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by gfodor 5y ago
Interesting they found a way to add a hidden risk variable to the launch, by sending it up on a day people are having to choose to not be with their families. Have a bad feeling about this :/
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by gfodor 5y ago
I'm trying to remember what satirical slash comic book guy style sites + examples like this there were to ridicule bitcoin.
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by gfodor 5y ago
Wasn't coined by Vogels: https://newrelic.com/blog/nerd-life/devops-name
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by gfodor 5y ago
Hilariously that is not the original purpose of "DevOps", and double hilariously, it is the direct opposite: that Dev and Ops (separate groups) should work together better: https://newrelic.com/blog/nerd-lif
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by gfodor 5y ago
It’s more than that. By it being on chain, it’s part of a permanent durable public ledger, meaning it can be consumed and verified now and in the future by any third party for any reason, without any orchestration, as long as that person ha
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by gfodor 5y ago
A bear case for Bitcoin in 120 years based on the single aspect of the loss of mining rewards. Legit funny!
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by gfodor 5y ago
Well, you don't have to like the criminals of today, but lets also not forget that good people are deemed criminals under repressive regimes, for crimes such as "watching K-Pop." https://www.nytimes.com/2021&#
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by gfodor 5y ago
This is a nice example of the tech consensus anti-web3 perspective. Of course, it openly claims everyone promoting web3 technologies are scam artists, that it is a ponzi scheme, and that nobody in the space has considered "DNS and AWS
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by gfodor 5y ago
I think the core point isn't about coherence, but tradeoffs. Some tests are not worth holding onto: ones that are slow, flaky, and test code that is of marginal importance. In those cases, the ideal tradeoff can be to delete the test.
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by gfodor 5y ago
Thanks, in Jitsi or Mediasoup or both?
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by gfodor 5y ago
Another much under-utilized way to speed up test suites: delete tests
732.
by gfodor 5y ago
Can you elaborate on the scaling issues you hit (and with which implementations?) I've used Janus + MediaSoup but not Jitsi before for WebRTC audio for web based multiplayer games.
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by gfodor 5y ago
Can you elaborate on this?
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by gfodor 5y ago
No, the reason the worm hypothesis is good is because it would explain the clinical trials where it appears to be effective. (If there were no such trials, as you claim, the entire discussion about worms would be moot.)
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by gfodor 5y ago
The worm hypothesis is a hypothesis, and a good one. But it is a hypothesis. assuming good sounding hypotheses are true and running with it have been the root of a lot of problems in this pandemic.
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by gfodor 5y ago
twitter can be good or bad depending on who you follow + engage with
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by gfodor 5y ago
the #1 advice I would give to a young engineer entering their career is to do everything they can to avoid becoming cynical. technology has cycles, but it also moves forward. it's a helix. most people who churn through a few cycles end
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by gfodor 5y ago
Boz is 50% right but would be 100% right if they ditched the business model that leads them to be incentivized into spying on people and feeding them misinformation they'll click on.
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by gfodor 5y ago
Why is this hard, and can’t just be written down somewhere as part of the engineering discipline? This aspect of systems in 2021 really shouldn’t be an “art.”
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by gfodor 5y ago
alternatively, maybe web3 / crypto folks haven't "forgotten" something so obvious as "complex laws and lawyers exist."
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by gfodor 5y ago
> You are never going to convince more than a small number of suckers that any of this is true or worth it. This is exactly the kind of thing that is said before complete implosions or complete disruptions. Time will tell! Reminder: same
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by gfodor 5y ago
Creative effort is scarce, so the argument is about how to securitize it. It’s not artificial scarcity, it may just be a poor proxy method around the actual scarce resource.
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by gfodor 5y ago
Exactly. It’s been weird seeing so many people who have lived through several technology curves failing to imagine where these current trends are pointing.
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by gfodor 5y ago
A great theory but in practice in this specific case the legal system will be forced to capitulate. Either a country has to ban all crypto mining or not enforce GDPR on chain nodes. Seems obvious which way it will land in the long run.
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by gfodor 5y ago
Which claim? The meme that transaction throughput is inherently low in crypto is falsified via solana (as mentioned) or avalanche. Bitcoin will likely always be low TPS. Ethereum 2 maybe will eventually ship.
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by gfodor 5y ago
For many years now Bitcoin has been generally viewed by a large consensus to be a low throughput store of value, akin to digital gold. Many disagree with this ofc but it is a pretty mainstream view.
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by gfodor 5y ago
No, that is a necessary but insufficient condition to come up with Web3. Web3 also requires the concept put forward by Ethereum of having an instruction set one can pay to run on chain. That would have probably been thought up and deployed
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by gfodor 5y ago
Certainly. But if one is going to argue about the value proposition of Web3, it may not be insane to postulate that in the future a large % of the world will live under regimes where the ability to interact with others illegally will be a s
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by gfodor 5y ago
I wrote: > It may be marginal if the authority can stop it Because often the response to claims like the one I made is to just hand wave it away as some kind of Armageddon situation. But it doesn't have to be. The USSR and the mode
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by gfodor 5y ago
Even if nothing else pops out, it’s a huge error to point to illegal activity as some kind of bad, irrelevant use case. That smuggles in an assumption that lawbreakers are universally evil. There have been plenty of periods in history where

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