<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: mariodiana</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mariodiana</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:18:14 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mariodiana" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mariodiana in "Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Since you're using Biblical language, I just want to point out that you're not Biblically accurate. Murder isn't the original sin.</p>
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<p>Yes. But I'm adding that learning methods should be explicitly taught, to where they become second nature to the student.</p>
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<p>I'm may be a little off-topic here (but I don't think so).<p>In my opinion, elementary school (grades K-5) should really focus a good deal on rote memorization, but only if this focuses on teaching every kind of game and technique to facilitate that kind of learning. By that I mean making flash cards, learning to create and use mnemonic devices, etc.<p>I just asked ChatGPT, and got something like 15 different techniques, some of which can be used with kindergarteners, all of which can be used by grade 5.<p>There are always going to be "boring" things to learn. These things are often no longer boring once you know them by heart. In fact, they're often extremely valuable to know. I think by grade 5, if kids are going to be taught anything, they need to be taught the techniques that they can use—on their own—to make learning fun.</p>
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<p>They're telling us that iPhones are going to be getting so big, we're going to have to buy it its own custom pocket.</p>
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<p>I worked for a small company that had a project with Bloomberg. We went to the office downtown, and being the clueless Upstate hick that I was, I saw the text-based UI up on a screen and asked my boss — a little too loudly — if we were at an auto parts store.<p>"Shhhhh! That's the Terminal!"</p>
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<p>I'm nostalgic for an old World Wide Web (which never really existed, thanks to GeoCities and such), and wish that we could form a sect of "Puritans," break away from the High Church, and sail away to some top-level domain of our own where we'll consider any outbound links heretical.</p>
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<p>I'm 58, and have needed reading glasses for the last 10 years. Want to try something fun? Increase your default text size on your iPhone, and then just watch how many apps — native Apple apps, mind you — have their UI screwed up to the point where they become unusable!</p>
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<p>Back in 2011, Apple removed apps that crowdsourced warnings about DUI checkpoints. It remains Apple's policy today.<p>According to Grok, "In March 2011, four Democratic senators—Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), and Tom Udall (D-N.M.)—sent letters to Apple, Google, and Research in Motion (BlackBerry's parent company) urging the removal of such apps […]"<p>So, we have precedent where four Democratic senators pressured Apple to remove an app that allowed people to evade law enforcement.</p>
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<p>Is Objective-C discussed at all?</p>
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<p>Unless I'm mistaken, I remember some years ago the Apple Store blocked a DUI Checkpoint app. Has that changed?</p>
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<p>My understanding is that your characterization is true of the Articles of Confederation, but not true of the Constitution. The federal government's power is delegated from the people.<p>At the top of the Articles, it's pretty clear that the delegates of the states have come together to establish a league of states. At the top of the Constitution, it's explicitly stated that "We the People […] do ordain and establish."</p>
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<p>I'm not going to downvote you. But Rawls never applies. Rawls is a big scam. At root, it is relativism wrapped up in the august raiment of state-of-nature social contract theory, whatever his protests to the contrary; and the relativism in this case is what "feels right" to him and his fancy neighbors living in Cambridge.</p>
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<p>Exactly. Children belong with their parents. And if their parents don't belong here, then Q.E.D.</p>
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<p>I anthropomorphize A.I. not for its sake but for mine. I figure that my brain has evolved to interact with other humans, so maybe my thinking is better stimulated when I pretend I'm talking to one.</p>
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<p>The fact that this would require a constitutional amendment makes me think this is more about collecting names to later pester for money than anything else. I wouldn't even take it seriously.<p>"Make bank. Troll the libs." The people behind this see it as a win-win.<p>Deep breaths, people. Deep breaths.</p>
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<p>It's sad that late-binding languages like Objective-C never got the love they should have, and instead people have favored strongly (or stronger) typed languages. In Objective-C, you could have your User class take a delegate. The delegate could either handle messages for students or employees. And you could code the base User object to ignore anything that couldn't be handled by its particular delegate.<p>This is a very flexible way of doing things. Sure, you'll have people complain that this is "slow." But it's only slow in computer standards. By human standards—meaning the person sitting at a desktop or phone UI—it's fast enough that they'll never notice.</p>
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<p>Sunny's. I know it was actually a dance bar. I hung out a lot at Rooney's and sometimes the OMI.<p>On the one side of Sunny's was a gym. On the other side was a Sears catalog showroom. Above the Sears were two apartments. My friends and I lived in one of them. I was a music major, as was another one of us. The other two were graphic design and communications, respectfully.<p>The Sears was at the end of the street, at the start of which was the police department. It was a one-way street, so the cops were always traveling past. My understanding is that the Sears eventually turned into a topless bar, after the Sears showrooms went out of business.<p>Where did you work at the school? I worked for a short time in the food service. I waited tables at the Topiary Tree. I also was part of the wait staff for events at the president's house.</p>
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<p>Graduation weekend 1989 at SUNY Fredonia, my housemate's father was visiting. We were four guys sharing an apartment right next door to the biggest party bar in town. At some point during the night before ceremonies, in the midst of our revelries, my one housemate went out through one of our apartment's windows and onto the roof, followed immediately by my other housemate's father. The cops were, at that moment, in the street breaking up some kind of fight outside the bar. A cop turned and shined his flashlight on the two of them on the roof. The two of them, visiting dad and my other housemate, in response, gave the cops the finger. Good times!</p>
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<p>OOP dweeb here. Since "Door" is an object, shouldn't the behavior be encapsulated and accessible to the client only via messaging? Then, we have "open", "close", "lock", and "unlock" -- and however this is implemented is the object's business, and implemented according to current business rules. The business rules may change, but the interface won't.<p>If we want to know the Door object's state, that's another set of messages.<p>If the door is open and locked, we don't know what's supposed to happen until we reference the business rules, which is what a lot of people on here are alluding to. Maybe we have a deadbolt, but maybe it's fine to assume that the user is going to unlock the door if necessary before closing it, and that the closed door is now in an unlocked state until the "lock" message is sent.<p>However this is implemented, our tests will only be on the Door object's interface, and we'll be testing the business rules.</p>
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<p>So, the trick here would be to purchase a ticket with a major airline, pack a no-no in your carry-on, and then bypass TSA security by adding yourself to the Known Crew Member list of a small airline using the third-party FlyCASS system, via the SQL-injection. You'd then board the major airline with the no-no. Is that the vulnerability?</p>
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