JeremyNT

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by JeremyNT 3y ago
> It should be the goal of every human to eliminate as many jobs as possible. I mean this is exactly what Drew is disputing. The capital class will remove the jobs, capture the value of whatever labor is saved, and the workers who lose t
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I feel like the terms in use around this are quite abstract and hard to reason about. I like that the wikipedia article converts this to something more useful to intuit for most of us: > Even heat-adapted people cannot carry out normal
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by JeremyNT 3y ago
I really do like this conception of things. It's a lame truism but "life is what you make of it." At first everything is new, mere existence is the act of discovery and growth. As you age more you must have more intention b
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You're right of course that complexity makes it harder to reason about, which makes it easy to "fat finger" a destructive operation with unintended consequences. However I'd say the truly disastrous issue here wasn'
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The big reason to use it now is that there are useful libraries built of top of it, and you already know it. The value proposition has changed though and there isn't a compelling reason to start using jQuery now, but if you are someb
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I agree. Obviously people can live in this way if pressed, but what kind of life is it? Humans are social creatures, and we strive for more than mere survival. If our current society somehow "collapses," we will immediately form
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Yeah a large portion of research computing standardized on Red Hat (see e.g. Scientific Linux). The stability is quite important when trying to run ancient/niche scientific code that sometimes would only support (or even build on) Re
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by JeremyNT 3y ago
I could recommend Fastmail with PGP (when it matters). They have good documentation on how to do this [0]. More expensive than self hosting, but still quite cheap, and no weird vendor-specific lockin for the important parts. [0] https:&#x2
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Well the Linux side has plenty of good alternatives and has had them for years, but good luck with MacOS or Windows users. Many of them just can't be bothered to understand how these technologies work. They just want an easy installer
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> That's what ultimately depresses me about AI. It's still just a parlor trick. We haven't actually taught computers to think, to reason, to be innovative. Deep learning is definitely having its day, but I suppose this too
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I'm not OP but I'm in my 40s and their tale is very familiar to me. If you live an active lifestyle in your 20s and 30s and try to keep up with the same pace as you age, over time you will just find yourself "tweaking" t
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This is advice HN tends to trot out periodically, but I find it off-topic at best here. The point of this blog post is to elicit empathy , something often lacking in healthy people who cannot envision themselves suffering from some ailment
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HN is the same group that wants Mozilla to only work on Firefox. These non profits have missions that go beyond their most visible projects. This is almost always the case with any non profit. It's not called "the Wikipedia server
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by JeremyNT 3y ago
> Raise your hands if you’d rather go back to a world without Airbnb. I'm here, raising my hand! Zoning requirements exist for a reason. In this AirBNB hellscape, we now have entirely unregulated hotels in my nominally residential n
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by JeremyNT 3y ago
Ahah! I see now you are correct, it was just broken after a good run of stability. Prior to this it had been working well for a month or so. If the past is any indication, Nitter will be back again eventually, but every time Nitter breaks
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It really is, and it mirrors the hype cycle around LK-99. In the case of these laser fusion stories, the effect described is at least real , but the press is happy to spin it in wildly optimistic ways.
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One "solution" to this problem in Linux is to use something like bwrap[0] and manually redirect offending software to the desired location with the "bind" option. You probably can't get the individual directories fo
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> When mixed with an open mind and reasonable skepticism, it's a powerful opportunity to get people engaged in imagining a different world. I feel like this line is doing a lot of lifting in your comment. The problem is that as la
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I honestly wasn't aware of this - even the official git org is still 'twbs' and I assumed it was still related. I edited that part out, thanks for pointing it out.
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I'll take this anecdote and counter it with the success of Bootstrap. You could have been using it for an entire decade now. There's a robust ecosystem around it to this day. Tailwind as the "new bootstrap" makes a decen
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Thanks for pointing this out - a major negative for this project. For now, Nebula is still my choice in this space.
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by JeremyNT 3y ago
Even if you don't mind abiding by the terms of the BSL, the licensing change is a signal that Hashicorp is in dire straits and doesn't know how to operate as a sustainable business. They're flailing about trying to increase r
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I agree, and to me it hints at a couple of possibilities... Perhaps they are receiving sub-standard vision care (and are thus unable to get updated eyeglass prescriptions, cataract surgery, etc), and this might be associated with other fo
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Yes, it's very disappointing, although not surprising. I'm especially sad that Rhythmbox is going to be unmaintained. I use it almost every day (and am currently using it right now). In general I prefer GNOME and its utilities ove
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> All the bug and security fixes that HashiCorp is writing can’t just be cherry-picked into these forks (I think?), so what exactly are they supposed to do? Indeed, any fork will need to implement their own bug fixes. Ideally they shou
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You can refer to the full list on the github page[0] (which I find to be pretty accurate). I personally use La Contre-Voie[1] for no particular reason. nitter.net was historically a little less reliable for me due to rate limiting, which is
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It's also worth pointing out that you can change the power governor in Linux whenever you want, so if you don't mind the compilation taking longer you can manually just throttle your PC to keep it silent at the cost of performance
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It seems far more likely to me that the managerial (not capital) class is driving the efforts. It requires no conspiracy: if you imagine that prestige and promotions for middle managers are more about appearances than data (true in my exper
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And if you buy that car today and do basic routine maintenance there's a good chance it will still be running great a decade from now. Cars are dramatically more reliable than they used to be, so you will get more utility than you woul
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It's a signal if nothing else. Maybe Google cares, maybe not, but there's no sense in having a spineless standards body that just turns around and says that the spec is whatever Google implements in Chrome.

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