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by klabb3 5y ago
Yep, agreed. For instance, you have more bandwidth and CPU power today than in the 90s but the number of rent seekers you and walled gardens you have to use are much bigger. So the topology has changed.
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by klabb3 5y ago
Fascinating, and indeed related. One of the most interesting tactics was people who admit they're wrong or otherwise signal that they're willing to change their view, but they're really not. That's an excellent example o
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by klabb3 5y ago
> I've always been fascinated by the idea that intelligence lies within a spectrum. Someone might be incredibly smart about a narrow topic or field, yet be blind to their own stupidity within another realm. I've been seriously
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by klabb3 5y ago
Thoughts: - prose and comments are greatly improved with shorter lines (I switched to reader mode to read the post) - a logical code line often exceeds optimal prose length (70-80), due to indentation, syntax, language idioms etc - code is
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by klabb3 5y ago
Late to the party, but I strongly agree with your comments in this thread, based on similar experience in a corporate environment. The weird paradox in this governance model is why we see so much fluff around the actual autocracy that - at
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by klabb3 5y ago
> There's no shortage of guidance to "stay away from X tech because the community is toxic and non-serious" Absolutely, but the remedy is often worse than the illness. Codifying good behavior - and in particular policing l
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by klabb3 5y ago
Not that the other replies are wrong, but it's quite predictable from an evolutionary perspective that the physiology adapts for a range of different environments. Many animals can withstand a large range of temperature, so why not a r
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by klabb3 5y ago
> Blame the voters. Voters have agency. Meta: I appreciate your candidness in getting to the point, I wish more political debate was like this instead of wrapped in layers of fluff. I disagree though, and I'd go further and say sele
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by klabb3 5y ago
> The fact that we operate a strictly optional logically centralised directory service to look up matrix IDs by email address or phone number. I really wish we'd never added this to Matrix; it causes way more grief than it solves
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by klabb3 5y ago
> You shouldn't enter your username and password for one website into another. You shouldn't train users to do so either. I'd even argue that this is the much bigger point. The only practical way we have to avoid phishing
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by klabb3 5y ago
> You do all that work at the precise point where the last reference was dropped. True, but rarely meaningful in practice. People don't anticipate spikes at implicit deallocation sites. On the contrary, they typically use RCs to sha
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by klabb3 5y ago
Yes, and to be perfectly clear don't have a minimum length (either empty or nullable) and make it mutable, in any case where you're doing some form of soft identification (e.g. "Hi, $NAME, here is your reservation" or &q
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by klabb3 5y ago
> We have people who can pay to have individual transportation and not have to put up with the minor inconveniences of public transport. Air travel is public transport and Americans use it all the time. High speed rail has worked fabolou
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by klabb3 5y ago
> Unfortunately, DNT is not a clear declaration of intent Often it is. Firefox, Brave and Safari explicitly advertise themselves as privacy-friendly browsers. That leaves non-savvy users who just use whatever defaults exists, but there i
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by klabb3 5y ago
While Facebook has created an addictive and destructive engagement machine, I'm really unimpressed with the contrarian response - as if manual follow/curation & reverse chrono is the only alternative. While transparency and co
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by klabb3 5y ago
https://www.unacast.com/post/hedge-fund-location-data > Modeling consumer behavior and forecasting future financial performance based on foot traffic and POI data; > Evaluating and managing real estate ass
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by klabb3 5y ago
This is actually a great hacktivism idea! It could include all influential people who are enablers of today's system, such as regulators and politicians. Is it legal to publicly disclose this data, or is it only legal to collect and se
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by klabb3 5y ago
I ordered a monitor from Newegg that I needed for work, so time was important: - Delivery time was like a week longer than they claimed. - When it arrived it had a dead (red) pixel. - Their customer support told me that dead pixels below a
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by klabb3 6y ago
Wormhole.app mentions that the transfer is p2p AND that the encrypted files are stored on the server for 24 hours. Does the client send two streams (1 to server - 1 p2p)? What happens e.g. if the receiver client comes online during an ongoi
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by klabb3 6y ago
In order to understand why async Rust is difficult to use today, one must understand the background and goals of Rust, in particular Rust's zero-cost abstractions: The type- and trait system got Rust very, very far, delivering static d
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by klabb3 7y ago
+1. It is quite an achievement by Go as a language and/or community to have generally short lines of code where two columns fit in a regular website width. I don't like everything about Go, but it's usually pretty easy on the