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by bb88 1y ago
> Every rule can be used to argue anything. Unless it's a rule prohibiting complexity by removing technologies. Here's a set of rules I have in my head. 1. No multithreading. (See Mozilla's "You must be this high&q
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by bb88 1y ago
We can look at history. The US has export restrictions on certain computing devices to certain regimes which included the Sony Playstation 2, a gaming console from the double noughts [0]. Apparently the military thought it could be used to
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by bb88 1y ago
Verizon says they targeted certain politicians. https://www.verizon.com/about/salt-typhoon-matter-update
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by bb88 1y ago
Here's the study: https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/publications/canaries-in... It looks like they're looking at data for the last few years, not just the last few months. I haven't read it, and maybe
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by bb88 1y ago
Let's create a metric, call it "click to streaming time" (CTST). This site was instantaneous. Youtube was not. (Even if it's an M4)
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by bb88 1y ago
I've often lamented at work that we lose freedom at the guise of "security". Security and Intellectual Property (IP) protection could both be true. Google has a big enough reason to make it happen now. In a perverse way it&#
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by bb88 1y ago
On a mac book air m4 with a 600mbps connection, it's instantaneous and amazing.
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by bb88 1y ago
Antitrust is worse than monopolies. If all the petroleum companies in the US decided to collude to set prices, that's really bad. And with the current administration, it's just a bribe away from a pardon.
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by bb88 1y ago
A company might discover that the most profitable thing is to destroy the social fabric to make money. We call this "engagement". In practice, it's the most controversial opinions that generate clicks. The social media com
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by bb88 1y ago
The practical alternative to communism is capitalism. But pure, unadulterated capitalism isn't what we want. Otherwise we end up with lead paint in children's toys and adulterated pet food that kills dogs. The reason regulations
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by bb88 1y ago
I think the difference here is that Loeb can be seen as being promoting a thought experiment still. While Abian was apparently a true believer for destroying the moon until his death in 1999. https://web.archive.org/web&#x2
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by bb88 1y ago
† Of course, that is assuming over the 40 years that politician and corporations don't try to screw people out of their investments.
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by bb88 1y ago
Not the weirdest professor, not by a long shot. See Alexander Abian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Abian
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by bb88 1y ago
You're talking IPv4 here, not IPv6. A 24 bit network has 254 addresses in IPv4. A 64bit subnet in IPv6 has 2^64. If you can scan 1M ipv6's in a second, you can maybe scan 1 subnet in 584,942 years. So if you're a firewall,
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by bb88 1y ago
At least with the public companies, there will be lawyer to take up a class action lawsuit on behalf of the share holders.
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by bb88 1y ago
I'm sorry, the company sold for $145 million with 1,500 employees? It wasn't bankruptcy. Simple math shows it was worth $100k per employee hired. There's clearly positive value there. They're solely relying upon the f
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by bb88 1y ago
Yes. The company was more than happy to take their money for a promise of a "stake" in the company. People often take lower pay in a startup to get equity, but because it's "common" it can be zero'd out to not
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by bb88 1y ago
> So it shouldn't matter if your address is public or not, in fact making it public raises the awareness for the problem. That's the argument. Forget about the internet, we've had almost 100 years to prove we can secure id
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by bb88 1y ago
Microsoft historically abuses their market position. I think if you're wedding yourself to any MS technology, you need to be able to have a clear divorce strategy. Maybe true for all companies but especially true for Microsoft (perhap
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by bb88 1y ago
This is end-stage capitalism, where the corporations become cartels. They're no longer happy with making a profit based upon providing good competition based upon efficiency gains. They are looking for profit maximization at any cost
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by bb88 1y ago
I mistyped that. It was tailscale not wireguard. Tailscale changes your dns lookups, adds a bunch of iptables, and then unfortunately broke features without adding them to the changelog (because security I guess). While wireguard has more
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by bb88 1y ago
One thing that's interesting about Django I thought was that tools like celery will "pickle" orm objects, when they really should be passing the pk's of the objects. The other thing that's interesting about Django i
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by bb88 1y ago
After getting burnt on wireguard a few times now, I'm not keen on using it anymore. I want less magic, not more impenetrable ip table rulesets (in linux at least).
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by bb88 1y ago
No, because with golang you can drop the binary in an empty docker container and you're done -- you never have to recompile it or worry about your pypi mirror disappearing. If you're deploying a python script with uv, it needs so
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by bb88 1y ago
It wasn't really requests that got cancelled, it was pipenv that got cancelled, about the time when Jacob Kaplan-Moss stated that poetry was good. And frankly it was Reitz's actions that directly caused pipenv to be cancelled. I&
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by bb88 1y ago
Kenneth Reitz has been good and bad at times. And while things of his are genius level, he also has done asshole level things. But on the other hand, we get that with a lot of geniuses for some reason or another. Really smart people can
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by bb88 1y ago
I've played with it for a while now, and for one off scripts where python might make more sense than bash, e.g., I write the script this way with uv, and then I only need uv and the script. One of the complaints about python is that a
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by bb88 1y ago
There's a lot of small one off things where deploying uv and the script makes it easy to use. A lot of use cases for golang can be replaced with uv.
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by bb88 1y ago
This is spot on. GIL-less python will be a thing, and when it happens, there will still be no reason to combine asyncIO with thread primitives. Waiting for IO can be spun off into a new thread, and it will work as you expect it would. Try
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by bb88 1y ago
> The core idea behind BAT isn't bad I think it is bad because it legitimizes bad practices of the marketing industry. "How bad could grabbing as much data from the population really be? We're sharing our profits!"

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