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by aeturnum 4y ago
> Storing data is not free and if you plan to use this data for anything it can definitely be not cheap I think there are a lot of companies that are not running out of money and are holding on to a lot of data that might, someday, be
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by aeturnum 4y ago
Freelancers often have lawyers who: write their contracts, adjust them for new clients, fight over breaches, etc. Founders will have lawyers who do something similar for them via-a-vie their companies. When you have a steady stream of work,
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I totally agree that the ACLU is getting into things that seem silly, but it seems equally silly to claim they are 'losing their way' based on that. This article complains the ACLU is not taking right-wing speech cases but admits
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by aeturnum 4y ago
Exactly - though I think I would go even further with the metaphor and say this report is pointing out that we can see the Kaiju on the radar right now but we are choosing not to build the robots! So it is warning that, given the Kaiju we c
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I think a lot of folks here are missing the forest for the trees about this report. This is urging people to take a disaster studies inspired approach[1]. We need are in danger of over-optimizing; of accepting too many disruptions from fore
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by aeturnum 4y ago
The phenomenon you're talking about, imo, doesn't have anything to do with Erlang or Elixir. All languages have limits to what you can do natively. There will always be some tasks where you will cross a language barrier from &quot
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I generally agree, but I would put it a little more neutrally: I've setup my life so that I expect the people I care about to be able to reach me at any moment. It's something I desire. I don't want them to hold back telling
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by aeturnum 4y ago
> This is Web Authentication/FIDO 2. We've had security keys like Yubikeys to do this for years. Yes - doesn't the article suggest that this would use FIDO? "According to the FIDO Alliance, users will be able to sig
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I mean, I do understand the appeal of using strong crypto over using passwords. I also understand why one would roll this out on phones first (even though phones are obviously less secure than many other ways of doing this). At its core, a
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by aeturnum 4y ago
> I don't want to devolve into any petty arguments about what makes a Lisp a "Lisp", Very much agree! I shouldn't have framed it that way. I should have said: each time you make a hybrid language between approaches,
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I think you're misunderstanding the appeal of ecosystems here. It's not just about install base - it's about the mental load of adjusting to a new set of assumptions and paradigms for interacting with the computer. To me, the
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by aeturnum 5y ago
Twitter has ~200m daily active users. I can't find recent churn numbers, but older reports suggest it is quite high[1]. Generally, churn would not have much of an ideological bias. On average people would leave for personal reasons and
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I fully agree that twitter has problems and that escaping a local maximum might be just what it needs. That said, given what Elon has said, I am skeptical that he thinks twitter is in a "local maximum" or needs a real shakeup. We&
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I think you're really under-estimating the difficulty of changing these kinds of things but if Elon buys Twitter we'll both see soon!
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by aeturnum 5y ago
The public / private angle is a good point! Though I am a little skeptical about magnitude. > the bot problem contributes to MAU's, which impact Twitter's quarterly earnings. For instance - I don't think MAUs "
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by aeturnum 5y ago
Did you look into how much work it would take to allow Cisco to accept email addresses longer than 8 chars? That is kind of my point. Like, the work to change the internal systems at Cisco does not get easier depending on who owns the compa
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I feel like most of the pro-Elon-takeover takes rely on the idea that the current Twitter management does not understand what would make Twitter better and has not taken a lot of low hanging fruit. It's possible! Maybe Elon will just b
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by aeturnum 5y ago
> Do you really believe an esteemed journal would actually publish it? You seem to be forwarding an idea of an information ecosystem where what is an "esteemed" journal is static. Like you cannot imagine Nature being anythin
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by aeturnum 5y ago
As with so many Apple policies this is perfectly understandable but becomes unacceptable because they monopolize access to applications on their platform.
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I think it's interesting to note how differently people see this conversation! > advocated "it's a private company, it can deplatform whoever it wants" To me, this compresses several conversations into one: - In the
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by aeturnum 5y ago
It's fascinating to me how thoroughly Google has managed to poison the well for their services. Many of the people aren't even swayed by the connection to a revenue-generating service. I understand! I wouldn't use this unless
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I think Moom is one of the best reccs for OSX in general: https://manytricks.com/moom/ Will let you snap windows the way you expect.
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by aeturnum 5y ago
First: you are not alone, that's normal. Second: I think they are leaning into the surprising and sometimes pleasing juxtaposition of conversations that can be happening "close" to each other. Like, I'll click into a twe
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I believe in free software as a sensible and laudable approach to software, but not as the all-encompasing-single-organizing-principle that GNU seems to. It's a model of development that is of varying importance for different software
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I read articles like this as saying "reached their limits [as we currently understand them]." Sometimes we learn we were mistaken and more is possible but it's not reliable and, crucially, when it happens it happens in unexpe
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I view using the laptop as a laptop as a fallback. When I'm at an office location, I'll setup my mouse and keyboard just like I had a desktop. The laptop just becomes a smaller second screen with a keyboard for some reason. I have
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by aeturnum 5y ago
> I think that creating "better banks" can only mean "more government oversight" I mean, a bank is just a financial business. Why wouldn't it be possible to improve "banks" but it would be possible to
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I think it's really important to also not just think of it as "social awkwardness" and also consider that your subconscious is leading you to be more conservative in social situations which you dislike. It's really nice
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by aeturnum 5y ago
He's not responsible for her actions, but he should certainly recuse himself from cases before the court that pertain to the legal status of her actions. Like...if judges don't have an ethical responsibility to avoid ruling on cas
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by aeturnum 5y ago
More options are always better. It's common that hormonal birth control won't work for someone, so it's great that we are creating more configurations. You're also correct that the person who is going to get pregnant is

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