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by ericyd 2y ago
> it’s not that crazy to look at this project and believe that such a gadget* might not be so far away. 9 years later, I think we can safely say yes, it is crazy to believe that such a gadget might not be so far away. *quotation was refe
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by ericyd 2y ago
Yeah I think in general it's a decent strategy. I'm this case it falls short for me because a key element of Airbnb is that the assets (homes/rooms) are provided by the user base, whereas this product doesn't seem to do
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by ericyd 2y ago
Might just be me but I think "On demand GPU provisioning" is easier to understand than "Airbnb for GPUs"
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by ericyd 2y ago
Good point, I appreciate the nuance. I guess I meant that I no longer have a blanket anti stance, and now I'm open to asessing more openly
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by ericyd 2y ago
I was scared of GM crops when they first started getting news attention, but I've flipped now. Quoting a Greenpeace representative, the article writes: > “GM crops have never been proven safe,” Pelegrina asserted. This might be true
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by ericyd 2y ago
Love the idea, but I've tried similar apps in the past and they all suffer from lack of critical mass, and/or lots of accounts with little activity. I'd love it if this one were different, but Craigslist has been the most con
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by ericyd 2y ago
Absolutely, but it does feel bad when you know your negligence is impacting real people.
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by ericyd 2y ago
Building your own thing is great, but one unintended consequence is that if your thing actually becomes popular, you'll be expected to maintain it forever. If your interests or preferred tech stack change, you are stuck with a mountain
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by ericyd 2y ago
As a musician, sometimes sound designer, and web developer, I find myself wondering which of these ideas could be migrated to web apps. I definitely agree with the article's premise that sound is often eschewed in software, and I think
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by ericyd 2y ago
I was coming to say something very similar. The hard truth is that the society-changing projects this person wants to work on are exceptionally rare, and most work boils down to selling products to consumers. Not that I'm saying this i
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by ericyd 2y ago
I added a very similar comment before I saw yours. I guess I can also look forward to being downvoted for having a different opinion.
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by ericyd 2y ago
> The web should work without JavaScript. I don't agree with this, and the site provides very thin or no justification for this claim. "Should" is inherently subjective, so I will not be participating in this event.
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by ericyd 3y ago
I didn't upvote or submit this article, but my answer to your question is that this site serves a wide audience and not everyone shares your preferences.
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by ericyd 3y ago
For me it's just that utilities for base64 are included everywhere by default and the same is not true for base32
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by ericyd 3y ago
> The problems that GraphQL solves > 1. Mobile apps break periodically after API changes The author says that GraphQL solves this problem because GraphQL APIs never contain breaking changes (the author phrases it slightly differently)
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by ericyd 3y ago
I like it, but it strikes me that there are actually not that many valid moves you can make in the example problem. Maybe this isn't true in other examples, but I found most of my time thinking about this was simply realizing that most
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by ericyd 3y ago
> The velocity of writing filesystem and file manipulation files in shell is many times greater than in javascript. I think you're right, after achieving a level of expertise. I've never gotten there myself which probably expla
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by ericyd 3y ago
Opening line > I've been working with git now full-time for around a decade now. Duplicated "now". Boom, roasted.
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by ericyd 3y ago
Not sure I see the benefit of the bun shell. I use shell scripts when I know that the other people using the script will be able to run it in a similar shell to me, in order to cut down on dependencies. If I need it to be cross platform I j
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by ericyd 3y ago
extremely fair point. I was kinda trying to be funny but I also think I misunderstood the audience of the article
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by ericyd 3y ago
By far my biggest takeaway from skimming the first ~10-15 paragraphs is that there is significantly too much jargon in the crypto space.
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by ericyd 3y ago
In most cities I would agree, but NYC has the best transit in the country by a huge margin. Genuine question: are there lots of people in NYC and surrounding area who must drive into the city for work and don't have convenient altern
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by ericyd 3y ago
You're making unfounded assumptions about my sympathies. As I mentioned in other replies to this tree, my first comment was simply expressing my surprise to the top level comment. The top level comment said car prices will be affected
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by ericyd 3y ago
This is all sage advice except #7 "avoid monorepos" doesn't resonate with me. I worked at a seed level startup for 2 years and we used a monorepo for everything. I felt like it saved me a bunch of time vs my current employer
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by ericyd 3y ago
The article really does not add much interesting info beyond the headline
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by ericyd 3y ago
I don't see a benefit to it either, but I still find it surprising when people react to tragedy with zero sympathy or emotion beyond self preservation. My surprise was all I was trying to indicate with my original comment.
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by ericyd 3y ago
Wait what?
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by ericyd 3y ago
More than a couple hours I guess
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by ericyd 3y ago
Sure, the difference is that when I hear about drunk driving fatalities I don't immediately jump to economic opportunism.
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by ericyd 3y ago
A bunch of people die and this is your response?

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