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by ergl 7y ago
A good compromise is something like Netlify CMS[0], which adds a GUI on top of a static site generator so you can write posts through a web interface. AFAIK it works with a variety of static generators, so you have a few choices. Of course,
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by ergl 7y ago
This proposal, like many others, tries to make the "information wants to be free" meme a reality by making data "about us" a commodity that can be purchased and sold in the market. But it misses the important question of
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The irony of complaining about the author using gadgets to keep his privacy, and then going ahead and saying how you also use (software) gadgets to keep yours.
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It's right there in the article.
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She has written several posts about Silicon Valley culture before, both for the New Yorker and other publications—I learned about her work back in 2016, on N+1. I recommend reading it, it was quite fun and depressing at the same time: http
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by ergl 7y ago
The article touches on this at the end, which I think is the most important part: "For social media titans, full demetrication would require a more radical abandonment of faith in data, and a disavowal of the numbers-driven “growth min
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by ergl 7y ago
Expect the part where Fram explicitly harassed a member of the community. Linus might be an asshole, but he didn't go around following a specific comitter and making their life harder for it.
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Not that I know, but it uses ETS to handle state, and the global process registry to store peer information, as far as I know. Also, be aware that OP mentioned riak-core, which is a different thing from Riak. riak-core is a library to build
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by ergl 7y ago
The Time magazine thing is a fake: https://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2013/06/04/the-1970s-ice-... There is another cover going around mentioning "The Big Freeze", but it refers to a particular
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by ergl 7y ago
I used to support this point on view, but after the Facebook VPN scandal [0][1] I think using this approach will do more harm than good. It's a good way to make sure only poor people lose their privacy, since those that can afford it w
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by ergl 7y ago
I'd recommend avoiding any kind of screen at all. Just physical toys. "W.H.O. Says Limited or No Screen Time for Children Under 5" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/health/screen-time-kids
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by ergl 7y ago
The article mentions that the "up next" experiments were done while logged out and with a clean watch history. Still, the algorithm eventually arrived at conspiracy videos.
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From the intro: > Elections hold a vulnerability that can bring democracies to a halt. [This vulnerability] makes it possible for people to elect a malicious authority that will later refuse to organize future elections. > This paper
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Are Likes and Followers the Problem with Social Media?(nytimes.com)
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Capitalism Camp for Kids(nytimes.com)
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by ergl 7y ago
People don't yell at each other in Mastodon precisely because so few people use it (besides, I've already seen Twitter-like behavior there, mainly on the mastodon.social instance). If mastodon had the same amount of users it would
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by ergl 8y ago
Binary blobs over 64B are shared with other processes via reference counted pointers, instead of by copy. Of course this only applies to processes inside the same machine. You can check the official docs: http://erlang.org/d
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by ergl 8y ago
That's measuring reqs/s, and as you said, if conns/s is an order of magnitude or two less, that's 700k, or 70k conns/s, which is right around what this post finds.
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by ergl 8y ago
In the last year employee pressure has forced Facebook to acknowledge their cafeteria staff right to unionize, stop Google from building military tech and a politically censored search engine, drop arbitration for sexual harassment cases, g
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by ergl 8y ago
Your tl;dr is alarmingly defeatist. If you're in tech and feeling angry all the time, the answer is not to try meds, the answer is to get politically involved and change the moral bankrupty of our industry. If you're US based, che
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by ergl 8y ago
Did saying this make you feel better about yourself or something? Because it's a ridiculously smug statement at best. More likely just some sanctimonious BS you decided to post to signal how much of an intelligent person you are. Like
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by ergl 8y ago
You can set up your terminal to do this for you, see https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/402398
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by ergl 8y ago
You might want to check out this thread from last week[0] about scheduling tasks when the event loop is idle. The author also published a library for it[1] [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18030848 [1]: https:&#x2
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by ergl 9y ago
AFAIK Telegram for OSX does support secret chats: https://macos.telegram.org/ I don't know about the other platforms
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Small city in Upstate NY passes first Bitcoin mining ban in U.S(newyorkupstate.com)
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by ergl 9y ago
You might not be able to escape the browser's sandbox, but you can certainly escape your tab's sandbox and spy on other tabs using timing attacks: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/useni
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by ergl 9y ago
You can export the list of albums you saved through the api. A while ago I wrote this using jq: https://gist.github.com/ergl/ae7c56d2a754558bb7b2cf9e98979fa... Just grab an auth token from https://developer.
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by ergl 9y ago
Those "fluorescent-lit warehouse full of cheap crap that will be thrown away in a couple of months after it's bought" still exist, they're Amazon warehouses now, though.
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by ergl 10y ago
Just so you know, this was written in 2011.
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Jane Street uses the same approach to build their exchange [0]. Like the doc says, it can be great to replay some sequence of messages in dev to reproduce issues, and to give fault-tolerance to the system. One downside is that, if all your

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