Dennis Hackethal’s Blog
My blog about philosophy, coding, and anything else that interests me.
Tweets
An archive of my tweets and retweets through . They may be formatted slightly differently than on Twitter. API access has since gotten prohibitively expensive – I don't know whether or when I'll be able to update this archive.
But in case I will, you can subscribe via RSS – without a Twitter account. Rationale
How to Delete All User-Defined Routines in PostgreSQL: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/how-to-d…
There was a change .org petition to end this shady practice:
Many small business owners are fighting for survival and cannot afford for this to happen.
RT @dchackethal:
@RanaTine @Square
Did you know that Square made surviving covid policies difficult, particularly for small businesses, by…
Did you know that Square made surviving covid policies difficult, particularly for small businesses, by withholding more of their money in response to the pandemic?
You can ask ChatGPT legal questions.
Take note, @Square.
blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/don-t-us… pic.twitter.com/8hG67R5eT6
RT @elonmusk:
@micsolana
If this isn’t a violation of the Constitution’s First Amendment, what is?
RT @mtaibbi:
36.Twitter files continued:
"THE FIRST AMENDMENT ISN’T ABSOLUTE”
Szabo’s letter contains chilling passages relaying Democrat…
RT @mtaibbi:
29. A fundamental problem with tech companies and content moderation: many people in charge of speech know/care little about s…
RT @mtaibbi:
8. By 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine. One executive would write to another: “More to revi…
RT @TheVastReaches:
I took this photograph of the 2017 total solar eclipse. I’ve been revisiting it ever since and pushing it to the absol…
RT @AJamesMcCarthy:
Mars is at it's closest to Earth. Here's a photo I captured of it last night using a 14" telescope. You can clearly see…
Why I Mirror My Tweets – and Why You Should, Too: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/why-i-mi…
@EweDaddy @angela4LNCChair @MAJTOURE
[T]he state gets money back for every dollar a parent has to pay in support.
How?
This document acf.hhs.gov/archive/css/po… says "The IV-A agency is also required to pay to the Federal government its share of collections made." but who can read all the surrounding legalese.
@EweDaddy @angela4LNCChair @MAJTOURE
You’re saying feds collect child support? Aren’t the checks made out to the mother directly?
RT @PelosiTracker_:
BREAKING🚨:
SBF used a loophole in the Citizens United rule to donate $37M of "dark money" to Republicans
"I donated…
This thread reads like a thriller: twitter.com/samwcyo/status…
The number of spam responses on this thread is on topic. Does Twitter not use some sort of proof of work to guard against spam?
Gold has proof of work, too – you need to dig it out of the ground – but it's harder to transfer than bitcoin. Verification is also comparatively hard for gold. And bitcoin is already easy to transfer so there's no need for paper and the slippery slope to fiat.
I know little about bitcoin but it seems to me that a decisive advantage it has over fiat is that it has proof of work – which fiat doesn't have by definition because you can create it out of thin air.
Interesting article by @chidiwilliams__ on a concept called 'proof of work'.
Was originally designed to help guard against spam, then borrowed to protect the blockchain against tampering.
chidiwilliams.com/post/proof-of-…
Glad I’ve never set foot in this disgusting country. twitter.com/unusual_whales…
RT @TCSparents:
“When a parent disapproves of their child’s emotion or dismisses it, the child [...] learns that it’s wrong to feel the way…
RT @WholeMarsBlog:
Apple has released a software update limiting the use of AirDrop in China in light of recent protests.
AirDrop was bei…
RT @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R:
What is this Gooey you speak of? reddit.com/r/programmerhu… pic.twitter.com/h6y6VElxih
RT @mizroba:
very nice observation by orwell:
‘Why is the goose-step not used in England? There are, heaven knows, plenty of army officer…
A brief scroll through Cook’s timeline reveals that he tweets like a wet sock. Takes no risks. Tweets nothing controversial. (Pro lgbt, pro trans, pro veterans, anti climate change, etc.) @elonmusk, on the other hand, whether you agree or disagree, is a breath of fresh air. twitter.com/tim_cook/statu…
If it is indeed true that Musk is defending free speech while other tech giants are thwarting it, enemies of capitalism should note that it is a private entrepreneur who’s defending it, not the government.
