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by petcat 8mo ago
> Just buy a few Mac Studios and run them in-house I fail to see the point of this when the system you've to decided to run "yourself" is entirely owned and dependent on another American company.
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by petcat 8mo ago
There are no tarriffs being applied on digital services. That's obviously intentional considering how much soft power those services exert on countries the USA wants to maintain an outsized influence over.
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by petcat 8mo ago
Sure, but the specific NSA datacenter that stores copies of every piece of data that transits the internet is in Utah, not Virginia.
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by petcat 8mo ago
I think we're all aware that EU is trying to become more independent, but as of right now basically everything they do online, or really anything with technology at all, is American in some way. That's a lot of "soft power
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by petcat 8mo ago
Right, where the copies are stored.
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by petcat 8mo ago
Sounds like censorship is already becoming normalized in the EU and UK. Terrifying.
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by petcat 8mo ago
Which content is being censored?
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by petcat 8mo ago
The datacenter is in Utah, not Virginia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
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by petcat 9mo ago
> many worlds interpretation These are only namespaces. Many worlds can have all the same (many) random numbers and they will never conflict with each other!
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by petcat 9mo ago
Code is, I think, rapidly becoming a commodity. It used to be that the code itself was what was valuable (Microsoft MS-DOS vs. the IBM PC hardware). And it has stayed that way for a long time. FOSS meant that the cost of building on reusa
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by petcat 9mo ago
> Troubleshooting and fixing the big mess that nobody fully understands If that's actually the future of humans in software engineering then that sounds like a nightmare career that I want no part of. Just the same as I don't w
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by petcat 9mo ago
The convenience of not having to marshal data over a network is certainly a use case. But I'll admit that two of the worst programs I ever saw were written in Perl and TCL. Somehow just a big jumble of inscrutable regexes. When "e
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by petcat 9mo ago
I think it's illegal in China for the government to be unpopular ... Otherwise you get 20 years in prison.
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by petcat 9mo ago
> I’ve never seen a commercial project use it in my twenty years in the field. This is very surprising to me considering some of the largest sites in the world are built on Django. Instagram, Pinterest, for instance. Large parts of stri
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by petcat 9mo ago
My understanding is that Heroku is just an AWS reseller. I don't know if there's a lot of value in a PaaS piggy-backing on another PaaS anymore. Especially for Salesforce.
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by petcat 9mo ago
$48k is cheap. He's lucky he didn't get jail time especially for intentionally disrupting emergency communications like 911 service.
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by petcat 9mo ago
It will be interesting to see exactly where Texas decides to come down if there really was a split in the US. I have to imagine they would want to follow the rich blue states rather than be stuck footing the bill for Arkansas and Mississipp
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by petcat 9mo ago
> [receives] the personal information of 50,000 or more consumers, households, or devices. That's a trivially small bar to clear in order to be regulated under the CCPA where large-scale data harvesting is the focus.
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by petcat 9mo ago
California has the exact same penalty structure in the CCPA: > (b) A business shall be in violation of this title if it fails to cure any alleged violation within 30 days after being notified of alleged noncompliance. Any business, servi
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by petcat 9mo ago
Right, the CCPA targets large/semi-large scale data processors. That Wikipedia seems to be outdated, because the law text reads: > satisfies one or more of the following thresholds: > (A) Has annual gross revenues in excess of t
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by petcat 9mo ago
Many of the "evil US hyperscalers" are headquartered in California, and the CCPA [1] has this exact penalty structure codified in law: > (b) A business shall be in violation of this title if it fails to cure any alleged viola
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by petcat 9mo ago
My understanding is that GDPR is being strongly reviewed with the goal of modeling it closer to what California did with the CCPA [1], which seems to be a much more effective privacy regulation. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by petcat 9mo ago
3 more years. I don't know who the Dems can elect to go against JD Vance, maybe Tim Walz, but they need somebody.
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by petcat 9mo ago
I think the point is that they are fantasizing about cutting their engineering workforce by 90% while maintaining the same level of "productivity". Claude doesn't require paying payroll tax, health insurance, unemployment, or
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by petcat 9mo ago
Rust + Axum + SQLx has been a total game-changer for me in terms of productivity developing web-based Postgres apps. I like the tooling and the libraries are great.
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by petcat 9mo ago
I think this is the most likely scenario. The US government is not necessarily trying to read the messages right now, in real-time. But it wants to read the messages at some point in the future. https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by petcat 9mo ago
Netscape made mistakes, but they didn't lose 60% of their market share in just two years because they didn't ship a major update. They lost it because Microsoft bundled a "good enough" browser with their operating syste
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by petcat 9mo ago
> Netscape has seen its browser share go from about 80% to about 20% during this time, all the while it could do nothing to address competitive concerns, because their key software product was disassembled in 1000 pieces on the floor and
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by petcat 9mo ago
> the municipality could just say that they don't want the project and they won't submit a bid. That's fine too.
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by petcat 9mo ago
In a lot of cases, it's the only way that municipalities can submit bids for projects they want. And in the commercial space the bidding process is usually confidential. So it's just basically a requirement of public private partn

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