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> The right comparison is with the distance at which this photo was taken: 18,000 miles, or about half an hour from closest approach. Implicit in this statement: the camera was poi…

Uniformity through imposing one paradigm on everything isn't attractive at all to me, especially for a paradigm I have no interest in using and avoid when I practically can.

> the language isn’t CLOS all the way down I'm curious what you mean by this, why it's needed or would be a good thing, etc. As a multi-paradigm language, I'm not seeing why CL sho…

> And 10 years later, sharing stuff with people nearby still kinda sucks. It does still suck, and once every few years I feel that. But that's a problem. Solving a minor, "kinda" p…

Phoenix AZ area.

I grow blue java bananas in my yard. Rajapuri bananas are fairly popular around here.

> It's unfortunate how much Google-hate is on HN these days because I think it's largely unjustified. There are definitely some bad (IMHO) leadership decisions but the rank-and-fil…

> A trusted network is fine, but are the telephone networks trusted? In the old days there was an assumption that if you were in the network then you were trusted, which was always…

Note on above: there are legitimate reasons for businesses to set Caller ID to something other than the call origin. But the "something other" should be selected from a set under t…

Spoofed Caller ID is a lie, not anonymity. Here's a proposal: 1) Caller may choose to hide/suppress their Caller ID, 2) mandatory option for phone carriers to allow Callee to compl…

You start by saying that too much is blamed on leadership and then go on to describe the real reason which is a failure in leadership? FWIW, I largely agree about the "cogs" idea. …

> One question I have is how sequestered the undersea carbon really is Depends on how you interpret "sequestered". In the sense that it's locked away somewhere for a long time, lik…

Yes, correctness absolutely comes first. One way to achieve greater simplicity is to negotiate for fewer/simpler requirements for the first revision. There's often a core set of fu…

I like and use early exits when they fit well, which is often. And in this case I'd probably do as you suggest. But it's worth mentioning that even if you stick with if/else it's o…

They would make forks ;)

> The fight really being had here is "warrant Vs. routine monitoring." Exactly right. > That's what law enforcement want from this: If you know someone that knows someone that migh…

"The trailer for Cyberpunk 2077 strikes me as GTA skinned-over with a generic 80s retro-future, but hey, that's just me." --William Gibson[1] It's mentioned (and little more) in th…

The rise of the iPhone explains a LOT about where Apple puts their attention. What it doesn't really explain is why the changes they do make to Mac products seem designed to annoy.…

It's worth noting that strlcpy and strlcat are quite small, very stable, and can be brought into any program that needs them. Yes, it's an extra step but not an onerous one. Of cou…

The money in (real) UBI comes from somewhere, obviously. It's not like everyone just has more money. If you can already afford the basics then it's going to come out of your money …

> time with timezone without a date attached to it is inherently ambiguous I'd view that as incomplete (rather than ambiguous) until applied to a specific date. "You people in the …

> the arrangement has become more and more one sided favoring the publishers Rather than "has become" this is publishers using their leverage to achieve this situation.

> There is a package for every possible problem you have just waiting to be used. Only if you work on the same kinds of things everyone else works on. There are certainly tons of j…

I imagine that researchers designed the experiment they thought would be accepted rather than the experiment they wanted. Yes, they intended to learn some things and most likely di…

Hi! Developer working in C here. I'm neither a kernel dev nor an embedded dev. My current job is network programming on the core product of my employer. It's "legacy" in the sense …