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New comment by rickycook in "Slack Files EU Competition Complaint Against Microsoft"

rickycook — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 02:32:38 +0000

i _adore_ matrix! keep up the good work!

New comment by rickycook in "The AirPods Pro “Rattlegate”"

rickycook — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 23:42:00 +0000

best not talk about the price of medicine in USD; people might lose their lives

New comment by rickycook in "How to Make Python Wait"

rickycook — Sat, 21 Dec 2019 01:58:43 +0000

i’d say that multiprocessing probably covers 90% of “do it in the background” tasks, and asyncio covers 90% of async networking tasks

futures, uvloop, tornado, twisted, coros, gevent, etc are kinda just all related to, or do similar to asyncio

threading is kinda not as useful as you might like in python because of the GIL (simplistically, assume that python can only do 1 thing at once regardless of having multiple threads available or not until you know why that’s not always the case)

New comment by rickycook in "Is Death Reversible?"

rickycook — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 06:14:51 +0000

a core dump of the brain is pretty damn big... so that’s not really saying much; just that maybe we don’t have a man data to restore from

New comment by rickycook in "Perfectly Cropped"

rickycook — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 12:42:48 +0000

and i hate that they removed it in the latest generation! i know you can do the hold down on space instead, and i know that you can then tap with a second finger, but there’s so much more you could do much quicker with the force touch keyboard!

New comment by rickycook in "US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits"

rickycook — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 22:24:50 +0000

i’d argue that it’s not “designed to fit our workflow” so much as designed around a subpar, but flexible tool that everyone was using. that don’t make it good; that just makes it ingrained

New comment by rickycook in " Let's Encrypt makes certs for 30% of web domains"

rickycook — Sat, 07 Sep 2019 03:23:15 +0000

who ever said free? they could make a paid service like LE with automated renewals etc that integrates better with enterprise software, or that does better audit logging, or any number of things. let’s encrypt is a great service, but there’s still plenty of money to be made off overzealous corporate security policies

New comment by rickycook in "exFAT in the Linux kernel"

rickycook — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 09:17:50 +0000

advertising yes, but also why they are kind of lax on piracy: the real money is in corporate, so you have to keep people using your ecosystem at home so that’s what they want to use at work

New comment by rickycook in "Show HN: Zero-Config Documentation Websites for Python"

rickycook — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 02:53:19 +0000

i don’t think people were labelling him a nazi; i think they had issue with their own projects, or their name being accidentally associated with nazis

New comment by rickycook in "How Does Esperanto Sound?"

rickycook — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 23:37:00 +0000

the very point of esperanto is that nothing is of “similar difficulty”, so even comparing to spanish is disingenuous

New comment by rickycook in "New Electric Motor Could Boost Efficiency of EVs, Scooters, and Wind Turbines"

rickycook — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 07:54:38 +0000

they did call out scooters and drones, so id guess you’re right

New comment by rickycook in "Information operations directed at Hong Kong"

rickycook — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 06:19:20 +0000

i agree with you completely, but a law is far more clear cut than complex social dynamics.

the outcome is similar in either way, and both are equally bad, but one is far easier to define specific actions, and specific parties that are not acting correctly.

New comment by rickycook in "Information operations directed at Hong Kong"

rickycook — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 06:15:53 +0000

it’s not either or

New comment by rickycook in "States to Move Forward with Antitrust Probe of Big Tech Firms"

rickycook — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 04:32:21 +0000

have you ever tried to start a competitor to facebook? plenty of platforms have, and you haven’t ever heard of them because whilst better, facebook has a monopoly by way of critical mass... it’s almost impossible to pull significant populations away from their platform: not even google could, and google plus was an excellent product; far better than facebook in almost every way

New comment by rickycook in "Information operations directed at Hong Kong"

rickycook — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 03:36:32 +0000

i think the problem is that the current chinese government is going further and further away from what average chinese citizens would probably want, and them using misinformation to keep order

hong kong has demonstrated, with some of the largest protests in global history, that they do not want the chinese government to interfere with the autonomy that they currently have. the chinese government has responded with misinformation to sway their population so that they can continue to constrain hong kong in ways that they don’t want

the point isn’t really that the chinese government isn’t better than an alternative, it’s that it’s going in a direction further away from what it’s citizens would generally agree they want, and not allowing people the knowledge to even know it’s happening, let alone the freedom to have a discussion about alternatives

New comment by rickycook in "Information operations directed at Hong Kong"

rickycook — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 03:10:15 +0000

true, and that’s definitely a problem, but government is a bigger issue because they have the ability to force a population: corporations can only influence (we can have a different discussion about how corporations give you “choice” but not really, but i think they’re different cases, and government is clear cut)

New comment by rickycook in "Updating our advertising policies on state media"

rickycook — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 02:43:27 +0000

i tend to agree with the sentiment, however i’d say the important distinction is that a government has the ability to force things on people, a corporation only had the ability to influence “choice”... we can discuss whether that choice is truly a choice in many cases, but i think the initial difference is enough for it to stand on its own on the other side of a clear line in the sand

New comment by rickycook in "Judge claims mobile phone is not a computer"

rickycook — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 12:03:12 +0000

because the data on the phone is containing or designed to contain data for use by a phone because a phone isn’t a computer...?

New comment by rickycook in "Die With Me – A chat app you can only use when you have less than 5% battery"

rickycook — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 08:05:05 +0000

upsetting, yet expected

New comment by rickycook in "Should You Get a Scary UV Photo of Your Skin Damage?"

rickycook — Sun, 18 Aug 2019 22:58:40 +0000

maybe in america, but in australia we have a huge amount more UV because of the hole in the ozone layer. i was in the US for the first time a few weeks ago, and the first thing i noticed was “huh... i didn’t know that going out in summer, the sun could literally feel different”... in australia it feels, no joke, like you’ve stuck your arm under an oven: you can feel the dry heat and UV. in the US, the sun was just a nice warm heat.

please, it’s a big problem over here... people should go outside (and we have a very “beaches and surf” type culture), but sunscreen is hugely important, and often forgotten.