't seem too complicated
throwaway5d097··on Low-level is easy (2008)
Taking the minimal to no frontend approach is probably underrated then, for managing complexity. i.e. with Slimvoice https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19632817
throwaway5d097··on White House weighs encryption crackdown
An AR-15 lower doesn't have that much strain
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