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by barnabee 2y ago
> If you have two customers and you need a thousand customers to cover your fixed costs, you're out of business before this has time to be effective. You don't have a right to stay in business if the net effect of ccreating the
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by barnabee 2y ago
There should probably also be a word for the belief that when a system doesn't work how you want it to, that is so obviously a systematic problem that needs fixing rather than, for example, evidence of differing goals or priorities tha
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by barnabee 2y ago
Disagree. If you're using a service, understand how it works. Not everything needs to be designed for idiots and lazy people, it's ok for some tools and services, especially those aimed at technical people and engineers to require
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by barnabee 2y ago
> [you don't have] access to all the details when you’re not in government When I wrote this I was not talking about accounting details , though I am not sure whether all of those details are really publicly available once you get
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by barnabee 2y ago
You don’t have the money nor the armies of civil servants, nor access to all the details when you’re not in government. Probably the best that they can do for anything this complex is headline policies and high level plans. Now they are in
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by barnabee 2y ago
Spending it on other projects is a bad idea: - it'd be distracting, they're open source devs/maintainers not fund managers - it could be divisive and they'd risk taking flak if they get it "wrong" - it creates
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by barnabee 2y ago
Non-lethal defence does not seem possible at our current technology level. Keeping it about defence only rather than offense is a political problem, with the decision about what sort of weapons you acquire being influenced by the politics
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by barnabee 2y ago
Sadly, I (not American) have to agree. I am a pacifist at heart, and I truly wish it wasn’t so, but it is impossible for any nation that believes in its continued existence [0] not to arm itself and maintain alliances with other like minded
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by barnabee 2y ago
No, not at all. Given that there was no new security vulnerability, it would have been completely reasonable to ask for a comment at the same time as hitting publish and note that they’d been asked for a comment and as of that time had no
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by barnabee 2y ago
Cool write up! The software looks garbage and the company doesn’t seem great either at this point. But if it’s easy enough to run custom apps on (even/especially) in kiosk mode, I could imagine some pretty interesting use cases for thi
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by barnabee 2y ago
That's ok, I'm waay ahead of them — I've been defaulting to not visiting Google for years now.
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by barnabee 2y ago
It does indeed seem to be similar, and viable option, with the difference being that the enum values are specified in a comment. You seem enthusiastic about that design decision/feature, howeever I am not sure about it, it scares me a
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by barnabee 2y ago
Yeah, I think people turning up with an attitude of entitlement or a presumption that something should be a priority for the project summons at least resistance, if not hostility. I’ve never seen anything from the project that I’d call host
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by barnabee 2y ago
I’ve found the enumer [0] library does the job of generating usable helpers without too much pain or any obvious downsides. The ability to generate JSON [un]marshallers is particularly handy. Still, the lack of enums and enum/sum types
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by barnabee 2y ago
My experience is rather different. The community is welcoming, and will help solve issues. However, it’s true (and good IMHO) that the project seems to have a strong idea of what is and is not a core feature. They prioritise building what y
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by barnabee 2y ago
It matters to me. I don’t use Google to create personal documents precisely because I can’t trust or verify that their apps aren’t doing more than provide storage, versioning, conflict resolution, and an editing UI without my permission. Th
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by barnabee 2y ago
I use Helix and feel the same way. The pickers/fuzzy finder particularly have no equal for speed in any editor I’ve found. (Zed seems pretty fast but I didn’t get on well enough with it to find out how it performs with more serious use
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by barnabee 2y ago
I wonder whether something like Syncthing would notice a hash difference with data corruption caused by such a memory error? And whether it’d correct it or propagate the issue…
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by barnabee 2y ago
I use Glacier alongside RAID with 4 drives so that I can recover from any single drive failure (which will happen) just by swapping in a new drive. Had this setup ~10 years and have had to replace a drive on two occasions but never needed
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by barnabee 2y ago
Svelte. It's the only front end framework that "clicks" with me and I find I can build MVP/prototypes and simple apps much faster than in other frameworks.
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by barnabee 2y ago
Sure, I agree it’s hard. How often they press keys still isn’t a useful proxy for a good answer.
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by barnabee 2y ago
If the only indicator that these employees "needed" to go was the simulated keyboard activity then either: a) the employees met all required KPIs and delivered well and were just meeting some dumb policy while actually being total
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by barnabee 2y ago
I use tmux strictly for persistence only, and WezTerm for layout etc. so this is definitely an alternative for me. This is very interesting to me as it seems to provide persistence with much less cognitive overhead than tmux or even screen
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by barnabee 2y ago
We do things that don’t make sense all the time. The idea that our lives and plans should be dominated entirely by rational decisions only itself makes sense if you’re willing to expand rational to include the likes of “because it’s there”
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by barnabee 2y ago
I have an Alfred workflow to search the menu, so not being able to move the mouse there isn’t a big issue.
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by barnabee 2y ago
Kagi is much better for multiple reasons IMO: 1. I pay them, so am not so much the product, from an economic perspective 2. The search results are actually better, for me at least, especially with the customisations it allows 3. They do cla
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by barnabee 2y ago
Anywhere near 500ms should be embarrassing
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by barnabee 2y ago
I don’t like the company and stopped using Google search over 5 years ago. I don’t miss it or even notice its absence. I have to remind myself Google is a massive part of many people’s experience of the internet.
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by barnabee 2y ago
> So why now? Presumably because “[PG] got tired of hearing that YC fired Sam“ > Why wasn't there more details when Altman left Y Combinator? Why on earth should there be? If it was me I’d think it’s nobody else’s business and th
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by barnabee 2y ago
This got you another order

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