RT @andrew_lilico:
If a large branch fell from a tree in your garden, & you carved it into a horse, carving in "to my darling wife for our…
RT @ChipkinLogan:
Tickets for the second Philly Crit Rat meet-up/conference are now live!
See y'all in June 👊
@m_grill @a_nnaschneider @janboehm
Ayn Rand war (leider) keine Staatsverächterin. Sie wollte nie eine staatenlose Gesellschaft, hat sogar behauptet, das sei gar nicht möglich.
The moment children develop at least an inexplicit understanding that they cannot trust their parents unconditionally is, often at the latest, when they realize their parents lied to them about Santa Clause for their parents’ own amusement.
does it work with the semicolon in the selector (like in the video, not the text)
Rationale for this: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/quick-se…
I just started a return with @Apple. Agent asked me for my address to verify my order. Gave them the wrong address on purpose. Verification succeeded regardless. Bad.
Just bought 2nd gen AirPods Pro. 1st gen AirPods Pro have a known issue of producing static noise. Same issue with 2nd gen. @Apple
RT @ProfFeynman:
Schrödinger's Plates: They are both broken and not broken until you open the door. pic.twitter.com/fLaw3kGCaq
RT @elonmusk:
Starry, starry night … pic.twitter.com/IN3SeOH7f7
RT @GRDecter:
The government can keep track of every $600 transaction the average person makes, but couldn't keep track of billions FTX sto…
RT @Franc0Fernand0:
System design is the most challenging and exciting type of tech interview.
Here is a complete list of topics that will…
The kind of joy you feel at the end of such an experience makes it all worth it.
Programming is so amazingly Popperian at its core. You have to actively look for errors and criticize yourself and constantly realize how little you know and enjoy that process.
You can't keep doing this for years on end if you hate yourself for not figuring out programming issues within less than an hour. Sometimes it takes longer. 4+ hours isn't even that long, I've seen much worse (weeks+).
I just spent 4+ hours on what seemed like a bug – really I was just using something wrong and it could have easily been avoided had I read the documentation more closely.
IMO a lot of what makes or breaks upcoming programmers is whether they love or hate that kind of experience.
RT @dchackethal:
@elonmusk @TimRunsHisMouth
If it was a grave mistake, why did you make a poll to determine wether it'd be corrected?
@prof_freedom @NickHudsonCT @PanData19
Excited for him to be back.
when you ask it for a number, can it give you just a number instead of a full sentence?
1) easier and faster to read, 2) easier to parse (no need for regex)
RT @christiandean_:
Extensive and thorough defence of taking children seriously by Dennis in this hand-to-hand FAQ
@TCSparents
RT @dchackethal:
@EKStewartNH @fakeaarontweets @JoeReynolds2020 @FreeRangeKids
Do you know any toddlers?
yes
They are reflexively con…
RT @dchackethal:
@kahloun @EKStewartNH @fakeaarontweets @JoeReynolds2020 @FreeRangeKids
as a counterexample, i was persuaded as a child tha…
If it was a grave mistake, why did you make a poll to determine wether it'd be corrected?
RT @dchackethal:
@SenorMustachio @tripencrypt @fakeaarontweets @JoeReynolds2020 @FreeRangeKids
why didn't you answer? is it because the ans…
Are you seriously asking “What if the child doesn’t want to learn social skills?”
yes
RT @AlexEpstein:
"It is already too late to avoid mass starvation."
- First Earth Day organizer Denis Hayes, 1970
RT @paulg:
You might think it's impossible to know exactly what the world looked like before photography was invented, but with hyperrealis…
.@elonmusk Please consider removing your predecessors' political messaging from Twitter's developer documentation.
E.g. developer.twitter.com/en/blog/produc… contains messaging about black lives matter.
IMO including political messaging in developer documentation is unprofessional.
