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> Rayiner takes a lot of arrows on HN because he is (particularly these days) one of a tiny few who is notable for advocating conservative/libertarian positions. Those words in his…

> the way you are engaging with others in this thread The only person I engaged with negatively here was a person who called me "marinated in liberal propaganda", something that no…

I didn't call anyone a Nazi because I don't like the inflationary use of that term. But the "Nazi bar problem" is, unfortunately, an established metaphor. It doesn't have to be abo…

I hate criminals and social disorder too. You're part of the problem that I'm talking about. Instead of engaging with the issue at hand, you jump to wild assumptions about my posit…

It's frustrating precisely because even a small amount of bad faith actors can serve to poison the well. It's a problem that ultimately every online community has to deal with in s…

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And when called out on it reply that the comments are often more interesting than the article which is a) trivially true when you don't read the article and b) probably because bic…

Apart from the fact that this was pure self-promotion, it was also spamming the Wikipedias of small language communities with low-effort autotranslated garbage, which I think is ra…

The UK left the EU and is pushing very similar sorts of dangerous nonsense legislation when it comes to the internet, so this is clearly not just a EU thing.

Users definitely care about things like reliability when they're using actually important software (which probably excludes a lot of startup junk). They may not be able to point to…

I didn't say complex, I said long. If you have complex objects and you're doing complex operations on them, then setup code can get rather long.

As someone who leans more towards the side of LLM-sceptiscism, I find Sonnet 4 quite useful for generating tests, provided I describe in enough detail how I want the tests to be st…

It may not be perfect, but IntelliJ beats VS Code on so many other levels that I don't understand why everyone keeps creating clones of the latter.

There have been so many "advances" in software development in the last decades - powerful type systems, null safety, sane error handling, Erlang-style fault tolerance, property tes…

> What appears when you search for it in German? If you search for "indogermanisch" you're going to get the Wikipedia article canonically named "indogermanische Sprachen" first. Th…

If it had been initially called Indo-Celtic or Indo-Romance and those names had stuck, it would be equally fine, but that's not what happened historically. You're fighting against …

> I think most people in the reproducible build space would consider Maven an external uncontrolled input In an academic sense, you're probably right. In practice it turns out that…

Yes, you can, if you manually interact with it. Most people don't do that because why would you? You generally use it as a proxy for maven central and similar and to upload your ow…

In a statically-typed language like Java, every class is a type - though not vice-versa, since things like interfaces and records (in Java) are also types. Non-OOP statically typed…

Historically, the term Indo-Germanic was used first, and it's still used prominently used e.g. in German. From Wikipedia : > Thomas Young first used the term Indo-European in 1813,…

Maven artifacts are immutable, so the whole resolution is deterministic (even if hard to understand), unless you're using snapshot versions (which are mutable) or you use version r…

The effort from going to a paper proof, even one that everyone agrees is correct, to a formally verified one is still gigantic. Requiring all submissions in maths papers to come wi…

We won't know if Israel would or wouldn't have been created if the Holocaust hadn't happened, but Jewish immigration to Palestine started much earlier in response to renewed pogrom…

> who's opinion on the security of modern cryptographic protocols would you be more willing to follow I'll follow the people who have actually done work in cryptography. I'm neithe…