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by m12k 4y ago
The problem with new tech isn't just that it might not make sense. It's also that if it doesn't gain enough traction to reach critical mass, it might not be a good technical foundation for your business. As a business owner t
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by m12k 4y ago
There's a shortage of programmers. It's more likely they hire someone else in addition to you, rather than instead of you.
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by m12k 4y ago
Why is that valuable? And more importantly, how is the upside this brings bigger than the downside it brings compared to previous approaches to borrowing/lending?
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by m12k 4y ago
The free market is great at solving problems. And then afterwards, it's great at problematizing the solution so profit margins can be maintained.
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by m12k 4y ago
I have a master's degree in software engineering. I honestly never felt that the two years to do my master's degree added much on top of my bachelor's degree that I couldn't just as well have learnt in two years of worki
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by m12k 4y ago
Just to verify - having TOTP-based 2FA enabled doesn't help in case of a password DB breach, right? Since the protocol is based on a shared password, which means an attacker would be able to generate valid tokens using the secret they
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by m12k 4y ago
In this context, SSR is Server-Side Rendering, not Screen Space Reflections.
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by m12k 4y ago
Yeah, I've heard similar complaints about dysfunctionality regarding Microsoft's "stack ranking" system that they had under Balmer, where the best engineers would actively avoid working in the same teams, to avoid being
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by m12k 4y ago
A tech company in Bellevue Washington with a "shadowy and illusory "peer review" system" - this is Valve we're talking about, right? (fits his Twitter bio)
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by m12k 4y ago
I just wish it was possible to build a version of the Frame TV that didn't still use 30% power while in "picture mode" but instead used a color e-ink display like this to cover the screen with art/photos when not in TV m
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by m12k 4y ago
The article says the Kahn-Kalai conjecture also holds for hypergraphs - IIRC hypergraphs are the foundation of the Wolfram Physics project, meaning this result is likely to have implications for the emergence of patterns within the models t
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by m12k 4y ago
I just wish someone had made a good Flash/ActionScript3 -> JS+HTML-Canvas compiler. There's no reason we couldn't have kept the authoring tools just because we got rid of runtime and all its security issues.
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by m12k 5y ago
I'm running into a weird paradox when it comes to marketing - providing a service more cheaply than your competitors doesn't make it easier to reach customers, it makes it harder. It is a meritocracy of sorts, but one optimizing t
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by m12k 5y ago
I'm also happy with git, but there's 3 main things that could improve on git IMO: 1) Better handling of large files than git-lfs. As in 10+ GB repos. This is needed for game development (currently they tend to use Perforce or Plas
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by m12k 5y ago
We're seeing the opposite play out in real time in Ukraine though. One side tells its soldiers that they are fighting a desperate battle to repel an invading dictator. The other side tells its soldiers that they are going on a training
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by m12k 5y ago
And just to add on top of this - there is to the best of my knowledge little if any research that shows that the current practice of publication and peer review is actually effective at weeding out bad science. The current replication crisi
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by m12k 5y ago
> that Wolfram gets so much sympathy here. Are we reading the same comments? My impression is that 80%-90% are negative toward him.
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by m12k 5y ago
Try reading his one year update instead[1] "But now this deflection is not in physical space but in branchial space. The fundamental underlying mathematical structure is the same in both cases. But the interpretation in terms of tradit
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by m12k 5y ago
They're trying to come up with a new way of modelling the foundations of physics. In order to be "even wrong", they need to make falsifiable predictions. As far as I can tell, they're not at (or claiming to be at) that l
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by m12k 5y ago
It's attempting to come up with a new way to model observable physical phenomena. If that's not science, then neither are Feynman diagrams, complex numbers or even calculus. Whether it will prove useful like the above models still
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by m12k 5y ago
> I looked pretty hard a couple of years ago and couldn't find any explanation of the most familiar QM phenomena like the double slit experiment I was following links from the OP, and while reading his Wolfram Physics one year updat
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by m12k 5y ago
As rich eccentrics go, I much prefer the ones trying to advance science (like Wolfram) or medicine (like Gates) to the ones just building more superyachts and lobbying corrupt politicians. I don't really understand the animosity toward
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by m12k 5y ago
And Directus was recently ported from PHP to JavaScript as well: https://directus.io/
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by m12k 5y ago
> I bet it would be mostly mechanics speaking up if auto manufacturers started requiring only "licensed" brake pads or blinker fluid be used. Does that mean the practice isn't car-owner-hostile? I only noticed your usernam
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by m12k 5y ago
Most consumers have no idea what profit margins are. They don't know or understand how the one chosen payment method that Apple provides takes a 30% cut, or how that means that any service with less than 30% profit margin cannot be sol
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by m12k 5y ago
> On a related note: I trust Google with my data more happily than I trust the German state, for only one of those two has a history of building concentration camps. To be fair, the German state has existed quite a lot longer than Google
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by m12k 5y ago
I think nukes are a better analogy than guns. There's legitimate reasons why you might want your government to develop and own them, but there's no good reason that it should be legal for private companies or individuals to sell o
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by m12k 5y ago
Saving the world very seldom makes you a billionaire - if it did, a lot more effort would be going into it.
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by m12k 5y ago
This seems to be one of the more popular ones: https://www.keycloak.org/
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by m12k 5y ago
That sounds like the sales pitch for Semantic Merge: https://www.semanticmerge.com/features/ I haven't tried it, but it does seem like a good direction to be trying to take merge tools.

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