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by jrm4 1y ago
"Woke" is perhaps the freaking platonic ideal of what this article criticizes. I'm black. It once was just a mostly fun little word that meant "Hey man, are you paying attention to the world around you?" And today i
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by jrm4 1y ago
:) Definitions are rarely definite if we're even discussing them.
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Nailed it. Many, if not MOST "political debates" you see can probably be deflated by just clearly having each side define their terms. E.g. Capitalism is often either "people making favorable trades" or "exploitatio
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This is such a "technically true, the worst kind of true" take. Whatever group or person "got Wayland going" collectively or individually made a clear choice to abandon a lot of load-bearing standards, and its disengenuo
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Okay, so as something of an old-timer: WAT Like, as someone who teaches IT -- an article like this getting this high in hacker news is just very wild to me. Which is to say: The answer that ought to be obvious to this crowd is "Downl
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by jrm4 1y ago
Again. <expletive> ANY Linux project that strongly breaks backwards compatibility. Not surprised that it's still messing with people even this late in the game.
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Again, can't help but wonder when we might improve this conversation by more strongly defining "what kind of programming." It's just like "Are robots GOOD or BAD at building things?" WHAT THINGS?
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He absolutely always has been. Nassim Nicholas Taleb hates him for a very good and simple reason. Lack of skin-in-the-game. It's just arguably immoral to make predictions for a living in such a way that "being wrong" does
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One might wonder, however, if it's kind of different now because it can be "less personal?" Like, it doesn't have to be "a small number of very powerful rich benefactors who know exactly what they're doing&quot
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Right, I suppose I mean "getting more people to think about why a few of these bookmarked for your favorite topics, especially tied to a trustworthy person, is a million times better than just hitting up Google." Or, perhaps, a &q
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by jrm4 1y ago
Lots of Obsidian talk here. As someone who started with the OG https://zim-wiki.org , I tried Obsidian and never found it compelling enough to switch. I did, however, with Logseq. On the surface they're deeply similar -- but
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by jrm4 1y ago
More to the point, it's a shame that we can't collectively grok (dammit, they took that from us too) concepts like "personal" and/or "curated" directories, e.g. individual and group wikis and so forth on p
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by jrm4 1y ago
This is brilliant and I can't believe I haven't heard this idea before.
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One, I doubt your premise ever happens in a meaningfully true and visible way -- but perhaps more important, I'd say you're factually wrong in terms of "what is called AI?" Among most people, you're thinking of thin
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This isn't likely to happen for roughly the same reason Hypercard didn't become the universal way for novices to create apps.
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A demo is basically "let me show off something cool and amazing that shouldn't be possible re: graphics and sound." One great analogy I heard somewhere -- if videogames are prose, demos are poetry.
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Yeah, no, count me in with those who think that "All they do is hallucinate" is the correct way to say this and anything else dangerously obscures things. More than anything, we need transparency on how these things work. For
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by jrm4 1y ago
Oh, so do I. But I wonder if it's just in that class of things like Openbox? There may just not be more to do. I'm still using it.
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by jrm4 1y ago
Yeah, as grumpy op, I should slow down and give your ideas more credit. Very optimistically -- what you're saying is correct. There is a best case scenario in which Stripe et al observe all of these already working and perhaps popula
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by jrm4 1y ago
Supposedly, but it doesn't seem to be happening -- the problem with those 2nd layers is that they end up simply inserting a point of failure that happens to be the entire point of cryptocurrency.
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by jrm4 1y ago
You are wrong; if a smart contract is successfully deployed to the Ethereum blockchain, a thing that happens all the time -- it is not as if individual computers have the choice to run that code (or to make the app available). The action is
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by jrm4 1y ago
Operating system or perhaps virtual machine, then.
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by jrm4 1y ago
Not sure; Tinc existed first. The point of Tinc is basically OpenVPN but automatically meshes and there is no such thing as a "main server?" Just get them all to find any of the others, and everyone's connected.
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All pointless. None of those things require a blockchain and are all made less efficient by doing them that way. Again, truly decentralized cryptocurrency ADDS slow clunky overhead; that's the price of decentralization. Everything you&
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by jrm4 1y ago
The fees and slowness of BTC have essentially rendered it unusable as a "real cryptocurrency" and is more-or-less just being taken over by the banks. The others aren't doing well right now despite the fact that the tech that
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by jrm4 1y ago
I'll chime in here;e.g. Ethereum is more than a database. It's a computer. You can write and execute code on it. (but also, as OP, Stripe will almost certainly not have any use for this)
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by jrm4 1y ago
I understand all of this and I stand by my claim of pointlessness. Stripe, nor any other bank or bank-esque thing needs this because they have already well solved their problem of "trust." "Blockchain" is pointless ove
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Ah the layers. Okay, so one: Obviously pointless from a tech POV. There is nothing that a Stripe controlled blockchain could offer that a database could not. But then, why? Sadly, as someone who does like the ideals of true cryptocurrency
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by jrm4 1y ago
Once again, I'll both big-up and ask what's up with Tinc. As in, I've been using it for years and still do, it's sort of an integral part of my whole deal, but it also seems kind of unmaintained, I haven't checked o
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by jrm4 1y ago
I cannot express how deeply wrong you are about this; a "server system" is not some mandate that it should be production ready for a ton of people on the internet. This is a program that very different people want or need to try o

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