Shish2k

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by Shish2k 4y ago
> But problems can be solved. Looking at the 30 years and millions of dollars poured into making email work, the evidence seems to be against this
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by Shish2k 4y ago
That’s great… but that’s not what this module is for
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by Shish2k 4y ago
I used to be heavily involved in those, it was a process where we’d take a week to prepare for it, do weeks of post-mortems, and print a run of t-shirts for everyone involved to celebrate pulling one off successfully. These days the team ru
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by Shish2k 4y ago
> The last few years have brought insane progress to the PHP language I’ve been hearing this for ~20 years, and yet somehow I still find it more painful to use than other languages that didn’t even exist 10 years ago… (Except for “being
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by Shish2k 5y ago
FB uses mysql in two very different ways - for the giant social-network database, mysql is basically a key-value store used as the storage layer for the graph database built on top. Then for the thousands of small utility databases (small e
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by Shish2k 5y ago
> Counting instructions is very accurate and roughly approximates power usage I’ve always assumed this to be true, but I see a lot of benchmarking tools / libraries measuring wall-clock time or iterations-per-second or something lik
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by Shish2k 5y ago
I’m on the free plan at the moment, and it’s pretty neat, but I’d actually be willing to pay for a self-hosted version :P (But I guess the existence of such an option might tempt some paying enterprise customers to attempt self-hosting inst
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by Shish2k 5y ago
The reason to use the tor<->plaintext bridge is to route around censorship, eg the great firewall of china, or various western ISPs blackholing the pirate bay, and also to prevent the server from learning much about the client’s ident
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by Shish2k 5y ago
My site blocks tor nodes not because I hate privacy, but because the overwhelming majority of spammy / abusive content was posted over the tor network, and blocking tor improved the signal:noise ratio better than the best anti-spam too
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by Shish2k 5y ago
No OP, but when I ask people to solve an algorithmic problem, I don’t mean “regurgitate this algorithm from memory”, I mean “I give the candidate a plain english description of an algorithm and ask them to turn it into code” (eg “read this
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by Shish2k 5y ago
At the first startup I worked for, we focused on making a high quality product, understanding the people who would use our software, solving their problems - users loved us, I loved the company. I worked there for 9 months even after the mo
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by Shish2k 5y ago
> The only question I have is whether it supports expansion with drives of different capacities. I’m also very interested in this - my main reason for sticking with btrfs is that I can use a variety of odd-sized drives, and expand it by
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by Shish2k 5y ago
This would be an ideal support method for a lot of websites, if there was a system which made it practical to transfer small amounts of money with no more hassle than the “<website> wants to accesss <api>” browser prompts… Heck,
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by Shish2k 5y ago
> It's a way to authenticate yourself without a centralized authority PGP did that 31 years ago though, faster and more efficient and without all the downsides?
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by Shish2k 5y ago
Remember back when the first bundle made a million dollars, and they were like “we have made enough money, let’s open-source all the games” — can you imagine anyone saying “we have made enough money” today? :(
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by Shish2k 5y ago
What happens when the Linux kernel decides to ignore standards bodies? What happens if a single party manages to usurp governance?
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by Shish2k 5y ago
Sure, 1% of conspiracy theories turn out to have some truth to them — but on the whole, if there’s no way of knowing in-advance which ones those are, I don’t know if “engage with all the conspiracy theories, spend time and energy attacking
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by Shish2k 5y ago
I wonder if we need a middle-class of open source contributor — I see a lot of over-worked maintainers, and I see a lot of drive-by contributors with interesting half-baked ideas or PRs that fix one bug but fail CI tests — I wish somebody w
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by Shish2k 5y ago
> I do believe small business under a certain number of employees should be exempted from unions. Say <10 employees. The rule of thumb I go by is "If the company has an HR department protecting the company’s interests, then the w
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by Shish2k 5y ago
TBH this is a big motivator for my code comments - “Ideally this code would do X, but because of constraint Y we are settling for Z. If you can think of a way to achieve X without the compromise then by all means burn this module with fire,
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by Shish2k 5y ago
Syncthing is great software… but it isn’t in the same genre of “send a random one-off file to a person physically close to you with no advanced setup"
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by Shish2k 5y ago
> So in practical terms how would one make such a platform widely adopted? I’m not sure if can be… - Developers working for free generally build things that they themselves want to use. If you look at HN’s opinions on eg Discord vs IRC (
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by Shish2k 5y ago
Email, blogs, forums. Pretty much the whole internet in the 90’s. But then centralisation turned out to be more profitable, so they could hire UX designers and attract all the users...
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by Shish2k 5y ago
For a neurotypical person, focussing on a boring task is like holding an ice cube - it’s uncomfortable, but not too hard to do it. For an ADHD person, focussing on a boring task is like holding your hand on a hot stove - your brain won’t ev
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by Shish2k 5y ago
Similarly, I spent ~£2000 on having a wonderful home cinema setup (meticulously organised kodi library on a dedicated HTPC, surround-sound, projector) -- but it’s mostly collecting dust because chromecast’ing netflix from my phone to the TV
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by Shish2k 5y ago
I’m working on it :) https://github.com/shish/rosettaboy (Ok it’s 5-10k lines rather than a million, but it’s non-trivial enough that the differences between languages are noticable)
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by Shish2k 5y ago
Also for anyone wondering, the desktop clients can be pointed to a custom control server (eg self-hosted headscale) relatively easily; but the android app needs to be edited / recompiled / sideloaded; and the iOS app can’t be po
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by Shish2k 5y ago
I wonder why stoves / ovens even have a “stay on forever” mode, let alone have it as the only mode. The microwave model of “be on this power for this duration and then beep and turn off” seems much nicer...
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by Shish2k 5y ago
That seems like a nice idea, but still very exploitable - it’s easy to control people’s conclusions by limiting which verifiable facts you publish.
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by Shish2k 5y ago
> So why is she feeling like her job is to defend the competitiveness of the company in front of other coworkers? Because that is literally HR’s job description? (If you’re looking for a group similar to an HR department, but flipped so

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