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by eropple 3y ago
?> Yes, we all have periods where we should be allowed to do bad work, learn on it and eventually come out with better ideas. Most people's GitHub pages are full of this kind of junk. And in this case, "junk" is absolute
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by eropple 3y ago
You're not wrong. It's also why this is an excellent argument for the private practice of religion. And taxing them if they want real estate and monetary income.
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by eropple 3y ago
> If someone’s preference is to work in a company where 100% of the employees are in office, then Then they should get along great with the people whose preference is any number of other ways that they dictate terms to the rest of soci
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by eropple 3y ago
How many fossil fuel sites are Superfunds? How much land is going to be rendered sub-arable over the next hundred years from climate change?
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by eropple 3y ago
A lot of why they're "experimental" is that large industrialized countries (especially but not exclusively the United States) decided to stop making them long enough for multiple generations of theoretical designs to pass by.
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by eropple 3y ago
You, ah...you know that "finality" is bad in a system that needs to transact money, right? Fraud exists. (You should know. The cryptocurrency universe is mostly that.) But more importantly, judges exist, and they do not give a
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by eropple 3y ago
You mean embedded native stuff? No, but SponsorBlock does and I use both. YT Premium pays creators for YT views and the analytics don't appreciably differentiate whether you watched an ad or skipped it, so I'm pretty comfortable w
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by eropple 3y ago
> The open source community's spent how many years designing a non-proprietary protocol and putting out reference implementations (and extending it to Facebook-like and Youtube-like and Wordpress-like offerings)... And it's a
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by eropple 3y ago
There are likely scenarios where some level of push-based comms will be necessary, as I understand it. Direct messaging, for example, seems like it'll require pinging a server to pull an asymmetrically encrypted message, or similar.
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by eropple 3y ago
Having done a decent bit of hacking around ActivityPub, when I read the (thin, which 'pfraze and others have copped to) documentation I immediately went "oh, this is going to be way more scalable than ActivityPub once it's
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by eropple 3y ago
> 2. is clearly wrong, as now just all the people already in the Apple ecosystem need to switch their lightning equipment to USB-C equipment, adding tons of waste. As opposed to now, when I buy twice as many cables on their own wear li
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by eropple 3y ago
I was pretty glad I didn't have to deal with Bluemix. Instead I was told we'd be using AWS, had that change after I started, waited four months for a vSphere setup to be rolled out for me, and quit two weeks later.
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by eropple 3y ago
The difference in affordances between "everyone has a number attached" and "somebody who isn't you doesn't " should be obvious. My username on Discord is "Ed#1234". My username will not be "@E
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by eropple 3y ago
> a custom, albeit clever, solution. It was "custom" in 2010. When StarCraft 2 did it. Discord launched in 2015. "I cannot parse the idea of a username without an @ in front of it" does not suggest that such a perso
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by eropple 3y ago
Part of it (and I was briefly at IBM after the Watson craze so I heard some complaining) was also that they'd rebranded a lot of other things as Watson to try to cash in on it.
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by eropple 3y ago
> If you are creating a different kind of application and therefore don't need the DOM or other browser things then why JS at all? Because I like TypeScript and don't like Lua. JavaScript, I don't like. It's in the
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by eropple 3y ago
I think the GP poster was referring to that, because (anecdotally but still) when I was selling an M1 Pro, Apple offered me $950 but I was able to sell it for $1500. I probably could've gotten more, but I wanted it out of the house.
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by eropple 3y ago
I think that in many ways is because Fly's approach is sufficiently high-minded (in other words, aiming most comfortably at relatively difficult problems) that it's probably pretty automatic to assume that it's built on an ex
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by eropple 4y ago
It isn't "90 days of history". It's 90 days of history you can see. Slack retains it indefinitely.
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by eropple 4y ago
> There's never really going to be such a thing as a thriving small social network. Just because you're not on them doesn't mean they don't exist. I wouldn't namedrop the ones I like here because I like them th
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by eropple 4y ago
Loop seems a little more like Coda to me than Notion. Similar space, but not a similar "outlook on life".
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by eropple 4y ago
It can be, if you want it to be. https://www.notion.so/templates/kanban-board I use this all the time, alongside my other personal databases and such. I wish there was an open source or self-hostable gizmo that was as
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by eropple 4y ago
I think you're mostly right, but I will drop an asterisk: Temporal is self-hostable and is incredibly good . Like, I am pretty convinced that for the classes of problems it addresses around offline/the-customer-isn't-waiting
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I don't think he stuttered.
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> I think this is actually a good thing in the long run because “requiring intent” creates a clearly perverse incentive where the organization may be able to do illegal things so long as it can delude itself about them This doesn'
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by eropple 4y ago
> And partly, it's just a matter of vindictiveness. You are unfit for any jury that could be sat.
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by eropple 4y ago
> It seems like a mistake, the role of the justice system should be to protect the public first and foremost. No. The role of the justice system is to find truth and render equitable punishment . State-sponsored killing is a one-way d
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by eropple 4y ago
> It's wildly rare for the innocent to get wronged here. This is objectively false. https://innocenceproject.org/the-death-penalty/ And even if it weren't? One is too many.
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by eropple 4y ago
As it happens, I am in the process of building something pretty close to what you describe. Here is an extremely partial list of reasons people don't do it. - Written content: because network effects are real. Also because building a b
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by eropple 4y ago
I used to be a mobile developer, and I literally got death threats for charging $6 on Android. People just paid it on iOS and got on with using the app.

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