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by pphysch 2y ago
To be clear, which side are you referring to?
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by pphysch 2y ago
I feel like the scale where a library like this is meaningful for performance, and therefore worth the dependency+DSL complexity, is also the scale where you should use a proper database (even just SQLite).
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by pphysch 2y ago
Those are just about censorship. They say nothing about the company quietly sharing your information with the government.
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by pphysch 2y ago
> My only prior is that I want people to be nice, rich, happy, and free. Even if it happens under a communist party, as in China?
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by pphysch 2y ago
You're comparing Golang and Kubernetes to products that happen to have big market share. There are loads of spreadsheet apps and smartphones out there. They are replaceable. The iPhone definitely advanced the field, but it wasn't
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by pphysch 2y ago
How is that different from any other big tech company? Show me a single large company that doesn't comply with NSLs.
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by pphysch 2y ago
> If the issue is that you hate the United States, you'll always find something to criticize, and I think we'll never find common ground. That's the issue, I'm not viewing this through a moral lens. I know you believe
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by pphysch 2y ago
Genocide of Native American peoples, enslavement of Africans, political subjugation of LatAm, largest modern gulag system (#1 prisoners per capita, prison slavery still practiced).
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by pphysch 2y ago
There's a huge amount of documented history of mass killings, destruction of institutions, and economic exploitation by the West and USA in particular. By American authors, too. Frankly, I'm astonished that you aren't aware o
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by pphysch 2y ago
The onus is on the app developer to make sure their app runs on a variety of platforms. It's not Chrome's fault for third party developers being lazy and not supporting Firefox.
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by pphysch 2y ago
People in Russia and China are saying the same thing about the West, having read critical histories of the modern West (e.g. Wang Huning, America Against America ). Based on the data, a lower/middle class person born in PRC almost cer
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by pphysch 2y ago
What do you mean? My pages will return obfuscated JS (or WASM) that render into regular-looking commercial features and links, but only if you have applicable headers. So you need a highly sophisticated visual analysis engine, with potentia
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by pphysch 2y ago
The mainstream layman/MBA view is that "AI/nocode will replace the programmers". Most actual programmers know better, of course.
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by pphysch 2y ago
> Identity, authn and authn are hard They are technically straightforward problems. The challenge is usually political; who owns the identity, who manages the identity, privacy concerns of users, etc. Authz can get crazy, there's a
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by pphysch 2y ago
Hopefully the Keycloak thing will spur more competition. I looked at some alternatives and settled on Keycloak because it was "obviously" the mature and hardened solution. Well, clearly not.
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by pphysch 2y ago
> The best way to stop SEO is to build a bot which detects commercial activity on the page (and/or availability of cart/payment controls), and commercial language in the text of the page (does the content look like an ad or pro
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by pphysch 2y ago
Huh? I would assume incumbent GitHub Copilot has way more (paying) users than all of Anthropic's B2C products combined. Is that wrong?
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by pphysch 2y ago
This is quite a simplification. There are a lot of useless/dubious controls out there, but the problem is rather the contradiction between security pragmatism and compliance regimes. #### Government: I need a service. Contractor: I can
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by pphysch 2y ago
> My worst experiences universally have always been python projects. I don't think I've had a single time where I cloned a python project and had it just work. I got a new Chromebook from work, and had VSCode+Docker running an
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by pphysch 2y ago
Climate change was barely a political issue this cycle because China is the runaway leader renewable energy tech (solar, batteries) and the Biden Admin SANCTIONED them for it. It's difficult for many people in America to accept that t
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by pphysch 2y ago
Law may be part of the solution, but overall we need a culture of demanding tailored demos. If you ask an average SaaS, "show me how this can produce value in my environment before I buy in", they may be incredulous and expose t
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by pphysch 2y ago
The problem with "development environments", like other interactive workloads, is that there is a human at the other end that desires a good interactive experience with every keypress. It's a radically different problem space
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by pphysch 2y ago
> I'm pretty sure most are hacks at this point and if you aren't actually in pain, I'd be wary of any work. Even if you are in pain, as long as it's not severe/sharp, give it a couple days to see if it goes away
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by pphysch 2y ago
With effective KYC, each moderation action has more weight (because user accounts have more weight), so in theory the moderators can focus more on quality than raw throughput.
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by pphysch 2y ago
> cheating is an existential threat to a good game experience online, and I really don't know of any other solution. Cheating is downstream of the trust problem with an anonymous global "community". Anti-cheat is just an a
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by pphysch 2y ago
My first thought isn't the "rug pull" but rather that the real product being produced by the "FOSS company", from the get go, are the expensive support contracts. Two different business models: - Sell a great+differ
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by pphysch 2y ago
What net benefits does a full blown "SIEM" add over a simple log database w/ alerting support?
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by pphysch 2y ago
Don't you think there's a chance that that narrative of "murderous autocrats" was manufactured post hoc to rationalize NATO's aggression? Otherwise it's a mighty coincidence that the West only "intervenes&
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by pphysch 2y ago
> And, yes, some perpetrators of unjust invasions are punished worse than others. In other words, there are no norms or standards for handling these situations. It's purely political.
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by pphysch 2y ago
You can't invoke "international norms" and then in the very next paragraph "but no talking about precedent, that would be whataboutism". Norms are established through precedents. There are considerable precedents in

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