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yflu··on Sublime Text 3.0
Even ed has hardware requirements.
yflu··on No Man’s Sky One Year Later
They did what most "lean startups" did. They made an MVP, and iterated from there. The only difference is that their target audience were gamers who hivemind way more than most other markets.
yflu··on Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a privacy-preserving way
The way I see it is that if Firefox's userbase dwindles because of this, either we get our Firefox with opt-out telemetry or... Firefox dies. And now we have a Chrome monopoly.

I'm not sure I like that gamble.

yflu··on Save Your Sanity, Downgrade Your Life
An interesting idea a roommate thought up:

So 100 years ago, a guy kidnapping your daughter (just an example of anything that could only be resolved by you knowing where you daughter was) isn't a serious worry, since that's a 0.01% risk as opposed to the 2% risk your daughter gets sick with whatever and dies.

Now, it's that same 0.01% risk compared to a 0.00003% risk thanks to advancements in modern medicine, so we worry about it much more.

yflu··on “We are working on getting Sublime Text 3.0 final ready to launch”
If they're frustrated with Sublime with practical reasons (i.e. performance, plugins, extensibility), I don't think Code or Atom would satisfy them any better. You could make the argument for vim or emacs there, but those have been around much longer than Sublime, I doubt Sublime's eating much into those users in the first place.

If they're frustrated with Sublime due to not being FOSS, nothing I guess. But again, those people would have largely switched over already.

yflu··on Startups should not use React
If you have a patent against Facebook, let's face it, that patent claim is going to be bigger than React ever can be. The cost of switching out a JS framework would be well worth the benefits of taking a legitimate patent claim on FB.
yflu··on Is the open office layout dead?
No designated desks, or no predesignated desks?

If it's the former, then yeah, I'm bailing, that's tremendously dumb. If it's the latter, then whatever, it's hardly even a selling point.

yflu··on GOP lawmakers shamed on billboards for trying to repeal net neutrality rules
It takes me all of 10 seconds to type duckduckgo.com, and maybe 30 to switch default search engines for the browser.

I don't think I could switch an ISP in 10 days, let alone seconds.

yflu··on The Daily Stormer: A Hurricane Alerting Service
Yeah, iirc, r/stormfront was immediately snatched up as a storm watching sub for similar reasons
yflu··on Why We Terminated Daily Stormer
Do details no longer matter?

"A man was arrested for walking." and "A man was arrested for walking and aiming a rifle at a woman." are clearly different actions.

A lawyer went to prison, for illegal statements she made, in court, in defense of her client. These illegal statements that would be illegal even outside the context of being a federal court lawyer.

I can't understand this fetish of generalizing to the point of total vagueness. Case-by-case analysis is just as important now as ever.

yflu··on Why We Terminated Daily Stormer
You are generalizing well beyond the scope of the action.
yflu··on Cloudflare has dropped the Daily Stormer
Free speech necessarily does have limits, obviously, otherwise I could claim my ddosing your web server or my uploading of CP was simply me expressing my free speech.

Does my free speech only end when my actions infringe other laws? Or should my free speech overrule the consequences other laws? People want to claim free speech is a moral perogative, not just some words written into a Constitution, but you can't mix unlimited free speech with the real world, at some point, idealism has to give.

And I won't say GoDaddy, Google or Cloudflare necessarily should be the ones to draw that line, but someone has to. Something had to give after Charlottesville, and we're see that here.

yflu··on Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo
Gender is a semantic concept. Biology (and sex) is not.

So no, there isn't a biological basis for this, because gender isn't biological.

yflu··on Daily Stormer Moves from GoDaddy to Google
Can they not simply self-host?

But besides that, my understanding is that though the internet is free, the various entities on the internet are equally free to refuse service. After all, if they were otherwise obligated, that would imply X's freedom can override Y's freedom, which also contradicts the nebulous ideal of freedom.

yflu··on DeepMind and Blizzard Open StarCraft II as an AI Research Environment
SC1 really doesn't make sense for this, 80% of the skill is just keeping on top of the mindless but mechanically intensive stuff, which is trivial beyond trivial for an AI.

SC2's automated away most of this (pretty much everything but production cycles), which makes it a better measure for AI vs human.

yflu··on Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions
If you stay mostly in the produce aisle of your supermarket, you're 90% of the way to being added sugar free.

Which is admittedly different than completely sugar free, since that's entirely absurd.

But we've survived every generation except the last 4 without so much processed sugar, and we now have global supply lines handing us crops practically to our doorstep.

yflu··on The man who wrote the book on password management regrets the error
Then I add another word or two and make that 44 bits 55 or 66 bits.

The strategy itself still works, even if the particular details of implementation change.

yflu··on Government Report Finds Drastic Impact of Climate Change on U.S
As the saying goes, to boil a frog, you simply have to gradually turn up the heat.

Of course you won't notice much when comparing this year to last, especially since the weather's fairly random.

But the trends all point in one direction. Even remembering to my childhood (barely 15 years ago) paints a different picture than what we have today.

yflu··on Percentage of Europeans Who Are Willing to Fight a War for Their Country
If you go running into a burning building, you can't expect your allies to do the same.

We might, but that's on our own volition, not out of any obligation.

yflu··on The war between Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple
Suggesting Facebook and Google and Amazon as serious replacements for Facebook and Google and Amazon really drives the point home.
yflu··on Hacking Voting Machines at Defcon
But is there any advantage to e-voting?

Assuming that we can achieve exactly equal security to paper voting for a moment, what have we achieved other than adding another few layers of middlemen and cost?

yflu··on Hacking Voting Machines at Defcon
There are far far too many links in that massive chain to trust on obscurity as security.