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hundt — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 21:33:05 +0000

Article URL: https://computer.rip/2023-03-24-docker.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35307640

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# Comments: 138

New comment by hundt in "Why would anyone need JavaScript generator functions?"

hundt — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 18:31:46 +0000

This article[0] and a clarifying comment[1] answer the question for JS. I think it's the same for Python. Apparently your model (which was mine, too) is out of date!

[0] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/05/es6-in-depth-generators/

[1] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/05/es6-in-depth-generators/#c...

New comment by hundt in "Accounting For Developers, Part I"

hundt — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 17:03:22 +0000

As the article explains, debits increase the balance of debit normal accounts, whereas credits increase the balance of credit normal accounts.

New comment by hundt in "Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions"

hundt — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 19:37:34 +0000

I think the argument is that there are multiple judicial philosophies that can be chosen from, and you can generally predict what outcomes will result from following a philosophy consistently over time, so a justice chooses the philosophy that results in the outcomes they want. And therefore they could have chosen their philosophy for partisan outcome-based reasons, so consistently following it is no defense to accusations of partisanship.

New comment by hundt in "Heatsink Skiving (2021) [video]"

hundt — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 17:45:34 +0000

I think the heatsink and platform it is on are moving horizontally and the blade only moves vertically.

New comment by hundt in "When families un-adopt a child (2018)"

hundt — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 17:02:38 +0000

I would call it a duty more than a debt. I feel that I have a duty to look after my elders, but I do not think my children owe me a debt for conceiving them or for performing my own duty to take care of them.

New comment by hundt in "How to Work Hard"

hundt — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 13:28:58 +0000

One possibility is that he "works hard" at that, too, e.g. by consciously thinking about what the best things to do with them are and endeavoring to spend as much as possible doing them. Perhaps if you internalize the idea that spending time with your family is in fact work, of a different but also valuable nature, then you will not find it as difficult.

New comment by hundt in "Welcome to the Golden Age of Masa"

hundt — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 19:30:35 +0000

As I wrote, I didn't find the "drying out" step to be necessary. If you are patient enough you can process the nixtamal into dough with only a tiny bit of water added.

Edit: I don't have a wet grinder so I can't compare to that. It is smooth enough to get the pocket though.

New comment by hundt in "Welcome to the Golden Age of Masa"

hundt — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 19:20:58 +0000

This is an excellent question that I never thought of!

My guess is that

- there is a large range of cal concentrations that work fine without tasting bad, and

- the amount of water absorbed by the corn is very hard to predict, as it varies from batch to batch, and

- unlike brining meat, it is unlikely that two people doing this by hand would vary how much water they are adding by 5x or even 3x, because there is no reason to add a lot more water than is needed, and

- recipes are simpler if you base the cal amount on the corn amount and then add "enough water" (which may change once you start cooking).

So maybe no one doing it for non-industrial audiences has bothered narrowing it down.

I use around half as much as you (3:1 water to corn and 1% cal by weight of corn) and it works well for me.

New comment by hundt in "Welcome to the Golden Age of Masa"

hundt — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 19:00:45 +0000

You can get a smooth product from a food processor if you are willing to do it in small batches, very slowly (I take around 5 minutes to process 1 cup of nixtamal in my 11-cup food processor, with pauses to scrape it down). I can do that without adding too much water (and in fact I have to add more water after I'm done processing).

I also bought from Masienda; they are indeed great!

New comment by hundt in "Tax details of US super-rich allegedly leaked"

hundt — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 02:20:15 +0000

> to actually do anything with that paper wealth, he needs to sell the stock or engage in a similar realization event, in which case that gain will be taxed

The ProPublica analysis that the BBC refers to [1] explains it: you borrow with the capital as collateral and then when you die the debt is repaid by selling some of the capital. But because of the stepped-up basis on death there is never a "realization" of positive gains.

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trov...

New comment by hundt in "The security scanner that cried wolf"

hundt — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 00:24:36 +0000

Having implemented it for a job, this has been my impression of container scanning as well. Either your container has an OS, in which case you don't use 99% of the software on it and so 99% of the vulnerabilities found do not affect you, or else you have a container with "scratch" as the base image, in which case the scanner has no insight.

