big-green-man

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by big-green-man 2y ago
It's not profitable though. Or, at least, not sustainable , it's short term profitable during the rise of it. How is it actually profitable to distract people from doing productive things in order to get them to waste all their t
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by big-green-man 2y ago
Yeah, I think the internet is going to get back to it's roots: a place to publish documents and send emails. Those documents might be videos, but ultimately it looks to me like all the social this and that have been a big, decades long
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by big-green-man 2y ago
What a wonderful article. It really helped me to understand what I've been feeling as of late. The companies that built what we think of as the modern internet, they tried to build perpetual motion machines. They've built unsustai
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by big-green-man 2y ago
Screens that put out light, I can't handle light mode. On OLED at least, dark mode means the only light entering my eyes is what I'm trying to see. I read a lot. Heaven help you if your "dark mode" is gray background, ch
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by big-green-man 2y ago
This is... Not a bad thing? Compiling your dependencies into your standalone executable is like butter, no dependency hell, no virtual environments or containers to avoid said hell. You release a program that has everything it needs to run,
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by big-green-man 2y ago
It didn't used to be like this. I remember first starting in Python, around a decade ago, when Python3 has been out a long time but everyone still wrote in Python2 for some reason. You used pip, that's it. Everything was easy. The
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by big-green-man 2y ago
I used conda once... Once. It broke my python installation and then when I went to fix it by upgrading python it broke my Debian system. All these layers in software is really starting to feel like a house of cards to me at this point.
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by big-green-man 2y ago
I think this problem comes from ideas we had before that were well intentioned. The idea that led to all of this is, what if we could save developers a ton of work and users a ton of disk space by packaging libraries for them to use? And th
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by big-green-man 2y ago
"Yum" is not the point though, it's avoiding malnutrition, starvation and death. Maslow's hierarchy of needs and all that, survive first, then later when they're not dead they can worry about producing culinary deli
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by big-green-man 2y ago
Starvation is an acute problem for those living with it. They need to not die right now. So yes, absolutely we should do it. The converse is saying to them "it's better for you to have a balanced diet, which is harder to do, so
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by big-green-man 2y ago
If a product you buy relies on active participation by the producer in order to continue working, youre not buying a product, youre buying a service. The refund makes me wonder, wouldn't it be cheaper for Amazon to discontinue support
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by big-green-man 2y ago
Didn't we have this already? Facebook Messenger and Google Hangouts were both XMPP under the hood like 8 years ago. Am I missing something or is there an actual innovation to be found here?