namaria

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by namaria 2y ago
If you're using Terraform on AWS as a learning experience I hope you're using a pre-paid card.
542.
by namaria 2y ago
Employment is over. It will only erode further from this point on. It will become a club for well connected people and prime corporate candidates. We need to take employment back on our hands and build small community business.
543.
by namaria 2y ago
Isn't the suicide rate highest in Scandinavian countries and lowest in South Europe?
544.
by namaria 2y ago
Lossless local files is the way to go. Full control. Maybe I'm a bit controlling, but if I am paying for music I want the optimal experience and full control.
545.
by namaria 2y ago
"This is Earth Radio. And now, Human Music:"
546.
by namaria 2y ago
It's ok if you don't like it. Good even. It being weird and not of mass appeal is part of the charm.
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by namaria 2y ago
You don't end up under a bridge in Brazil for losing your phone. You end up there by being born in the wrong family or part of town.
548.
by namaria 2y ago
> The reason why car keys are using chips is because physical safety sucks so much in comparison with digital. Not the reason. There is no safe lock, chip or not. You can only make it more inconvenient then the next car to break in. >
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by namaria 2y ago
> All that’s left is the CEO, the cloud, and this Who's gonna buy from this CEO then?
550.
by namaria 2y ago
The market is people making bets on bubbles and crashes. That's how we get prices. At any point or during any stretch of time, one of these sides will be correct.
551.
by namaria 2y ago
Funnily enough this sounds like a 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' plot.
552.
by namaria 2y ago
Yeah corporate tools all sound alike
553.
by namaria 2y ago
It is cynical but it is also a generalization better supported by the evidence than "we're craftsmen" or "we're engineers". If you can say "I'm a craftsman" or "I'm an engineer" al
554.
by namaria 2y ago
Funny thing is, humans have a huge bias towards traditions that seems to have reversed in the last century or so. My take is that consumerism did a number on our psyche.
555.
by namaria 2y ago
I think a lot of this is bike shedding. Changing the interface design is easy. Understanding usability and building usable systems is hard.
556.
by namaria 2y ago
> That’s the primary reason FOSS has so few non-technical users. Yeah, citation needed. If your argument that 'non-technical users' (whatever that is - being technical is not restricted to understanding computers and software d
557.
by namaria 2y ago
> We are not engineers. We are craftsmen Same difference. Both appellations invoke some sort of idealized professional standards and the conversation is about failing these standards not upholding them. We're clearly very short of d
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by namaria 2y ago
> you also need to write it in a convoluted way because, for various annoying reasons, that's what performs best on the computer. That's nothing to do with hardware. The various annoying reasons are not set in stone or laws of
559.
by namaria 2y ago
Hey I'd forgotten about Marginal Revolution! I used to follow this blog several years ago, thanks for the reminder!
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by namaria 2y ago
A task that is completed and kills us is pretty much the opposite of a Sisyphean task.
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by namaria 2y ago
That's not the half I have trouble believing.
562.
by namaria 2y ago
I'm being skeptical about something someone wrote online about something the read online. Don't make this about ethics.
563.
by namaria 2y ago
Having information about you (that you provide when opening the account) is entirely different from calling you out of the blue after you already have an active account for long enough that you trust and depend on it for your migration stat
564.
by namaria 2y ago
A bank blocked an account because they called someone and that person didn't provide them with personal data? That sounds unlikely.
565.
by namaria 2y ago
I wonder if there's any one legitimate instance of a company calling you about compromised accounts and requiring your action. It seems to me that anyone reaching out and lighting a fire under your ass can be assumed to me a malicious
566.
by namaria 2y ago
I understand the concepts thanks for explaining them again. They have things in common because they are both thought experiments that I think most people miss the point of. Undergrad textbooks are not exactly cutting edge philosophy wise an
567.
by namaria 2y ago
> And in relative terms Well the comparative change is kinda the point. OF is huge and content producers have a chance of making big bucks, as opposed to what was there before
568.
by namaria 2y ago
Did I say anything about positive changes?
569.
by namaria 2y ago
Your argument is if we don't let the police use this novel (unreliable) labor saving tool that didn't exist until a couple of years ago, policing (as it has been done for the whole of history) would be too expensive?
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by namaria 2y ago
Yeah I mean if the police is going to use some software tool to do the reporting, then just release the raw footage and let the courts decide what happened. As it is police officers have way too much latitude to determine what gets written

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