Hacker News: uxp8u61q

New comment by uxp8u61q in "Unity's Open-Source Double Standard: The Ban of VLC"

uxp8u61q — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:43:49 +0000

The evidence is that VideoLAN still exists months after getting banned by Unity. If they "depended" on Unity they'd be bust by now.

New comment by uxp8u61q in "Ask HN: Got a /22, cool things to do with it?"

uxp8u61q — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:35:28 +0000

Unless you actually have several machines spread around the globe, you're not building a "global" CDN.

Mathematica 14

uxp8u61q — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 22:21:32 +0000

Article URL: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/01/the-story-continues-announcing-version-14-of-wolfram-language-and-mathematica/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38960197

Points: 9

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New comment by uxp8u61q in ""I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower" (2013)"

uxp8u61q — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 22:17:23 +0000

OP claimed that pwsh was started because it was new and shiny and would lead to a quicker promotion than working on cmd. Turns out that the guy who created pwsh didn't get promoted, but actually demoted. If you can't understand that demotion is the opposite of promotion, well...

New comment by uxp8u61q in ""I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower" (2013)"

uxp8u61q — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 21:43:39 +0000

That's literally the opposite of what the OP claims, then.

New comment by uxp8u61q in ""I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower" (2013)"

uxp8u61q — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 07:14:58 +0000

> That's literally the explanation for PowerShell. Many of us wanted to improve cmd.exe, but couldn't.

I stopped reading here. (Not really, I read the rest, but I could have.)

Powershell is a fundamentally new thing that's miles ahead of its competitors. They couldn't have gotten there by just improving cmd incrementally. If the authors confuses boldness with being carefree about maintenance, that's on them.

New comment by uxp8u61q in "True Name – Mastercard (2022)"

uxp8u61q — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 16:59:26 +0000

In Europe they just bring the handheld payment terminal to your table...

New comment by uxp8u61q in "True Name – Mastercard (2022)"

uxp8u61q — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 16:58:22 +0000

Step 1. Go to google news or whatever news aggregation website you want.

Step 2. Search for "transgender attack".

Step 3. Take some time to digest the horrible news you're reading.

Step 4. Try to figure out the common thread between these stories. The people in question usually get outed in public during some kind of ID check, and got jumped by some intolerant moron who witnessed it.

This is happening. Today. Including in "North America and Europe". The people who say they feel unsafe because they feel unsafe for their physical integrity and safety. Not because of "awkwardness or very minor psychological discomfort".

New comment by uxp8u61q in "True Name – Mastercard (2022)"

uxp8u61q — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 16:53:49 +0000

You should read more carefully. GP wrote "minor psychological discomfort". They're definitely trying to downplay the danger that transgender people sometimes get put in.

New comment by uxp8u61q in "Someone bought 26.9 BTC on Binance and sent it to Satoshi's dead wallet"

uxp8u61q — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 16:24:57 +0000

I specifically took the example of a (physical) $10 bill. You can definitely tell apart two different $10 bills. They have serial numbers, for example. They're different physical objects.

New comment by uxp8u61q in "Someone bought 26.9 BTC on Binance and sent it to Satoshi's dead wallet"

uxp8u61q — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 13:12:05 +0000

You watch too many action movies.

New comment by uxp8u61q in "Someone bought 26.9 BTC on Binance and sent it to Satoshi's dead wallet"

uxp8u61q — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 12:03:11 +0000

How would this help that hypothetical person in any way? If the coins are stolen, then the victim will want the money back. They won't care if the "same" coins are given back or not. Money is fungible. If someone steals a $10 bill from you and burns it, are you going to forsake your claim to $10? I bet you'd even be happy to get two $5 bills back rather than nothing.

New comment by uxp8u61q in "Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get it in the air"

uxp8u61q — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 16:29:55 +0000

"Forcing"? Are they holding a gun to the devs' heads and "forcing" them to implement safety circumvention features? I doubt it.

New comment by uxp8u61q in "Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get it in the air"

uxp8u61q — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 08:06:15 +0000

They're just following orders, is that it?

The case of the vector with an impossibly large size

uxp8u61q — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 22:52:06 +0000

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240105-00/?p=109242

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38886147

Points: 1

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Starbucks accused of rigging payments in app for nearly $900M gain

uxp8u61q — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 07:24:53 +0000

Article URL: https://fortune.com/2024/01/03/starbucks-app-dark-side-unspent-payments-900-million-5-years/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38876626

Points: 5

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New comment by uxp8u61q in "How Open ID Connect Works"

uxp8u61q — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 17:15:03 +0000

Since OP seems to be the website author... You should remove or alter the ::selection style in your CSS. In dark mode, selecting text makes it illegible (white on white).

New comment by uxp8u61q in "A new Copilot key to kick off the year of AI-powered Windows PCs"

uxp8u61q — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 13:34:46 +0000

Some people in this thread need to calm down. It's just a new icon for the "super"/windows key. Not a huge conspiracy.

New comment by uxp8u61q in "Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for accounts"

uxp8u61q — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 14:20:42 +0000

That is correct, yes. Do you have a point?

New comment by uxp8u61q in "Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for accounts"

uxp8u61q — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 23:55:25 +0000

Handling non-Ascii characters in url has been a solved problem for years now.