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by lucideer 10mo ago
The table comparisons here of Simplex vs Signal, XMPP & Matrix don't seem particularly interesting (like for like) beyond demonstrating the general differences between decentralised & federated systems. Has anyone done a compar
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by lucideer 10mo ago
It sounds like you haven't read the article. They're advocating for fully decentralised protocols over federated ones.
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by lucideer 10mo ago
The highlight from that thread https://xcancel.com/dok2001/status/1989005141450846470#m
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by lucideer 10mo ago
> Could it be cheaper or faster? Probably Ultimately, it depends on your stack & your bottlenecks. If you can afford to run slower queries then focusing your efforts elsewhere makes sense for you. We run ~25kqps average & mostl
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by lucideer 10mo ago
> at a company that has reached the scale where employing engineers to manage self-hosted databases is more cost effective than outsourcing. This is the crux of one of the most common fallacies in software engineering decision making t
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by lucideer 10mo ago
> unlike passwords, there is no good provider migration story I'm curious what the "good provider migration story" you're referring to here for passwords is? Password managers by-and-large haven't agreed on a s
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by lucideer 11mo ago
The wording & framing of these things is an interesting topic in the context of the W3C's decision to drop WebSQL. A "rewrite" softly implies a replacement (intent that SQLite users would all migrate to Turso eventually &
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by lucideer 11mo ago
> There's a significant blind-spot in current LLMs related to blue-sky thinking and creative problem solving I'd hesitate to call this a blind spot. LLMs have a lot of actual blind spots - things people developing them overlo
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by lucideer 11mo ago
> I will never understand I think it's fairly easy to understand if you understand what it was a backlash against. Tables today are used sensibly, for the most part, but the pre-CSS world was truly absurd in its table use. The rea
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by lucideer 11mo ago
There's no central enforcement of international war crime law, so this thread on legal technicalities isn't particularly relevant in real terms, but there is at least an arrest warrant out for the (former) Minister for Defence &am
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by lucideer 11mo ago
There might be some potential legal defense in terms of proportionality of collateral damage but it's so thin here as to be absurd. Regardless, given the number of war crimes this army has been found guilty of, this is somewhat moot. W
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by lucideer 11mo ago
This seems like a really odd take. What you're effectively advocating for here is for people not to see information about publicly funded services, because ultimately centralised for-profit services own user attention, & therefore
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by lucideer 11mo ago
Fantastic! Suggestion: similar to what you've done with your HN link, it would be nice to have some suggested URLs in a dropdown on the homepage searchbox to give new visitors something to try immediately, to get a feel for what it doe
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by lucideer 11mo ago
You have to give it to CSS, it's held out for a lot longer than most.
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by lucideer 11mo ago
You're assuming a consistent connection - if your ping is 2 seconds, it's unlikely you're receiving each packet precisely 1 second late - much more likely the delay will be variable over time, probably not normally as high as
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by lucideer 11mo ago
All fair, but we're not talking about the system we live in (whether it works or not), we're talking about ideals & how things hypothetically should be. You can make all the same arguments you've just made about governme
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by lucideer 11mo ago
> You cant understand why the people with a monopoly on violence and force have higher scrutiny? -- @retr0rocket Replying here to this seemingly flagged/dead comment (not sure why it was flagged - a very reasonable question). I fu
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by lucideer 11mo ago
> As a private citizen your goal is to optimize the amount of money you make Ok. I'm interested in why you think this is the goal of citizens (but not of government). To be clear: I don't believe this should be the goal of go
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by lucideer 11mo ago
> if you are a public servant. I don't understand why private citizens are held to higher standards of conduct than politicians and cops. Last time I checked, politicians and cops are private citizens... Wherever you stand on this
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by lucideer 11mo ago
> Is there a way without certification that results in high conformance that consumers can rely on? Sibling commenters have already answered this in the affirmative but a better question is: what examples can you give supporting your t
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by lucideer 11mo ago
> I love doing stuff that has long term stability written all over it I also love doing stuff that has long term stability written all over it. In my 20 year career of trying to do that through various roles, I've learnt that it c
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by lucideer 11mo ago
Plasticity is closed source though?
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by lucideer 11mo ago
Really hope the quality of the IDE is better than the website...
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by lucideer 11mo ago
First time seeing a few of the engines listed here - based on this table I'm surprised Samsung's Escargot hasn't gotten more attention. LGPL, 100% ES2016+ compliance, top 10 perf ranking, 25% the size of V8 & only 318 Git
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by lucideer 1y ago
I added a qualifier because these exist (see also pretty much every Japanese company), though if such a hypothetical law were implemented I'd honestly see no major moral gain in protecting the creation of new names like those either. I
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by lucideer 1y ago
MA-1s are inner lined with a 100% cotton/wool mix. The outer is nylon because synthetic fabrics are generally good for waterproofing (waterproofing is always a trade-off of quality over function) & also just because bombers are g
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by lucideer 1y ago
GoreTex is highly functional but it doesn't last long & it isn't repairable. These are trade-offs that may be worthwhile for certain innovative, highly-functional use-cases (like water proofing) but are very rarely worthwhile
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by lucideer 1y ago
It shouldn't be legal to sell products under the name of a dead person (at the very least in cases where there's a strong chance buyers are given the impression that the person had something to do with production of the product).
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by lucideer 1y ago
TIL!
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by lucideer 1y ago
> It's pretty obvious that they think the distinction is worth having because they can vet apps they signed This is an assumption made in exceptionally generous good faith. It's certainly possible, but I would argue this is f

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