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by berkes 2y ago
The article has a strong focus on "available to humans" and "that humans depend on". Many of the water beneath the crust is exactly that, pumping it up is an important source of drinking water. (In my country, the Nether
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by berkes 2y ago
"Just write your own if you aren't happy" doesn't make my critique invalid. My problem is that this community, and thus the ecosystem, is repeating many mistakes, reinventing wheels, employing known bad software-engineer
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by berkes 2y ago
I am so often surprised by "The AI Communities" software. Often unpleasantly surprised, often just eye-rolling. When we first started using the OpenAI API's, the first thing I reached for was some way "to be certain that
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by berkes 2y ago
> What's the point of having different ssh key per server? I do have some use-cases where I use different ssh-keys per server/cluster: - Setting up client's machines allow me to nuke the keypair when work is done and I no
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by berkes 2y ago
> As companies that do heavy financial management refresh their architecture and move to modern web servers and the like, they'll likely need to rebuild it from scratch. This is what iso20022.js plays a small part in - if they'
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by berkes 2y ago
So true. And next to the 675,000 lines of business logic that you describe, you'll need an additional 133,700 lines of boilerplate code that: - ensures all operations are atomic. You can't just post to an API and then insert somet
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by berkes 2y ago
> SQLite is for sure not the one size fits all solution Nor is Postgres. PG is surprisingly versatile. E.g. with some extensions can be used as key-value storage (hashtable), document database, time-series db and so on. And it works quit
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by berkes 2y ago
> Integrity should be more important than performance. Most often it is. But not always. There certainly are cases where speed is far more important than integrity in databases. I cannot think of a case where this would be true for a RDB
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by berkes 2y ago
Svg can, and often will, include (embed) raster images. But even when not: in practice an SVG will have hundreds or thousands of XML elements (nodes) to draw rather simple-looking shapes even.
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by berkes 2y ago
"tomorrow" in the real world is also surprisingly complex. I once built a calendar and reservation system for a theatre that did movies, theatre, concerts and parties. A party that starts Friday at 22:00 and ends at 1:30 doesn&#x2
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by berkes 2y ago
And, not to forget, the all-powerfull tech monopolies. E.g. Facebook and Instagram have a very US -centric idea of what content is allowed. Nudity, not even a hint of a nipple, is banned. Youtube is rather similar. And generations are influ
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by berkes 2y ago
I am afraid you misunderstood me. Sorry for that. I specifically said "American Cultural Imperialism" and mentioned "bottom up". So there's absolutely no US institute that would be even remotely interested in what p
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by berkes 2y ago
> unncessary artificial complexities The very fact they are there, still used, and so on, contradicts "unnessary [sic]". Sure, it might be outdated now, or technically better alternatives might be there. But, in the end, softwa
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by berkes 2y ago
Are named arguments on the roadmap somewhere? Or is it a won't-fix?
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by berkes 2y ago
In Europe this is often attributed to American cultural imperialism. TV, at least in The Netherlands, has become a lot more prudish, Music censored, etc. I've worked (in the internet branches of) Dutch National media organizations, for
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by berkes 2y ago
I'm not arguing that Linux or Mac need no protection. There are serious threats to any Linux machine. And if you include Android, there are probably far more Linux machines out there. Hell, including their navigation, router, NAS, TV,
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by berkes 2y ago
I know it isn't just antivirus. I was merely drawing a simpler analogy.
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by berkes 2y ago
well, in another sense, Windows is certainly to blame partially. Several technical solutions have been put forward here and in other places, that would've at least limited the blast radius of a faulty update/driver/critical p
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by berkes 2y ago
you wouldn't be trusting it. But that's besides the point in any enterprise environment. Or even in a SMB where third parties are doing IT stuff for you. Your opinion doesn't matter there. Compliance matters. Paper Risk ave
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by berkes 2y ago
For the same reasons there's antivirus software for Mac and Linux. People coming from Microsoft systems just expect it to be required, so there's demand for it (demand != need). And in hybrid environments it may remove a weak link
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by berkes 2y ago
Napster on the uni network. Then split the mp3 over three floppies. Cycle home, read in the floppies, find out one disk is borked. Cycle back to uni. Put the slice on another disk. Cycle back. Finally, done. One song copied. Eleven to go fo
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by berkes 2y ago
Me too. First framesets, handcrafted. Then Dreamweaver and Photoshop slicing (forgot what this monstrosity was called). Via PHP portals, CMSes (Drupal!). Decades later I'm tuning YAML files that trigger ansible runs on CIs that compile
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by berkes 2y ago
Sorry, I wasn't trying to imply that we should not trust it. I was merely implying that there's a major difference between the model behind TOR and that of Firefox. And also similarities: if TOR is funded by entitities we don&#x27
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by berkes 2y ago
I wasn't trying to make the argument that since some parts of the GDPR didn't work out as intentended/hoped, other legislation will fail too. My point was specifically that the GDPR put a law in place that when you send pri
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by berkes 2y ago
That hardly worked when implemented in the GDPR, where this exchange is most often "free". Why would it work this time?
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by berkes 2y ago
Sounds reasonable. But I highly doubt it removes the want for private data, though. Tracking is also there to measure performance, do AB tests, etc etc. I'm sure such a broad sweeping law would solve some. But it won't make the ad
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by berkes 2y ago
They aren't owned nor controlled by Google. And certainly not directly. I presume you refer to the fact that most income of Mozilla comes from Google paying a fee to have their search be the default. While that is worrysome, it's
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by berkes 2y ago
Tor is (was?) heavily subsidised by secret services in a.o. the US. > likewise, agencies within the U.S. government variously fund Tor (the U.S. State Department, the National Science Foundation, and – through the Broadcasting Board of G
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by berkes 2y ago
How would that legal "protection" work in practice? What would it protect against? Who would it protect? What you say sounds reasonable. And I'm not trying to say "well, it's impossible because of some current statu
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by berkes 2y ago
> JS is supposed to be a productivity gain over compiled languages. But with ultra slow builds that goes out of the window. But what business problem are we solving? Why do we need compiles, transpiles and so, in a dynamic language in th

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