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8671.
by api 7y ago
The only benefit and rationale for competition there is to prevent bureaucratic sclerosis. Its easy for any monopoly to become top heavy with corrupt or incompetent chair warmers who just extract from it and barely do their job.
8672.
by api 7y ago
It doesn't solve the problems that led to the embrace of inflationary currencies at all. These are among others price inelasticity and the very powerful psychological "number going up is good" factor. Try explaining to an emp
8673.
by api 7y ago
Transportation is critical yet often unprofitable, which is why it's usually heavily regulated and subsidized.
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by api 7y ago
If this gets super serious I could see it really tip telework into the mainstream and be good for essentially anything that helps with that: SaaS, network virtualization, remote access, file and resource sharing, p2p transfer and communicat
8675.
by api 7y ago
That's not what they're talking about. They're talking about giving up on the idea of privacy in any context and proposing an "egalitarian panopticon" as some kind of solution. Not only would that be dystopian in it
8676.
by api 7y ago
The whole premise is pernicious nonsense at its root. Privacy is important for many reasons, and throwing in the towel on it because high tech makes mass surveillance easy is like giving up on laws and taboos against murder because guns mak
8677.
by api 7y ago
People haven't figured out that "SaaS will liberate you from worrying about IT" is bullshit. All it does is change the types of problems in IT that you have to worry about.
8678.
by api 7y ago
MAC as in 48-bit Ethernet addresses. https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/blob/master/node/MAC... There's a tiny chance of a collision, but for it to be meaningful you'd have to have a
8679.
by api 7y ago
MACs are computed directly from cryptographic hashes. For normal ZeroTier P2P traffic the MAC and Ethernet header are elided entirely too, which saves about 14 bytes of per-frame overhead.
8680.
by api 7y ago
Yes, and more. Check out what runs on factory floors sometime. There's stuff that speaks naked Ethernet, as in you type the MAC of the machine into the application. There's also stuff that speaks CANbus over Ethernet without IP in
8681.
by api 7y ago
This doesn't match my experience. Go apps tend to be extremely clean and reliable. It's of course possible to write crap code in Go, but you can write crap code in any language. The unused variable thing is mildly annoying but fit
8682.
by api 7y ago
It was probably behind finicky and heavily restrictive symmetric NAT (very p2p-hostile) but with IPSec ALG in the NAT, making it work fine with IPSec but horribly with anything else. This is common in "enterprise" settings and har
8683.
by api 7y ago
Someone else said broadcast/multicast, so I'll also add communication with legacy systems that don't speak IP or have other wacky requirements. These do exist in industrial and embedded settings. It's a niche use case
8684.
by api 7y ago
Substituting MAC for IP address is exactly what ZeroTier does. MACs can't be spoofed, though nodes can be designated as bridges and that allows them to impersonate MACs. There's still the issue of authenticating IPv4 IPs though, w
8685.
by api 7y ago
It's a necessary change and a response to cognitive overload. Everything I have to think about in an existing system is mental energy I can't spend on more useful tasks, like creating something new. In the Information Age, atten
8686.
by api 7y ago
You're right, but the problem is that businesses must have recurring revenue to exist. During the roll out phase, such as when appliances were a new thing and everyone wanted to buy one, companies could make super reliable appliances a
8687.
by api 7y ago
Then don't buy an iOS device. This is no different from game consoles.
8688.
by api 7y ago
Really? My Mac doesn't show ads in the dock for Candy Crush and Minecraft and Netflix and whatever else, and I dont have to spend hours cleaning trash off a new Mac install. MS is branding themselves as "low end" junk by doin
8689.
by api 7y ago
Windows 10 is adware unless you pay a lot for enterprise or constantly disable and uninstall all the garbage MS pushes down on you.
8690.
by api 7y ago
Reminds me of something I wrote years ago: https://github.com/adamierymenko/nanopond Ecosim has prettier graphics and seems more high level and concerned with ecology, while nanopond is more about just open ended progr
8691.
by api 7y ago
Imagine the outcry if he applied that logic to the military. Just shut down the DOD. We can always raise a citizens' militia if anything bad happens.
8692.
by api 7y ago
Everyone just needs to say its name three times.
8693.
by api 7y ago
Whoa... I didn't know it let you do that! In that case that's quite interesting. It opens the potential for using the web renderer but not having to code everything in JS.
8694.
by api 7y ago
You can't write your GUI in those languages.
8695.
by api 7y ago
There's a fairly substantial overlap between the people who completely drank the cryptocurrency kool-aid and the people who got sucked into so-called "alt-right" and associated fellow-traveling stuff ("red pill," NR
8696.
by api 7y ago
The weird language is the big turn-off for me, not the license. This is also a turn-off for Flutter and Lazarus. WHY do these projects insist on doing this? What is it about UI that leads people to think this is a good idea? Do not make me
8697.
by api 7y ago
So that means only 25% of your users will still have IE since they never upgrade? Then you have corporate environments where IT held back Edge because internal business software requires IE. (Yes that is still a thing. Yes you can install t
8698.
by api 7y ago
That's sane. Sanity is prohibited in the realm of UI programming. There's apparently a law somewhere that states that all GUI libraries and APIs must be one of: platform-specific, bloated/slow, or incomplete/ugly.
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NeutralinoJS: Lightweight Electron alternative using native browser controls(neutralino.js.org)
347 points by api 7y ago|190 comments
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by api 7y ago
Nor can it beat the resource efficiency and unified platform look and feel that would be offered if platforms supported some kind of common GUI API... Honestly I'm not a fan of any of the things you mentioned because they're so fa

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