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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I don’t understand your point here, isn’t comparing US military spending to other countries’ military spending in terms of USD a fair comparison?
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
The exact same things have been shown for WFH as well, but that data is being overridden by the emotions and gut feelings of CEOs. When investors are pressuring you to make more money, doing RTO is a big, highly visible thing that feels goo
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
People are always convinced that new and better software will reduce our need for software engineers, but the contradiction is plain to see. While AI could potentially be different, I am extremely doubtful that integrating AI into everythin
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I hope you are right, and I think looking at the past there is some truth to this. After the dotcom bubble burst and the 2008 crash, those are the times when a lot of strong engineering-focused tech companies were started.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
TBH there's more that goes into it than I really want to type out here. LLMs are a good resource for this kind of thing, they generally give correct advice. A quick overview: Security looks like: - Ensure SSH (the method by which you&#
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Agreed, that's a fair criticism. The whole mindset needs to shift to actually become sustainable, and the mindset shift is more likely to happen by self-hosting with used hardware than abstracting away hardware to a datacenter. I think
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
> I'm not entirely on the same page as the parent comment regarding "[t]hat's what you're paying a good PaaS for" in terms of security and availability. If the platform is down, having a service level agreement (
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Again, no it does not. When someone buys a new RPi, it was already made. The cost of making it was already sunk. Buying it gives the company that made it more money, and encourages them to make more. If you buy a used RPi, it gives money to
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
"Used" doesn't magically wave away the carbon/resource cost of producing the hardware. Buying used hardware still stimulates demand for the production of new hardware, although to a lesser extent than buying new. Buying
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Yes, if you don't want to do that work and are happy to pay someone else to take care of it, then that is great. But if you like making free web apps, relying on a PaaS will get expensive.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Yes, I believe a Droplet or VPS (virtual private server) from some other provider would be sufficient. Digital Ocean isn't the cheapest, but it's pretty frictionless, slick, and has a lot of good tutorial articles about setting up
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Agreed. When I see this type of thing, I am always turned off by people describing it as "greener" or “more sustainable”. Every small website having its own solar panel and hardware is not greener. People frequently think only of
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Start by trying to define what “100% correct” means in the context of predicting the next token, and the flaws with this line of thinking should reveal themselves.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I worked in IT at a tech company that had mandatory 90-day password rotations. That place had the highest rate of “password on sticky note” that I’ve ever seen.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Certainly, I just mean that we are hitting a point where there can be professional devs, with multiple years of experience at tech companies successfully building software, who have only ever known and worked with a PaaS to deploy an app.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I think this is just the natural conclusion of the new generation of devs being raised in the cloud and picking a scalable serverless PaaS like Vercel as the default option for any web app. A more charitable reading is that they pick the te
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Because instead of doing that, they could have the computer rotate their drawing to a new angle.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
> [Citizens United] was pretty clearly correctly decided. The alternative is the government can prohibit you from distributing political speech because it costs money to do it, which would imply that they could ban all private mass media
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
And we are all so grateful that LinkedIn's aggressive innovation was allowed to flourish.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I'm not quite sure how these are supposed to balance each other? User who benefits and contributes nothing is balanced by the hardworking contributor? And there is certainly not a contributor for every user.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I think that knowledge hoarding may come back with a vengeance with the threat people feel from LLMs and offshoring.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Yeah, Stackoverflow kinda dug their own grave by making their platform and community very unpleasant to engage with.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
> Did I get that right? Having to work to earn money makes a business bad? Having to work too much for not enough return is what makes the business bad.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Amusing how underneath this comment, there are several comments saying "ah, you just haven't found the right SSG, this one is good". Well-intentioned, but completely missing the point.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
If anyone has good data/analysis of banned books, please share it. While looking, I only found PEN's dataset: https://pen.org/book-bans/2023-banned-book-list/ And the only comprehensive analysis I found
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Money wants to go to where more money is, and accumulate in great pools that can pull in more and more money. Money seeks to erode barriers that would prevent this, so that the money pool can accumulate faster and faster. This force can ove
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams. It's hilarious, absurd, and surprisingly thought-provoking. There are many philosophical questions and lessons that are not really presented as such (though they a
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I know almost nothing about Atlas Shrugged, besides that it is very political, but this seems a strange and deceptive way to interact with people. I can't imagine it is very good for establishing trust with someone even if they "p
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
It’s generally about the probability of issues occurring and the expected magnitude of those potential issues. For most people and setups, moving the infrastructure to a new operating system would score about as highly as possible in both o
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Maybe I am missing something, but I don’t see why it’s surprising that one idea would be received with curiosity and interest, while another would be received with skepticism based on analysis from the scientific community, even though they

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