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by apsurd 3y ago
The danger is it's all local optima. A/b test shows lift on "i created a rust copilot" vs "rust debugging toolkit". Ultimately.. it's one big "so what" outcome. These are distractions. A product
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by apsurd 3y ago
thanks, you got the story right! It does sound crazy, but that also seems to be the point: scam victims are shamed and it's worth level setting on how "it can happen to anyone" because there's very sophisticated psycholo
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by apsurd 3y ago
i read the whole story. is it made up? what's wrong with it? it's at least, well written.
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by apsurd 3y ago
funny you mention blazer being a target for removal by big co. happened at instacart too! As the company scales, teams bring in the stuff they know. Like tableau. Tableau seems so terrible, ungodly slow, and stuck in 1990. i must be missing
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by apsurd 3y ago
Not for me. It's always configuration voodoo. i've done it dozens of times and i used to think it's normal developer workflow. now i realize I was putting thumbtacks in my eyes for no good reason. Creating an s3 bucket is eas
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by apsurd 3y ago
too lazy is a bit uncharitable. These terms tend to be buried 8pt font disclaimer text and esoteric metering matrixes. meanwhile in size 72 font on the marketing page it says FREE STATIC SITE HOSTING! that's why this thread is more or
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by apsurd 3y ago
thanks for the heads up, need to do my due diligence here. edit: refreshing that they highlight baked in ddos protection right up front on their marketing site: https://docs.render.com/ddos-protection
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by apsurd 3y ago
https://render.com/ is free for static sites with custom domain support and SSL included. been happy so far! used to use s3 for the longest time, but aside from costing a nominal fee, it's so unnecessarily complicated
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by apsurd 3y ago
Which is cost prohibitive and doesn't make sense for any other entity other than "let's light money on fire + enslave people to flex so the cool kids like us" UAE. it's not a good look. hope my comment doesn't
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by apsurd 3y ago
you really think so? i get the free market angle, but what about the local optimum risk? People want parking because they need parking. and they need parking because they need cars because everything's unwalkable because there's t
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by apsurd 3y ago
cyberax, did you read your own article you linked to? In short, the "abandoned houses" are abandoned BECAUSE they're rural. I can't understand how this serves your view about dense urban cities being bad.
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by apsurd 3y ago
oh, so cyberax and I like to comment on these "how should we run our cities" threads. Read his comment history. He's very clear with his perspective. That's why i replied so dramatically. Mostly, it was meant specificall
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by apsurd 3y ago
I've lived various lifestyles. If i was to bluntly answer your question, really it's because I hate cars. I understand that global economies need last mile delivery infrastructure and so there's roads. I get that. But if you
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by apsurd 3y ago
i really do take you seriously. and i learn from you. but also: come on, Japan is the planet's most economically significant TINY ISLAND. you don't have to reach for capitalist conspiracy theories to reason about Japan's issu
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by apsurd 3y ago
because it's not mutually exclusive. i feel like that's why your arguments are ultimately hard to parse. I really am ok with living with less possible surface area if it means i can have walkable access to all civilization's
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by apsurd 3y ago
I learned this in 6th grade. You need bedrock to build skyscrapers. Laws of physics and all...
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by apsurd 3y ago
cyberax! YOU LIVE FOR THIS "against urban cities" battle. Hi again wave I'm the bicycle commuter dude who likes walkable and dense cities. Of course course I want just enough of my own private solitude to retreat to as well
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by apsurd 3y ago
> crime per-capita increases I learned this right here on HN! How silly is it that most any statistic talking about behaviors of populations are nothing more than population-density graphs. "Where's all the crime!?" Sure e
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by apsurd 3y ago
I found this message extremely humbling and important: https://www.pretotyping.org/
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by apsurd 3y ago
I agree with every one of your points. I mean to say "people want to be close to one another" as a philosophy along a spectrum. People crave belonging, connection, intimacy, stimulus, novelty. In a grand sense we really do choose
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by apsurd 3y ago
Thanks, so it's specifically govt run affordable housing. I read OP as the more general "dense cities = BAD" but seems like it's more specifically "govt run plans for dense housing". I can understand that. Also
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by apsurd 3y ago
I hear you. There's definitely a stur up going on these days. > When we go, we will take three businesses and as many of the people working for us as possible out of CA. Logistically, it is far more likely that the move will happen
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by apsurd 3y ago
I'm the person that wants more dense and walkable cities, so I'm really curious to learn more about why that will ALWAYS lead to more misery down the road. Honest question, do you have any stuff I can read or terms I can search on
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by apsurd 3y ago
Your statement is so hard for me to understand because quality, or lack thereof, is a function of modern construction and cost saving practices, and laws around what constitutes a livable dwelling. McMansions! These practices either save or
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by apsurd 3y ago
I agree! The older I get the more i'm able to understand peace. It becomes the only thing truly valuable. The paradox of holding both extremes is crucial i think. We're everything and nothing.
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by apsurd 3y ago
> "I definitely feel the opposite: that progress is inevitable and the people who are "in charge" while it progresses are a commodity." This view is problematic too. It removes agency, accountability, participation. L
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by apsurd 3y ago
The idea that there existed diverse experiments throughout history of how people chose to organize is one of the main takeaways from reading Graeber. I agree with his premise that we all seem to hold the assumption - and are taught rather i
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by apsurd 3y ago
Thank you for this recommendation. I've never heard of it before and now I'm reading: https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hi... It's giving me energy this Monday holi
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by apsurd 3y ago
I don't think software is uniquely a mess behind the scenes...
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by apsurd 3y ago
it's true that being born in USA and speaking English is such a lottery win. Being a human is hard and there's misery in everything if you look! I'm a fan of Cornel West so if you ask me "what it means to be human"

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