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by openrisk 2y ago
Regular swings of +/-0.5 trillion in market value for an entity that is a material fraction of the entire market are not normal, in either mathematical or colloquial sense. The question is, what do they really reveal about the conditio
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by openrisk 2y ago
how many people ever used Usenet versus the billions who think the "internet" is facebook or tiktok. Techies living in their own universe detached from human reality is actually a factor why libre/oss is not as widely adopted
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by openrisk 2y ago
It feels that the open source movement is slowly entering a Cambrian explosion stage. You have the old "deterministic computing" achievements (with Linux the flagship). Then you have the networking protocols (activitypub / at
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by openrisk 2y ago
"Linux ultimately prevailed-not because it was better from the start, but because it allowed developers to modify the code freely, run it more securely and affordably, and build a broader ecosystem that enabled more capabilities than a
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Is this the end of the "bitter lesson" theory?
2 points by openrisk 2y ago|3 comments
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by openrisk 2y ago
1) Computing obeys the gas law. Making it dramatically cheaper will expand the market for it. The markets are getting it wrong, this will make AI much more broadly deployed. 2) Engineering is about constraints. The Chinese engineers had lim
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by openrisk 2y ago
Both "disruption" and "banks" are very broad terms. The three common subtypes of banks (retail, commercial, investment) live in different planets as far as infrastructure, products, business models etc. So called "f
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by openrisk 2y ago
Yeah, panic is definitely not applicable in this case, but its still kind of awkward. "Thought leadership" and brownie points with the wider community are frequently invoked as additional motivating factors when a corporate entity
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by openrisk 2y ago
Commoditize your complement has been invoked as an explanation for Meta's strategy to open source LLM models (with some definition of "open" and "model"). Guess what, others can play this game too :-) The open sour
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by openrisk 2y ago
The "distributed" part is still to pinned down anyway (which architecture scales and which not, under what definition of "scaling"). The discussions between activitypub and atproto protocol folks are informative in this
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by openrisk 2y ago
Kinda funny to read all these comments looking at a single-person's effort and going "he, he, he cannot win against the adtech billions and their addiction machines". What Pixelfed (and Loops and various other still half bake
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by openrisk 2y ago
Neovim feels indeed the proper future-proof evolution of a standard. Its still a bit cumbersome to setup (fonts, lots of plugins to configure, opinionated and overly decorated UI etc.). The acid test of maturity is the dry functionality you
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by openrisk 2y ago
> Let’s start with the basics: the simplest calculator has ten digit keys, a decimal dot, four arithmetic operators (+, -, ×, ÷), a result button (“=”), and a “C” key to reset state. Mathematically there is already quite a lot happening
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by openrisk 2y ago
The fact that you are downvoted despite pointing the obvious tells you about the odds of the tech industry adopting a different path. Fleecing the ignoramy is the name of the game.
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by openrisk 2y ago
> Which raises some important questions, the biggest being "Why bother?" After all, there's already a perfectly good Fediverse that could sure use the money and effort that Free Our Feeds is proposing to put into Bluesky.
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by openrisk 2y ago
Reading this reminded me of the (long forgotten) single key instruction keyboard (you press key O and you get the pOke command). Its almost like an autocomplete :-) Is that still a thing for any computing device today? Fascinating to read t
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by openrisk 2y ago
Fun thing: in relativity u,v are typical variable names used for a really funky coordinate transformation that mixes space and time, sometimes called Penrose coordinates [1]. So when I saw this: > uv.x = uv.x + sin(time + uv.x * 50.0) *
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by openrisk 2y ago
yeah, its a very blurry line (like the overall separation and balance between client and server roles anyway).
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by openrisk 2y ago
I agree, there are countless issues and challenges (and ideas, designs etc. how to tackle them). The most fundamental is for mainstream, non-technical people to realize that "social media" is not rocket science invented by Zuck, i
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by openrisk 2y ago
> every city is a social network operator that has to police the server the "policing" problem (I think moderation is a better word) needs to be solved one way or another, there is no doubt about that. The question is what is t
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by openrisk 2y ago
What people say on such platforms would be down to charters, democratically agreed. Everything is in principle open to design so as to prevent abuse. So is the possibility of checks and balances, observers etc. People abandoning their civic
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by openrisk 2y ago
Its very flexible, both ends of the spectrum are within the specification. One could force the "on-device only" by requiring no data exchange with the outside world but thats quite limiting too (and not trivial to check at upload
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by openrisk 2y ago
This can quickly change if the public sector ever wakes up and smells the coffee. Imagine if every city would run activitypub type servers and offer them to their own residents as local tax funded service. Its an entirely plausible scenario
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by openrisk 2y ago
Good post even if only for making the term "vertical slice" more broadly known. Clearly the applicability of this alternative in other domains might not be as direct as in gaming software but its an interesting way to think about
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by openrisk 2y ago
> progressive web apps (PWA) as packages that can be shipped via repositories Aah, wasn't aware this is possible now, thats cool. But raises the question of how exactly to check and communicate to users what data are being collected
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by openrisk 2y ago
Would be very pleasantly surprised if a drawing like "Blue Spikes Shell" is actually reducible to a readable mathematical construction. A surface that exhibits very strong variability in curvature (like the spikes in the shell) is
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Usenet is a worldwide distributed electronic bulletin board system(smfr.org)
13 points by openrisk 2y ago|6 comments
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by openrisk 2y ago
> We want to train highly skilled people After how many postdocs is one "highly skilled"? Postdocs are foremost a failure of the academic job market (supply of eager researchers much larger than available academic positions) th
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by openrisk 2y ago
> the details are hard to predict What does not feel too risky to predict, though, are some general directions: a) the era of "GPU"-style computing is here to stay. During the long era of exponential CPU speedups the architectu
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by openrisk 2y ago
> read what others write You started with this: "Which I'm reading like it's the ONLY way we know of how to "respect complexity" before embarking on tearing down strawmen.

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