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by hosh 2y ago
Wades-Giles is closer to English-friendly, but it has a lot of flaws. It has no notion of intonations. I think there is also the issue of cultural dominance. "English-friendly" means the foreign language is morphed to better suit
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by hosh 2y ago
Pinyin is pretty good at rendering Manderin in a Latin script. Can you elaborate on what you mean by “English-friendly”?
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by hosh 2y ago
- turn on lights — there are smart light bulbs that phone home to the cloud. Along with smart assistance, home automation, etc. those are exactly the things that should be local-first, or at least, the server software should be onsite (such
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by hosh 2y ago
That is a disappointing interpretation of “local-first”, and would not suit the kind of applications I want to write. On the other hand, this is still tethered to the server, so likely more commercially viable than a true local-first design
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by hosh 2y ago
The patent laws does not require such thing. If it were, there may be some unforseen consequences. For example, during the late 1800s, a number of companies bandied together to pool their patents together for a commercially viable sewing ma
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by hosh 2y ago
But then that means the version you use to develop is not necessarily the version you end up in production. Or that the version one developer uses is not the same version another developer on the same team uses.
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by hosh 2y ago
I have had to use older versions of npm on unsupported nodejs. There was no pinning, or guard rails with upgrading. I have borked the entire npm install doing that because the later npm wanted to use newer syntax that was not backwards comp
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by hosh 2y ago
It’s even worse when npm install modifies the package lock file. It also doesn’t understand how to get packages from a git source. From a release engineering perspective, this drives me batty.
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by hosh 2y ago
You can be not gullible, and they will find some way to get at you. Like to argue? They will jujutsu that. Think you are too intelligent to fall for this? They'll use that. If you find a trick that works, they learn and adapt. Best way
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by hosh 2y ago
My wife and I signed. It was exhausting. I did a token effort at looking at the contract and found the recension clause they had to include as required by law. When I asked about it, the way everyone else froze in that moment and then tried
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by hosh 2y ago
Timeshares are very much scammy. What sucks is that it's all legal. If anything, the law -- the ones that protect the interests of real estate owners and lenders -- is used to lock people into making payments that are very difficult to
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by hosh 2y ago
Timeshares themselves are already shady, and there are many people desperate to offload them. Also, there are psychological biases at play too, regardless of whether you are older or newer to the country. One of key bias in the engine that
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by hosh 2y ago
It goes with the perception of corporate greed. Boeing stocks have shot up, profits are not being shared, and those profits came at a cost of safety, and it isn't as if market share had not still declined against Airbus. I wouldn'
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by hosh 2y ago
NIFs do have that downside. Rust NIFs mitigates some of those risks, but that doesn't work so well with other languages. Port drivers have their own tradeoffs, but you can retain the fault isolation.
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by hosh 2y ago
What do you mean by per-node efficiency?
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by hosh 2y ago
Out in the field, smoothing out variances can be just as important to overall performance and reliability.
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by hosh 2y ago
I have used a portion of that capabilities for live debugging on prod machines to test things out before putting it through source code and using the regular CI/CD for deployment. However, the CD deployment does not rely on hot reloadi
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by hosh 2y ago
Henson is a safety razor, so the razor are disposable after about 4 - 5 uses (sometimes shorter). These razor blades do not come in a cartridge, they don't make their own blades, and encourage you to try different blades from different
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by hosh 2y ago
That was what I got but I didn’t want to turn it into an ad or cult, even though their product makes it easy to do so. The way I think of it is that, unless I lose mine’s, it is easily something that can be passed down as an heirloom or leg
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by hosh 2y ago
It turns out, properly engineered and precision machined safety razors saves you nicks and cuts and is a better shave than disposable or electric shavers. These razors angle the cutting edge at a certain angle, and has very little jiggle. Y
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by hosh 2y ago
It is probably compensated by the shield and the heavier torso armor. Attacks to legs (depending upon height differences) reduces the measure unless the attacker squat and thrust without leaning forward. Big shields also have similar issues
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by hosh 2y ago
Running prey into nets, or in this case, pikes seem to be make more sense. The steppe nomads of Asia used mass volleys of arrows from horseback to harass and direct pret into prepared positions. Ranged weapons (thrown rocks, hunting clubs,
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by hosh 2y ago
Fair enough. I’ve been thinking about what a local-first software forge would look like. I have my doubts it would be commercially valuable though.
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by hosh 2y ago
I was comparing git as a local first software, and earlier in the thread, comparing it to local-first food systems. One of the properties of such is resilience. Maybe there are different ideas on what local-first means. However, when that s
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by hosh 2y ago
I had been thinking about looking at history from the lens of information technology. China is an interesting example, in that it was so well ahead of the curve until around 1700s. In the 1800s, when telegraphs were connecting the Western w
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by hosh 2y ago
I used subversion. Subversion required too much synchronization with the central server. The point is, git lets us use github, or not github. Branching is cheap, which enabled a kind of collaboration that subversion did not.
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by hosh 2y ago
Looking back now, I don’t think async software development would have worked so well without one of the older local-first software — before CDRT — git. Sure, we synchronize at a central point of collaboration (github and gitlab). It is havi
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by hosh 2y ago
I was not even aware that the narrative around local-first focused on realtime collaboration. By the time I had come across it, I had been deeply looking at local-first food systems, so local-first software made sense to me for similar reas
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by hosh 2y ago
Neat idea. From another lens, it looks almost like AIs running a Turing Test for humans.
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by hosh 2y ago
Socialization isn’t about doing things like pizza night or having games. It’s more about establishing connection and rapport, the basis of trust and communication. Most people are not going to be doing that asynchronously.

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