New comment by hundt in "Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”"

hundt — Fri, 29 May 2020 23:12:43 +0000

Maybe, but did you read my post? You need a cause of action. It is not libel to moderate someone's tweets, so even if § 230 does not protect them you can't sue them for libel based on their moderation.

New comment by hundt in "Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”"

hundt — Fri, 29 May 2020 19:46:50 +0000

My understanding is that (c)(2)(A) is only about liability for the act of moderation itself, e.g. suing Twitter because they banned you. If they did that in bad faith you could hypothetically maybe sue them for it, but there would need to be a cause of action, which there normally wouldn't be.

'gnopgnip may be referring to the much broader liability shield, for the content that you do not remove, which is provided by (c)(1) and has no good-faith requirement. That is Twitter's main "legal protection from defamation and libel" that you mention above.

Trump's executive order suggests that the (c)(1) liability shield could go away if you don't meet the (c)(2) good-faith requirements, which I gather is not considered a strong legal position.

New comment by hundt in "macOS Catalina 10.15.5"

hundt — Wed, 27 May 2020 19:28:09 +0000

I tried the XPS 15 7590 late last year before I switched back to Mac when the 16" MBP came out.

It felt like absolute garbage in comparison. Trackpad was so bad I had to use the touchscreen to scroll. Internet stopped working intermittently. Display felt like far inferior quality (and, like you said, your choices are too few pixels or too many).

It was honestly a confusing experience to me, like reviewers or other people who treat these machines as comparable were living on a different planet or something. Of course I don't expect everyone to like Macs and there's nothing wrong with preferring the Dell but I don't understand why the quality differences are not more widely acknowledged.

New comment by hundt in "No One Goes There Anymore"

hundt — Sun, 17 May 2020 18:17:33 +0000

Two meaningful things they can do without realizing the gains: borrow against it and bequeath it.

New comment by hundt in "WinUI – The modern native UI platform of Windows"

hundt — Thu, 07 May 2020 18:24:12 +0000

Yup, had this exact experience, except my prior mac was a 2015.

New comment by hundt in "Intuit to buy Credit Karma for $7B"

hundt — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 16:13:37 +0000

Sorry, I'm still not clear what you're referring to. There are multiple ProPublica articles linked in this thread and I'm not sure what statement you're paraphrasing with your "soup to nuts" quote. Are you referring to this article[0], which says the OMB suggested in 2002 that the IRS develop a free option, and the IRS opposed it then and consistently since?

Regarding your second point: the IRS has a lot of documents but it is dwarfed by the total amount of information needed to prepare a return. Even just to determine who your dependents are is a complex flowchart[1] for which there are no official documents in existence that can provide the answers. These kinds of things come up all the time when doing ordinary people's taxes, not just in esoteric situations. (I know because I used to volunteer to do it.)

[0] https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f...

[1] https://apps.irs.gov/app/vita/content/globalmedia/dependency...

New comment by hundt in "Intuit to buy Credit Karma for $7B"

hundt — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 16:50:34 +0000

Can you point to where the IRS has said that they can prepare returns for taxpayers?

As far as I know they can correct isolated pieces of information (e.g. wrong numbers from a W-2) but do not have the ability to prepare a return from scratch.

Edit: I mean, they can obviously put all the pieces of information they know about you onto one return and do the calculations. But there will be many pieces they don't know, and I think you are unlikely to get an accurate return without them (or based on guessing). But if the IRS says otherwise I would like to know.

New comment by hundt in "Intuit to buy Credit Karma for $7B"

hundt — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 15:01:03 +0000

It is certainly true that the IRS could hypothetically implement a better version of TurboTax. But it is quite a leap to conclude that the tax preparation industry's relatively small amount of lobbying is the main reason they have not done that.

The IRS is severely and chronically underfunded (a situation that gets worse every year) and can't even perform its basic tax collection functions at this point. Even if it were allocated the budget to make a TurboTax competitor (the complexity of which I think you severely underestimate) I am extremely skeptical that the resulting product would actually be as good as TurboTax. The net result could easily be us all paying (in the form of taxes) for software that no one uses anyway.

I think "IRS makes a better TurboTax" is basically a fantasy, and Intuit is a convenient villain to blame for that fantasy not coming true. They appear to be taking steps to discourage it, but I highly doubt they, or they plus all other lobbyists combined, are a but-for cause of the fact that filing taxes is difficult.