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by eropple 3y ago
That was what I was getting at, yeah. ;)
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by eropple 3y ago
Only a--reasonably and relatively; no society is perfect--just and civil society provides (over a sufficiently long time horizon) the kind of stability and structure that allows the rich to stay rich. Which doesn't mean that you can&
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by eropple 3y ago
And so they would...continue...to work...for things that cost more than food and shelter do?
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by eropple 3y ago
Those with the most to lose benefit the most from having a just and civil society, but that realization never seems to percolate through.
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by eropple 3y ago
No, people don't use GitHub because it looks more modern than a mailing list. They do so because it more closely matches their expectations of how to use computers and software. Mailing-list likers have not come to grips with this in
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by eropple 3y ago
Let me rephrase: a clear line of reasoning that isn't an Old Testament god with some Tron lines .
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by eropple 3y ago
One of these things is real and happening now. It isn't potential . The other is a hypothetical future scenario that has literally no A->B->C line drawn to it, pushed by people whose ability to feed themselves depends on atten
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by eropple 3y ago
I try not to think about it.
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by eropple 3y ago
1) They're formative knowledge for understanding that part of a system . Systems are big and few people understand them entirely. I happened to know those things, but I am a pathologically T-shaped/"paint drip" develope
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by eropple 3y ago
"Be an engineer" and "write code" aren't the same thing. That this industry has decided to call everyone an "engineer" because they can write some Java or even some HTML has loaded these jobs with a set of
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by eropple 3y ago
Generally speaking, because it would be very nice to have types without having to do offline code generation.
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by eropple 3y ago
I used to work at Render, and I said often "Cloudflare is the iceberg - only ten percent of it is above the water and it's going to tear a big chunk out of the [PaaS] boat". Over time it seems more and more confirmable as a h
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by eropple 3y ago
> Headless CMS' were picking up steam a few years back, but it seems the hype has plateaued? That's mostly because a headless CMS is a component for a piece of software you write. Wordpress is a thing you poke at in a control
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by eropple 3y ago
> Personally I think Elon is centrist, agreeing with some Right wing policies, and some left wing policies, but clearly has a personal bias which is reflected in the policy choices of twitter, too much so IMO. He spends his entire day
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by eropple 3y ago
Have you used Cloudflare Workers? How does Deno Deploy stack up, if so?
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by eropple 3y ago
I'm not the OP, but I've built a little bit of software [0][1] in Deno. I don't know if I'd do it again. Thoughts, in no particular order: - Big plus: the built-in stdlib is strong (coming from Node; it's not as str
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by eropple 3y ago
> But the model of a single well specified execution + storage protocol might be worth porting over to non-financialized cloud application development. To a first approximation, it exists, and it's called Cloudflare Workers (and K
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by eropple 3y ago
> I'm sorry, what's the advantage to the cloud again? For-most-purposes-infinite on-demand resources, provided in a format where you don't have to pay for when you aren't using it. And yes, we all know that this do
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by eropple 3y ago
In absolutely no way, no way at all , does any of this imply that UBI will exist. It is no more reasonable to expect a society structurally against the idea that suffering should be avoided because we can avoid it to adopt UBI because of l
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by eropple 3y ago
This is a critical distinction. Like 'toomuchtodo, I can go pick up a nailer and build a house if the computery jobs go away. But I cannot effectively participate in the governance of the society of which I am in theory an equal member
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by eropple 3y ago
Only if I listen to lesswrongers. And then I can turn Twitter off.
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by eropple 3y ago
Unless you want to deal with Fedora's release cycle, you're not going to push software through their repos. This isn't a Tailscale thing, this is a "just about everyone" thing.
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by eropple 3y ago
"A modal" is a specific term of art referring to set of UI elements that floats over other content, compels focus, and disallows interaction with UI elements behind it. That's it. That's what it is. You're arguing w
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by eropple 3y ago
Their DLC flows aren't that different from something like Sony's.
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by eropple 3y ago
Shot: > My experience in being correct and good outcomes are the support that I need. Chaser: > antisthenes 1 day ago | parent | context | prev | next [–] | on: A rant on bus stops > Some points in the article are hit and miss,
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by eropple 3y ago
"I'm going to try to sound chin-strokingly neutral but I can't call her 'she' when that's what she prefers."
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by eropple 3y ago
Excel is distinctly different from the rest of Office for a power user because while you're right that they've reorganized things (though only one real reorganization since at least Office 95, that's pretty good), the keyboar
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by eropple 3y ago
> I find it incredibly amusing when someone from a country that left the eu because of the burocratic burden and unfair policies complains about people complaining about similar issues. Whats even more amusing is when said country is o
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by eropple 3y ago
"How to be a decent human in the world" is always a fruitful discussion. It is, perhaps, the most important one.
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by eropple 3y ago
It has not been solved. Even GPT-4, as impressive as it is for some use cases, is dumb and I can tell the difference between it and a human in a dozen sentences just by demanding sufficient precision. In some contexts, will some people be

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