CleverLikeAnOx

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by CleverLikeAnOx 4y ago
If I went to several art galleries and they always criticized everything there, I would consider them bad company. Or at least the wrong person to take to an art gallery.
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by CleverLikeAnOx 4y ago
Could be to allow running untrusted backend code. E.g., so kind of third-party extensions system for your product. Webassembly is good for sandboxing.
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by CleverLikeAnOx 4y ago
I believe sortition is far from optimal, but would still probably function better than the current way we select our senate and congress in the US.
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by CleverLikeAnOx 4y ago
Framework making laptops less disposable fills me with joy. I hope someone is able to do the same with cellphones.
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by CleverLikeAnOx 4y ago
Could you elaborate?
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by CleverLikeAnOx 4y ago
I don't think one size fits all. There are plenty of successful python projects that don't match this. E.g., every python library (numpy as microservices doesn't make sense). Plenty of large successful Django apps exist. I am
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by CleverLikeAnOx 4y ago
This is great work! Even with just a few dozen CRDs kubectl can get a little slow on versions prior to these changes. I am excited about crossplane because handling infrastructure via a reconciliation loop addresses most of my problems with
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by CleverLikeAnOx 4y ago
Dotfiles are a per user application config. Other users of the same system are unlikely to want my idiosyncratic zsh setup. Hence the suggestion for $HOME/cfg in the article.
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by CleverLikeAnOx 4y ago
Superhero movies are certainly not high cinema, but I challenge the "no risk" assertion. In the first 22 MCU films, the heroes take major losses in 5 films (e.g., a city is destroyed with impact affecting the rest of the series).
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by CleverLikeAnOx 5y ago
What is easier for one audience may be more difficult for another. Consider the original quote: > Let’s walk through how Rebecca, an expert in plain language, translates a text to be more readable. We'll use an excerpt from her tran
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by CleverLikeAnOx 5y ago
A browser monoculture allows one entity to dictate how the web works. Even if you can open a pull request against Chromium, that doesn't mean it will get accepted without the approval of Google. Right now, backwards compatibility is pr
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by CleverLikeAnOx 5y ago
I know the founders of Tines, so I can confidently say that it wasn't dreamed up by a VC. The founders both come from an infosec background. They basically left their jobs to build the product they wished existed. They were quite good
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by CleverLikeAnOx 5y ago
I don't trust Sifted (this is my first time seeing the site). An article linked on the sidebar is titled "The only answer to the quantum cybersecurity threat is quantum." The headline is wrong and the article makes no argumen
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by CleverLikeAnOx 5y ago
I agree that different isn't a virtue in and of itself. However, western authors seem to almost treat the minimization of exposition as sacrosanct and Three Body very much does not. The latter two books in the series would often interr
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by CleverLikeAnOx 5y ago
In my opinion, Three Body Problem is worth reading, particularly if you don't read the back cover before starting. The cover spoils a fun mystery. I found the twists and turns of the series to be both entertaining and sometimes mind bl
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by CleverLikeAnOx 5y ago
To clarify my point, even if leeching off companies is like stealing a grain of rice from each person, it is still wrong. My point was that ransomware is wrong even in an idealized abstract scenario where it only targets non-critical comp
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by CleverLikeAnOx 5y ago
If a robber steals one grain of rice from each person in a town, was anyone harmed? If you think not, then what if a thousand robbers do the same? Leeching off of companies is kind of like stealing a grain of rice from everyone. The company
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by CleverLikeAnOx 5y ago
It is not uncommon for journalists to interview terrorists and gangsters. I found it insightful.
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by CleverLikeAnOx 5y ago
Does anyone actually like these homepages that move around a bunch as you scroll? I don't see the appeal of parallax effects and the like. To my eye, they are neither pretty nor useful.
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by CleverLikeAnOx 5y ago
For me, it's writing. Exactly as you described painting. Slowly some ideas are forming, but it will be years if ever before I get to it.
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by CleverLikeAnOx 5y ago
I am in the same boat. I am 6 months into FIRE, and the list of things to do is growing, not shrinking. However, I would say that some things on the list turn out to be false. That is, I like the idea of doing them, but not enough to actua
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by CleverLikeAnOx 5y ago
Agreed, especially after reading this post https://livingafi.com/post-fire-relationship-disconnect/ It's a dialog he is creating as a summary of many discussions. In his version of the story they both communicate
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by CleverLikeAnOx 5y ago
Do we need to be this reductive? He was happy in a relationship but then it got bad and fell apart. That happens, alternative lifestyle or not. I don't see why this implies that his next relationship is unlikely to work out.
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by CleverLikeAnOx 5y ago
Furthermore, his plan didn't fail per-se. I am sure he was aware that he may have to go back to work if life threw him curveballs. It did, so he did. He had some of the best years of his life, he had some bad years. He is still doing
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by CleverLikeAnOx 5y ago
In the post-FIRE relationships disconnect post, it was jarring how he went from having what I saw as a reasonably well communicated discussion to "she couldn't get her head around us being different." Seems like the underst
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by CleverLikeAnOx 5y ago
I doubt the author sees being frugal as a rut and I doubt that the author sees "getting more" as advancement. You and the other are both human and normal regardless. The author's outlook on life is completely valid, so is his
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by CleverLikeAnOx 5y ago
Seems like fundamentally different ways of life between them. The author seems to have strongly held views that fall well outside the mainstream. Something being "pretty uncontroversial" is not a compelling point to such a person,
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by CleverLikeAnOx 5y ago
As someone in a similar boat (6 months into not working at this point), I still love hacker news. I am driven by curiosity above most else and this is the best forum on the internet by that measure (as far as I am aware).
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by CleverLikeAnOx 5y ago
For those that this lifestyle appeals to, it is possible in America to engineer your life so that it happens. Sure the median American is no where close to financial independence, but financial independence is attainable for most Americans
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by CleverLikeAnOx 5y ago
Yeah, I really liked the article overall. I see it as saying that these things people think in a binary fashion about should be treated with more nuance. The author addresses why these binary-style mantras exist and how they are not always

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