knewter

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by knewter 3y ago
Fireworks was the closest thing to figma we got before figma. It was the very best webdev design tool before adobe bought and murdered it. I remember being excited that Photoshop was going to start to work more like fireworks when they boug
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by knewter 3y ago
This is my experience and that of everyone I talk to in my daily life. It's like a very weird bubble on HN and in the media, where people are ignoring things like "my tracked expenses for groceries are 60% higher than they were in
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by knewter 3y ago
A better analogy would be "man who invented much about modern walls, invented JavaMortar, and has built infrastructure around maintaining the open source wall in question, can maintain wall he's been maintaining." Really roll
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by knewter 3y ago
Aww, I loved GNN. Free email and nntp I believe were the most compelling things about it.
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by knewter 3y ago
Kinda hard to make a competitor if you can't scrape the web because curl hasn't been blessed
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by knewter 3y ago
Except increasingly the world will access it via drm aware browsers because their banks require it, and the open web audience will subsequently dwindle. The Halloween memos called this "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish". Google didn&#x
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by knewter 3y ago
A guy gave a $3100 dollars to a political cause of his choice that was on the ballot, and people with this ideology drove him out of the company he founded that fought very hard for internet freedoms. Since then, Mozilla/Firefox has la
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by knewter 3y ago
I maintain that banning the sharing of prime numbers is outside of the powers of a legitimate government, regardless.
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by knewter 3y ago
> That's the reality that drove the formation of these agencies. I said federal agencies are inefficient. You argued they were created for a reason. This isn't exactly an argument.
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by knewter 3y ago
And nerves makes it easy to do IoT stuff / almost-embedded
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by knewter 3y ago
I've always found "you don't understand, it took a really long time " to be an incredible copout
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by knewter 3y ago
Google used it in flaxformers since 2021 apparently
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by knewter 3y ago
> encryption be banned You want a law that says we can't share prime numbers?
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by knewter 3y ago
Now do US taxes
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by knewter 3y ago
What about putting yourself in such miserable conditions that you will forget human decency and commit the non-petty crime of violating everyone's constitutional rights?
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by knewter 3y ago
You're claiming that a federal agency is useful because of efficiency. My sides.
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by knewter 3y ago
Brendan Eich getting fired was like watching the original internet get murdered by progressives. Everything since then has been about how I thought that would go.
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by knewter 3y ago
> I'm worried people might die. The only solution is to kill lots of people. You know that, when productivity goes down, people that can barely survive already will die. Right?
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by knewter 3y ago
I met Fernand at the first ElixirConf. Lovely dude, had a lot of fun hanging out. Chatted a few times since then, always a treat. I use his software 100 days a year
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by knewter 3y ago
Kant's categorical imperative
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by knewter 3y ago
Yeah then also there's partisan. I didn't figure anyone that needed to go beyond 150 nodes would fail to learn this stuff, but I appreciate you mentioning it so I don't accidentally drive-by convince someone there's an u
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by knewter 3y ago
Erlang/elixir is a very nice middle ground situation where you can build "monolithically" but also inherently be building services that are isolated, and you can scale to 50-150 nodes before getting any more complicated. 150
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by knewter 3y ago
"you can run a company for nearly a decade while spending a great deal on lawyers talking to the government the whole time and still have no clue if your business is legal"
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by knewter 3y ago
Everyone buying a book expects to profit at least as much as the cost of the book from it
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by knewter 3y ago
ratpoison! That was my first tiling wm and no one could use my desktop casually anymore. I didn't mind :)
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by knewter 3y ago
My dad ran a robotics engineering company after being vp of engineering for a company Siemens bought that did factory automation (conveyors first, then of course robots). Playing doom in his office while he overworked into the night is when
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by knewter 3y ago
I had a South African friend in middle and high school. They fled the country when it became popular to put a tire around a white person's neck, full it with gasoline, and light it. Mandela's wife promoted doing this. They gained
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by knewter 3y ago
"the eich"
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by knewter 3y ago
The obvious acronym was NADS but we live in a generation of quislings
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by knewter 3y ago
My wife showed me that eating a spoon of peanut butter reliably cures the hiccups early in our marriage .

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