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by jjav 1y ago
> In a perfect world, I'd see no code at all and just tell the AI what I want, and a blackbox implementation with my product appears that I start to sculpt down to something I can work with and serve to users. That would be my ultim
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by jjav 1y ago
> OK, I'll bite. Name 2 or more cars from 2010 that got better than 50mpg. I'll wait......... Not 2010, which makes this so infuriating.. A 1986 Honda CRX HF was rated 51 MPG highway. That was an engine with stone-age technolog
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by jjav 1y ago
> The only way I can think of is “don’t buy a car made within the last 25 years” You don't need to go that far back. None of my cars have any kind of connectivity, the newest one is 2014. I'll never own a car with any kind of r
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by jjav 1y ago
> I'm shocked (literally) to see there are production vehicles with steer-by-wire. Couple that with OTA updates and you have a vehicle I'd refuse to ride in, much less purchase. Indeed, the risk is far too large to ignore. I wi
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by jjav 1y ago
Mainly so I don't need to run any source control server, it's all just files. Same for mercurial. Most of my internal use repositories are mercurial since it's so much more pleasant to use than git and for my hobby time I wan
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by jjav 1y ago
> and the popularity of Git github, specifically, I'd say. github normalized the (weird) idea that the central repo is over on someone else's website. You don't have to use git that way though. My internal git repositories
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by jjav 1y ago
The obsession with apps is a huge problem with all these. It needs to be as easy as a gas station. Pull up, plug in, tap credit card, done.
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by jjav 1y ago
> Now that we often have 1TB+ of storage locally on a laptop workstation (compare to the 100MB default of an early SPARCstation), I don't currently need NFS for anything. While diskless (or very limited disk) workstations were one u
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by jjav 1y ago
> cause problems Let's be very clear that "cause problems" in the context of HOAs means things like planting flowers on their private property that the HOA psychopaths don't like, or painting their house the "wro
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by jjav 1y ago
No problem running what I want on mac. I've never had a mac app store account, I find the idea repulsive so I don't. I download what I want and use it. I don't use windows but my kid has a gaming rig which has windows and I k
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by jjav 1y ago
> HOAs can be a PITA and petty and I err on the side of less governance but some people are recalcitrant, stubborn and just set in their ways. Recalcitrant about what? About using their own private property in a way they want (that doesn
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by jjav 1y ago
> It’s obviously a matter of precedent. If hoa allows that and then someone else decides to do something crazier, then association is liable for selective enforcement. The obvious solution is to make it illegal for HOAs to have any say w
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by jjav 1y ago
> tl;dr - most people complaining about HOAs just have no fucking clue what they are talking about People (most sane people anyway) don't randomly hate things they haven't experienced. That so many people despise HOAs is becaus
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by jjav 1y ago
> Am I missing how this is different from what we already have on most platforms? Most? The only platform that is like that is ios. On linux, in any form, I can run what I want. On a mac I can run what I want. On windows I can run what I
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by jjav 1y ago
In this case, the benefit of android is that the owner of the device owns it, so can run whatever they want, in stark contrast to apple. If that goes away, might as well use apple's walled garden. There is no point for android to exist
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by jjav 1y ago
> Not the definition of our government. Our founding documents state that "Congress shall make no law" along the lines of what Apple is being pressured to do here. I suggest read up on NSLs. Sure, that should not be legal if th
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by jjav 1y ago
> The government is a centralization of power, it doesn't matter if our devices are "decentralized" if the government can simply make it illegal to use unlocked devices. That is a very binary view of the world, but the wor
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by jjav 1y ago
> Personal liability on management never happens. Oh, of course it'll never happen. I'm just responding to the thread that if a government actually wanted to create an effective quality mechanism, it's possible.
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by jjav 1y ago
> The problem isn't the centralized control, it's the power the governments have. The governments will always have the power, that's pretty much built into the definition of government. So, technology needs to be built wit
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by jjav 1y ago
> I think that Apple is a company that has to obey the rule of law. Right, so the fundamental problem is having a device where the software that runs on it is controlled by a single company. It creates the attractive nuisance of being ab
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by jjav 1y ago
> It's sooo extremely easy to fake everything! The consequences part that I mentioned is where it's at, if one wanted to design a functioning system. If there's an incident and the investigation reveals an engineer signed
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by jjav 1y ago
> thanks to all of the cameras and sensors everywhere. Cameras are a band-aid that help a bit, but nothing beats actual clear visibility in all directions, something which newer cars lack. My partner has a newish VW and it's a menac
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by jjav 1y ago
> "only there to exchange his time for money, not make any meaningful contributions" I sometimes wish companies were more open to accepting these roles, instead of the up or out model. There is in many teams a lot of busywork t
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by jjav 1y ago
> >seems to taint young people into thinking that their employer is their enemy > Is this not true to a first approximation though? No, not at all. The company wants the employee to do well so that the team does well and the compan
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by jjav 1y ago
> If you're wondering - hey, that sounds terrible, why doesn't the FAA do anything about it? Answer, because it practically can't without maybe a 10x or more budget boost that's practically impossible. You're cor
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by jjav 1y ago
To be clear, you don't need to run email servers yourself just to use email which is an open protocol. There are plenty of providers, even if you steer clear (as you should) of the big monopolies of gmail and microsoft. But to address
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by jjav 1y ago
This is why the only way forward is open standards not owned by anyone, like SMTP.
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by jjav 1y ago
groups.io lists are free for lists with under 100 participants, the $20/mo would be for a premium plan which doesn't sound like you'd need that. https://groups.io/static/compare google mailing lists are
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by jjav 1y ago
groups.io is decent if you're looking for hosted solutions. Most of the mailing lists I'm on that used to be on yahoo groups moved to groups.io
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by jjav 1y ago
> but there's no business model in it. I mean this is precisly why email is best. Being an open standard, it's not a business. Nobody owns it, nobody can. Those are fundamental to its strenght.

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