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by Lutger 2y ago
It isn't easy or realistic, yet. But these things always start with the guys and girls with energy and skills. They write blogposts, it gets picked up. Somebody starts making improvements, convinces their manager to do it. Slowly thing
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by Lutger 2y ago
Reducing reliance on others is primarily risk mitigation, which is increasingly perceived as necessary due to the rise of authoritarianism and wars, in western democracies at least. However, it is quite a sub-optimal solution, and in some c
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by Lutger 2y ago
That is only the case if you think of migrating as an all-or-nothing. The services that he did manage to migrate went quite smoothly. If he would get stuck with one or two services, was it still worth it to migrate the ones he did manage? I
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Agree, but rather than farming, I think it will enable developers to focus on more complex and interesting problems. Or spot a need in the market (doesn't have to be complex) and quickly solve new problems people are willing to pay mon
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by Lutger 2y ago
It doesn't need to compete, not really. There are many bodies of government. National governments, local, state wide, and from many different countries. These all need software, often doing more or less the same. If they would pool the
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by Lutger 2y ago
Thanks for actually looking things up instead of dreaming things up. This reminds me of Trumps claim that Zelensky is a hugely impopulair dictator, whereas in fact his approval ratings far exceed Trumps and he is very much legally chosen. M
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by Lutger 2y ago
I agree. I'm all for phasing out cars completely, but I don't think it is realistic even if there would be support for it. Next best thing is to move cars to the edges of districts in urban areas. Create big parking spaces, covere
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by Lutger 2y ago
Good point. I'm not really interested in farming animals, I really don't know enough about it. In the Netherlands we still slaughter little under a million of them per year, on a populations of circa 17 million that should still m
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by Lutger 2y ago
Vertical bifacial agrivoltaics system are a promising setup that addresses some of your concerns. Most importantly, tractors can easily pass through them. Another good setup is to combine it while grazing sheep.
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by Lutger 2y ago
While that is emphasized, I don't think that really captures it. The idea is to apply permaculture to computation, as has been done with industrial agriculture. Permaculture is in the first place an ethical or even utopian project, and
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by Lutger 2y ago
I'm not familiar with kernel development, but what's the difference anyway with C code? If you change the interface of some part, any users of it will be broken Rust or not. It will require coordination anyway. It is customary for
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by Lutger 2y ago
There's a more short-term goal for Grok, which is to replace what is left of the federal government with AI. That will significantly boost the money train, but is also a utopian (for some, dystopian for others) goal of replacing the ex
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by Lutger 2y ago
Movement is as much a visual pollution as light is. I find it very, very distracting. That is perhaps a cognitive defect on my part. The fact that e-ink screens will be relatively static is only a good thing in my book. Another complication
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by Lutger 2y ago
There are lots of benefits for sure, but you have to weigh them against the users who can't be arsed to cancel their subscription and keep on paying. You'll miss out on those.
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by Lutger 2y ago
Not yet, but in the echo chamber I dwell in, a lot of orgs are joining Bluesky, and most actually left X. These are mostly journalists, scientists or people involved in politics. At some point, it may become impossible for some of these gro
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by Lutger 2y ago
I haven't seen a single such a screenshot, not one.
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> I don't think Chesterton has much to say about DHS, which is relatively new. I'm responding to this statement. I thought it was pretty clear that the quote is still applicable, especially if you can read it applied to DHS. Th
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by Lutger 2y ago
It has higher salaries for privileged people like senior engineers. Try making ends meet in a lower class job. And you have (almost) free and universal healthcare in Europa, good food available everywhere, drinking water that doesn't p
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by Lutger 2y ago
There are a couple of reasons this is not convincing either: - Other factors can often dwarf the separate deployment overhead, especially given that the deployment steps are done so often it will force the team to make it efficient and get
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by Lutger 2y ago
Absolutely, this is one of the main assumptions where the blog falls apart. What takes more time and carries more risk, really depends on context. Boring, but unavoidable. This is another one: > when compared to a world where that change
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by Lutger 2y ago
You are right, and this is where a little bit of engineering comes in. Push as much of the logic to scripts (either shell or python or whatever) that you can run locally. Perhaps in docker, whatever. All the token, variables, artifacts etc
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by Lutger 2y ago
Django admin also has various ways of filtering, search, navigation including menu's, pagination, permissions, custom actions and change tracking out of the box. Most importantly, it also includes ways to easily deal with relations (in
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by Lutger 2y ago
> with scaffolding and other rails generators with custom templates is that really a big asset? Yes, it is. Django CMS just hits that sweet spot where you can do almost everything you need for an administrative backend with very little c
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by Lutger 2y ago
Very accurate. Every programming language or framework has this kind of emotional attachment of enthusiastic users, to a certain extent. But nothing quite like Rails. Its in the culture.
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This isn't what rails advocates, is it? I thought SQLite in rails is a replacement for redis, not for postgres. I've been out of the loop though. EDIT: this comment is more about rails itself than the actual blog. I take the point
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Having years of experience in both, though not recently in rails, these are some of my thoughts: Obviously Django ties you into python and its ecosystem while Rails means ruby (and its gems). The ecosystem is more important than the languag
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Fully agree, though I feel there are some nuances with third party dependencies. Consider the following: Some third party dependencies are so widely adopted and supported, they are on-par with the main framework you are using in terms of su
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Of course, in the pandemic we saw extreme versions of this. Anything to avoid vaccination, but ivermectin and other risky drugs were no problem. If vaccination would be alternative medicine and ivermection government mandated, we might see
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Politics is starting to turn more and more into a football match. And if you don't want to play along with the 'winner-takes-all' dynamic, then by consequence you'll lose anyway. Politics as the heart of deliberative dem
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Any security work always involves a calculated risk. The risk here is that you will be forced to do a painful and error prone upgrade at the time of the vulnerability - under pressure. You haven't done that too often, thus the process

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