The Sharpie works!!
Games could clearly be an exception - they're the only place the locked down computing paradigm has a reasonable argument. The multi-user productivity apps you listed would most certainly be better off as separate…
> if someone writes an app with a backend service or library, should they be required to document the API for people to build their own tools on top of? Yes. Services and client software should be considered two…
Documentation for hardware subassemblies produced by different manufacturers isn't getting lost to hallway conversations. Pure software can indeed be quite sloppy, but for vehicles we're talking about large scale…
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> I’m not a mechanic or a farmer So the author is looking at one third of the problem (from the perspective of an IT worker), in a comfortable stage-managed experience put on by Deere themselves. A sensor with a…
My question isn't whether those who voted for Trump 2024 are going to come to their senses for midterms and sour on this incompetent, destructive, and corrupt con man. My question is how long their reality check is…
Your understanding of LLCs is a bit off. The LLC (or other corporate) structure does not protect the nurse from liability, nor any of the other directly-involved workers. The LLC protects the owners of the LLC - ie the…
Actual terrorists have a right to speak too, you know. Intrinsic to the whole idea of rights is that even people we don't like (or are even mortally opposed to!) still have them. The problem with "firebombs on…
De/centralization is not an either or, but more like a yin and yang. There are aspects of IP that are highly centralized. 1. Assignment of addresses is centralized. Even though it's federated (ie distributed), authority…
(Sorry for the delay in replying. There is definitely an analog of Gresham's law for discussions) I completely agree about the feedback loops. They're mutual feedback loops though, and causality can go both ways. We're…
> I don't know why HN rails against it [ZKP for age verification] constantly Because on its own as often presented, it still has the glaring shortcoming that anybody can proxy an ID verification for anybody else without…
> I don't believe government regulation is the answer While I agree with where you're coming from in spirit, if you want to push this then you've got to do the work of actually coming up with workable concrete…
It seems like you should probably spend some effort on trying to learn at least a few more things?
Yeah, it's much better to be standing so you can toss the bag of food into the subway car right before the doors close.
The whole point of the label "smart" is to fill in vague positive thoughts for the customary "..." that comes right before "profit" in the standard /. business plan. And the real problem is that it works.
The Sharpie works!!
Games could clearly be an exception - they're the only place the locked down computing paradigm has a reasonable argument. The multi-user productivity apps you listed would most certainly be better off as separate…
> if someone writes an app with a backend service or library, should they be required to document the API for people to build their own tools on top of? Yes. Services and client software should be considered two…
Documentation for hardware subassemblies produced by different manufacturers isn't getting lost to hallway conversations. Pure software can indeed be quite sloppy, but for vehicles we're talking about large scale…
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> I’m not a mechanic or a farmer So the author is looking at one third of the problem (from the perspective of an IT worker), in a comfortable stage-managed experience put on by Deere themselves. A sensor with a…
My question isn't whether those who voted for Trump 2024 are going to come to their senses for midterms and sour on this incompetent, destructive, and corrupt con man. My question is how long their reality check is…
Your understanding of LLCs is a bit off. The LLC (or other corporate) structure does not protect the nurse from liability, nor any of the other directly-involved workers. The LLC protects the owners of the LLC - ie the…
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Actual terrorists have a right to speak too, you know. Intrinsic to the whole idea of rights is that even people we don't like (or are even mortally opposed to!) still have them. The problem with "firebombs on…
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De/centralization is not an either or, but more like a yin and yang. There are aspects of IP that are highly centralized. 1. Assignment of addresses is centralized. Even though it's federated (ie distributed), authority…
(Sorry for the delay in replying. There is definitely an analog of Gresham's law for discussions) I completely agree about the feedback loops. They're mutual feedback loops though, and causality can go both ways. We're…
> I don't know why HN rails against it [ZKP for age verification] constantly Because on its own as often presented, it still has the glaring shortcoming that anybody can proxy an ID verification for anybody else without…
> I don't believe government regulation is the answer While I agree with where you're coming from in spirit, if you want to push this then you've got to do the work of actually coming up with workable concrete…
It seems like you should probably spend some effort on trying to learn at least a few more things?
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Yeah, it's much better to be standing so you can toss the bag of food into the subway car right before the doors close.
The whole point of the label "smart" is to fill in vague positive thoughts for the customary "..." that comes right before "profit" in the standard /. business plan. And the real problem is that it works.
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