Hacker News: kupiakos

New comment by kupiakos in "What the hell is a target triple?"

kupiakos — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 19:11:38 +0000

It's being used correctly: something that is conspicuously old-fashioned for its environment is an anachronism. A toolchain that only supports native builds fits.

New comment by kupiakos in "It doesn’t take much public creativity to stand out as a job candidate"

kupiakos — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 18:10:49 +0000

> most mass shootings have occurred at locations that specifically disallow firearms, making them "soft targets" where the cowardly attacke

Most places with large crowds disallow firearms, and most mass shootings occur at places with crowds. You're confusing correlation with causation.

New comment by kupiakos in "Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux?"

kupiakos — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 00:03:42 +0000

This is wrong. Steam lets you choose a Proton (Wine) version per-game.

New comment by kupiakos in "Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++"

kupiakos — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 16:35:43 +0000

Fixed prefixes also make a codebase significantly more grep-able. Want to find the definition of the function named `foobar`? Search `fn foobar` and that will always match, no regex required.

New comment by kupiakos in "Vials labeled ‘smallpox’ are found in Pennsylvania laboratory"

kupiakos — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 20:41:38 +0000

"comparable" was interpreted to mean "similar risk profiles", which is not true.

We don't have a recent smallpox outbreak to compare to for mortality with modern medical treatment. It's possible smallpox is only 5% deadly these days, we just don't know.

New comment by kupiakos in "Vials labeled ‘smallpox’ are found in Pennsylvania laboratory"

kupiakos — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 20:38:49 +0000

Comparing modern death rates to the 1919 flu, and to historical smallpox infection, is not useful. Medical technology has come a long way in a century and so average mortality rates have dropped for all diseases.

2019 and 2020 had particularly dangerous flu seasons and were still significantly less deadly than COVID.

New comment by kupiakos in "Vials labeled ‘smallpox’ are found in Pennsylvania laboratory"

kupiakos — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 20:17:13 +0000

Everything in modern society is scientist-caused if you go deep enough.

New comment by kupiakos in "Vials labeled ‘smallpox’ are found in Pennsylvania laboratory"

kupiakos — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 20:10:14 +0000

COVID is not comparable to the flu. It's 3-20x as deadly depending on a variety of factors.

Smallpox would still be significantly more deadly than COVID individually, but I'd bet people would take lockdowns much more seriously for smallpox than they did for COVID, preventing a pandemic and resulting in fewer deaths overall. Especially because people believe falsehoods like "COVID is comparable to the flu" because it downplays the risk.

New comment by kupiakos in "Android's new Bluetooth stack rewrite (Gabeldorsh) is written with Rust"

kupiakos — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 00:47:04 +0000

It largely depends on the definition of "class" you're using. You'll raise some eyebrows calling structs that can't support implementation inheritance "classes".

You can also have implement different associated functions based on properties of generic arguments, which is quite different in design from just attaching methods to a struct.

New comment by kupiakos in "With questionable copyright claim, Jay-Z orders deepfake parodies off YouTube"

kupiakos — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 00:54:59 +0000

I imagine that would likely fall under a new trademark or fraud law rather than copyright.

New comment by kupiakos in "When will Google shut down Stadia?"

kupiakos — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 17:14:30 +0000

In the present participle, it's "shutting down", not "shutdowning". Or, "she shuts down the computer", not "she shutdowns the computer". "shutdown" is a verb as much as "alot" is a word. It's just a common typo.

New comment by kupiakos in "When will Google shut down Stadia?"

kupiakos — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 17:09:46 +0000

I'm unsure what you mean - they said that there should be a space there and Merriam-Webster seems to support that. They put "shut down" and "shutdown" in the same page, and state that the verb version is "shut down". In the "First Known Use" section, it looks like it's just going with what the name of the whole page is.

New comment by kupiakos in "Official StackOverflow FAQ on Gender Pronouns and Code of Conduct Changes"

kupiakos — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 18:50:12 +0000

The claim that requiring pronouns be based on assigned sex not being transphobic is akin to claiming Prop 8 wasn't homophobic. Judging that a e.g. a trans man cannot possibly be a man and use he/him pronouns is transphobic by definition. It sucks because the day of a trans person can be ruined by someone being an asshole and then feeling justified that they weren't "because biology".

Because the reality is, I'm trans and I don't feel safe participating on Hacker News anymore. If I try to ask someone to be respectful towards me, I know I'll be attacked because this is the top comment. And that sucks.

New comment by kupiakos in "Official StackOverflow FAQ on Gender Pronouns and Code of Conduct Changes"

kupiakos — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 18:40:19 +0000

I'd absolutely love a way to display pronouns next to a username when configured. It's not required to follow the rules though. It's actually pretty simple: use they/them unless you find out otherwise. You're not required to seek out someone's pronouns.

New comment by kupiakos in "An Update to Our Community and an Apology"

kupiakos — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 23:24:38 +0000

As a trans person, it feels impolite (well, insulting) to refer to people as the _wrong_ gender. I don't see it as impolite to avoid gendered language in the case of not knowing one's gender, and only impolite in the case of knowing one's gender if great lengths are taken to avoid gendering.

New comment by kupiakos in "An Update to Our Community and an Apology"

kupiakos — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 23:22:51 +0000

On the positive side, I did manage to convince my technical writing professor to allow they/them in my paper after showing recent style guide changes allowing it in formal writing. This was in 2016, though.

New comment by kupiakos in "An Update to Our Community and an Apology"

kupiakos — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 23:19:08 +0000

I disagree. This is an actual in-your-face challenge that trans people face - incorrect pronoun usage, both offline and online. Using the wrong pronoun for someone is akin to using the wrong name. It's ok if it happens accidentally, but being incorrect on purpose is quite insulting - in part because it's so simple to do the right thing. I don't want to work with jerks.

It matters because even if you don't think it's a big deal, it can be death by a thousand papercuts for others. Seeing "he" used as a default pronoun just reminds me that people will assume I'm a man, further entrenching this idea subconsciously that people like me don't belong in tech. When I'm misgendered online, I have an internal conversation of "Do I correct them? Do I want to be perceived as not contributing to the discussion and be punished for that? Will I be seen as a crazy SJW and attacked for it?" That's a mental stress that cisgender men simply don't have to deal with.

Use gender-neutral language by default. It's not hard, and simple mistakes are forgiven. However, if one isn't willing to put the slightest amount of effort to either avoid pronouns or use the singular they, it shows they doesn't actually care about the concerns of people unlike themselves. And that shows a lot about what kind of person they are.

New comment by kupiakos in "Hong Kong tries and fails to hire PR firms to rebuild image"

kupiakos — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 21:13:07 +0000

I won't visit China for the same reason I won't visit Russia or the deep US South. I'm visibly LGBT, and I would fear for my safety.

New comment by kupiakos in "Google’s GDPR Workaround"

kupiakos — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:21:46 +0000

I understand the opt-in rather than opt-out, but does disabling Ads Personalization [1] not do what you're asking?

[1]: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated?hl=en

New comment by kupiakos in "Nüshu, a 19th-century Chinese script written only by women (2017)"

kupiakos — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 01:04:57 +0000

This reminds me of The Stormlight Archive, in which reading, writing, and engineering are considered exclusively feminine.