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by emseetech 10mo ago
Also important is just how fast cheap hardware has gotten which means vertical scaling is extremely effective. People could get a lot farther with sqlite in wal mode on a single box with an nvme drive than they imagine. Feels like our intui
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Butter-Bench: Evaluating LLM Controlled Robots for Practical Intelligence(arxiv.org)
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by emseetech 1y ago
No I understood that. Payment processors underpin ad systems and they have strong leverage to pressure ad buyers and can pull your ability to make those sales. That's on top of the advertisers themselves having strong positions on what
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by emseetech 1y ago
Right and I'm not a fan of algorithmic feeds at all. Social media users broadly are happiest with a basic chronological feed composed only of who they follow. That's why every social media platform starts with that, then adds algo
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by emseetech 1y ago
Sure but I'd argue there's a much greater chance of a subscription service having a fair and transparent process because you are the customer versus an ad-supported service because the advertisers are the customer. And maybe users
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by emseetech 1y ago
That's not entirely true. The big platforms yes, but that's a combination of economic incentives and technical challenges at scale (such as moving data to cold storage). But even then, that means there's resistance, but that&
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by emseetech 1y ago
For the record, people working on decentralization should not stop working on it. For myself, I have moved on to other approaches with different goals, but it's a worthwhile endeavor and if anyone ever cracks it, it'll change the
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by emseetech 1y ago
It does if you don't pay to access the service as well, because the financial system is the underpinning of their ad network. Even in a federated system, you can be blacklisted although it does take more coordination and work. i2p and
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by emseetech 1y ago
In a federated system, the best you can do is a soft delete request, and ignoring that request is easier than satisfying it. If I have 100 followers on 100 different nodes, that means each node has access to (and holds on to) some portion o
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by emseetech 1y ago
To clarify, I don't mean big P Politics, I mean political in the sense that each node is owned and operated separately, which means there are competing interests and a need to coordinate between them that extends beyond the technical.
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by emseetech 1y ago
I'm a consultant that builds for startups. I'm not an entrepreneur myself. If I were to build something like this, I'd use a services non-profit model. Ad-supported apps result in way too many perverse economic incentives in
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by emseetech 1y ago
Having worked on the problem for years, decentralized social networking is such as tar pit of privacy and security and social problems that I can't find myself excited by it anymore. We are clear what the problems with mainstream socia
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by emseetech 1y ago
Go is a great language.
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by emseetech 1y ago
I'm working on a design system. I'm a software eng not a designer, but I started one a long while back because I wanted to get a sense of what designers go through. I've dropped it and came back a half dozen times but now I&#
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by emseetech 1y ago
Wave was great for conversation with one or two other people on a specific project, which I'm sure most people here used it for. I can't imagine it scaling well beyond that.
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by emseetech 1y ago
Resolution is in design not engineering. Instead of trying to tireless work around the web as a sort of “broken mobile”, design with its strengths instead. The difficulty is finding designers who understand web fundamentals.
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by emseetech 1y ago
Not to mention lacking the requisite knowledge whether the information is legitimate or not. I stay slightly above my knowledge. I can ask it about concurrency patterns in Go because I can spot the bs. But quantum physics or molecular biolo
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by emseetech 1y ago
52K of CSS should be an opportunity for optimization but you're right, we're so far gone on javascript we should really focus on the mountains before the molehills.
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by emseetech 1y ago
It won’t be portable or a good idea but you can use os/hardware specific directives. But this is drifting. The point of it all is that the ambiguity of programming languages are already high despite all our best efforts. The ambiguity
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by emseetech 1y ago
You can't communicate at all with only closed class words. You can write fully capable programs with only built-in keywords though, so I wouldn't make that comparison.
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by emseetech 1y ago
Go has 25 keywords. C has 32. Famously verbose Visual Basic has over 200. English has 1-2 million.
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by emseetech 1y ago
Converting a service to a subscription is hard. Customers get used to "free" and will always be resentful. Starting as a subscription service at least doesn't feel like a broken promise.
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by emseetech 1y ago
I see the features that launched them as substantially distinct. The mode of interaction between users was wildly different from one to the other. You may be considering their convergent evolution not what caused their rise in the first pla
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by emseetech 1y ago
Social networks rarely come up by being "the same but..." They come up by doing something unique that can't be done on older platforms.
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by emseetech 1y ago
By being uninspiring and boring and losing because of it. Republicans promised a bulldozer the size of a small city and they're delivering. Sometimes people prefer winning even if it means they lose. They went big and the Democrats we
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by emseetech 1y ago
Community notes is better than nothing, but they only relate to a single tweet. So if one tweet with misinformation gets 100k likes, then a community note might show up correcting it. But if 100 tweets each get 1000 likes, they're neve
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by emseetech 1y ago
Right, engagement algorithms are like giving bad takes a rocket ship. The words of world renown epidemiologists who were, to be frank, boring and unentertaining could never possibly compete with crunchymom44628 yelling about how Chinese foo
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by emseetech 1y ago
I don't believe they've shipped yet, based on their comments.
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by emseetech 1y ago
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by emseetech 1y ago
Are you vibe coding or have the 200k LoC been human reviewed?

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