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by dlisboa 11mo ago
Social media in the early 2000s is nothing like today.
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by dlisboa 11mo ago
I don't think it really matters if the definition is too narrow as long as you ward off the worst threats. An easier way to classify them would be by size: any social network with over 1000 users should have to regulate their users. So
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by dlisboa 11mo ago
I'd gladly give up HN if it means Instagram and Facebook are eradicated. Yes, yes, "those that would trade liberty for security...", but we were better off without any form of social media at all.
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by dlisboa 1y ago
Is there a niche that OCaml fits really well with few packages needed? For example: Go has a great stdlib for networking (servers, etc); Rust is pretty good for CLI tools. I've used OCaml for writing small compilers and it was really c
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by dlisboa 1y ago
Close them. It's not a PR in good faith. A pull-request is meant to be reviewable, 9k LOC is not.
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by dlisboa 1y ago
This is such a common thing and tolerated you have to wonder whether it's actually immoral. I've met many people on my travels who went to Europe on tourist visas, got work and then got to stay legally later. No one was deported.
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by dlisboa 1y ago
We're mammal predators too. Mammal herbivores travel in herd and are pretty easy to hunt. They also pose little risk. The answer is the same as to why lions don't have leopards as their main food source.
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by dlisboa 1y ago
> I like that idea as it means yiu are more likely to host a party. It is also less expensive to do so. Yeah, you're expected to help in some way. The idea being that a party at someone's house is likely an inconvenience to tha
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by dlisboa 1y ago
Nah, Brazilian culture is pretty homogenous in that regard. A lot of our culture is dedicated to not looking posh or seeming too rich, more value is placed on being perceived as down to earth (some exceptions notwithstanding). Parties are c
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by dlisboa 1y ago
Could be a handful or a couple dozen, depends on the person really. Birthdays are more packed. There’s no real expectation in a party here. Usually you’ll call up people you know from different parts of your life. People bring plus ones so
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by dlisboa 1y ago
I feel like this is really an American culture thing where parties or dinner parties are mostly the responsibility of the host. In movies or TV there’s even a common theme of guests judging the host’s hosting abilities. In Brazil you throw
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by dlisboa 1y ago
That’s why typography matters. You can’t read it because a very basic convention has been broken here and that throws everything off.
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by dlisboa 1y ago
Those two aren't similar. Brazil's annual inflation is 4-5%, you get 10% real return. South Sudan is 74% against your 15% return: you lose money.
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by dlisboa 1y ago
Python's stdlib is not really something to brag about. Very inconsistent, multiple ways of doing the same thing, a lot stuff in there people recommend against actually using...so much cruft acquired over decades. It's why projects
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by dlisboa 1y ago
If I'm getting this right it's only highly available from a network layer perspective. However if one of your nodes is still responsive but the service that you exposed on it isn't responsive there's no way for Tailscale
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by dlisboa 1y ago
Thanks, this sounds interesting. I wasn’t aware of etckeeper. So I take it you do periodic git pulls to update files and keep it all in check. The idea of a folder per machine is very good.
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by dlisboa 1y ago
There's nothing trendy about making sure HN renders like a page from 15 years ago should. Relative font sizes are just so basic they should count as a bug fix and not "usability update".
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by dlisboa 1y ago
Care to share a little bit more about this? I've been thinking of using git with `--work-tree=/` to track system files, so I'm interested in these "unusual" setups with git. Not sure I got the "fan out" co
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by dlisboa 1y ago
Something so simple such as this doesn’t even need a library, you can just use Web Components. Simple components are not why people use React.
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by dlisboa 1y ago
Wouldn't a 16km² gigantic solar roof on Earth already cover the energy needs that they're pitching will be saved with this space data center?
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by dlisboa 1y ago
> But, China's greatest weakness is their lack of ambition and focus on regional matters like Taiwan and south china sea, instead of winning over western europe and india. That's a strength. Them not having interest in global d
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by dlisboa 1y ago
Absolutely. China obviously has a longer history with innovation but they like to make it seem everything was invented by them at some point in the past. I'd say newer technology is where China has had a bigger impact. Consequently new
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by dlisboa 1y ago
History has shown that withholding technology from China does not significantly stop them and they'll achieve it (or better) in a small number of years. In many senses there's hubris in the western* view of China accomplishments:
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by dlisboa 1y ago
> Also those hardware savings will be eaten away by two days of your hourly bill Doubt it. I've personally seen AWS bills in the tens of thousands, he's probably not that costly for a day.
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by dlisboa 1y ago
For me speed is interesting. I sometimes use Claude from the CLI with `claude -p` for quick stuff I forget like how to run some docker image. Latency and low response speed is what almost makes me go to Google and search for it instead.
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by dlisboa 1y ago
I'm partial to this, the only thing I've found that is harder to achieve is the "edge" part of cloud services. Having a server at each continent is enough for most needs but having users route to the closest one is not a
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by dlisboa 1y ago
The thread is about self-hosted CDN capabilities. Serving large images and video is what CDNs are for. I’m just talking technical limitations here, chill a little bit with the “your web page”.
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by dlisboa 1y ago
Issue is network saturation. Most VPSs have limited bandwidth (1Gbps), even if their CPUs could serve tens of thousands of req/s.
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by dlisboa 1y ago
Putting something on the Internet by yourself has always been outside the reach of a non-tech person. Years ago regular people weren't deploying globally available complex software from their desktops either.
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by dlisboa 1y ago
I’d say what you’re doing is architecting, like the old term for “software architect”. Those are professional who know how to design a system from a high level and have the experience to judge a good implementation of it but they themselves

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