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by notarobot123 10mo ago
One of the big difference between technology and law is how significant edge-cases are considered to be.
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by notarobot123 10mo ago
There seems to be a tipping point when a language ecosystem's work is mainly about design to it being mainly about broader governance issues. Good design needs a grand vision. Good governance needs broad participation. I wonder if @rtf
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by notarobot123 11mo ago
Political freedom is usually prized by "brainy immigrants" - especially those who were likely to travel to the USA. The problem isn't just the $100,000 fee (not insignificant) but the risks associated with being an immigrant
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by notarobot123 11mo ago
I'm not advocating for him specifically, but it doesn't seem reasonable that one would need a lived experience of poverty and deprivation to be able to meaningfully understand its causes and effects or to have some inclination to
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by notarobot123 11mo ago
How dare he use his privilege for any ends other than selfishly defending the rights of the privileged!
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by notarobot123 11mo ago
If I persistently ask awkward questions, that might "inhibit social interactions". If my community was tolerant and even accepting of this behavior it might not inhibit social interactions quite as much. They are different things
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by notarobot123 11mo ago
It's pretty demoralizing to realize that appearances matter more than merit in careers/politics/dating/business/etc. The pragmatic approach is to not give up on merit but not neglect appearances either. Still, the i
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by notarobot123 11mo ago
But language is also the only way to communicate this. As far as I can tell my cat has a complex consciousnesses but there is no way for me to tell if she has this capacity for introspection and self-reflexivity. If there are other avenues
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by notarobot123 11mo ago
Doesn't it make sense that there are some technical questions that are dangerous to supply an answer to? Treating some topics as taboo is possible. Responsible information dissemination is important for maintaining public safety. You c
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by notarobot123 11mo ago
There are a growing number of disillusioned makers that have the capacity to build alternatives - maybe that critical mass will lead to a reactive innovation cycle where an authentic and grassroots internet will reassert itself.
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by notarobot123 11mo ago
Lulled into a false sense of security, you'll think you can spot the artificial by the tells that it readily feeds to you. But what happens when deception is the goal?
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by notarobot123 11mo ago
Emotional dependence has to be the stickiest feature of any tech product. They know what they are doing.
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by notarobot123 11mo ago
I think it's fair to say that CRUD apps are in a different category to low level systems programming. The former are never particularly difficult to reason about unless they are written poorly, the latter are rarely easy to understand
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by notarobot123 11mo ago
Inheriting and extending existing abstractions out of convenience has a lot of unintended consequences and makes for a messy and complicated system in the long-run. Yet a full rewrite at this stage is out of the question. I guess the legal
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by notarobot123 1y ago
> Situated software isn't a technological strategy so much as an attitude about closeness of fit between software and its group of users, and a refusal to embrace scale, generality or completeness as unqualified virtues. I read a pa
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by notarobot123 1y ago
What is the point of being a Developer (except for easy money and not having to do anything other than copy + paste) if you are only allowed to "code", word for word, the feature specifications ("user stories") they give
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by notarobot123 1y ago
I was expecting this comment to go in a more sinister direction but we're not quite there yet.
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by notarobot123 1y ago
Inversely, the only end-users FOSS cares about are those that can compile and build from source themselves. More so if they can also submit good bug reports and patches. The demographics of the majority of end-users shifted a long time ago
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by notarobot123 1y ago
This has been the standard way to distribute software across platforms for a while now. I'm not sure I understand this kind of objection anymore. What's the alternative? Fastmail also have a decent API if you're keen to glue
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by notarobot123 1y ago
To be fair, this was an indirect quote from a founder trying to make programming accessible to "white-collar employees with no technical background". The bigger question here is why prod/staging wasn't an obvious design
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by notarobot123 1y ago
productized != democratized
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by notarobot123 1y ago
> The Gallup World Poll, which remains the principal source of data in this report, asks respondents to evaluate their current life as a whole using the image of a ladder, with the best possible life for them as a 10 and the worst possib
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by notarobot123 1y ago
The training goes the other way in the US. Politicians, advertisers and the media all have a stake in telling you how unhappy you should be and it's surprisingly effective.
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by notarobot123 1y ago
Have you tried a more granular strategy - smaller chunks and more iterative cycles?
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by notarobot123 1y ago
I am not the biggest fan of LLMs but I have to admit that, as long as you understand what the technology is and how it works, it is a very powerful tool. I think the mixed reports on utility have a lot to do with the very different ways the
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by notarobot123 1y ago
I feel like I had something to prove but I was defeated by my lack of minecraft knowledge
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by notarobot123 1y ago
It does kinda feel like there's an accidental attempt to LARP the plot of Kurt Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan (if you squint hard enough) - richest man in the world, brain control, Mars colony, attempted coup on Earth... all the
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by notarobot123 1y ago
What guarantees do you have that open source code faithfully reflects what is in the compiled binary?
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by notarobot123 1y ago
I don't think this is likely to be a real issue in the grand scheme of things. SaaS customers pay for a product that provides a workflow and a structure for solving their problem without them having to think too hard about a solution.
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by notarobot123 1y ago
I respect this attempt to create something principled, small and self-contained. Uxn is great as a "toy" system or a teaching resource but also as something that contributes to the diversity of ideas of what computing is/can

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