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by bccdee 8mo ago
Capitalism is not the only way of life (and fwiw, I'm not a fan)—but it is the primary way of life for nearly the entire world. Sweden, Norway, Brazil, France, Egypt, Iraq, and India are capitalist. Even China is effectively capitalist
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by bccdee 8mo ago
Just enabled—I've been idly wondering if there were any good alternative mobile keyboard layouts for ages, and this one checks all my boxes. Thanks!
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by bccdee 8mo ago
No, Google does not have the right. If you're building roads, you don't have a right to build them unsafely. Doesn't matter if they're privatized or not; they're important infrastructure for which we don't have
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by bccdee 8mo ago
Yeah they're describing a real problem, but the cause of that problem—a seamless centralized sign-up funded by VC money—is the reason bluesky took off to begin with. Bsky offers an on-ramp to a more decentralized experience, but most p
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by bccdee 8mo ago
> Walmart + Amazon combined are only ~16% of the retail business. of ALL RETAIL? That includes groceries! That's huge! Anyway, Amazon is >40% of e-commerce & Walmart is >10%. Together they control more than half of all onl
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by bccdee 8mo ago
> the whole idea of a "natural market process" here is absolute and utter hogwash Might I introduce you to the concept of a "natural monopoly"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly Anyw
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by bccdee 8mo ago
> Regulation is what enables monopolies That's patently false. AT&T was a monopoly and they were broken up by antitrust regulation. The absolute most you can say is that some regulations enable monopoly. I contend that we simp
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by bccdee 8mo ago
Power is a zero-sum game. We all live in the same space, exist in the same media ecosystem, and have the same number of hours in the day. The media consumed by the public, the structure of our cities, the investments we make in science, the
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by bccdee 8mo ago
There's a lot of rote work in software development that's well-suited to LLM automation, but I think a lot of us overestimate the actual usefulness of a chatbot to the average white-collar worker. What's the point of making C
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by bccdee 8mo ago
I'm definitely not saying established organizations should change their workflows to "just use git" or something—word processors already offer these features, and the workflow at the New Yorker is already tailored around th
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by bccdee 8mo ago
Well, no, no more than you would package each comma or dangling modifier into a separate change-tracked .docx. The underlying unit of revision here is a full change set, rather than an individual change.
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by bccdee 8mo ago
My issue is that word processors mostly amount to bad typesetting tools. Your editor doesn't need configurable document margins or page numbers. Semantic styling should be visible but unobtrusive, e.g. markdown. If I were a Mac user, I
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by bccdee 8mo ago
The workflow the original post is describing is basically a merge request.
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by bccdee 8mo ago
> So your solution to people using a decentralized, federated protocol to say things you don't like is to stop various servers interacting with each other? Yeah. In practice, Fediverse servers have formed clusters based on shared va
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by bccdee 8mo ago
You say that, but I've run into real production problems which were ultimately caused by bad serialization tooling. Language semantics are never going to be your biggest problem, but rough edges add up and do ultimately contribute to l
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by bccdee 8mo ago
Yeah I strongly agree. I think the issue is that metaprogramming is complicated, so people (especially early in their careers) tend not to do it themselves, and only notice it when it's making their lives difficult. But there are a lot
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by bccdee 8mo ago
Do you think clang, linux, and kubernetes could ever exist and survive in their current forms without the work of salaried developers? Volunteer maintenance is not sustainable; the long hours of unpaid labour are famously prone to causing b
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by bccdee 8mo ago
Etymologically, a product is a thing which is produced. But it's unpleasant to think about how the sausage gets made, so nobody wants to consider the goods in their lives as products. They want their Nikes to simply pop into existenc
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by bccdee 8mo ago
Yeah, one of the toughest but most rewarding lessons I've learned about writing is how valuable it can be to set aside your current draft and start from scratch. It's very tempting to want to write an outline & then revise the
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by bccdee 8mo ago
> [Given] a method for chat applications to understand components exposed from the website in question [...] AI chat applications win, and so does the brand that gets to keep ownership of how it tells the story of its product to its user
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by bccdee 8mo ago
This is a fun post. I think you're mistaken, though. Your strongest point is that allowlists exclude new contributors. (You're right about blocklists, but this seems to me like a primarily allowlist-based approach.) Thing is, new
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by bccdee 8mo ago
1. Such a system is already in place (see the `--reason` flag). 2. Being able to denounce people with noxious political views is a feature, not a bug. If someone shows up in your issues complaining about how your CoC is "woke," th
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by bccdee 8mo ago
To whom? It's not against Github's ToS to submit a bad PR. Anyway, bad actors can just create new accounts. It makes more sense to circulate whitelists of people who are known not to be bad actors. I also like the flexibility of a
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by bccdee 8mo ago
I think something people are missing here is, this is a response to the groundswell in vibecoded slop PRs. The point of the vouch system is not to blindly merge code from trusted individuals; it's to completely ignore code from untrust
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by bccdee 8mo ago
Nikolai Yezhov held all the cards under Stalin, right up until he got purged by Beria. Then Beria held all the cards until he was ousted and shot in turn. In a dog-eat-dog world, the top dog is the biggest target.
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by bccdee 8mo ago
It's pretty funny—the only think Deflock does is map out the locations of Flock cameras. When Flock decides to track people's activities, they're "following the law" and "open to reasonable debate," but wh
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by bccdee 8mo ago
> This idea that there's some kind of difference between me watching you in public and Flock watching you in public is bogus Okay: Just how long would you permit someone to follow you around with a camera, recording everything you d
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by bccdee 8mo ago
Exactly. It turns out there are strong business incentives that favour tall towers of abstractions. Then everyone's using Electron, so it doesn't really matter if it's slow. People just come to perceive computers as slow. I
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by bccdee 8mo ago
The trouble with Go is that, because the language is so simple, the obvious way to do a thing always has a bunch of drawbacks. Taking care of gotchas at a language level means complicating the language, but refusing to do so means complicat
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by bccdee 8mo ago
I took a look at the "top-rated" story. 1. UI is terrible. Paragraphs are extremely far apart, and most paragraphs are 1 short sentence (e.g. "I glare."). On mobile, I can only see a few words at a time, and desktop&#x27

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