musk_micropenis

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by musk_micropenis 4y ago
I guess this goes some way to answering my thought, > but it makes me wonder if there's a fundamental problem with the design of Mastodon. I also note the article says, > During the month of November we averaged 36.86 Mbps in tra
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by musk_micropenis 4y ago
I would like to understand why Mastodon requires such a huge amount of hardware for mediocre traffic volumes. Not just the lazy "it's Rails" answer - I know Rails is a resource hog, but that doesn't go far enough to expl
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by musk_micropenis 4y ago
No, because a single instance needed to "scale up" at a very small user count.
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by musk_micropenis 4y ago
Before the scaling problems were hit they were hosting in 4 very powerful machines with loads of RAM and all-SSD storage. I don't see any reasonable world in which those machines aren't enough to power 30,000 users.
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by musk_micropenis 4y ago
30,000 users seems like a ludicrously small number of users to hit scaling problems. It sounds like Mastadon has not been designed for scale from the ground up, which is surprising for a project that hopes to be a popular social network.
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by musk_micropenis 4y ago
> farming this tragedy There's no tragedy here. Let's be absolutely clear - every single person who lost money in this abomination was as greedy as SBF, trying to milk a cryptocurrency ecosystem they never believed in nor unde
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by musk_micropenis 4y ago
Ugh I wish I hadn't checked. There's very little chance I'll get a raise but my salary has effectively gone backwards, significantly.
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by musk_micropenis 4y ago
Please don't resort to conflating criticism of China (however speculative) with Sinophobia. It lowers the tone of the discussion and imputes a motive onto your peers which isn't warranted. If you have a problem with the facts of t
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by musk_micropenis 4y ago
HN is much more heavily moderated than those websites. Which is a good thing, it's why conversations here tend to be of a higher quality. I don't think the HN style of moderation would scale to places like Reddit even if they want
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by musk_micropenis 4y ago
Twitter extends beyond USA.
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by musk_micropenis 4y ago
Most laws that restrict content on social media sites are agnostic about where the site is hosted.
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by musk_micropenis 4y ago
All great tips. I would add another bullet point along the lines of, * Make your software observable. Your feature is not finished until you've verified it is being used as expected. Ideally you should have all of the data you need to
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by musk_micropenis 4y ago
Regardless of what the symbol actually is, it's clear from Kanye's recent interviews that he is pro-Nazi and pro-Hitler and he intended to post a swastika.
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by musk_micropenis 4y ago
That's not true at all. There are many, many cases of people being banned for what I would consider quite mild transphobia. There's was a high profile case this year[0] where a republican Senate candidate was banned for saying, &q
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by musk_micropenis 4y ago
The entire point of Oh My Zsh is to get a specialty crafted instance of Zsh, so of course it overwrites your.zshrc.
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by musk_micropenis 4y ago
What difference do you think a "higher quality review" would make? Apple is enforcing their strict policy that all purchases from within apps (with some documented exceptions) must use Apple's IAP and cough up the 30%. This h
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by musk_micropenis 4y ago
Even if that is enough to identify users, you'd have to show evidence that that information is being handed to advertisers, which is what GP accused them of.
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by musk_micropenis 4y ago
> either you allow Brave to leak your info to advertisers Can you expand on this? According to the article the ads are privacy-preserving but I'm open to hearing otherwise. There's not a lot of detail in the article.
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by musk_micropenis 4y ago
A lot of angry comments in here, but the post says there's an ad-free paid version, > Ads will give users the option to use our independent search engine with ads that don’t track them, or to sign up for ad-free paid search Are you
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by musk_micropenis 4y ago
> In his memo, which Amazon later posted on its corporate blog, Jassy set the scene for more sweeping dismissals in the remainder of this year and into the next. “Our annual planning process extends into the new year, which means there w
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by musk_micropenis 4y ago
Has that happened on Android?
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by musk_micropenis 4y ago
> If it wasn't such a PITA to move off LastPass, It's really not. As the quality of their software declined severely starting around 4-5 years ago, I put off moving because I assumed it would be a huge hassle. It turned out to
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by musk_micropenis 4y ago
A vast, overwhelming majority of programmers will never implement a concrete string type or compiler optimizations. Can you show me how this kind of theory is practical for a working programmer who does things like batch processing jobs, we
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by musk_micropenis 4y ago
Again, I don't see how this piece of information is useful for a programmer. And if it is, I'll bet it's 10x more useful if expressed in more ordinary language.
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by musk_micropenis 4y ago
Facebook/Meta is an engineering-first organisation. There's no way that is how it went down.
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by musk_micropenis 4y ago
Sorry to hear about the lay-off. I can't stress enough how influential Eric Lippert was on my early career. His work on C# and .NET, but more importantly his openness and engagement with the community played a big part in me continuing
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by musk_micropenis 4y ago
Most of us can go our whole careers without the "insight" that string concatenation is a "monoid". I don't know any languages that would balk at "foo" + "" or [a, b].concat([]). This all seems ac
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by musk_micropenis 4y ago
It hasn't even been added back because it wasn't removed. This diff just shows the removal of a piece of text announcing it will be removed in the future. There's nothing to discuss here.
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by musk_micropenis 4y ago
Many journalists today seem more interested in increasing their Twitter followers than being accountable.
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by musk_micropenis 4y ago
> I think it's a safe assumption that significantly more people order food from local restaurants than they did before DoorDash existed. Do you have any comprehensive evidence for this? I have very strong doubts.

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