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by asark 7y ago
If there's one widely used Internet or Web service that seems like it really ought to be run by the government, it's mapping and routing. It's kinda infrastructure, governments have or should have the info already, and th
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by asark 7y ago
My issues with it are 1) I already see enough dumb queries (and queries in indefinitely-long loops...) from backend devs, how will the frontend devs have a prayer of writing performant queries with so much distance from the underlying datas
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by asark 7y ago
The trouble is just doing that—yes, even in this modern world of wildly complicated and huge Web standards—wouldn't require anything like the staff and funding they have now. That'd come with a large-double-digits-percentage layof
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by asark 7y ago
> (there is no FFI/C lib Ic an bind my Rust app to) Language choices in both have set off my "this is doomed to obscurity" alarm bells for precisely that reason. You don't write the reference implementation for a new
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by asark 7y ago
> NIH syndrome is strong with both cases. Seriously. IPFS decided the standard URL format wasn't good enough so invented something worse, which was pretty funny/sad. I never saw reasons for it that made any sense. See: https:&
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by asark 7y ago
I do think there's less risk in doing what everyone else is. It's like the "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" of the design world. You don't have to be as good to get positive feedback on your design, too, becau
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by asark 7y ago
Oh wow, '05-'09's the clear peak, seeing them all near one another like that. Every other one is worse.
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by asark 7y ago
The made-up part was that running out of landfill space was something to actually worry about. And a lot of what was shipped over was "recycling". :-/
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by asark 7y ago
On the landfill topic, I found this Slate Star Codex post very interesting: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/01/01/what-happened-to-90s-e... I'd been idly wondering about the topic for years—specifically,
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by asark 7y ago
I suspect there's a "very bad" tier that didn't exist before, is now the most common (because cheapest), and has undermined the "cheap (more expensive than what's cheap now, but formerly cheap) but pretty good&
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by asark 7y ago
I've never understood the "they're only consumption devices" gripe. It's such a narrow perspective, and very programmer-centric. I use mine, 1) as a tool to build real-world stuff (a level, camera to get reference p
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by asark 7y ago
You can get pretty decent solid wood furniture. Often it's "Amish" which doesn't mean hand-made or made with old-timey tools, of course, just made in an air-powered factory, probably, assuming it's not just marketin
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by asark 7y ago
I've observed the price of furniture to run, lowest to highest, something like: Bad Ikea, Flat-Pack Furniture from Anywhere Else, Beat-Up Antiques, Good Ikea, Unfashionable but Good Antiques, Oversized Overstuffed NFM[1] crap, Actually
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by asark 7y ago
Bet it's static or server-side rendered, and not running much JS in either case. Every time I've been surprised at the speed of a site in the last few years it's been static or some old-school server-side stuff—even PHP. All
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by asark 7y ago
Playing an instrument or being able to sing half-decently used to be a lot more common, because it was more valuable, and in any group of people you could depend on all of them knowing at least a few of the same songs from a set of traditio
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by asark 7y ago
My greatest hope at this point is that some small group survives whatever happens and becomes the new Firefox, like Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox did with the original Mozilla. Maybe the Servo team? Mozilla has seemed way too big to me
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by asark 7y ago
Apple's walled garden's the only place a pro-consumer, pro-privacy stick has been successfully used against the broader software industry. The only alternative to achieve similar levels of privacy and safety are a combination of h
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by asark 7y ago
N4J's a good option if you have a dense graph (lots of edges) and need to do one of the handful of things it's good at with said graph (shortest path, that sort of thing). I would not recommend using it as a general datastore, eve
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by asark 7y ago
I honestly think a one- or two-server setup with scripted server re-creation, proven in Vagrant or whatever, and maybe using Docker but only to isolate services on those one or two servers and make it easier to re-create, tested frequentl
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by asark 7y ago
"One cool, super-advanced trick you can use to reduce latency for simple queries by 95%!" Then you read the article and it's just running the app and DB on the same physical server, and communicating over local sockets rather
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by asark 7y ago
I've seen a lot of cases where "the speed of your server-side programming language" was, in fact, the problem—because the developer was doing stuff in it that they should have told their DB to do for them. Basically the speed
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by asark 7y ago
There are an awful lot of low-hanging-fruit performance problems out there that are just a result of developers not using the DB correctly—usually doing too much in whatever slow scripting language they're using, rather than letting th
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by asark 7y ago
Why did you take the parent post as an example of anyone being completely blind to the actions of the Soviet Union? The points seems to be that treating the immediate Post-WWII era as some high point for democracy is... well, requiring furt
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by asark 7y ago
Well, not all. No broadened talent pool, and you still have commutes. IIRC that's something like 25min each way on average, so ( math math math ) you're saving people on the order of 200 hours a year by eliminating them, plus gas,
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by asark 7y ago
Google's probably already coming up with a way to do this, while privileging their own because it's "part of your Chrome login, not the ordinary web experience". Fits with their usual "hey, look, we're helping!
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by asark 7y ago
Also, if you're not supposed to rinse for a while after brushing, and you're not supposed to brush for a while after eating, and anyway eating with morning breath is gross, but so is eating with toothpaste-breath... when the hell
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by asark 7y ago
Can confirm, on a 7 Plus, phone's entirely fine, no problems at all. I don't expect to replace it for another two years or so, unless it breaks. Probably by the end of that it'll be feeling a little slow and the battery'
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by asark 7y ago
Costco pizzas are $10 and over 4000 calories, eat one of those a day and if you don't get fat then you probably have a tapeworm in you or something. Or you're Michael Phelps during training season. ... or me at 18. Damn I miss tha
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by asark 7y ago
Three kids, pretty sure each one had something related to the birth or pregnancy care end up in collections. We could pay it all no problem and the things that went to collections were usually tiny, medical billing's just completely fu
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by asark 7y ago
Theoretical "perfect" competition eats all money that could go toward R&D, by making profits razor-thin. It's an awful way to exist that no sane person who's thought it through actually wants—assuming it could ever e

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