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451.
by endgame 6y ago
What if we stopped building things out of infinite chains of middlemen?
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by endgame 6y ago
His "doom-style engine" video is closer to BUILD than DOOM - it recursively chases through convex sectors rather than using a BSP tree. I particularly love his older stuff, where the tech choices were just plain _weird_ because th
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by endgame 6y ago
> Jason McLellan was wandering around a ski shop of Utah’s Park City Mountain Resort, waiting for his new snowboarding boots to be heat-molded to his size-nine feet, when his smartphone rang. It was Barney Graham, deputy director of the
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by endgame 6y ago
> Regular users won't be impacted by this. Yet. Next step is to make it opt-out for the "safety" of the public.
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by endgame 6y ago
“He who is not angry, whereas he has cause to be, sins. For unreasonable patience is the hotbed of many vices, it fosters negligence, and incites not only the wicked but the good to do wrong.”
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by endgame 6y ago
GMP is LGPL, so if you distribute a binary to someone it has to be possible for the recipient to re-link it with an alternate libgmp (either via dynamic linking, or by providing .o files and a script)
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by endgame 6y ago
You're not thinking of the pizza worker in SA who told porkies, are you? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/21/south-australi...
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by endgame 6y ago
Why on earth would you put a fainting-prone nurse on TV when you're trying to convince everyone the vaccine is safe?
459.
by endgame 6y ago
So is junk food.
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by endgame 6y ago
Correlation correlates with causation.
461.
by endgame 6y ago
General-purpose computing is slipping from our grasp quickly enough as-is. Why would you accelerate this trend by buying on streaming services?
462.
by endgame 6y ago
I can imagine calling someone a monster in an approving tone, but it's harder to convey accurately in text.
463.
by endgame 6y ago
I love your website design.
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by endgame 6y ago
Reading the text of GPLv3 closely, I was disappointed at how little its additional provisions actually protect. It read like it guarded against Tivoisation and not much else, but the world's moved on since then. GPLv3 either went too f
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by endgame 6y ago
And for some boneheaded reason, you can't /collapse in threads, so if you have colleagues who like both threads and gifs, you're stuck.
466.
by endgame 6y ago
The thing you put inside the container still has to speak Lambda's API, but yes, pretty cool.
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by endgame 6y ago
The same Apple that continually locks down / harder and harder with each OS release, and makes developers jump through more and more hoops?
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by endgame 6y ago
Ironically, meekmockmook's sibling comment to mine is [dead] for no discernible reason: > A world without newsfeeds and algorithmically/SEO driven culture wars? A world without our social lives being manipulated by shady Big T
469.
by endgame 6y ago
Well, yeah. Important things like tethering would never have made it into iOS if Apple hadn't been dragged there by the jailbreakers.
470.
by endgame 6y ago
And how did we get to that state? By having jailbreaks show everyone what the phone was actually capable of, and Apple had to be dragged along to what the customers actually wanted.
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by endgame 6y ago
This exact problem also affects Discord/Slack "communities": You have to find them, get an invite, maybe the conversation is viewable in the free tier's limited scrollback, but in any case they're never going to be
472.
by endgame 6y ago
I still joke about TDCM with some of my friends, but sometimes I wonder about Brian Kendall. Imagine if the most impactful artwork of your career was a dumb flash movie you made when you were a kid? The archive only has a single animutation
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by endgame 6y ago
1. The banking sector hasn't been ticking away bug-free. 2. Electronic elections are a thorny mix of privacy and transparency requirements. Example: Electors need to be able to confirm their own vote was counted but not be able to prov
474.
by endgame 6y ago
In the lead-up to Australia's metadata retention legislation, some org posted the following examples. I found them reasonably effective at convincing normal people, but we failed to convince the decision-makers in Parliament: - "W
475.
by endgame 6y ago
Maybe you'll find it one day in the winamp skin museum: https://skins.webamp.org/
476.
by endgame 6y ago
Zed Shaw once called it "sockets that actually work how programmers think sockets work", but I can't find a link.
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by endgame 6y ago
Even more impressive is that Pieter put the same attention into documenting the 0mq community's social architecture, as well: https://hintjens.gitbooks.io/social-architecture/content/
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by endgame 6y ago
He wrote very frankly about his impending death, too: http://hintjens.com/blog:123 EDIT: This is the post I was looking for: http://hintjens.com/blog:115
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by endgame 6y ago
GitHub wants a lot of silly things. I want a lot of silly things. Doesn't mean we all get what we want.
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by endgame 6y ago
My latest find on this topic: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/world/europe/ski-party-pa... Not recommending travel/border restrictions was a cached thought from a 1990s plague outbreak in In

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