jfrunyon (u/jfrunyon)

jfrunyon commented on The Bay Area has become a large declining tech company yared.com/2021/12/the-ent... · Posted by u/uptown

ransom1538 · 4 years ago

"Because it is your job?"

Imagine I worked at a pizza shop and was getting $10 per hour to make pizzas. Every pizza I make my boss throws into the dumpster. My boss refuses to talk with me. The boss publicly tweets: he doesn't believe in pizza. This goes on for 12 weeks. It gets pretty hard to go to work and make pizzas.

jfrunyon · 4 years ago

Personally, I'd do the same thing as the cops if I were in the situation you describe: do nothing and rake in the moolah, and if anyone has a problem with that, pretend it's someone else's fault.

jfrunyon commented on The Bay Area has become a large declining tech company yared.com/2021/12/the-ent... · Posted by u/uptown

simmanian · 4 years ago

Is there an article I can read to understand the reasoning behind not booking anyone for non-violent crime? I'm looking to understand the nuances of the issue instead of taking a political side.

jfrunyon · 4 years ago

Because they're not a threat to society, have not been determined to be guilty, and throwing people in jail (only to bond out anyway a couple days later, in most cases - funneling more money to bondsmen) is a great way to (a) spread a pandemic and (b) waste money giving them what they want (shelter, food, healthcare, etc.)?

jfrunyon commented on The Web3 Fraud usenix.org/publications/l... · Posted by u/aaronbrethorst

mediocregopher · 4 years ago

The reason I'm hyped about crypto (which in this article seems to be incorrectly equated to "web3") is because of the new possibilities it brings. The reason I put my money into stupid shit in crypto is because I don't know if it will work or not, but I'm excited to know if it will. Some of it does, most doesn't. I learn, progress has been made.

Imagine a whole new continent is discovered, and all the people back home are criticizing those who go there because it's not particularly safe at the moment, and look how warm and cozy they could be back in civilization.

No one's asking you to go to web3, stay here if you like. Hell, I found out today there's still people using gopher. There's room for all of us.

jfrunyon · 4 years ago

> Some of it does, most doesn't

I don't know of anything in crypto which actually works (read: does something better/cheaper than pre-existing technologies). The single value of it is speculation.

jfrunyon commented on Directory Opus is a complete replacement for Explorer gpsoft.com.au/... · Posted by u/doener

ASalazarMX · 4 years ago

> windows file explorer is one of those parts of ms-windows I normally appreciate, as being "more good than bad".

It sorely lacks a tabbed interface. I understand they don't want to confuse their users with folder tabs, but there should be an option to enable them for advanced users. Most file managers have had them for many years.

jfrunyon · 4 years ago

Do you really want Microsoft adding tabs to it, though? Because they'll do it the same way they did it in IE. "Your tabs are also windows because we don't understand the difference, enjoy!"

jfrunyon commented on Plans you're not supposed to talk about dynomight.net/plans/... · Posted by u/dynm

fancifalmanima · 4 years ago

"all of the other people come together to ask you to stop, thus infringing on your liberties."

You've very insight-fully described the policy debate/disagreement between people in pretty much any liberal democracy. Respecting my property rights is actually an infringement on your liberty. Not being able to legally kill me without some just cause is also an infringement on your liberty. What's often lost in the conversation on liberty is that everyone agrees that its a matter of degree. IE -- everyone having absolute liberty isn't viable. Absolute liberty would effectively just be an anarchy. Its just a matter of where the lines are. But somehow the conversation ends up getting reduced absolutes on both sides.

jfrunyon · 4 years ago

> Respecting my property rights is actually an infringement on your liberty

No, disrespecting other people's property rights is an infringement on their liberty. You being told not to disrespect other people's rights is NOT an infringement on your liberty.

> Not being able to legally kill me without some just cause is also an infringement on your liberty

WTF?

> everyone agrees that its a matter of degree

Oh how I wish that were true. Not even most people can agree on that.

jfrunyon commented on Plans you're not supposed to talk about dynomight.net/plans/... · Posted by u/dynm

generalizations · 4 years ago

Didn't even bother to read the citation for that statement?

> This has now been true for over a century, and as early as 1855 J. S. Mill could say (see my John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor [London and Chicago, 1951], p. 216) that "almost all the projects of social reformers of these days are really liberticide."

> I like the document title, though. "Microsoft Word - Document1". Very classy.

Textbook example of an ad homenim.

jfrunyon · 4 years ago

What citation? LOL There wasn't one (just a footnote, and not even on the proper page) but I'm not sure why you think a citation would make a blatant falsehood any more true.

This sentence is an ad hominim: I don't think you know what "ad homenim" [sic] means.

Saying something about the way someone presented their argument? That's not an ad hominim.

jfrunyon commented on Dell and HPE switches come with 'American Megatrands' stickers servethehome.com/dude-del... · Posted by u/geerlingguy

kristopolous · 4 years ago

Not necessarily. Simple things that don't have much context to interact with and are well defined can become stable.

Many chips have been stable for decades without any serious modification with today's version being effectively identical to those of 25 years ago.

It's not defacto secure, but age is not a reliable indicator without more information

jfrunyon · 4 years ago

LOL.

No, virtually nothing made 18 years ago is secure. In fact virtually nothing made a day ago is secure, but when something has been sitting around stagnating for 18 years that means the world has had ~6575x as many opportunities to find a vulnerability.