Using $' with ruby regexes CRASHES my computer.
lol I don't think I'm gonna debug this one.
children are not little totalitarians who need to be broken and civilized
you say "Of course not" but then seem to argue in favor of it anyway
throwing stuff to see if and how it flies…
RT @elonmusk:
@WSJmarkets
WSJ giving foot massages to a criminal
@SenorMustachio @tripencrypt @fakeaarontweets @JoeReynolds2020 @FreeRangeKids
why didn't you answer? is it because the answer is that you have a right to video games someone gifted to you, and that the same applies to children and gifts they receive, and you want to avoid that conclusion?
@ENERGIZEAIR_DE @FrankJasensky @marvin_wank
Und was soll deiner Meinung nach mit Kindern geschehen, die sich nicht dieser "Bildungspflicht" fuegen?
@FrankJasensky @marvin_wank @ENERGIZEAIR_DE
Aber du meinst doch anscheinend, dass diese Erziehung mit Zwang einhergeht. Also ist sie keine Alternative zum Zwang, nach der ich gefragt habe.
@FrankJasensky @marvin_wank @ENERGIZEAIR_DE
Ja, das tue ich. Kann der Dreijährige denn nicht auch ohne Zwang über die Folgen seiner Handlungen in Kenntnis gesetzt werden? Fällt dir da eine Alternative ein?
@FrankJasensky @marvin_wank @ENERGIZEAIR_DE
Ich sagte doch bereits dass es auch ohne Staat Regeln und entsprechende Durchsetzung geben kann.
Bzgl Kindern soll der Wille der Kinder zählen, nicht der der Eltern. Ich will einfach nicht, dass Kinder zu Dingen gezwungen werden.
@FrankJasensky @marvin_wank @ENERGIZEAIR_DE
Schule erreicht keine Chancengleichheit sondern Gleichschaltung. Private Sicherheitskräfte, Schlichter, Verbraucherschutzbünde usw.
@FrankJasensky @marvin_wank @ENERGIZEAIR_DE
Schulzwang ist unmoralisch und ekelhaft (und unnoetig); die beiden anderen Dinge braucht man zwar, aber man benoetigt fuer ihre Durchsetzung keinen Staat.
I didn’t need a visa to go to Japan in 2018. You sure that’s changed?
RT @muskQu0tes:
“Just looking for problem-solvers who get things done with a high sense of urgency. Don’t care if or where they went to sch…
@FrankJasensky @marvin_wank @ENERGIZEAIR_DE
Erstaunlich, was manche glauben, wozu man den Staat alles braucht.
The more I learn, the worse it gets. The world should know the truth of what has been happening at Twitter.
Transp…
RT @libertyrecap:
"Poverty can be brought about by law; it cannot be forbidden by law." - Isabel Paterson
RT @Project_Veritas:
Results are in.
11.29.22 pic.twitter.com/6LBptCUcab
RT @pickover:
Physics, unpredictability, attraction, mathematics.
This shows a kind of magnetic chain reaction or self-assembly.
By Magi…
I've found evidence that payment processor @Square systematically lies about how long they hold their users’ money:
I've considered replacing EOL with something but, since I have user input (not my own commits), it then becomes a guessing game about which characters users would be sufficiently unlikely to ever type in... not a fan. But it might be an acceptable temporary workaround.
RT @mazemoore:
Elon Musk and AOC finally worked out their differences.
The chemistry these two have is crazy. pic.twitter.com/4dYzYAinqa
RT @emollick:
High prestige journals were worse:
44% of genetics articles in Nature with Excel supplemental files have errors
53% of articl…
RT @lulumeservey:
1) Last week SBF gave an all-time accidental interview to Vox, when he thought he was off the record.
This actually happ…
RT @TheJackForge:
The first thing you should learn as a programmer, is that there are teenagers that are better programmers than you will e…
RT @HumanProgress:
In the 1960s, smallpox killed more than two million people per year. There was no cure, but there was a vaccine. The pro…
RT @ArmandDoma:
The City of San Francisco fired its Elections Department Chief, whose performance they admitted they had zero issue with, e…
Awarding a 100-point bounty to anyone who can solve this problem: stackoverflow.com/questions/7449…