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by jrm4 1y ago
Hmm, it could? From a fundamental POV, all the technology can do is act as a public ledger, executing and confirming transfers of money from one "account" to another. There's a whole lot of stuff being experimentally built on
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by jrm4 1y ago
Perhaps more accurately, crypto can solve this problem. Right now it's hard, but if you want a solid permanent solution to this problem, crypto's a better long term bet than "let's hope the banks become less prudish.&q
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by jrm4 1y ago
Hmm, I mean been doing this for years. Some were interesting because they DIDN'T accomplish much and things went bad but then we could kind of post-mortem in the class. Others had some pretty cool things that ended up in real life; I
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by jrm4 1y ago
I get very few failures, but that's a selection thing; it's a junior senior "big picture" IT class.
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by jrm4 1y ago
It seems to go in waves? Rarely is it one or two, I imagine there's some peer pressure thing going on. Something like all or nothing.
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by jrm4 1y ago
So. I teach at a university and I do give an "assignment" exactly like this. In a few of my classes, I have final projects that teams work on. I also have presentations. I used to require them of all students; and quickly learned
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by jrm4 1y ago
Right, I think this gets at the biggest issue with "judging languages." We'd like 'thereotical fundamental aesthetics that strongly predict beautiful and useful programs' to be the thing to judge languages on and we
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by jrm4 1y ago
Yes, but I'm imagining that this isn't something that works in conjunction with another terminal program, but that it's one program -- some kind of shell/GUI hybrid. I have actually seen this before, in the very fun but
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by jrm4 1y ago
Obviously, different ways for different folks -- I never got into tmux, but perhaps relatedly, what I want is a well thought out and stable terminal/GUI filemanager hybrid thing; e.g. I can either "cd" or just click where I w
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by jrm4 1y ago
Yup, similar to other comment. I fear that todays kids are too compliant on everything; the script kiddie ethos at the time still wasn't primarily clear fraud, just chaos. Which, yeah, I think we could use a little of that now.
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by jrm4 1y ago
Ew. Genuinely hard to read this and think little more than, "oh look, another justification for low quality software."
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by jrm4 1y ago
What? We have zero right to externalize it? That's absolutely ridiculous and I'm surprised this is a thought taken seriously. The Web isn't some sort of optional little playground anymore; it's literally the "cybe
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I'm not aware of "a bunch." But to the extent that we do, they are toothless. In the space of relatively large/noticeable companies, there has not been any remotely significantly deterring punishment handed out to tho
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by jrm4 1y ago
Oh, you and I 100% agree. I meant the useful legal work too. AKA, get the four freedoms and law in line as much as possible and no more. You're right, most all the other licences range from "hmm interesting experiment" to &
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by jrm4 1y ago
If true, GOOD. I 100% unironically believe we're better off more script kiddies today, not fewer.
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by jrm4 1y ago
Honestly, I think "the framers" got it right here. Too much communicating of the ethics would have bogged down the useful legal work. My take is, Free Software actually won and we're in a post-that world.
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by jrm4 1y ago
No, because "open source" itself was never clear enough to carry that weight. That's why we keep being annoying about "Free Software."
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by jrm4 1y ago
Right, I'm thinking --- if you put it on a grid are there properties on rows? or columns? If not, eeehhh
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by jrm4 1y ago
Yeah, and as a Black person in America, I'd argue that more care needs to be taken here. Take "Woke" -- a perfect example of a reasonable term we had, like "hey folks, stay alert and awake to the issues around you and
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by jrm4 1y ago
I mean, hard for me to regard this as "cheating" worth taking seriously. Unless those clothes have little propellers in 'em. :)
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by jrm4 1y ago
To me, further highlights the extent to which all touchscreens are essentially "child-level" interfaces. This isn't inherently bad, but does likely put a hard limit on the complexity (and dare I say, usefulness) of the tasks
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by jrm4 1y ago
I'm sorry, given that nothing reasonably close to this has happened already even though it should have, what makes you think it will now?
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by jrm4 1y ago
I honestly don't think that "vibecoding/AI" are likely to make cybersecurity all that much worse, for the obvious reason of how trash it is already. If anything, perhaps you'll get an antifragility effect; e.g. you
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by jrm4 1y ago
Obviously, our two options here (and pretty much always are) "don't use this word because it hurts feelings and reinforces stereotypes" or "let's all step back and try to decide/encourage the idea that it is ac
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by jrm4 1y ago
A little offtopic, but this headline perfectly illustrates why I (a Black person, perhaps relevant) never much liked the term "micro-aggressions" in the way it was initiated. Call the person out as e.g. racist or don't. Or ca
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by jrm4 1y ago
Like so many possible networking/connection nice things that we can't have, you really can directly blame this one on "the companies." Brought to you by the same people that made "peer-to-peer" a dirty word.
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by jrm4 1y ago
The actual solution is extremely simple in explanation, though really hard to pull off. It's "skin in the game." Right now, cloud services fail horribly at much of what they promise or merely imply; safety, security, long te
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by jrm4 1y ago
As an old-timer, going through this thread, I must say that there's just not enough hate for the whole Windows/Mac OS inclination to not want to let users be experimental. Everyone here is sort of caught up in this weird middle gr
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by jrm4 1y ago
Funny, I just posted a standalone question but I'll repeat it here: Anyone out there using Generative AI to modify their environment et al? Basically to attack the whole "lisp" thing? I see the potential in the power and woul
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Can Generative AI coding make Emacs and Org-Mode worth it now?
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