Hacker News: Grue3

New comment by Grue3 in "Blocking Kiwifarms"

Grue3 — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 00:29:47 +0000

There is at least one CF customer who was doxxed by Kiwifarms after expressing displeasure with Cloudflare's initial decision. CF CEO (eastdakota) blocked this customer when he complained about it [1] So much for free speech + great customer service!

[1] https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1565629001862873088

New comment by Grue3 in "Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach"

Grue3 — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 17:55:52 +0000

So you agree that Cloudflare should be criminally liable for hosting extremist content? (yes, providing CDN service counts as hosting, as the content is stored on Cloudflare's servers)

New comment by Grue3 in "Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach"

Grue3 — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 15:07:38 +0000

So, Cloudflare is basically saying they would host Daily Stormer, 8chan etc. from this point on. I bet this policy will go over like a lead brick in media coverage.

New comment by Grue3 in "Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach"

Grue3 — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 14:54:01 +0000

When was a platform for doxing and harassment a tenet of liberalism? "Your liberty to swing your fist ends just where my nose begins".

New comment by Grue3 in "Python 3.9"

Grue3 — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 15:55:07 +0000

The fact that you can overwrite built-in functions is not a point in favor of the language. Imagine you do this in a library and everyone using print() in their project would use a modified print instead. You could've just modified sys.stdout instead.

New comment by Grue3 in "Python 3.9"

Grue3 — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 10:33:44 +0000

    for v in data_values: print v

Is exactly the same length but much more readable.

New comment by Grue3 in "Python 3.9"

Grue3 — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 10:29:17 +0000

This. It's hilarious how the parser knows what you're trying to do when using print statement in ipython and such, but still raises an Exception instead of printing the damn thing. Am I in the REPL to work on something, or to be frustrated by the ridiculous syntax? Just DWIM, Jesus Christ.

New comment by Grue3 in "The Era of Visual Studio Code"

Grue3 — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 12:46:38 +0000

For Python work I use a pretty much out-of-the-box Emacs, with "magit" being the only plugin of note installed. And I also used "web-mode" when I was doing webdev. magit is the best Git interface ever, and a built-in Emacs feature called TRAMP allows for remote editing. I'm running ipython in a separate terminal. I don't really understand why you'd need something more than a text editor to edit Python code.

Now for Common Lisp I use SLIME, which I guess does count as IDE, seeing as it's much more powerful than most IDEs.

New comment by Grue3 in "Learning How to Learn Japanese"

Grue3 — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 12:21:01 +0000

I'm using 2 Anki decks to learn Japanese: one was something named "COREplus" with keys in kana and the answers showing kanji and definition of the word. I figured it would be useful to pick out words from their pronounciation alone, despite the amount of homophones. The second deck I generated myself [1], it includes kanji and words containing kanji, and also statistics on how often each pronounciation of kanji is encountered. Finishing this deck allows you to read quite a lot of things (although it doesn't cover words containing non-Joyo kanji).

Now when I wanted to take an JLPT exam, I realized that my listening skills are awful, and my grammar skills aren't very good either. I started watching grammar lessons on Youtube in Japanese, as well as random videos in Japanese (mostly about trains/traveling). In the end I just barely passed listening (JLPT N2) but my grammar skills were really good.

[1] https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/831167744

New comment by Grue3 in "Louisiana voter registration portal mysteriously shuts down on Registration Day"

Grue3 — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 11:49:32 +0000

If voting doesn't matter, why do authoritarian governments try so damn hard to suppress it? Riddle me this.

New comment by Grue3 in "Disney criticised for filming Mulan in China's Xinjiang province"

Grue3 — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 14:52:11 +0000

There are a lot of countries that don't currently engage in genocide against ethnic minorities. Some are even named "China" [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China

New comment by Grue3 in "Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You"

Grue3 — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 19:13:14 +0000

The funny thing is, if you type print with space it recognizes what you meant, and still wouldn't do it, raising an exception instead. It would've cost them literally nothing to support both ways to write print, since the parser has to detect statement print anyway.

New comment by Grue3 in "Python 3.8 Makes me Sad Again"

Grue3 — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 10:30:38 +0000

>This works because regular dicts have guaranteed ordering since Python 3.7

But the API is different! OrderedDict has more methods that have to do with order, and `reverse` works on its `.keys()` and `.values()`. Or did they fix this in 3.8?

New comment by Grue3 in "Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under national security law"

Grue3 — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 21:27:24 +0000

>And what does Apple get in return?

Not being complicit in genocide isn't enough reward by itself?

New comment by Grue3 in "Men rescued from Pacific island after writing SOS in sand"

Grue3 — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 10:40:28 +0000

>Is SOS known to all cultures?

At least all cultures who listen to ABBA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvChjHcABPA

New comment by Grue3 in "Google adds "Black-owned" business attribute to local listings"

Grue3 — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 17:26:01 +0000

What's next, marking Jewish-owned businesses and LGBT-owned businesses? We don't learn from history at all, do we?

New comment by Grue3 in "New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases"

Grue3 — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 15:23:14 +0000

Docker overriding iptables rules, in my case. I was using somebody else's project distributed via docker-compose config, which made the port for elasticsearch public, which I was not aware of (I don't normally use docker or elasticsearch). Luckily I was able to regenerate the data stored in elasticsearch, though I had to do it twice because it got wiped again after regeneration and then I had to google what the hell is going on.

New comment by Grue3 in "Why is the Fessenheim 2 nuclear power plant closing in France?"

Grue3 — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 09:22:28 +0000

Why should France care about what they think? Germany could try not importing French carbon neutral nuclear energy if they hate it so much.

New comment by Grue3 in "Yamato becomes Japan's first city to 'ban' use of phones while walking"

Grue3 — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 19:13:18 +0000

My point was that this law makes 12% of pedestrians illegal, which is too high, not that nobody does this.

New comment by Grue3 in "Yamato becomes Japan's first city to 'ban' use of phones while walking"

Grue3 — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 19:11:46 +0000

Drunk driving had to be banned because it's just too dangerous. It had to be eradicated at all costs even despite many people violating this law. On the other hand there's no indication that texting while walking is more dangerous than walking while drunk. Walking is a low-risk activity which doesn't require a license and people routinely do it while being under an influence.