Steltek

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by Steltek 6mo ago
I thought it was just the opposite: people recognized it as satire but what they really wanted was the dumb action movie. Spare us the social commentary and show us some power armor with jump jets.
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by Steltek 7mo ago
I'll go one step further: I avoid all comedy and late night shows. Even The Daily Show, as much as that pains me. My mental health wouldn't stand a chance if I actually stared into the abyss.
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by Steltek 7mo ago
It was a powerful tool made for good but trivially corrupted to serve evil. It's a perfect description of the real world thing, IMO.
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by Steltek 7mo ago
That only works when there's time to adapt. This is like the insane tariff rollercoaster. There was no time to plan or adapt. It was a black swan event and wrecked everything for no appreciable benefit.
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by Steltek 7mo ago
ACA mandates that ~80% of insurance co. revenue must go back towards medical service. So not "non-profit" per se but there is some kind of restriction there.
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by Steltek 7mo ago
For a while, there was a strong trend of "I want to do everything in one singular language". Your coding is in language XYZ. Your build tools will be configured/written in XYZ. Your UI frontend will be generated from XYZ. Eve
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by Steltek 7mo ago
You could make a list of WTFs about any language. Bash syntax is the pinnacle of Chesterton's Fence. If you can't articulate why it was done that way, you have no right to remove it. Python would be an absolutely unusable shell la
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by Steltek 8mo ago
Is it really "got caught" if you run a Super Bowl ad? And put out a press release.
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by Steltek 8mo ago
They only wish they were saving 3 minutes. Drivers pull the most outlandish, dangerous crap to end up 2-3 car lengths ahead of where they were.
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by Steltek 8mo ago
There were only two requirements at Ellis Island: 1. You were free of contagious medical diseases 2. You were not in danger of "becoming a public charge" (welfare) That plan is perfectly compatible with your concerns.
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by Steltek 8mo ago
Yeeeaaaah, I dunno if you wanna go there while the US is investing $100B in state sponsored ethnic cleansing, terrorism, and concentration camps. Glass houses, stones, etc.
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by Steltek 8mo ago
They need to prove that those materials exist on the device first. You can't be held in contempt for a fishing expedition.
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by Steltek 8mo ago
I'd replace "real conversation" with "community". And I think communities don't prohibit anonymity. I think the impossibility is really having a community with a very large active userbase. A macro version of D
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by Steltek 9mo ago
I'm immediately reminded of this: --- The moral of the story is: if you’re against witch-hunts, and you promise to found your own little utopian community where witch-hunts will never happen, your new society will end up consisting of
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by Steltek 10mo ago
Uhh, do you mean contactless payments? That wasn't Apple. Apple wasn't even the first to offer it on phones. Android beat them by 3 years.
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by Steltek 10mo ago
The Sapir-Whorf is strong in this thread. MacOS' app-centric model makes it hard to even imagine other people's workflows. Stop thinking in apps, think about a task. I have multiple tasks (workspaces). Each task has multiple aspec
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by Steltek 10mo ago
It's very weird to assume good intentions or trustworthy info from Grokipedia but then hold up Wikipedia as "heavily poisoned". Your questions are based on a lot of assumptions that aren't widely shared.
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by Steltek 10mo ago
While the 2003 Iraq War was complete bullshit lies. No, Halliburton is over 100 years old and a bit of a unicorn company for oil engineering problems. There were definitely conflicts of interest that should have been resolved but it's
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by Steltek 11mo ago
And if you're not interested in upholding basic values? What if you're looking to intentionally destroy things instead? Verified residency is better than nothing for putting real money on the table. Although if you've been to
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by Steltek 11mo ago
BangleJS is fun but it's not all sunshine and rainbows: * Hackable - Only using Chrome. I haven't discovered any other method but I'd love to be corrected on this. * Totally touchscreen based and the touchscreen ain't th
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by Steltek 11mo ago
Lots of companies tried to recreate the Steam Deck and quite frankly, they're just not as good as the original. SteamOS is a super controller-friendly desktop that would be right at home in a living room. Like the Deck, the Steam Machi
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by Steltek 11mo ago
Here's a question, what if the executable was thoroughly sandboxed? Like Firecracker level with virtualization? And once you're there, what's the difference between that and a webapp? I don't think apps are going away so
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by Steltek 1y ago
Actually, it seems like the opposite. Caring about politics is now a crime.
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by Steltek 1y ago
The idea though is when you don't want to follow the FHS anymore, like systemd is doing. Systemd frustrates and angers people with Poettering's complete disregard for bug reports, tradition, and basic common courtesy. At the same
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by Steltek 1y ago
Standards are a double edged sword though. They are great for getting everyone to agree to the "most correct" answer. But they also freeze evolution in place. What happens when your standard doesn't support contemporary use c
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by Steltek 1y ago
It seems like every network filesystem is irredeemably terrible. SMB and NFS the stuff of security nightmares, chatty performance issues, and awkward user id mapping. WebDAV is a joke. SSHFS is slow. You can get really crazy with CephFS or
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by Steltek 1y ago
Have you ever met undergrads from these schools? This as far from my experience as you could get.
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by Steltek 1y ago
Honestly, I have no idea. Maybe categorizing things into MVP, standard, and advanced would be a good start. When I think of most apps on my phone, these capabilities are rare or non-existent: - USB - AV/VR - Payment processing or IAP (
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by Steltek 1y ago
What I think is missed in self-hosting is WHAT you're self-hosting. In priority order, you should self-host: 1. Your Data. It is the most irreplaceable digital asset. No one should see their photos, their email, their whatever, go poof
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by Steltek 1y ago
This page oversteps the definition of PWA and seems to be more like QuirksMode for advanced features. For example, is AR/VR a critical PWA feature or is that just advanced capability? Where does PWA end and "replaces any conceivab

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