radicalbyte

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by radicalbyte 4mo ago
An assumption, I made. Failed, it was.
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by radicalbyte 4mo ago
I've been so impressed with Ubiquiti that I've decided to target FreeBSD for my current side project. Their camera system is wonderful. Their DreamMachine is a massive upgrade for my home network. Their APs are rock solid, no hass
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by radicalbyte 4mo ago
I tried to explain to people in The Netherlands this exact problem when they were thinking about switching from single-player to a commercial insurance company model. Insurance companies always have an incentive to make healthcare services
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by radicalbyte 4mo ago
Sounds like me. It's awesome. Only the sheer amount of very clear fraud and the way an entire way of people who, not too long ago, where barely functional, have jumped on the bandwagon (same as with crypto) just sours me on it. That an
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by radicalbyte 4mo ago
Thanks for replying, now I remember why I used to spend all day on this site :-) A lot of the political changes and my exposure to some of the VC people outside of public view have soured tech for me. That and the current cult-like behaviou
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by radicalbyte 4mo ago
No it wasn't. Google had a tiny front page back then, Alta-Vista was visibly slower. Very similar to Excite. All of the others were terrible.
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by radicalbyte 4mo ago
Erm 2008 isn't early, I had been using it for almost a decade by then. They had won by 2001. No-one who knew Microsoft thought that they had a chance with Bing. This was post-Gates and Microsoft were already a laughing stock in 2008 wi
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by radicalbyte 4mo ago
Google was easily 10x better than any of their competition. It was effectively alone in the market. Most of us were using 56k modems to access the internet back then, Google's search returned results within a couple of seconds. Yahoo,
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by radicalbyte 4mo ago
They learned from the failure of crypto and have found their bag holders.
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by radicalbyte 4mo ago
Where did that $70B from the metaverse go to?
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by radicalbyte 5mo ago
Ikea use my country - The Netherland - to avoid paying tax. Same thing that Google and go co with Ireland. They have literal custom agreements with our tax office.
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by radicalbyte 5mo ago
I do agree about China being way ahead and way smarter here, I should add. They've made America, Europe, Japan, India, Russia look really stupid. I've admired their strategic long term thinking for as long as I've been aware
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by radicalbyte 5mo ago
The tech companies could all move to Texas and the power would be there. They've all won. They all have their monopolies / duopolies. They would never have been the success they were in the first place without California. It was t
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by radicalbyte 5mo ago
Germany shut down their atomic power plants and replaced them with natural gas. They even fiddled the EU environmental rules such that natural gas was considered "part of the green transition". That all back-fired when Russia - th
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by radicalbyte 5mo ago
That's only true at the micro level; at the macro level it is surprisingly stable over the EU zone + UK + Norway. There are capacity and interconnect issues but they're small fry. We have a huge amount of capacity for wind and con
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by radicalbyte 5mo ago
I'd like to regulate them the way American companies are regulated, and then regulate American companies in Europe the way European companies are regulated. Level the playing field. Not exactly rocket science, it's just copying th
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by radicalbyte 5mo ago
I've read the article and I kind of agree with some of the things he's saying. It's more than just AI though. Energy is the big problem and the big problem there is that we're just not ramping up renewables quickly enoug
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by radicalbyte 5mo ago
The problem with taxes in Europe are that the ultra-wealthy don't pay them. That burden is particularly focused on those who are high wage earners. If I look at my own country, as a high earner I'm paying close to a 50% effective
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by radicalbyte 5mo ago
It's so obvious that they've been trained on a metric shit-tonne of white papers and corporate emails it's not even funny.
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by radicalbyte 5mo ago
I can't tell from your post that English is not your native language, outside of the Americanisms (I assumed that American English was your native language) :-)
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by radicalbyte 5mo ago
The people I've seen are English / American and monolingual.
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by radicalbyte 5mo ago
A vassal of California. I know we like to say that tech is the US but that's not true. It is almost completely focused around a small part of California. Take that out and Europe and the US are comparable with respect to software tech
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by radicalbyte 5mo ago
Something I have noticed is that the people who are using it to write everything are the same people who had a poor level of English writing a year or two ago. It's just "intellectual" botox.
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by radicalbyte 5mo ago
Analytics should be self hosted. For any serious business there should never be a reason to use a SaaS product. For SME (including startups) obviously yes. But if you have devops teams then deploy on your own hardware.
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by radicalbyte 5mo ago
In some cases but not enough. Some of us has been doing a lot to help educate companies and business here and with the current administration - and the fact that they are being explicitly backed/funded by the Silicon Valley tech compan
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by radicalbyte 5mo ago
I don't understand the people who "get the agent to do everything" for them. It just makes a mess if you do that. Yet if I spend a little bit of time setting a project up properly (including telling my minions exactly what to
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by radicalbyte 5mo ago
You don't have to be a FE dev (which is largely a junior/mid-level position anno 2026) to write HTML. I'm not and I've used it for years. With Markdown being a thing that has been less common, sure, but that's more
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by radicalbyte 5mo ago
Sorry but what? HTML's really simple, I've been using it for 30 years now. Pretty much everything you need to know to do something useful can be learned in an hour. I know that it's 2026 and we've spent the last 15 years
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by radicalbyte 5mo ago
Very few developers do that especially on early / key parts of the codebase.
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by radicalbyte 5mo ago
When I was living in the UK the copper cable was 4.5km long. The reason I know that is because BT denied that there was any copper line installed. So I spoke to the building company who told me they installed the copper cables. Then I wrote

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