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by igor47 1y ago
What do you prefer?
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What are the subsidies?
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You should read "the cuckoos egg", written by a happy go lucky nerd in the 80s dawn of network systems. Already there were bad actors in the system and he fought an uphill battle to implement network security. You're already
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by igor47 1y ago
I still regularly use very old laptops and phones. These devices don't stop functioning when they're disconnected from a cloud network.
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This is complete moral bankruptcy. You're saying it would be better, rather than developing excellency, to instead become a parasite. I understand that in a world where winning is all that matters, this might be a viable strategy... Fo
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This is basically what happened during Trump's first term. He was always announcing crazy shit, and then all the people working for him tried to keep it from happening. This was used in the last election as evidence the Trump's po
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Solar module prices over the past 20 years went from $2/watt to $.3/watt. Installed prices are a little more, going from maybe $6/watt to ~ $3/watt. I paid about $3.5/watt installed in Berkeley 3 years ago, a place
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My goal was to steelman an argument I disagree with. I'm not convinced -- I think climate change is a huge problem and we should move as fast as possible to try to solve it. But I also strongly dislike my allies on the left who reflexi
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Are you assuming people are rational, informed, and interested? Strong assumptions. I recommend doing a little research vs going off the vibes
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I *strongly* disagree with Trump climate policy but I can give it a shot. Basically, fossil fuels have been a machine for lifting people out of poverty and creating economic growth. If you overlay charts of growth on top of charts of energy
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You had me until collapse. What are you picturing exactly? I think humans are really good at muddling through, and life will go on. I think enshittification is a better paradigm to think about the future than apocalypse
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Wait so, the thing that is broken is capitalism, and capitalism is the thing that's broken? Doesn't this seem a little circular?
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Not the op, but I think the IRA and to a lesser degree the IIJA were important bills that tackled big, important problems -- climate change, protecting security critical domestic manufacturing, building domestic energy production capacity.
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So, people should stop using substack because they might disagree with the writing of some other people using substack?
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If you're actually interested in skepticism, I recommend the podcast Skeptics Guide to the Universe (SGU). James Randi was a good friend of the hosts. The show mainly is a discussion of general science news from a skeptical lens. Their
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by igor47 1y ago
Absolutely! The entire UFO phenomenon is just edging its true believers, or like dubstep that takes infinitely long to get to the drop. Always there's something that's about to be revealed or blow the whole thing open, but then it
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imho, as much as i like firebase, i think the design encourages this kind of broken security model. the default is open-to-the-world with credentials in the client app. setting up firebase permissions is kind of a pain. in the traditional d
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The worst start -up I ever joined (and this is saying something!) had this problem that this article really describes well, of focusing on downside problems while in the upside phase. It looked like the founder insisting on literally 100% u
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... When the message is delivered? I think 0 or 1 message-rewriting proxies is typical, anything more is out of the ordinary.
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Is chronic pain an outlier here, or representative of wider trends? My uninformed prior is that surgery is not a good approach for chronic pain, and that the NHS is more likely to cover surgeries with a more clear-cut cost/benefit rati
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That sucks. FWIW I had a sandstorm instance back in the day, and I think it was an idea ahead of it's time. The stuff you were trying to do I think got easier as containers became more widely adopted, and as enshittification has made t
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I'm pretty excited about the Slate, bezo's car startup. No built in UI, bring your own device, including screens and sound. Potentially avoids all the overstuffed software issues in modern vehicles
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Rivian software is pretty meh. I've never had a safety critical failure while driving, but have had multiple other issues including being trapped in the car unable to exit until after a reboot. Worse -- rivian has no mechanism for repo
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Except now thanks to climate change the water levels might drop below the intake in lake Mead. Lake Powell is even worse, Glenn canyon dam was always a mistake, and it might stop producing power next year.
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I was in a Chicago taxi where the driver was basically passing out but (I think) chewing qat to keep awake
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Good write up, and solid choices. As someone primarily working in python in the last few years, I have a very similar stack. Two additional suggestions: * mise to manage system dependencies, including uv version and python itself * just ins
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Just curious -- which takes? That immigrants are destroying life for people from Wisconsin? That universities are anti progress and should pay a price? That the Trump administration is the only way to save progress and growth in America? Am
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I currently configure signal to back up into a directory that's synced to my server via syncthing
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Maybe similar to how mullvad VPN does it? You get a secondary identifier distinct from your signal username, and payments and quota are associated with that identifier?
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The problem as usual is the tragedy of the commons. We might be collectively better off under rule of law, but the tribal law of the jungle system produces concentrated winners, who will use their winnings to continue to subvert rule of law

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