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by colllectorof 5y ago
>For example, why would you write something in PHP when you've got an excellent choice between Ruby/Rails or Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView You can make a simple website on PHP in ~30 lines of code (routing + boilerplate t
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by colllectorof 5y ago
>My mindset wasn't that they really cared that I could do these obscure programming exercises that I hadn't used once in 20+ years of real-world programming, but rather that I could prove that I could learn and adapt. This is
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by colllectorof 5y ago
People who pay attention know that this is already happening due to social media posts.
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by colllectorof 5y ago
Gotta love the constant movement of goalposts and gaslighting around this. As in many other cases it started with claims that nobody intends to censor any content during the move. Then when deletions actually took place the narrative radica
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by colllectorof 5y ago
No. If you know anything about history, you know that attacks on free speech do not have to start or stop with official government sanction. In Soviet Union it wasn't uncommon for dissidents and their families to be nominally "fre
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by colllectorof 6y ago
This raises a giant red flag for me. Storage is storage. This is not like hash mining, which is based on probabilities. You either have the data or you don't. If you have the data, even partially, this should be useful to the system. I
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by colllectorof 6y ago
I like the concept of incentivizing storage through a self-governing decentralized system. I don't like that it's named "-coin" and that its website clearly trying to ride the wave of blockchain hype without explaining
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by colllectorof 6y ago
Encapsulation has nothing to do with hiding stuff. It is the idea that an object is effectively defined by its externally observable behavior.
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by colllectorof 6y ago
>And that has significant implications for people's privacy and security online. We're in a thread about Google making changes to Chrome . The irony of trying to somehow tie this to user privacy is hilarious.
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by colllectorof 6y ago
>It's worrying how they are improving the case for "70%" scenarios, while crippling it for the other 30%, without recourse. It's not even funny any more. It's even less funny when you realize that the class of
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by colllectorof 6y ago
>HTTPS adoption is now very high[1] I posted this in a separate comment and I will post it again. https://certbot.eff.org/hosting_providers HTTPS adoption is hard enough that the wast majority of shared hosting provide
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by colllectorof 6y ago
Meanwhile, here is the state of certbot support on shared hosting: https://certbot.eff.org/hosting_providers Yellow means you have to jump through hoops as a user. Even though the whole point of managed/shared hosting
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by colllectorof 6y ago
Look, dude, leading experts have looked at this claim and said there is nearly zero chance this has was a lab leak: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/04/23/8417296... I mean, yeah, fi
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by colllectorof 6y ago
>You're gonna have to live with an increasing digitalization for multiple decades. Technology exists for people, not the other way around.
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by colllectorof 6y ago
"Therefore, shifting attention to the concept of accuracy can cause people to improve the quality of the news that they share." It will not have a significant enough impact on the overall collapse of sense-making that we're
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by colllectorof 6y ago
> Thus it is a useful reminder of the implicit bias that contributes to the lack of diversity in tech. This is a useful reminder. It's a reminder that associative thinking can invert causal relationships and turn anything into a
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by colllectorof 6y ago
Why should I care about what these CEOs are saying when recent history shows they a) gladly lie about this subject and b) suffer exactly zero consequences when caught lying about this subject?
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by colllectorof 6y ago
Engineers are horrified to learn that mathematical modeling is done in a language created in the 50s, but aren't bothered by the fact that the dominant computer interaction model used in the field right now dates back to pre-WW2 tele
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by colllectorof 6y ago
>Every society exerts social pressure in the form of norms and shaming. HN crowd has a definite knack for packing heaps of erroneous thinking (or perhaps deliberate gaslighting) into compact sentences like these. Deplatforming is a tac
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by colllectorof 6y ago
>Framing is a tool - it can be used for bad or good. Propaganda is a tool - it can be used for bad or good. The problem is that "bad" and "good" are subjective value judgements. Simultaneously, the mindset of manipu
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by colllectorof 6y ago
Wow, I meant to write a semi-satirical guide to successful propaganda for a while now. Apparently, people professionally doing propaganda published one for real. https://www.frameworksinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads&#x
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by colllectorof 6y ago
Not sure if "foundational", but I would add these because they have interesting mental models: Implementing Atomic Actions on Decentralized Data by David Reed https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Classes/739&
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by colllectorof 6y ago
>We've always had cancel culture. It seems pretty obvious that you don't understand that any culture has norms and boundaries, but only pathological cultures become entirely reactionary and define themselves purely in terms
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by colllectorof 6y ago
It's funny how none of these posts about learning Haskell ever take a working program and demonstrate the benefits of the language by examining useful code.
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by colllectorof 6y ago
The pool of people who understand any popular scripting language is incomparably larger than the pool of people who understand your clever dialect of YAML, JSON or XML.
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by colllectorof 6y ago
This is fake insight. Most people I know who are any good at programming had started learning about it by modifying something either on their own computers (pre-2000) or on the web (post 2000). They took things they found interesting or us
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by colllectorof 6y ago
Modern IDEs often ave basic source control baked in. You don't even need to commit anything. I wonder whether there is any point in using Git for basic version control if those features are already available.
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by colllectorof 6y ago
I would gladly just say "imagination" instead of "mental capacity to imagine", but that word has been ruined by making it sound like something only kids and painters have to exercise. Hard reality: modern world requires
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by colllectorof 6y ago
Somewhat off-topic, but important. Note how this path wouldn't be possible if all these hosting companies went out of business thanks to competition from big cloud providers. Then think about what this means for the future we (in IT) c
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by colllectorof 6y ago
The wast majority of people out there have no mental capacity to imagine how data they post online and provide to various orgs could be and most likely eventually will be used against them. This is evidenced by the continuing proliferatio

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