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by masukomi 4y ago
> Without any programming jobs on my CV, what is a good way to penetrate into the market? freelance work. Sign up on Upwork.com (or similar). Do a bunch of contracts. Put them on your resume. I did freelance work for years before decidin
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by masukomi 4y ago
> Don't you hate it when you can't find the scripts you need, when you need it? Well now there's a better way! It's a good start, and there are definitely some ideas worth stealing there, but I don't think it rea
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by masukomi 4y ago
ruby only had green threads until recently. If you actually wanted separate parallel work you had to fork.
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by masukomi 4y ago
i'm failing to understand why this needs a server side component. SQLite has built in Full Text search. What's the advantage of using ElasticSearch and having to worry about server costs? Why not just get rid of that and charge me
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by masukomi 4y ago
how is this better than just using asdf where i can just put a `.tool-versions` file in the project and have it swap ruby+node+whatever to the appropriate versions? (honest question) https://asdf-vm.com/
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by masukomi 4y ago
yup.
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by masukomi 4y ago
> The biggest difference is that every post on Satellite is digitally signed that's not a very compelling difference for most people. Definitely not enough to get other people to sign up and follow you on it. I've followed hund
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by masukomi 4y ago
which part did i misrepresent? Yes, i was hyperbolic. but i don't think i misrepresented anything. they said: "admins create these highly specific instances with peculiar rules, and people who want to create a profile there have t
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by masukomi 4y ago
this implies you haven't actually read the terms of service. How much you want to be there's info in there about not sending threats and using their service to abuse people. just because you agree with the prescription doesn'
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by masukomi 4y ago
Email is not a good messaging platform. Every server has its own rules and expectations. Completely different terms of service on each one. Communities of like minded people are bad. We shouldn't encourage people to gather with like mi
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by masukomi 4y ago
a) cool b) thanks for explaining how it saved you time c) holy CRAP the description wasn't joking about "fastest"
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by masukomi 4y ago
it will, very frequently, make up citations with real looking but completely bogus urls. it is NOT a research tool. It is a creative text generation tool. It is not programmed to provide accurate data. It's programmed to provide accura
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by masukomi 4y ago
ElonJet has, unsurprisingly, set up an account on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@elonjet
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by masukomi 4y ago
not really... because you WANT people to hear about your income streams, because that's how you get more income from them. there are a bajillion worthwhile business ideas... they're a dime a dozen (and that's paying too much)
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by masukomi 4y ago
That site's awesome. Simple focused product. It's clear what it does. It's clear what it costs. only thing i'd suggest is that you add more examples of what where people can put those QR codes. I think most folks in the
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by masukomi 4y ago
I can't comment on Windows, but with regards to apple, they really don't. Sure they strut around like they have but really, they've tweaked some user apps like Mail and Safari, and made bug fixes under the covers. Every now a
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by masukomi 4y ago
yes, js can be used to invade privacy, but... a) that's not its primary use by a long shot. The VAST majority of JS written has nothing to do with tracking / privacy stuff. b) we don't need JS to invade your privacy on the we
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by masukomi 4y ago
but... if he doesn't want the equivalent of a modern browser, then downloading and executing JS isn't really an issue, and thus the whole JS=BAD because you download it and execute it goes out the window. I don't get it. Like
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by masukomi 4y ago
> This ultimately polynomial direct-connection approach is clearly fatally unscalable. Is it? I mean, let's assume you post something popular, and 17,000 servers request it. How many people do 17,000 servers cover? Like even if we
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I used AI to generate products and write copy for my store(weblog.masukomi.org)
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by masukomi 4y ago
speaking as someone who literally worked on a bot mitigation project for Ticketmaster: They have an effing HUGE tech problem. The site crashing isn't because of "demand for the tickets" at least not by normal people's de
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by masukomi 4y ago
> Why do you need to alt drag? Why can't you just drag? You can drag a lot of stuff in windows and it "just works". You can "just drag", but if you alt/option drag you get a copy operation instead of a move
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by masukomi 4y ago
i think anyone that chooses to work for that [expletive] anytime soon is by definition not "good people". They may be "competent" people... but not "good". Supporting that behavior, and a platform that he'
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by masukomi 4y ago
I wrote a rebuttal to this: https://weblog.masukomi.org/2022/11/14/a-rebuttal-to-scaling... The short short version is that it scales just fine if you use it the way its intended. The protocol provably scales
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by masukomi 4y ago
not really. there aren't that many TLDs. So many good options are left for the young bitcoin billionaires to spend their money on.
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by masukomi 4y ago
was just coming here to mention that. I don't understand why people don't bother to google before naming new projects, ESPECIALLY when they're naming something in the same general space.
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by masukomi 4y ago
speaking as a webdev: > in terms of processes, process is a human problem not a tech problem. Process is equally good to crap depending on who you work with > design principles, a lot of the questions around design principles have bee
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by masukomi 4y ago
I don't understand your statement. the obvious: "what marketplace?" the less obvious: "what are you getting at?" Are you asserting that you don't understand why people make & share color themes? that you do
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by masukomi 4y ago
ugh. this has a killer flaw > Looking for Mastodon users progress, scanned 867 of 867 users you follow on Twitter. Discovered 0 Twitter users on Mastodon who have previously linked their Twitter and Mastodon accounts by logging into Twit
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by masukomi 4y ago
it will not search "all instances". It will search a subset of instances. How do we know this to be true? a) there is no central listing of all mastodon instances, or even all public ones. b) it would take FREAKING AGES TO COME BA

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