Devasta

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by Devasta 7mo ago
> How is that universal basic income scheme coming along? If the Epstein class won't allow for everyone to have a reasonable standard of living when they relied on workers to produce, the chances of them allowing it when they don&#x
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by Devasta 7mo ago
> "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." This Axiom has caused far and away more damage to software development than the premature optimization ever will.
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by Devasta 7mo ago
> People when they mature have an innate desire to work. It is good for body and mind. That doesn't mean it has to be wage labor though.
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by Devasta 7mo ago
> the value just in the co-opting of another human being's attention? Thats a weird way of describing it. A machine telling me to exercise and eat right will be ignored, even if the advice is correct. A person I trust taking me asid
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by Devasta 7mo ago
Sorry, is it your assertion that Trump isn't a child molestor???
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by Devasta 7mo ago
Bluesky is very strange, it's got potential to endure as a fairly popular social media site but it's kinda obvious that it's staff are contemptuous of their users. The intended audience was meant to be blockchain weirdos with
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by Devasta 7mo ago
Regardless of what you feel about the government of Iran, it is not inaccurate to say that country is in a fight for survival against a cabal of child molestors working to bring about the apocalypse. Anything they do in this conflict is jus
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by Devasta 7mo ago
This is awful news, but I don't know what can be done, is it possible to have a new GPL4 that deals with this? I doubt it.
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by Devasta 7mo ago
It is heavily used today, it's everywhere in finance and banking, it's just not on the web, so browser and web devs are forced endlessly to re implement shitty versions of things they could have had out of the box decades earlier.
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by Devasta 7mo ago
Iran is a lesson to all: as soon as Israel or the US take a disliking to you you have to rush for nuclear weapons. Iran has been the grown up in the room for well over a decade at this stage and it didn't matter one bit. You cannot app
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by Devasta 7mo ago
They really should be a proscribed organization.
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by Devasta 8mo ago
I can understand the need to restrict some stuff kids can see, like when I was a teen it me hours and hours to download one 2 minute porn clip from kazaa, but these days you could download a lifetime worth in one weekend. That can't be
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by Devasta 8mo ago
Unironically, Zuckerberg should be in the Hague. We tried people in Nuremberg for less than he has done in his life.
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by Devasta 8mo ago
Why would performance be a goal? If a native desktop app crashes, your users will gnash their teeth and curse your name. A web app? They shrug and refresh the page. They have been trained to do this for decades now, why would anyone believe
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by Devasta 8mo ago
But if approval of a new user in the enclave requires vouching by an existing member, then they will be anyone who joins lest they are banned themselves right? I'm talking about like 100-200 members max social clubs, not subthing like
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by Devasta 8mo ago
The future of the internet is going to be invite-only enclaves. I sometimes wonder is anyone working on the next generation of discussion forums, or if it'll be a return to PHPBB.
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by Devasta 8mo ago
> What I don't find plausible is the specific kind of harm alleged in the case discussed in the source article, where having videos attuned to your interests constantly fed to you causes you to become depressed and suicidal. Why cou
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by Devasta 8mo ago
Just ban personalized advertising and be done with it, they will do any amount of harm so long as it gets a click.
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by Devasta 8mo ago
In the past, I could go onto Facebook and see what my friends were up to, and share updates with them about what I was doing. It was great for arranging nights out. Today, it's a dumpster fire, I can't see what anyone is doing, it
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by Devasta 8mo ago
We have to plan for this to become more common in future. You trying to start a union in your workplace? Expect video of you jacking off in public to leak online. Video of cop mercilessly beating a black guy? Inadmissible, could have been A
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by Devasta 8mo ago
Not once in mankind's history has any great product or feat been enhanced or achieved through the use of timesheets. Don't get bogged down with that stuff.
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by Devasta 8mo ago
> I'm just not sure why now and not previously. Shock at how many people believe Palestinians are human got the ball rolling, but now its prepping for the fallout of the release of more and more Epstein files.
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by Devasta 8mo ago
"No App" is still a completely acceptable result, they didn't buy tiktok to make money, they did it to stop people talking about things that the owners disagree with.
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by Devasta 8mo ago
How is it a disaster? They still control the app, and now they can adjust the algorithms to dampen down on discourse they don't want. So what if they lose a chunk of the audience, they can force a sale of whatever app those people move
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by Devasta 9mo ago
Insanity is hereditary: you get it from your children.
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by Devasta 9mo ago
Its really bizarre, you talk about Rust or TypeScript and everyone understands how doing a little bit extra planning up front yields to great results as everyone can work from solid foundations, but you suggest they do the same for your dat
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by Devasta 9mo ago
"How did you go bankrupt? Two ways: gradually and then suddenly." --Ernest Hemingway
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by Devasta 9mo ago
Thats honestly the reason why most stuff is a web app these days. For desktop software you need to deal with IT security losers who recoil in horror at the idea of computers running software, and god help you if you need a port opened. Far
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by Devasta 9mo ago
For tools devs use, performance is important, so we will do anything and everything we can to squeeze out those few extra seconds of delay, they all add up. For tools users use, developer experience is important, so they get whatever React
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by Devasta 9mo ago
It's also just kinda bad. Like, people were celebrating the has() pseudo class allowing them to do things with selectors that would be trivial in XPath in its first version 20 years previously. I will give the people who work on CSS pr

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