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Re:Ask HN: Why Hasn't the Doomsday Clock Advanced? on Monday October 10, 2022 @10:21PM (#33158767)
https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/timeline/

It doesn't look like they update it more than once a year. I guess we'll see where we stand next January (if we make it that long)

I said the same thing in 1983: it's been 14 years since ARPANET, how long will we be in the early stages of the internet? It took 50 years of hard work before the day came when you could order a burrito from your couch. Sometimes change takes a generation or two. Be patient.
Re:Cashier Takes Long Break, Crashes Entire US Economy on Monday October 10, 2022 @04:26PM (#33156025)
First COVID, then Putin, and now Dylan. When will it end?
Not a lawyer, but my understanding is you can take a theft loss deduction. https://news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights-and-commentary/vi... (Sorry for your loss.)
No, not all ponzi schemes are wrapped in a cloak of crypto.
Re:Zig-style generics are not well-suited for most languages on Sunday October 09, 2022 @04:12PM (#33144799)

    enum MyEnum { Ok(u8), NotOk }
    
    fn main() {
        let value = MyEnum::Ok(42);
        assert!(matches!(value, MyEnum::Ok(_)));
        
        match value {
            MyEnum::Ok(x) => assert_eq!(x, 42),
            MyEnum::NotOk => unreachable!(),
        }
    }
No unsafe to be found. The feature is there, it just has a different keyword than you might be used to -- the same way Haskell and Java both have something called "class" that mean different things.
Re:SimulaVR Has Been Subpoenaed by Meta Platforms, Inc on Thursday October 06, 2022 @10:09AM (#33108357)
If that's true, it sounds like companies have been weaponizing the legal system to get access to proprietary information from their competitors. Surely that has got to be illegal somehow?
COVID for thee but not for me
Re:Feds seized $311M in Bitcoin, then hacker stole it back on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @09:18PM (#33089790)
> remotely swiping Bitcoin

In other words, he used his own private key to send a transaction. How is that "hacking"?

Re:EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024 on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @09:44AM (#33080253)
I don't think "seamless" is a common word people use to describe it.

https://old.reddit.com/r/applehelp/comments/un9rjb/airdrop_h...

Re:A surprising way to lose your files on Windows on Saturday October 01, 2022 @04:36PM (#33049877)
> Create a \Quicken directory in the root

Windows has an existing convention for this, like Linux's XDG. Imagine if you looked at your Linux filesystem root and saw /boot, /dev, /usr, /tmp, and /Quicken.

Cypress is also missing some pretty fundamental things, like tabbing through the document using the tab key. I don't know how people test for accessibility without this.

I haven't done JS for awhile, but according to https://docs.cypress.io/api/commands/type#Events they still don't support it. The docs point you to a third party package that tries to simulate it inside the page.

Re:Rust Nation – A UK Conference for Rustaceans on Friday September 30, 2022 @09:21AM (#33034502)
If you're in the US, £510 might turn out to be pretty cheap by time 2023 rolls around.
Re:New integer types I’d like to see on Friday September 30, 2022 @09:17AM (#33034453)
I was expecting that too. It seems strictly more expressive, since once you have the niche, you can do anything you like with it.

And INT_MIN is a better place for it than zero imo. If Rust had a `BalancedI32` I would reach for it a lot more than I use the NonZero types. In my code at least, I've found zero is a pretty useful number.

Re:Angry Reviewer on Thursday September 29, 2022 @12:23PM (#33022868)
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Re:SEC charges owners of New Jersey Deli with a $100M Valuation on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @05:32PM (#33001387)
Is it tech-savvy people they need? The Howey test doesn't say anything about tech or computers. I would have guessed they need finance-savvy lawyers.
I was expecting George Carlin's "It's a big club and you aren't in it", but yours might be better
Re:Dear Chess World on Monday September 26, 2022 @09:19PM (#32990666)
Let the chess speak for itself... because I sure can't explain it!
Re:Dear Chess World on Monday September 26, 2022 @09:16PM (#32990643)
What do you do about subcutaneous implants?
Re:Dear Chess World on Monday September 26, 2022 @09:12PM (#32990621)
Honestly I think all you'd need is the piece. There are 6 pieces, so that's 3 bits of info with room to spare.
Re:GitHub Actions Pitfalls on Monday September 26, 2022 @12:36PM (#32985210)
Is there a way to set a global timeout now? Last I checked, you could only set them per job, i.e. you have to copy-paste "timeout-minutes: 15" to every single job in every single workflow in every single repo, and hope you didn't miss one. That's been the case for years[1] and a quick search shows it's still true[2]

The cynic in me thinks they like having the extra revenue.

[1] https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/25472

[2] https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/10690

If you're worried your citizens might not appreciate you committing war crimes, there's an obvious solution to that.
Re:Why adults still dream about school on Thursday September 22, 2022 @06:52PM (#32945650)
Yeah I came here to say this too, though I don't think it'll be popular. Schools are like prisons your parents send you to every day so they have time to work.

A couple games have riffed on this:

https://www.maristane.com/school-or-prison/

https://schoolprisons.com/

I like the name! Could be stylized either LibRedirect or LibreDirect.
Re:Bitcoin is not a store of value on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @11:19AM (#32912923)
If usage is low - fees will be low, and the cost of an attack will be low, but the expected value gained from an attack will also be low.

If usage is high - fees will be high, and the cost of an attack will be high.

Security scales with usage, as does the incentive to attack. As long as usage trends in the same direction as value, I don't see the problem.

Re:You don’t want to be on Cloudflare’s naughty list on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @11:11AM (#32912778)
Can you acknowledge the main point of the article? What should someone do if they find themselves misclassified by Cloudflare's systems?
Re:It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++ on Monday September 19, 2022 @09:31PM (#32906551)
Not to say I'm not excited for Zig, but there are still bugs, miscompilations, and many breaking changes planned. Communicate realistic expectations, lest you become the next language evangelism strike force.
Re:It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++ on Monday September 19, 2022 @09:13PM (#32906416)
Zig is production ready? I must have missed the 1.0 release announcement
Re:Jqp – A TUI playground for exploring jq on Monday September 19, 2022 @08:40PM (#32906146)
I've played with jid in jiq and IIRC they were very slow with large inputs since they re-parse the JSON blob every time the query changes. I wonder if this solves that problem--I'll bookmark it and find out next time I need to wrangle some JSON!
Re:Bitcoin is not a store of value on Monday September 19, 2022 @06:28PM (#32904988)
I only brought up halvings because it explained the chart. But let's ignore halvings and talk about mining incentive then. Fees are the less important half of the story. The main driver is difficulty adjustments. If scarce fees come in, difficulty goes down so profitability increases. If plentiful fees come in, difficulty will go up so profitability decreases. Fees are actually damped by the adjustments so the absolute amount of fees doesn't really matter. So long as fees are above 0.00000000, the network will be fine. I predict that there will always be some baseline level of competition keeping fees above 0.00000000, but if that is wrong, then things would likely fall apart one day.

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