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New comment by greaterthan3 in "Cognitive ability is related to supporting freedom of speech (2020)"

greaterthan3 — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 20:16:44 +0000

>For example the FBI told social media companies the the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation

They didn't, they only gave a general warning to watch out for misinformation[1].

Facebook censored the Hunter Biden laptop story on their own volition. Zuckerberg mentioned FBI in that Rogan interview to muddy the waters and deflect responsibility. He didn't actually say that FBI ordered them to do anything.

[1] - https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/fbi-responds-...

New comment by greaterthan3 in "CERN drafts plans to idle accelerators due to Europe’s energy crunch"

greaterthan3 — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 17:56:04 +0000

This explanation doesn't make much sense. If Ukraine maybe joining NATO in an unspecified future is such a big threat to Russia, then surely Finland joining it right now is an even bigger threat. Not to mention that Poland and the Baltic states already are NATO members.

Russia's security is guaranteed by nukes. Security definitely wasn't the reason why Russia has invaded Ukraine.

New comment by greaterthan3 in "Integers in C quiz"

greaterthan3 — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 22:19:39 +0000

>The wording was changed in C11

And here's an exact quote from the C11 standard:

>If the quotient a/b is representable, the expression (a/b)*b + a%b shall equal a; otherwise, the behavior of both a/b and a%b is undefined.

http://port70.net/~nsz/c/c11/n1570.html#6.5.5p6

New comment by greaterthan3 in "Blocking Kiwifarms"

greaterthan3 — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 23:01:01 +0000

>How is this censorship? They are a company and can do business with whoever they please.

Just because a private company does it, doesn't mean it isn't censorship. Of course, you may argue that it's in a good cause, but nonetheless, it's still censorship.

I feel XKCD 1357 has greatly contributed to the degradation of the discourse on this topic. The concept of free speech is not synonymous with the legal protections provided by American law.

New comment by greaterthan3 in "Science is political, and that's a bad thing"

greaterthan3 — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 06:04:13 +0000

Calling this[1] "an article about racist dog names" is a complete misrepresentation. It's a critique of a study published in Social Psychology Quarterly, which is an official journal of the American Sociological Association.

[1] - https://stuartritchie.substack.com/p/dog-name-racism

New comment by greaterthan3 in "Secure Shell inventor denied trademark request (2001)"

greaterthan3 — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 20:35:32 +0000

I think it's an interesting historicial curiosity.

Secure Shell inventor denied trademark request (2001)

greaterthan3 — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 20:35:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2798631/secure-shell-inventor-denied-trademark-request.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32695439

Points: 6

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New comment by greaterthan3 in "I like Odin"

greaterthan3 — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 13:58:21 +0000

Naturally, commit messages aren't the only criteria I'm using. But I wasted way too much time in my life on deciphering the purpose of 20+ year old commits to ignore this.

New comment by greaterthan3 in "I like Odin"

greaterthan3 — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 13:55:15 +0000

Even if you're a solo dev, you will likely still have to debug your old code in the future. I'm sure most of HN is familiar with the Chesterton's fence. Proper commit messages aid you in understanding why the changes were made. This especially matters in complex codebases, like compilers.

New comment by greaterthan3 in "I like Odin"

greaterthan3 — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 13:38:10 +0000

>How many developers are there?

According to GitHub, there are 132 contributors. Probably most of them were one-off drive-by PRs, but nonetheless, it's definitely not a one person project anymore.

New comment by greaterthan3 in "I like Odin"

greaterthan3 — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 13:33:35 +0000

What was broken? How it was broken? Why it was fixed this way? That information is vital during "git blame".

Take a look at the commit histories of the other projects I've linked. Their commit messages are much more elaborate.

New comment by greaterthan3 in "I like Odin"

greaterthan3 — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 13:07:44 +0000

When I'm evaluating an open-source project, I always check the quality of its commit messages. I don't care about following a specific format or something, all that matters is whether they are informative or not.

Sadly, Odin doesn't seem to pass the test. It's full of commits labeled with just "fix ": https://github.com/odin-lang/Odin/commits/master

A few examples of projects with better commit messages:

Linux kernel: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commits/master

gcc: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/commits/master

Perl: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commits/blead

Wayland: https://github.com/wayland-project/wayland/commits/main

New comment by greaterthan3 in "Korea shatters its own record for world’s lowest fertility rate"

greaterthan3 — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 03:31:07 +0000

The fact that it's both men and women in Israel could be significant. I heard stories about people meeting their romantic partners in the army during the mandatory service.

New comment by greaterthan3 in "Korea shatters its own record for world’s lowest fertility rate"

greaterthan3 — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 01:37:50 +0000

Birth rates are low pretty much everywhere in the developed world, but South Korea is an outlier in how low they are. For example, Japan's fertility rate is 1.3, compared to Korea's 0.84. That's a huge difference.

It's possible there's something unique to South Korea that causes it. Perhaps it's mandatory 2 years of military service for males. Or maybe their famously judgmental culture. I don't know.