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New comment by peacelilly in "New in Go 1.20: wrapping multiple errors"

peacelilly — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 15:08:12 +0000

The secret to wrapping errors is the erros.As and errors.Is special interfaces called out only in the documentation: https://pkg.go.dev/errors#Is

You must build a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) to ensure these special interfaces don't hit an infinite loop.

To stop the infinite loop cycles, and actually implement a DAG, I marked visited nodes and returned `false` if the nodes were already marked.

New comment by peacelilly in "Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts"

peacelilly — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 19:03:42 +0000

This is creepy.

New comment by peacelilly in "The Internet Tidal Wave (1995)"

peacelilly — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 18:24:20 +0000

You conflate seeing the future, and wanting to improve it. Microsoft very likely tried to subvert the future. See the Halloween Documents: http://www.catb.org/esr/halloween/halloween1.html

New comment by peacelilly in "Why we should end the data economy"

peacelilly — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 17:51:48 +0000

Nowadays cable TV targets ads too. If your diabetic grandma connects to your cable provided wifi router, you will get ads for glucose monitors and insulin pumps. Targeted advertising should be illegal.

New comment by peacelilly in "Atlas of Surveillance"

peacelilly — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 01:51:04 +0000

We really need these things to be Closed Circuit by law. Want the data? Get a warrant and seize the device physically. Centralized databases of surveillance information needs to be outlawed criminally.

New comment by peacelilly in "TikTok to pull out of Hong Kong"

peacelilly — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 06:50:54 +0000

> we all know and love

No, we don't all love the spyware app called TikTok

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

peacelilly — Fri, 29 May 2020 16:59:00 +0000

You can have a monopoly and not abuse your power, or you can have your monopoly broken up. The Sherman Antitrust act still exists. Law still exists. There are already multiple anti-trust investigations underway by the states, and the DOJ.

There is bipartisan support to break them up. Ask Warren.

What is illegal about enforcing the law?

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

peacelilly — Fri, 29 May 2020 15:53:01 +0000

It's long past time to regulate social media like a phone company, natural monopoly, or common carrier. The DOJ needs to break them up for violating the public trust, then limit their ability to refuse service to law abiding citizens moving into the future. Government has every right to force companies to be neutral platforms through regulation. It's time to revoke/enforce section 230, especially the "good faith" clause.

Anyone who says that "Twitter is a private company that can refuse anyone" has never ran an actual company. There are plenty of rules against companies discriminating. That argument is the same argument used by Democrats against the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 which a Republican majority congress passed (82% of republicans voted yes).

Remember when this forum was up in arms about NET NEUTRALITY? Remember when the big bad ISP was going to censor you? Remember when all the sites went black because thats what the ISPs would do? Now the sites that went black are all committing the censoring. All the sites that went black track every movement you make online. Who needs DNS when you have outgoing link tracking and like buttons on every page.

Social media is about to be regulated. Its about time.

New comment by peacelilly in "Ask HN: Why did you leave the tech industry?"

peacelilly — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 13:43:37 +0000

Yes the timing is good, the Artemis program is heating up and needs to disperse grants for the 2024 moon missions. You will have a much better supply of labor to choose from than our previous unemployment rate. Capital is cheap right now and banks are still lending. Aerospace is a long-term investment and you'll deliver a product when the economy is back.

New comment by peacelilly in "Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments"

peacelilly — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 13:43:12 +0000

> gaping hole where United States leadership should be

I've seen this exact wording a lot recently. Is this the new propaganda line everyone parrots? I must have missed the previous administration's strong stance on ANYTHING AT ALL dealing with international relations, besides killing people from the sky. When did the previous administration lead on anything and not just bow down (literally bowing) to international leaders.

Sorry, the gaping hole in leadership was filled with someone who cares about the USA.

New comment by peacelilly in "Kuo: Apple to include new scissor switch keyboard in MacBook"

peacelilly — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 17:21:45 +0000

Thank you Apple. This was needed! I have a bricked 2017 MBP that I don't want to fix. It's too expensive to fix and not worth it breaking again.

New comment by peacelilly in "[dead]"

peacelilly — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 04:35:40 +0000

They are jails for breaking the law.

New comment by peacelilly in "Genetically Engineered Wheat Found in Unplanted Washington Field"

peacelilly — Sun, 09 Jun 2019 15:28:23 +0000

Human carelessness like allowing this crap in the first place?

New comment by peacelilly in "Algorithm allows video editors to modify talking-head videos as if editing text"

peacelilly — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 21:44:15 +0000

The problem with deep fakes is a hostile nation taking over your phone/facetime calls and sounding exactly like your own parents. How can you tell if they can do it in real time? A bad actor could get you to do some really bad things.

New comment by peacelilly in "Trump Attacks Amazon, Saying It Does Not Pay Enough Taxes"

peacelilly — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 18:12:00 +0000

Yes, which makes the Gov dumb for letting them get away with it. That's why he became president, to fix dumb things (in his opinion) in government.

New comment by peacelilly in "Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?"

peacelilly — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 00:48:30 +0000

I use the national base reflectivity radar.

https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/Conus/RadarImg/latest.gif

New comment by peacelilly in "Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?"

peacelilly — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 18:54:18 +0000

Checking the radar. In the midwest, weather comes at you from a long ways away, so I wrote a script to set my desktop background to be the current national radar mosaic every 15 minutes.

Explicitly setting the background programmatically was very unreliable in practice. The beauty of my script is that it simply wgets the image, checks if it is valid, resamples the image using a high quality algorithm (slow but worth it), places it in a folder, and deletes the old image.

My background preference is set to shuffle between images in that folder every minute, therefore my script acts like a pipeline.

New comment by peacelilly in "Ask HN: My house might burn down in the next 24 hours. Suggestions?"

peacelilly — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 01:31:00 +0000

During Hurricane Matthew, Fedex delivered a package to my door while the island I live on was under a mandatory evacuation order. The package got destroyed. My advice is to contact the sender and have them put a hold on it.

New comment by peacelilly in "Interactive Vim tutorial"

peacelilly — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 16:08:35 +0000

`vimtutor` is where most people should start. It's bundled with every vim installation. Vimtutor teaches the absolute basics in an interactive manner so you'll remember the lessons.

New comment by peacelilly in "Tell me what your company does"

peacelilly — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 20:49:03 +0000

The web design is indeed ugly, but at least it is functional.

Here are some easy to implement design suggestions: You should change the title of the first heading so it's not the same as the banner. I think "What is Tarsnap?" is a good choice. Speaking of the banner, vectorize it. Finally, please remove the bars from the asides.

Your product is good, so transferring a little attention to its web presence is worth the effort.