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by kortilla 11mo ago
No it’s not. If the increased productivity is realized by multiple industries, then they all compete on price and the price of their goods comes down. That means the consumers of the product capture the gains in productivity. Farmers using
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by kortilla 11mo ago
No, just like neither the horse nor the steam engine paid taxes
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by kortilla 11mo ago
ASNs aren’t going to cut it. Google “residential proxies”
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by kortilla 11mo ago
The ietf standardization was irrelevant so I would give them some slack. ISPs were using CGNAT already in a widespread fashion. The ietf just said, “if we’re gonna do this shit, at least stay out of the blocks used by private networks”.
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by kortilla 11mo ago
https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/epicompliance/episo...
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by kortilla 11mo ago
You do know that data centers use backup generators because electricity is a single point of failure right? They even have multiple power supplies plugged into different circuits.
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by kortilla 11mo ago
Look at how much additional boilerplate it took in your example to ignore the error. In the Rust case you just don’t call unwrap() if you want to swallow errors like that. It’s also false that catching all exceptions is how you end up with
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by kortilla 11mo ago
unwrap is NOT idiomatic in Rust
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by kortilla 11mo ago
> You can't say "Rust did its job" and blame the programmer, You absolutely can. This is someone just calling panic in an error branch. Rust didn’t overrun the memory which would have been a real possibility here in C. The
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by kortilla 11mo ago
That’s just saying the same thing. American companies have engineering quality loss when they try to collaborate with people they can’t communicate well with. Whether it’s dumb Americans or poor ESL, it’s not really relevant to the outcome
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by kortilla 11mo ago
This is generally BS apologetics for C. If that was in C this would have just been overrunning the statically allocated memory amount and would have resulted in a segfault. Rust did its job and forced them to return an error from the lower
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by kortilla 11mo ago
Not really. In C or C++ that could have just been a segfault. .unwrap() literally means “I’m not going to handle the error branch of this result, please crash”.
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by kortilla 11mo ago
That’s not marketing related at all. It’s how network speeds have been measured long before ISPs were a business. A byte per second is no more intuitive than a nibble per second or a bit per second. You might be used to byte as a power user
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by kortilla 11mo ago
>A shortage necessarily means that if you make more of something, you're guaranteed to sell it basically instantly, so there's already an incentive to increase production. This is patently false. Every oil reserve around the wo
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by kortilla 11mo ago
>since scarcity is more a function of demand than supply This is incorrect. Anything that is bound by something like TSMC production is only made scarce when nvidia realizes they could sell out the entire run at $1000/card or whatev
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by kortilla 11mo ago
During the pandemic there wasn’t gouging? I just remember complete shortages of inventory like toilet paper, basic microchips, etc. It would have been better if people did raise prices during the pandemic for those things to prevent hoardin
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by kortilla 11mo ago
Price gouging has a specific meaning. It’s when costs are raised rapidly only because people are desperate and have no other choice. (e.g. water after a disaster) Retailers raising prices in reaction to an incoming event that will take supp
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by kortilla 11mo ago
Your mistake is assuming there is some correlation with usefulness and size. The JS Gmail UI from 15 years ago was just as functional as the one today. Websites that are supposed to be simple lists end up bloated and laggy because of really
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by kortilla 11mo ago
MTG gets a pass because she’s relatively new and mostly irrelevant. She’s also not on the side you expect to be better about avoiding shading money schemes given all of the public positioning. One smacks of hypocrisy while the other is a di
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by kortilla 11mo ago
That’s not insider information following the legal definition in the US. That’s why people want to make special laws to prevent this. It’s not insider information to buy or short a stock knowing you’re about to do something that will impact
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by kortilla 11mo ago
Well it’s pretty benign if they aren’t making different decisions on laws based on existing holdings. That’s just insider trading which is a tax on the shareholders. Bribery or anything else that affects their lawmaking decisions is signi
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by kortilla 11mo ago
How is this possible? Cars start where there is no cell service.
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by kortilla 11mo ago
That was part of why it failed though. The over-engineering made it very hard to recover costs
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by kortilla 11mo ago
It failed to make counter strike, moving on to something that can actually take advantage of AI.
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by kortilla 11mo ago
It’s corporate jargon, but it has a meaning - autonomy. If you’re in the “eye roll” camp you’re gonna max out on your potential pretty early.
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by kortilla 11mo ago
As a manager or even a technical leader, your head IS on the line, it just might not seem so obvious. Rollout delays, customer debacles, etc all shape your image to promo panels. If you’re just a junior engineer, it’s not like it will be he
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by kortilla 11mo ago
Nope, SREs keep applications running on a platform. Lots of metrics, tools to deploy apps in whatever rollout process the company has, etc. In small companies, sysadmin might be a duty of the SRE team, but they definitely diverge if you hav
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by kortilla 11mo ago
Google doesn’t censor those atrocities for the US government. That’s the key difference.
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by kortilla 11mo ago
Yep, when the party paying can decide not to pay and there are no teeth to extract payment, that gives immense power to the payer.
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by kortilla 11mo ago
The comparison to greenhouse gases doesn’t make sense. Corps pay a lot for developers right now because they get more value out of them than they cost. As long as that remains true, devs will be fine.

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