SuperCuber (u/SuperCuber)

SuperCuber commented on US-backed Israeli company's spyware used to target European journalists apnews.com/article/spywar... · Posted by u/01-_-

amdivia · 7 months ago

Your numbers ignore the distinction between combatants and civilians killed. It also does not include those who are killed as a by product of the war. The number you mentioned is how many Israel directly killed. This ignores:

* People who died out of starvation (especially kids and newborns) due to Israel's blockade

* People who died due to lack of medicine due to Israel's blockade

* People who died to the worsening hygienic environment

The estimate we have from research in Lancet go just shy of 200,000 people dead [1]. Note that this was their estimate almost a year ago. Since then many more deaths took place.

And in short, whether you want to admit it's a genocide or not, no one can deny it's a one of the greatest tragedies of the century, and that Israel must be held accountable. Enough is enough.

[1]: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

SuperCuber · 7 months ago

It's hilarious that this figure keeps getting quoted with a link to a source that directly contradicts it.

> Armed conflicts have indirect health implications beyond the direct harm from violence. Even if the conflict ends immediately, there will continue to be many indirect deaths in the coming months and years [...] In recent conflicts, such indirect deaths range from three to 15 times the number of direct deaths . Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death to the 37 396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186 000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza.

The text is not claiming that 200,000 people at the point of publishing have died, it is estimating the number of deaths attributed to the conflict in the coming years.

SuperCuber commented on Show HN: Lnk – Git-native dotfiles manager github.com/yarlson/lnk... · Posted by u/yar-kravtsov

m000 · 7 months ago

My main gripe with dotfile managers (including lnk) is that they assume a uniform environment. I haven't found one that doesn't make this fundamendal assumption.

Some scenarios where dot fils may differ between computers:

- My .gitconfig is different on my work laptop than my desktop.

- I don't have neovim installed on my pi zero running DNS for my home network.

- My zsh functions for making animated gifs won't work if specific tools are not installed.

- An alias to open an image with the default image viewer is different between macos and linux.

- I only have rust toolchain installed on my home desktop, so I shouldn't see it in my PATH on my work laptop.

Is there any solution out there that can handle similar cases? Or are these requirements unique to me? (I don't quite believe they are.)

SuperCuber · 7 months ago

Check out https://github.com/SuperCuber/dotter

SuperCuber commented on Show HN: Lnk – Git-native dotfiles manager github.com/yarlson/lnk... · Posted by u/yar-kravtsov

SuperCuber · 7 months ago

Funny that I see this post right after refreshing the documentation on my own project, Dotter[1]

It offers a more involved approach to managing the dotfiles, but (imo) addresses the need to have differences between dotfiles on different machines.

[1]: https://github.com/SuperCuber/dotter

SuperCuber commented on Weird Lexical Syntax justine.lol/lex/... · Posted by u/jart

drewr · a year ago

I don't understand your distinction between syntax and semantics. If the semantics are complex, wouldn't that mean the syntax is thus complex?

SuperCuber · a year ago

lisp's syntax is simple - its just parenthesis to define a list, first element of a list is executed as a function.

but for example a language like C has many different syntaxes for different operations, like function declaration or variable or array syntax, or if/switch-case etc etc.

so to know C syntax you need to learn all these different ways to do different things, but in lisp you just need to know how to match parenthesis.

But of course you still want to declare variables, or have if/else and switch case. So you instead need to learn the builtin macros (what GP means by semantics) and their "syntax" that is technically not part of the language's syntax but actually is since you still need all those operations enough that they are included in the standard library and defining your own is frowned upon.

SuperCuber commented on Coding interviews are stupid (ish) darrenkopp.com/posts/2024... · Posted by u/darrenkopp

okwhateverdude · 2 years ago

>Unfortunately, it is very hard to judge somebody's coding ability in discussion alone. You can sort of get the idea whether they have or don't have experience and whether they have luck being asked about topics they know (although you can help your luck just knowing a lot of stuff).

I disagree with your stated difficulty in judging coding ability by discussion alone. A skilled interviewer is easily able to ascertain breadth and depth of the candidate's experience provided the interviewer is also an expert and curious. And part of being a skilled interviewer is using all of the information at hand in their CV.

