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by Uehreka 5y ago
Not really. The thing that makes youtube-dl useful is that it has one large dedicated community that can find ways to circumvent the changes youtube adds to prevent scraping. Basically, every few months or so youtube-dl becomes useless, and
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by Uehreka 5y ago
I disagree about the “equally important” stuff, and here’s why: If I’m wrong and the overwhelming majority of women really don’t like programming, I’ll have wasted some of my time, but no one will have been materially harmed[0]. However, if
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by Uehreka 5y ago
It’s still useful if you remove units from the graph and treat it as a sparkline. If there are reliably ~100 Xbox Live complaints on Twitter per hour, then suddenly there are 3000, that’s an outage.
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by Uehreka 5y ago
It’s definitely a fraught topic, but if you go in using loaded language like “fetishism” to describe a position that many people have rationally arrived at in good faith, then yeah people are going to call you a jerk. Part of the reason tha
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by Uehreka 5y ago
I think “news service that only alerts me about important stuff” is sufficiently specific in that you could probably come up with a service that generally satisfies most people. I think the reason it doesn’t exist isn’t that we don’t know w
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by Uehreka 5y ago
I tried to use this once in a theatre to connect a camera watching the stage to a greenroom backstage. It worked sometimes, but was super unreliable. Latency was often several hundred milliseconds, and sometimes the image would just straigh
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by Uehreka 5y ago
It’s most useful if you’ve already learned at least one language with memory management, one with garbage collection, one with static types, one with dynamic types, and maybe one weird esoteric one. Then someone throws you at a project and
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by Uehreka 5y ago
Part of the problem though is that this needs to be phrased as a regulation or rule, it’s not something companies are just going to do, as ununionized workers have little ability to extract the real value of their labor in negotiations. Cre
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by Uehreka 5y ago
If crunch time continues but workers are making money commensurate with the fact that they're working outside reasonable hours, then I view that as progress. If base pay is depressed to make up for this change and workers make function
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by Uehreka 5y ago
If that does happen then there was never going to be a way to fix this but no one is worse off. If that doesn't happen then the problem is at least somewhat fixed. Sounds like a good argument to give it a shot. I'm generally all f
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by Uehreka 5y ago
Yeah exactly. I was kinda like "Well dude, if you click a link and it takes you to an HTML page, certainly clicking Save As will save an HTML page". I kind of feel like Linus should know that. But the higher point stands: A lot of
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by Uehreka 5y ago
This is pretty incredible. It really feels as if a bunch of people were asleep at the wheel, mumbling in their dreams about how Linux on the desktop was totally ready to go, and then Linus and Luke threw a glass of cold water on their faces
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by Uehreka 5y ago
I mean the answer is pretty simple: Neither is perfect, but the Gregorian calendar is objectively more correct. It has a small amount of drift, but the drift is less than the Julian calendar. This also makes it more useful, because it will
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by Uehreka 5y ago
I don’t find prediction markets too convincing, especially after my experience betting on the US election last year. One month after the election there were still markets with greater than 10% odds on Trump winning states that had already c
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by Uehreka 5y ago
Google Analytics would only work on sites that run Google Analytics, which would exclude sites run by the other big tech companies. Alexa worked because their toolbar addon would record every site their users went to, regardless of what was
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by Uehreka 5y ago
You don’t need to reply to recruiters at all. They cold email tons of people every day. If you ran into this recruiter in a bar in a year they probably won’t remember your name. If you really want to spike the football you could say that yo
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by Uehreka 5y ago
It’s not about storing your public key, it’s about storing your username and the fact that you (the owner of that key pair) exclusively own that username (for any system that federates with ENS).
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by Uehreka 5y ago
Who said you need to only have one ENS name either? You could have one that you use for personal tech-related stuff, one that you use for work stuff, one that you use for gaming-related stuff, etc. (although for that kind of usage to really
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by Uehreka 5y ago
One of my friends got their name for 10 years for $120, so it seems like it fluctuates.
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by Uehreka 5y ago
If you want to trade easy of use against trust and security, you can use a browser extension like MetaMask that can hold your private key (or one of your private keys which you’ve chosen for this purpose) and perform the auth flow on sites
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by Uehreka 5y ago
Oh totally true, I’m not expecting them to. I just think this could be a way to pick some of the low hanging fruit: users who want easy sign-in on sites that don’t want to roll their own IDP. Right now that niche is filled with the multicol
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by Uehreka 5y ago
Well if you think this is bad, wait until you hear about MFA ;-) On the real, I think there are people who will want to try this if it’s made easy enough. Some people could try getting a name and keeping a wallet through a 3rd party, in whi
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by Uehreka 5y ago
Which is why I now specify “art NFTs” ;-)
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by Uehreka 5y ago
I said this in another comment on this post, but check out ENS. I’ve been a blockchain skeptic for a long time (and still am about art NFTs and most other things) but the idea of “SSO without a company attached” feels like something the mai
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by Uehreka 5y ago
I’m a long time blockchain skeptic (check my comment history) but I recently came around on the SSO stuff and can vouch for it enough to say the magic words: it is in fact a novel thing that cannot be done without blockchain using pre-exist
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by Uehreka 5y ago
> I think it depends much of expectations. Agreed (and I agree that ENS and the SSO stuff looks interesting). The problem here is that the crypto community are the ones setting the high expectations.
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by Uehreka 5y ago
> Kubernetes (κυβερνήτης, Greek for "helmsman" or "pilot" or "governor", and the etymological root of cybernetics) Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubernetes?wprov=sfti1 (The Borg
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by Uehreka 5y ago
IANAL, cannot comment on the legality, but as far as I’m concerned the comment about the department being too dependent on you is the most salient point of your entire post. There’s a whole universe of lawsuits and actions that can be filed
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by Uehreka 5y ago
> I have come to accept that I'm never going to invent some brand-new algorithm that changes the world. I'm probably not even going to invent a framework people like. This thread is great, but this part felt a little weird comi
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by Uehreka 5y ago
The fact that Facebook launched the Meta thing at a time when they were under scrutiny means they probably hoped to distract from what was putting them in the news, but I don’t think they did it just for that reason. Like, the whole whistle

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