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by rewmie 3y ago
> Lately, I've noticed that shared hosting with Namecheap has lost its edge. I'm not aware of anyone paying the likes of namecheap for hosting. I don't even understand the thought process involved.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Everybody here can express an opinion on any topic under discussion; it's a public forum. I've expressed mine, and my opinion is that it's stupid for anyone to make wild claims on how anyone can or cannot base their deci
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by rewmie 3y ago
> It's $5 over a year. If that's a meaningful amount of money you probably have no business owning domain names. I don't think you have a say on what others do with their money, or what could have possibly led you to belie
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by rewmie 3y ago
I also wonder what percentage of that share is due to crypto.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Is it money? If all the prices and salaries inflate 2x at the same time, the economy is twice as large without really growing. I think that the blog post boils down to specious reasoning largely because it focus on "economic growt
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by rewmie 3y ago
> How did we get to the point where simple and effective server-side pages are either unknown as a way of doing things or are considered to be a technical heresy? We are not at that point nor we were ever at that point, or close to it. S
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by rewmie 3y ago
I think your comment doesn't really make sense. Unless you're somehow assuming that the one and only way to do web apps is to go the dynamic html path, I don't see how your suggestion can even apply. Once you have a frontend
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by rewmie 3y ago
> How many Americans, younger or not, would raise an eyebrow if invited to go camping around Hanford? You're grossly misrepresenting the facts. The Russians who were digging trenches in Chernobyl were a part of a full blown invasion
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Sure, you can always cherry-pick someone from a remote village (...) The bulk of Russia's invasion force is comprised by people from remote villages. You're talking about people who risked their lives, and many died, to pilla
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Imagine asking random New Yorker’s what 9/11 was. Chernobyl is pretty close to being equivalent in terms of fame and media coverage. The mistake you're making is projecting your personal experience onto others, and extrapolat
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Everyone knew about the disaster for a long time. I think you're falling into the mistake everyone is like you, and has access to the info you had access to. In the meantime, there is plenty of documented evidence that Russian sol
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Irrelevant. Hollywood accounting works because (...) I don't think you understood what I wrote. GP claimed "SpaceX is profitable, so they're not pricing below cost", but the bulk of SpaceX's revenue can be attr
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by rewmie 3y ago
Profit is the result of all operations, not just launches. For instance, starlink is a SpaceX company. Starlink is reported to be responsible for up to 40% of SpaceX's revenue. https://spacenews.com/starlink-may-account
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by rewmie 3y ago
> If SpaceX can sell for less than cost (...) This can and is considered predatory pricing, which is a criminal offense in some jurisdictions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I don't know why you're so obsessed with cost. This whole discussion is centered around cost. The only argument presented in favor of paying SpaceX for launches is launch cost. If it wasn't for costx why would an org lik
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Not really relevant. I disagree. The whole theme of these corporate worship sessions is to praise how efficient they are, and how inefficient everything in comparison. Claiming that these corporations are free to lie and omit expenses
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by rewmie 3y ago
That Reddit discussion reads like a long-form strawman. I mean, you do not refute the statement that "Teresa ran hospitals like prisons, particularly cruel and unhygienic prisons at that" by answering "oh they were not hospit
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Polygamy isn’t technically legal or common, but you still have plenty of people who have many romantic partners—just not at the same time. I don't think those two are the same. Polygamy is a way to structure society and determin
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Cloud is for big computational needs that can't be covered by Linde or DO. I don't think this is true at all. The cloud is just a fancy word for using someone else's computational resources, and the cloud's main sel
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by rewmie 3y ago
Also,one cannot pretend that AWS does not force customers to pay through the nose for its cloud services.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> at this stage the only trustable big computational cloud is AWS. Didn't AWS had in the last year two or three large scale events that paralyzed the web? Edit: here's a discussion over one of the times AWS's us-east-1 was
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by rewmie 3y ago
> There's just no reason to do it because C++11 and C++20 are forwards and backwards compatible, so you might as well compile everything with C++20 if you're already going to compile it all from source. This isn't exactly
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by rewmie 3y ago
> You use pragmas to disable/enable features on a file-by-file basis. No, I don't. Some compilers support that, though, namely MSVC, but those practices are a huge code smell that are heavily discouraged for decades.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> ISO processes are a complex beast, you will notice that C++ is the exception of having the language author still around, all other programming languages under ISO, the authors kind of moved on after the first revision. I don't see
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by rewmie 3y ago
> This however doesn't make Circle less relevant, because it is actually a testament to show that C++ could have been much better without the claimed breakage. But it does break backwards compatibility, doesn't it? Meaning, if
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by rewmie 3y ago
> There is a certain sense that Elon Musk paid $44 billion to do this, so he has every right to do so. Even though you can argue the free speech angle regarding news publications such as the new York times, I'm not so sure if blackl
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by rewmie 3y ago
Wasn't Musk's Twitter caught blacklisting comments regarding Russia's invasion of Ukraine? Sounds awfully hypocritical to defend the right to post unfiltered Russian propaganda while at the same time blacklist comments from R
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by rewmie 3y ago
> People are paid to deliver features and yet the forums are full of why this and that is annoying in React (...) Online forums dedicated to frameworks are filled with questions on what the framework does and how it works. No news there.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Lots of assumptions. And they're all based on the fact React must be some all-encompassing framework, like all other frameworks are or have become, and there's no other way to organize your app, possibly, unless it's dro
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I sometimes check React discussions and it's full of new made-up terms about managing issues that are uniquely caused by React or some previous iteration of a React technique. In other words, you're checking React discussions

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