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Re:Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years? on Friday October 22, 2021 @06:12PM (#28963414)
Set up a trust fund that pays someone to keep it available as times change
Re:Tricks I wish I knew when I learned TypeScript on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @06:41PM (#28858495)
Renaming attributes propogates through these types. It makes refactoring better.
Re:Poisson's Equation on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @09:57PM (#27756551)
What does it mean? I fully expected to explain the semantics and yet I still don't know what that triangle squared means. Oh well.
Re:I should have loved biology on Thursday November 19, 2020 @10:44AM (#25150628)
Look up mutagenic breeding, the idea breeders are taking a more natural approach is nuts.

I do agree we should invest more heavily in tech like bug resistance to reduce necessary pesticides.

Re:I should have loved biology on Thursday November 19, 2020 @10:39AM (#25150581)
GMOs are the somewhat intentional introduction of genes from another organism while breeding approaches often involve radiation to expedite random mutations which may have less obvious changes that are not safe.
Isn't that profit for shareholders taxed as cap gains?

Edit: I mean, if I own a share I pay taxes when I sell it and make money

Re:The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @01:21PM (#24767631)
I like serverless because it scales to zero easily by default which keeps costs down for super low use personal apps.
Re:Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0 on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @05:22PM (#24065760)
That seems illegal in some places if true. The premise is that it proves we are not robots, and that's all.
Thanks for the good information! I hadn't read up on Qualified Immunity.

It always seems hopeless though when my prejudiced neighbors think the protestors are wrong and should be shot. These prejudiced people can be police, lawyers, and judges. Even outside the justice system they clearly perpetuate systemic issues.

Re:ACLU sues Minnesota for police violence against the press on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @11:53PM (#23412219)
I'm just saying what it looks like to me after the last 10 years of police brutality and protests
Re:ACLU sues Minnesota for police violence against the press on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @08:24PM (#23410855)
So what can anyone actually do to fix this? Protesting has no lasting effect, and contacting my senator/politicians is a joke since I'm in the political minority.
Re:How to Write Usefully on Saturday February 22, 2020 @03:38PM (#22393188)
The writer does not mention eliminating complex grammar, and uses pronouns a lot. I find using pronouns greatly dilutes meaning and efficiency for non-native English speakers and requires more attentive reading even for native English speakers. The writer is not using simple direct language in my opinion, and being both simple and direct are critical for useful writing.
Re:A Sad Day for Rust on Friday January 17, 2020 @12:33PM (#22076922)
This is something JavaScript does better than Rust. I like the JS community because it's way more sympathetic on average. They have lots of code quality issues to solve in some of the hardest ways... But people are working on that, and I think they will succeed eventually, if they haven't already fixed much with npm audit.
Re:Intel publishes misleading benchmarks against AMD on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @04:26PM (#21467532)
The new cloud based ARM cpus are new, and that's a reasonable motivator
Re:NordVPN confirms it was hacked on Monday October 21, 2019 @02:14PM (#21315413)
Just use Cloudflare WARP since it's finally out. You're never really anymous unless it's a lifestyle anyways.
Re:What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014) on Saturday September 21, 2019 @12:15PM (#21036180)
I worked for a bit on a code gen based typescript postgres builder, but haven't had time lately to build it out - https://github.com/Sammons/morbid

I really think typescript would benefit from a good solution to this.

Re:Go 2 Draft Designs on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @06:36PM (#17863556)
Really wish they'd consider looking at some of the more fun things TypeScript types can do. Like specifying a return type as being Pick<SomeType, 'x' | 'y'>. Imagine this in combination with Go interfaces.
Re:Wildcard Certificates Coming January 2018 on Thursday July 06, 2017 @04:28PM (#14713671)
Has a large CA ever had its intermediate certificates compromised? Just curious if that process has ever happened.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2015) on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @06:25PM (#10707623)
Location: San Francisco

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Scala, Thrift, Mysql, C# (1 yr) HTML/CSS/JS, Node.js, SQL, PHP, C++, C, Ruby, Perl, Python w/ Django (College)

Résumé/CV: bit.ly/ben-resume

Email: [email protected]

Can't agree more.

Don't forget that before we had GMO's we just blasted millions of seeds with radiation until we found mutants with cool characteristics, which we then branded as natural mutations, and mass distributed.

I wonder if that's how Chipotle does it....