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   by api 7y ago

   In the long term I think OS APIs need to be redesigned (or at least the calling mechanism) around something more like io_uring for a lot of things. Shared memory, lock-free data structures, no syscalls.
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   by api 7y ago

   Bonus points if you put this on an FPGA that decodes, modifies, and re-encodes HDMI.
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   Vecty: React-Like Web UI Library Written in Go for GopherJS or WASM(github.com)

   2 points by api 7y ago|0 comments
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   by api 7y ago

   Seems like a 19th century case of Death by Newbury Medal. For those who don't know this refers to YA books that win said award. If you see a dog on the cover that dog is going down.
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   by api 7y ago

   What's this "documentation" thing you're talking about? Is it something other than header files and code? I'm joking but documentation (and tech support) do seem to be dying things at Apple and elsewhere.
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   by api 7y ago

   > Why has the GUI so dramatically regressed from 1995? (1) Mobile caused a generation to at least temporarily sideline all interest in desktop UIs to focus on phones, causing desktop UI to reach near-abandonware status. This seems to be
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   by api 7y ago

   > The problem with the "anti-political-correctness" camp is that it traditionally goes much farther People always overcorrect. Always. One generation's parenting is too hands off? The next generation will helicopter parent
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   by api 7y ago

   As a consumer, I for one hope the value of the dollar falls (slowly of course). Housing is grotesquely overpriced. There is no way to reduce the cost of assets like real estate in nominal terms without mountains of pain. Housing can't
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   by api 7y ago

   I used to subscribe to the pop Austrian hard money ideology. Watching cryptocurrency devolve into a HODL cult and gambling casino is one of the things that changed my mind. I saw by watching the evolution of Bitcoin that Keynes was right, a
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    by api 7y ago

    Why would you spend or invest a currency that magically goes up whenever there is demand for it? The hard money aspect of Bitcoin and most other cryptocurrencies guarantees that they will be speculation devices that will behave like iterati
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    by api 7y ago

    The thing that always killed it for me was the utterly bizarre arbitrary federated login requirement in an otherwise self hosted system. It meant it was impossible to use on an intranet, not to mention defeating the self hosted purpose.
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    by api 7y ago

    OP is referring to ZeroTier 2.x which makes it easier to run your own control servers (called root servers in ZT). Any connection flakiness is probably due to NAT or firewall issues and is going to occur in any P2P network layer since they
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    by api 7y ago

    I've harbored a counterargument for a while against breaking up Google or Facebook: Both of these are effectively surveillance capitalist companies. Their primary business is spying on people and using that data to target them for ads
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    by api 7y ago

    The driver is the desire by web app builders to build more and more niftiness into web apps. The browser vendors and standards bodies are attempting to satisfy this desire and that's leading down a path that is having the effect of cre
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    by api 7y ago

    I heard it put this way: hard work, intelligence, and other factors increase your surface area for luck. Think of yourself like a luck gathering net and you want the net to be large if you want to have a high probability of getting lucky. O
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    by api 7y ago

    This would be a fascinating social network to observe. The practical necessity of never offending peers and the decorum of the upper class in general would, when combined with the diversity of views, yield an environment where everything wo
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    by api 7y ago

    You forgot luck, like the person who mined some bitcoin in 2010 and sold it in 2017.
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    by api 7y ago

    Look into some of the people who have set up fake CP sites on the dark web or who have posed as young girls on public social media. It's incredibly easy to create a honey pot to ensnare sexual predators. There are many articles on such
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    by api 7y ago

    If it has poor UX nobody will use it and people will use unencrypted centralized messaging instead.
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    by api 7y ago

    This could be a side effect of how intelligence works. Intelligence is at least largely about making parsimonious models, and that involves a lot of throwing away of noise. So this is sort of a failure mode of that system. Sometimes contrar
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    by api 7y ago

    Property owner cabals blocking development like this is cartel capitalism at the local level. What you have here is a cartel restricting supply to profit from scarcity.
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    by api 7y ago

    We considered AGPL but recently adopted the BSL: https://www.zerotier.com/on-the-gpl-to-bsl-transition/ Lots of open source people don't like it as it is not technically an OSI open source license. I'm not in
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    by api 7y ago

    This is called "SaaSification" and there is a debate over to what extent it violates the spirit of open source and what if anything ought to be done about it.
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    by api 7y ago

    So your own std::string means you have "arrived?"
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    by api 7y ago

    Most environmentalists are in favor of increased density. The opposition is more NIMBYs who either don't want their neighborhood to ever change, don't want poor people anywhere near them, or want their house value to go up.
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    by api 7y ago

    I don't care if it's principled or not. It's obviously not working.
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    by api 7y ago

    The cost savings with bare metal servers vs managed cloud can be ludicrous... like take away 2-3 zeroes. It's particularly true for bandwidth and raw CPU power where major cloud providers massively overcharge. The real answer is like m
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    by api 7y ago

    Reminds me of the minor controversy around the color of the Mars sky. Turns out that replicating perceptual color as it would be experienced by a person standing on another body or looking directly at it is not really that simple. Cameras d
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    by api 7y ago

    > Apple's customers have plowed tons of $$$ to "own" their libraries, and Apple is doing the right thing to bring them along. This is why I stuck with Apple Music. I was hearing rumors that they'd eliminate music purc
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    by api 7y ago

    I'm not totally convinced of that. Back in the 90s and early 2000s people really took privacy seriously. The whole PC culture considered spyware anathema. Anyone around back then can remember the outrage when any piece of software was