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by jasode 5y ago
>Why would you spin up a full kernel to run a single application You're misunderstanding the levels of abstraction probably because the word "kernel" within "unikernel" is throwing you off. The idea is to
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by jasode 5y ago
>I think that even when using a third-party server, like, say, Google Groups or https://lists.sr.ht/ for this, the amount of control you get over your data and conversations is much higher than something like Discord. A
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by jasode 5y ago
>“serverless” terms misleading? [...] I think the terms are intentionally misleading. What is your sentiment? To make peace with it, just realize that a lot of words like the ones ending in suffix "-less" are not absolutes
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by jasode 5y ago
>do folks review their notes at all? I suspect back links aren’t the actual problem. During undergrad, I found I rarely reviewed my class notes, Discussing the word "notes" is not easy because it encompasses a bunch of dif
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by jasode 5y ago
>, but I think email lists the most accessible decentralized substitute. [...] my comment where I select email precisely because it uses boring old technology that is already available as native applications. No one has to install FTP s
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by jasode 5y ago
>There is no reason why a social media company needs to exist as such. It should be easy to make a personal html/css based website You're misunderstanding the true sticky feature of Facebook for the billions of normal non-ge
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by jasode 5y ago
>but he seems to mean “aren’t easy to monetize.” Signal is a non-profit entity.[1] E.g. Billionaire Brian Acton "donated" (aka 50-year loan at 0%) about $105 million to keep Signal running. If Signal has a monetizing agenda
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by jasode 5y ago
>You have to pretend to be a neutral reader who knows nothing of what's in your head, only what you wrote. [...] If you make an effort, you can read your writing as if you were a complete stranger, and when you do the news is usual
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by jasode 5y ago
>Children can learn programming or other skills later but playing with toys Not debating you but I find it interesting how both your comments _differentiates_ "learn programming" vs "playing with toys". When I learn
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by jasode 5y ago
>What is stopping [...] Java, JS, and C# files in UTF-8? The output of files on disk can be UTF-8. The continued use of UCS-2 (later revised to UTF16) is happening in the runtime because things like the Win32 API which C# uses is UC
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by jasode 5y ago
>You're looking at simple, static pages. Stackoverflow pages have many dynamic components like vote counts, reputation points, sidebar related-questions-links, new comments, etc. An excerpt from their blog explains they can&#
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by jasode 5y ago
The new option happened around 2014-07: https://old.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/2a32sq/experimen... Apparently, there were some subreddits that got bombarded with unwanted comments which prompted the
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by jasode 5y ago
>When I was a kid, we use to look forward to the Olympics. It was a big deal. The whole family would gather around the TV to watch the events live regardless of timezone. [...] Nowadays, [...] No one cares. Heck, some people don’t even
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by jasode 5y ago
>Get your legal department involved. We have repeatedly been taken off various public and private blacklists by having lawyers do their job. What's the particular law that makes those curators of blacklists pay attention to your
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by jasode 5y ago
>, about how podcasts would need to be more decentralised, self hosted and directly payed for (instead of sponsored). That proposal isn't appealing to someone like JRE because he can't get $100 million per year from decentral
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by jasode 5y ago
This essay is too simplistic about the motivations of some crypto holders. For many people, the more complete sentiment is this: People don't want to run their own bank but they'd rather deal with that extra hassle instead of l
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by jasode 5y ago
>When I was a kid, I had an Apple II with a BASIC interpreter, [...] a computer like that, where there are a lot of open-ended ways to create. I think your particular childhood memories that understandably left an imprint on you have
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by jasode 5y ago
>What's broken is what we want to do with the bookmarks once we have them. The problem is we don't know exactly what that is. [...] We don't know why we really make those bookmarks. I think a lot of us do know why we sav
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by jasode 5y ago
>I wish there were a tool that could just record everything [...] if you "know" everything, then notes serve no purpose. I guess the completeness of your proposed "auto-memorize-everything" solution depends on what
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by jasode 5y ago
>Blame Google's ChromeOS ambitions (especially pre-Android integration) for opening the Pandora's Box of WebApps. Chrome OS is 2011 (first announced 2009). But before that, lots of people wanted the power of so-called "
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by jasode 5y ago
>This is the reason for my strong dislike of online content moving to video. It's way, way harder to skim a video to see if it's decent quality. It depends on what people mean by "hardware". If the hardware is comp
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by jasode 5y ago
>Apparently the option to hide pop-ups is only available to subscribers in the new subscriber version Paying for a subscription and yet still receive a debt collection notice doesn't instill a lot of confidence in the business pr
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by jasode 5y ago
>Using higher-order functions does not suddenly turn imperative programming into declarative programming. I wasn't talking about strict definitions of "declarative programming" vs "imperative programming" to sa
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by jasode 5y ago
>These solutions don't necessarily have anything to do with the concepts as you name them. Why not? A "GROUP BY" syntax is -- relatively speaking -- more declarative than handwritten imperative code looping through a cu
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by jasode 5y ago
>I feel like declarative is some kind of technical manual meme [...] With "declarative" I still have to find out what's the intuition WHY it's supposedly better, >, why it's implicitly assumed to be better
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by jasode 5y ago
>What's this about? Do we all secretly believe we can be truly better people if we can just get this right? Or are we just endlessly curious about what everyone else does? I don't think it's just a belief as some of us h
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by jasode 5y ago
>Any reasons (beyond PR) that these highlights are posted on the blog of GitHub instead of on the main website of Git itself? Probably the most obvious reason is that author Taylor Blau is employed by Github. If Github funds his work
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by jasode 5y ago
The "things" in the charitable reading of "buy experiences not things" are about the throwaway consumerism stuff that ends up in landfills. Stuff like fast fashion or kids toys that children get immediately bored of
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by jasode 5y ago
>Can somebody explain to me why I wouldn't just rent a 40 EUR dedicated server from Hetzner [...] , I just don't understand why people use cloud services. This recurring question of "why AWS/Azure instead of Hetzne
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by jasode 5y ago
Some previous threads on the Azoulay/Jones/Kim paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16902662

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