>The task is usually ambiguous a bit and this is explicitly stated so that the candidate is actually expected to get stuck, don't know things and have to talk to me to get the problem solved. You would be surprised how many candidates do not listen or can't follow simple advice even when I am almost giving them the solution on a platter.

Would instantly pass on working with you based on this alone. The intentional ambiguity is deceitful. The expected dependence and expected deference is so patronizing and manipulative. I don't need to have an ego measuring contest in an interview. You win, you're the smart, awesome guy. Go enjoy all that success, bro.

I've had too many interviews like this where the dudes on the other side of the table have internalized their superiority at proctoring their simple tasks. These dudes think they are the great gatekeepers of... something. Like, the candidate just wants to cut code so they can pay rent and eat. They don't really care, nor should they, about your product, or your customers. It's an exchange of labor for a pittance of the value produced. And the dudes on the other side of the table are gate keeping it.

SuperCuber · 2 years ago

> A skilled interviewer is easily able to ascertain breadth and depth of the candidate's experience [without a coding test]

And yet, many interviewers' experience shows that there are people that would pass a discussion-only interview and fail at basic coding tasks. There's plenty such people holding down jobs for a while, so even that may not be a sure indicator of skill.

> The intentional ambiguity is deceitful. The expected dependence and expected deference is so patronizing and manipulative.

I'm ~1.5years into my first job as a Backend Dev so I can't speak much about the industry, but based on my experience and what I hear from others, asking questions and clarifying unclear requirements is part of the job description. I almost never get my tasks in a precisely defined way and a lot of my job is gathering information and asking the right questions to build the right thing, often making my own choices and judgement calls. I assume that these skills are what GP comment is trying to test.

> They don't really care, nor should they, about your product, or your customers.

You can hardly blame a company for preferring someone who does. Or at least, pretends to.

SuperCuber commented on How to keep engineers out of meeting hell morethancoding.com/2024/0... · Posted by u/brikelly

Kalibr · 2 years ago

Title says “engineer” but article is solely about computer programmers? Isn’t that computer science? I don’t remember there being a coding engineer at my college…

SuperCuber · 2 years ago

"Software Engineer" is a pretty commonly used title for programmers

SuperCuber commented on Deadcode: Finding unreachable functions in Go go.dev/blog/deadcode... · Posted by u/rbanffy

codeflo · 2 years ago

I still find Go too tolerant on this. It should scan your Git history and stash as well, and fail to compile if it finds any unused code there.

SuperCuber · 2 years ago

That'd still be a bit too tolerant for my tastes. It should also scan your future commits.

SuperCuber commented on Stop using JSON Web Tokens for user sessions ds-security.com/post/stop... · Posted by u/Moneysac

SuperCuber · 2 years ago

This post is about XSS, not JWTs...

> For security reasons, it is advisable for users to log out from a web application once they have completed their tasks

No, the application should be resistant to XSS instead. Online banking and such are automatically logging out to prevent someone stepping away from the device and another person abusing the logged in session.

> Frequently, when a Logout function is present in the application and is implemented with JSON Web Tokens, the application stores the JWT in an insecure location, such as the JavaScript code itself or the local storage in the user’s browser

This claim is as valid as "Frequently, when a Logout function is present in the application and is implemented without JSON Web Tokens, the application stores the plaintext password in an insecure location". The storage location is completely independent of whether it's a JWT or not.

SuperCuber commented on Chrome pushes forward with plans to limit ad blockers in the future malwarebytes.com/blog/new... · Posted by u/talonx

linza · 2 years ago

It's very subjective, but I won't try switching again before certain things I value in Chrome are available or work similar well on Firefox. You can switch based on ideology alone but I want convenience more than that.

SuperCuber · 2 years ago

What things are you talking about? I haven't used chrome outside of work for years, so forgive my ignorance

SuperCuber commented on I think I need to go lie down twitter.com/multikev/stat... · Posted by u/mfbx9da4

cduzz · 2 years ago

I'm trying to get people to pronounce it "eggs" as in

Eggs, the site formerly known as twitter. So instead of a tweet you "egg something".

I think it gives the site the dignity it deserves.

SuperCuber · 2 years ago

i like Xitter and Xcrete