EamonnMR

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by EamonnMR 4y ago
"rich with constraints" is a wonderful turn of phrase.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
No true crypto
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
Right but my worry is that it will become so cheap to produce 100CoD games/marvel movies/etc that it's going to crowd out anything else.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
On what OS? They're all slightly weird about file associations.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
This would make a great 2600 article.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
It's like Steam for Flash, Shockwave, and Java Applet games. I highly recommend it. Though I do wonder if it's going to survive the transition away from x86...
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
So what's really going to be killed by AI is originality. The moat to cross to get to anything original will get wider as AI makes it easier to churn out rehash.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
People aren't great at using them yet. Anyway, the instances bring together a bunch of different topics broader than a single hashtag would collect, like infosec.exchange and sdf for tech stuff.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
Recognition
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
My biggest gripe is that (afaik) there's no 'view other server's timeline' view-you need to actually go to that server, then back to yours when you want to follow someone. Instances are becoming sort of like meta-hashtag
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
That was the promise, but realistically huge accounts were so swamped that your actual chances of having such an interaction turn out to be slim to none. The game was dominated by people who would reply to a celeb's every post, people
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
New policy banning off site social links.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
The masto/Fediverse thing is giving me GNU plus Linux flashbacks.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
It's hard to surface stuff there, got any good devs to follow?
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
Wonder if he's gonna ban anyone who voted yes.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
I loved Atom. Before that it was, oof, Notepad++ or Bloodshed Dev C++ or Code::Blocks. I can't remember what editor I used at work in 2014...
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
'make any possible sound' is less important than 'make x sound easily' by way of tools and accumulated knowledge. Also what's audiences are receptive to matters a lot - you could have made noise rock in the 40s but
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
(explained in my top level comment before I saw this)
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
Interesting, I think this is here because the guy in it was in a video by a prankster who slaps magnets on people's cars when they don't return shopping carts (and causes aggressive confrontations) which made the front page of Red
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
"Eww, Cobol"
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
Those sound like problems less complicated than a huge array of laser beams, but the devil's in ths details I suppose.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
The only thing gentle about how he was treated pre-collapse is that they didn't preface every article with a comparison to MtGox and a disclaimer to avoid the scam.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
For most people including myself, carrying your entire net worth in the form of gold concealed on your person is easy.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
So the killer app for crypto is....not getting ripped off via crypto?
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
I don't buy this 'bitcoin saves you from tyranny' argument. Tyrannical governments are able to threaten your physical security. All the tokens in the world are no good if they've imprisoned you. As this Sam character has
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
Butlerian Jihad when? But seriously, the potential for bots to drown out all forms of human creativity and replace it with regurgitated mush is real, but we've also been doing it to ourselves by expressing a preference for pre-chewed m
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
Thanks for writing that post. If nothing else it's a riveting story.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
Seeing SBF and saying 'look how corrupt America/NYT is' feels like deflection from the more obvious 'look how corrupt Crypto is.'
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
At this point you must know that if you buy a mac you are surrendering any claim on your third party apps surviving between updates. Irritating, yes, but not surprising.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
Libby + your library card offers a pretty similar experience, ad free.

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