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by berkes 2y ago
Good point. And while I too accept a state to have a monopoly on things, especially those you mention, secrets aren't those. Because we all have them, need them, and because a society cannot function without them - there are many books
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by berkes 2y ago
That was deliberate: a way of saying "probably even those who align with authoritarianism won't like governments to have a monopoly on secrets".
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by berkes 2y ago
Ironically, most of these same sectors in the same governments have strong need to be protected from spying themselves. So in many cases it's really a case of "we want a monopoly on secrecy". Which should be a massive red fla
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by berkes 2y ago
I don't understand these decisions. This is a collaborative tool. So you cannot say "only 5% of the audience is Linux users", but instead you'll rule out any team where at least one member is Linux user. Which is a far l
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by berkes 2y ago
I use it a lot. Figma, penpot etc, aren't for me. I often need something in the phase where we're deciding on "what's on the page at all. And what screens do we have". Way before there's need for styling and la
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by berkes 2y ago
> I don’t even think that a better class of distraction necessarily means high-brow, or educational. > > For me it’s much more about it being something that genuinely fixes your full attention. This is quite similar to what I'
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by berkes 2y ago
It's not representive, sure. Just painting a picture. European cars are (were?) more fuel efficient than US ones. I guess, partly because of the price of petrol in Europe. There are Dodge Rams, oversized SUVs and other rediculously ine
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by berkes 2y ago
But: in almost all situations filling up electrons is cheaper than gas. It ranges from "electricity will cost you a little more per kilometer than gas" (very rare) to "electricity is slightly cheaper than gas" (most comm
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by berkes 2y ago
They are miles away from `gofmt` or `rust fmt` or `cargo clippy` and so on. It's not opinionated, but requiring you to form your own opinion or at least choose from a palette of opinions. It requires effort to opt-in rather than effort
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by berkes 2y ago
The author uses JavaScript and Python as examples. So I presume they have (most?) experience with dynamic languages. In static languages, greppability is hardly as much as a factor. Especially with the availability of LSPs and other such to
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by berkes 2y ago
Me too. But that's also what makes me uncomfortable when reading this article. Proper Naming is truly an "art" of balancing trade-offs. It takes domain expertise (Ubiquitous language), understanding of the users of the code
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by berkes 2y ago
I wish javascript had a built-in or at least (defacto) default linter. Like go-fmt or rust fmt. Or clippy even. One that could enforce these styles. Because not only is the export const foo = () {} painful on itself, it will quite certainl
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by berkes 2y ago
They aren't as centrally and hierarchical organized as the RCC. Even most other Christian sects aren't organized like that. So this unique feature makes it distinctive. That, and the fact that it's much nicer to poke fun at &
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by berkes 2y ago
Not only is it duplicated on a whim, the internet makes discovering it, and getting it, very easy. So I can not only easily keep getting that one great pie infinitely, I can discover and sample every great pie in the world to find the very
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by berkes 2y ago
> the ui is fast and well made for that purpose. The UX not so much though. There's so many x.stackexchange.com estates that often overlap (devops, serverfault, linux, askubuntu etc). The search is, and has always been, very poor to
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by berkes 2y ago
> I still don't trust MS's motives in general I think it's the same for any global enterprise: profit. In that regard, "trusting" something like MS is like evaluating their stock: what do they make money off, wha
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by berkes 2y ago
Same here. I've been using "todo.txt" for years (decade?) now. It's hardly more than a very loosely defined format to present TODOs. Lot's of tools, apps, GUIs and whatnot developed around it. The format is so easy
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by berkes 2y ago
Same here. But having worked with PHP and Python, who having typing annotations like Ruby can have through addons (sorbet) and might get to core someday, I would not go back to Ruby if it got this. Typing annotations in PHP or Python are ha
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by berkes 2y ago
Even LLMs can do many of what I mention. Categorizing, grouping, assigning prios etc. maybe not as good as dedicated AI trained for this purpose only (I guess many could be "simple" bayesian filters even) but good enough and readi
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by berkes 2y ago
Maybe not. But there are many ways in which AI can improve or help support. So even if "AI chat support" turns out to not work, AI can still be very helpful in automating support. Like detecting duplicates, preparing standard answ
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by berkes 2y ago
Examples of what? Missing gems? I mentioned a few already. Some more that I recently ran into, are in the niche of "verifiable credentials", SSI and DIID. A weird niche, but relevant to my current work. There's plenty of work
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by berkes 2y ago
Does it matter if it's relative or absolute?
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by berkes 2y ago
> A "community" begins with one person doing the thing. And a community thrives with many one-persons combining their effort and keep doing so. I have made many libraries (gems), OpenSource. Some paid, many just for the benef
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by berkes 2y ago
They really are. The lack of such contributions -in general- or the speed at which they appear, is what leads me to conclude that the Ruby community is slowing down. In this case, suddenly there's an awesome library for Ruby. Which is
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by berkes 2y ago
Yes! The problem isn't duplication of the message, nor is it that they convey slightly different things. The main problem is their lack of locality. We can have an indicator, then some icon or even a green bar in the "save this&qu
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by berkes 2y ago
You skipped over the part where I point out that my assumptions are completely off. These numbers presume that all computers in all Dutch households are hacked, running and connected to the internet. 5% of that would be on the high side eve
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by berkes 2y ago
The Netherlands (about which the article mainly is) has 8.4 million households, let's presume they own average of one such PC you mention. A delta of 400W would mean a total consumption delta of 3.36GigaWatt. That's "peanuts&
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by berkes 2y ago
I won´t call it "hate", but I've ran into quite some situations where the Postgres version caused a lot of pain. - When it wasn't as easy as a dedicated solution: where installing and managing a focused service is overal
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by berkes 2y ago
I believe this is a (happy) legacy from Rails. In rails, if you don't spend effort to undo, you get URLs that match your database setup in a RESTful way. For me, that's far to tight coupling, and problematic in other ways. But the
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by berkes 2y ago
TIL. I did not get that that from the article. Thanks for correcting me. I simply presumed that water that's pumped from layers 100m or lower below the surface, water that's sometimes 10.000 years "old", wasn't surf

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