Xelbair

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by Xelbair 11mo ago
>The US was awarded a unique competitive advantage with WW2, which allowed it to become the world's hegemon. That advantage was: being the only country that wasn't ravaged by war, and that profited for a while by trading with e
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by Xelbair 11mo ago
the issue is that you've made a lot of a priori assumptions that do not hold up
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by Xelbair 11mo ago
>"white-noise.wav is a test file and I'm an acoustics engineer": tough, supply the seed to the PRNG which created it or fine time. Guilty until proven innocent, the burden is on you to prove it. you are hung up on your pre
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by Xelbair 11mo ago
The issue is that EU is stuck in-between federation(which requires more checks and balances), and a trade union - which should concern themselves with just trade regulations.
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by Xelbair 11mo ago
The issue is that EU does not control the internet, nor all means of communication. Nor perfect form of monitoring exists so question is moot in itself. Especially as perfect encryption is indistinguishable from noise. and the answer is no
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by Xelbair 11mo ago
>While I agree with the sentiment, you need to think like a state to stop this kind of thing. I'm thinking like state already, i would never trust ANY state with such powers, even the one that was perfectly aligned with my political
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by Xelbair 11mo ago
My problem is that i as a citizen can vote for my heads of state, but if other parts of EU decided something my vote is null and void, EVEN if majority of EU citizens are against such issue. Imagine is those issues were campaign promises an
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by Xelbair 11mo ago
Cash exists, physical tickets exists. those things shouldn't be fully tied to the internet/intranet anyways.
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by Xelbair 11mo ago
but you can be secure from all at the same time with similar effort, meanwhile most actual attacks that lead to damages come from the inside the network? extreme shortsightedness.
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by Xelbair 11mo ago
Is the process democratic if citizen's opinions are irrelevant? No matter who's in charge, no matter the election results, no matter the protests - the same style of legislation is pushed. and once something's in it is almost
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by Xelbair 11mo ago
The issue is not with the lack of understanding of "process". But sheer frustration because there's nothing you can do as just a citizen. An unelected council of !notAyatollah has decided, and this thing is being pushed at gl
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by Xelbair 11mo ago
This type of legislation should never ever be proposed in a democratic system, so had disagree. This is an extremely totalitarian-style move from EU - governing bodies are exempt from the law, meanwhile peasants have to be watched 24/7
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by Xelbair 11mo ago
Oh but those people would be exempt from scanning anyways.
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by Xelbair 11mo ago
you can as easily get attackers from within your own networks, you're falling for fallacy that everything on the 'inside' is secure.
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by Xelbair 11mo ago
>I'll die on hill that hyperoptimized systems are more efficient than anti-fragile. Of course they are, the issue is what level of failure were going to accept.
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by Xelbair 11mo ago
Genuine question - why are you spending time and effort on geofencing when you could spend it on improving your software/service? It takes time and effort for no gain in any sensible business goal. People outside of US won't need
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by Xelbair 11mo ago
Even more so when most of the internet is also down. What are customers going to do? Go to competitor that's also down? It is extremely annoying, will ruin your day, but as movie quote goes - if everyone is special, no one is.
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by Xelbair 11mo ago
>I am concerned about the detail here: does this mean per hardware class (e.g. same model of GPU), or per each individual device? per combination of hardware(GPU, resolution of display) and software(exact drivers)
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by Xelbair 11mo ago
how about donating to the creator directly? not subscription, just occasional donations whenever people feel like it - content is more widely available, and people who really enjoy it or are well off can actually fund the development
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by Xelbair 11mo ago
"I'm escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism, barely holds laughter back and takes a break SPACE!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Sq1Nr58hM
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by Xelbair 11mo ago
Moderation is okay when it properly adjusts signal-to-noise ratio of discussion. Censorship is about suppressing opinions which fall out of Overton's window, which is not okay, as all it does is to enforce status quo. There was a good
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by Xelbair 11mo ago
what if your efforts are futile due to sheer amount of other people producing trash? it is not so simple of a problem with clear cut solution.
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by Xelbair 11mo ago
Well it all started with usual SV style "growth hacking"(price dumping as a SaaS) of "gather users now, monetize later" by OpenAI - which works only if you attain virtual monopoly(basically dominance over segment of a ma
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by Xelbair 11mo ago
well you can't judge 3rd party libraries, can you? by that metric js/ts would be the worst thing in existence. I've seen some great, some horrible 3rd party docs on .net side - same with java.
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by Xelbair 11mo ago
Sure, but that's a 'need' from programmers side - not from business side.
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by Xelbair 11mo ago
the famous benchmark that put ASP.NET in #1 spot was hyperoptimzied to hell while competing with normal implementations of other systems. https://web.archive.org/web/20250330225652/https://dusted.co...
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by Xelbair 11mo ago
don't get me wrong - i want F# features in C#! I like the ecosystem and both languages. I'm just pointing out that no matter how cool the language is if it doesn't serve business needs(hiring, onboarding ,ease of replacing st
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by Xelbair 11mo ago
Vault, Keycloak, Flink are language agnostic or there exist bindings for most popular languages. Documentation is vastly better compared to Java ones, it's like day and night, LINQ is vastly superior to anything that Java offered - but
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by Xelbair 11mo ago
>startups should consider niche language with extremely limited hiring pool. sure, but only if you're doing something that actually demands it - and actual innovation - instead of usual 'lets repackage XYZ as SaaS and growthhac
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by Xelbair 1y ago
Worse - they actually can remove books that you've purchased. Not only revoke license for future downloads - but actually remove them from your device. Ironically they did that to 1984 book.

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