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by gjulianm 6y ago
> I believe that democracy is a mistake and we should be ruled by an authoritarian king. You probably believe this to be a lie That's an opinion, not a lie. A lie would be saying "pigs grow on trees", "in a monarchy t
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by gjulianm 6y ago
> You are not discussing what a lie is That's precisely the point I'm making, nobody needs to decide what is a lie or what is not. Social media amplifies lies not by knowing what is a lie, but because of their nature. Lies gene
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by gjulianm 6y ago
Where did I say that I wanted speech censored and controlled and people not allowing to disagree? I'm saying that I disagree with social media incentivizing the spread of lies and controversy. I'm not discussing what is a lie and
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by gjulianm 6y ago
Social media posts lie all the time, way more than politicians. Why do people believe those?
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by gjulianm 6y ago
Restrictions on social media doesn't mean that it is big media companies the one that decide, necessarily. I think it would actually give more power to the people to decide what is the consensus reality, but this time organically: inst
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by gjulianm 6y ago
Propaganda is bad, but I very much prefer easily identifiable propaganda that the absolute circus show we have now, mainly because the former is easier to counter.
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by gjulianm 6y ago
> This is just a fancy way of saying "people saying things I don't like" Not just "I don't like", but things that "aren't true". There's a difference, and it's important. > How so
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by gjulianm 6y ago
There are alternative solutions to censorship. Censorship would just be a patch, and not even enough for the problems Facebook and other social media is creating. The issue is that Facebook has completely changed the incentives for what typ
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by gjulianm 6y ago
I think there are several reasons: - Twitter relationships are based on interests mostly. If I follow people who tweet about math I will see tweets about math. Facebook relationships are based on real-life relationships so the topics in my
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by gjulianm 6y ago
> will make laws to properly represent our intentions instead of enriching their buddies. Buddies like... the companies that use those loopholes. > if you design a loophole, the nature of competition will force all companies to follo
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by gjulianm 6y ago
Most people have lost the tech amazement and are looking critically at these companies, and their effects in the real world. We have been seeing for a few years already the other side of the coin, and the story of "the entrepeneurs and
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by gjulianm 6y ago
It's not looking for a way to tear them down, it's having a critical eye. For example, read this paragraph: > they said the biggest surprise was how many of the hosts were in the same position they’d been in: they needed this m
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by gjulianm 6y ago
It also created a market that pushed prices up in residential zones in major cities, kicked out neighbors and screwed up the rental market. For example, in my city, rental offers for residents almost duplicated when COVID hit due to AirBnB
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by gjulianm 6y ago
> so your arbitrary distinction between video and text is a distinction without meaning. I did not make a distinction between video and text, I made a distinction based on audiences and availability of counterpoints. I used those example
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by gjulianm 6y ago
It's funny because I explicitly said that writing a comment and talking to friends is way different from making a video or a podcast because of the audience you might have and the presence of counterpoints, such as your comment. And it
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by gjulianm 6y ago
> but I can't say I blame Youtube for doing it I do blame them, the same way I blame all social networks. People have always been ready to spread fringe content, but usually that content didn't go too far. What has changed now?
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by gjulianm 6y ago
> But when you're making Youtube videos, podcasts, writing comments, talking with friends These things are not the same. When you talk with friends or when you write a comment, you have a limited audience and counter viewpoints are
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by gjulianm 6y ago
Although I liked the 'elegant' code after reading it, in general I would try to shy away from 'elegant' solutions that are actually harder to understand. Unless you are working with high-performance programs, most of the
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by gjulianm 6y ago
> Over the months, their ambition has been cut a lot by regulators. I don't see how this is a surprise. Facebook basically wanted to take monetary sovereignty away from states and give control to private companies. What did they exp
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by gjulianm 6y ago
As far as I understand, the main change with respect to Git is that commit hashes don't change depending on previous history, so if you rebase the same change IDs are retained. Personally I've never had an issue with conflicts aft
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by gjulianm 6y ago
At those speeds the problem is that the CPUs are not fast enough. Say you need to process these 25 Mpps (and that's being generous, the maximum packet rate at 100Gbps is 162Mpps), in a single core at 3,6 GHz: you have 144 clock cycles
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by gjulianm 6y ago
It's a very interesting article! Achieving 25Mpps throughput with all of those tasks to do per packet is amazing, even more with the headroom they have in resources. However, I miss more discussion on how to increase the number of conc
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by gjulianm 6y ago
But you have a cluster, which is already different from a single node. There I see how a layer to manage several nodes starts making sense. But when you're managing a single server, you already have a standardized API to deploy standar
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by gjulianm 6y ago
Offtopic question now that you mentioned running a Linux NAS... Which hardware are you using? Because I'm interested in building a home NAS but I don't seem to find any small box ready to hold several disk that isn't ridiculo
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by gjulianm 6y ago
I'd only need to get one certificate for Nginx and another for the SMTP server, which are two commands with Lets Encrypt. And setting up nginx as a reverse proxy for an application is as easy as adding two lines to a configuration file
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by gjulianm 6y ago
This is very well written, but also a marvel of overengineering in my opinion. It needs to - Set up a k3s cluster - Set up an ingress controller - Set up a certificate manager - Set up a Github actions pipeline to build and push Docker imag
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by gjulianm 6y ago
I run Prometheus + Grafana on a handful of machines we manage, with different software and setups. The cost of setting up a Prometheus instance and monitoring something is not too high, but things around it depend on your actual setup - Ser
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by gjulianm 6y ago
I mean, who actually does need an array of security cameras? Traditional alarms work well without the need for cameras, specially when cameras are simply defeated by a face covering. At that point, the camera is just a glorified motion sens
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by gjulianm 6y ago
The issue is that some concepts can't have descriptive names, unless you just explain the whole concept. For example. Lipschitz or Holder continuous function, or Riemanninan manifold... Whenever concepts can be described with a good na
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by gjulianm 6y ago
> All while management is clueless to it because it's all made up in the engineers mind. Saying that technical debt is made up is not a very productive approach. It's very real and programmers make the trade-off between less wo

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