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New comment by jrvieira in "The internet wants to check your ID"

jrvieira — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 09:11:29 +0000

Would that be your SSN in the US for example? I don't think most people would be in favor of that.

Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the UK, and the US have no government-issued compulsory identity cards for all citizens.

New comment by jrvieira in "I've seen 12 people hospitalized after losing touch with reality because of AI"

jrvieira — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 21:44:41 +0000

Yes.

New comment by jrvieira in "AI must RTFM: Why tech writers are becoming context curators"

jrvieira — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 16:51:43 +0000

hell, semantic web even. we wouldn't need AI

New comment by jrvieira in "The internet wants to check your ID"

jrvieira — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 12:18:22 +0000

Not all countries have centralized systems with comprehensive national databases, some purposefully fragment record-keeping across different agencies and limit their access accordingly.

Privacy laws and constitutional protections vary widely across democracies and - in my estimation - for very good reason.

New comment by jrvieira in "The internet wants to check your ID"

jrvieira — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 19:09:24 +0000

I don't see how we can arrive at an alternative interpretation if we follow your argument to its logical conclusion.

New comment by jrvieira in "The internet wants to check your ID"

jrvieira — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 19:05:51 +0000

You can verify that you're above a certain age while remaining anonymous by way of zero knowledge proof, for example. There is no need to involve a government in a transaction of information that is outside its scope.

New comment by jrvieira in "The internet wants to check your ID"

jrvieira — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 22:58:32 +0000

That's not how "attack surface" works. Having your information centralized is what makes you vulnerable.

New comment by jrvieira in "The internet wants to check your ID"

jrvieira — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 22:52:55 +0000

You talk like we all live under the same government, and like it would be a good thing if we did.

New comment by jrvieira in "GitHub pull requests were down"

jrvieira — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 22:50:52 +0000

In this particular case, they definitely did.

New comment by jrvieira in "The internet wants to check your ID"

jrvieira — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 19:35:09 +0000

Why do you think that's the only way?

New comment by jrvieira in "GitHub pull requests were down"

jrvieira — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 09:06:54 +0000

Really?

https://github.com/features

The same since when?

New comment by jrvieira in "Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding"

jrvieira — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 09:57:40 +0000

try not vibe coding. it's even better

New comment by jrvieira in "Why doctors hate their computers (2018)"

jrvieira — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 09:47:31 +0000

They probably just meant that protocol prevents them from giving you access to them.

New comment by jrvieira in "Launch HN: Hyprnote (YC S25) – An open-source AI meeting notetaker"

jrvieira — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 10:57:40 +0000

I feel like everyone already understands that argument and it won't convince anyone that it's any less of a lie.

New comment by jrvieira in "Why concatenative programming matters (2012)"

jrvieira — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 01:58:59 +0000

Modern machines do. But the dominance of imperative assembly is more about historical momentum and engineering tradeoffs than fundamental necessity. We don't have to go all-in on Von Neumann.

New comment by jrvieira in "Mwm – The smallest usable X11 window manager"

jrvieira — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 01:10:48 +0000

It's capital -X and -Y

-x disables X11 forwarding.

New comment by jrvieira in "You can now disable all AI features in Zed"

jrvieira — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 23:07:48 +0000

how does it compare to neovim in terms of input lag?

New comment by jrvieira in "Asynchrony is not concurrency"

jrvieira — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 20:51:40 +0000

careful: in many programming contexts parallelism and concurrency are exclusive concepts, and sometimes under the umbrella of async, which is a term that applies to a different domain.

in other contexts these words don't describe disjoint sets of things so it's important to clearly define your terms when talking about software.

New comment by jrvieira in "Self-taught engineers often outperform (2024)"

jrvieira — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 13:33:48 +0000

"We want you to be good, not better than us"

New comment by jrvieira in "The death of partying in the USA"

jrvieira — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 09:52:24 +0000

I partied when i was young, never DnD'd nor LAN'd. Now in my thirties I DnD and LAN, party not so much :)