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by rglullis 2y ago
They started with BTC. Their token only came after they got the feedback that people were not interested in parting ways with their own crypto.
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by rglullis 2y ago
There is nothing "legitimate" about ads that track me and that I would block anyway.
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by rglullis 2y ago
Let me rephrase. I never looked back at React as the default option for any greenfield project. I still have to deal with React codebases, and every time I do I dread it.
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by rglullis 2y ago
When I wanted to make a SPA for a project, I also wanted to avoid analysis paralysis. So I looked at Vue and React. Getting started with Vue was so much easier, I never looked back to React.
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by rglullis 2y ago
I see it as an opportunity. "Libre" models are already matching state-of-the-art models, so it's not like this power will not be available to the OSS developers.
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by rglullis 2y ago
We "just" need to flip the narrative. Let's stop talking about "services" that people need to pay for and make FOSS something that people invest so they can (collectively) own later. People love to shit on crypto, b
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by rglullis 2y ago
It is not "compulsory", but not doing it is extremely short-sighted, like the equivalent of failing the marshmallow test in a collective scale.
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by rglullis 2y ago
It is mind boggling how much funding there would be for the Gimp/Krita/Inkscape/Penpot developers if every designer gave them 5% of what they give to Adobe.
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by rglullis 2y ago
Free software is more than just a business model.
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by rglullis 2y ago
You understand this pedantry does not take anything away from the point being made, right?
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by rglullis 2y ago
This is not about usage . I am not saying we should live without cars. I am saying that there is a very bad systemic issue if people simply can not live without owning a car . If you want to make a comparison with utilities: The fact that
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by rglullis 2y ago
Tell that to the Amish. Car dependency is something that we've learned, not the natural state of things.
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by rglullis 2y ago
80+% of people live in urban areas.
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by rglullis 2y ago
Unless your idea of "diverse world" is confined to (suburban) North America, the need to own a car is the exception , not the rule.
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by rglullis 2y ago
But "Don't sweat over any little issue, especially if they have gone multiple years without major complaints from a sizeable part of your user base" is.
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by rglullis 2y ago
> Brotli was developed by people And this type of work was only possible because someone provided resources because they were expecting some type of payoff. Let's stop romanticizing the past. Brotli's first release is from 2015
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by rglullis 2y ago
> Projects like Brotli aren't built to maximize personal profit; In the case of Google, they very much are driven by profit. For a small company, reducing your payload size or decompression time by 0.01% may be senseless, but at t
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by rglullis 2y ago
Yes, I think I mentioned this before: we had similar issues on our team and I was tasked with improving intra- and inter-team communication. The solution we adopted was to create a Confluence space for each team, and any question on Slack w
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by rglullis 2y ago
FWIW, $7/month is a figure for running a whole server just for your domain. Mastodon absolutely sucks for single-user instances. I offer Takahe hosting for $39/year if you want to use your own domain, or Mastodon + Matrix + Funkwh
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by rglullis 2y ago
> You can redirect your old profile to the new one in another instance, or permanently move it keeping your follows and followers But you lose all the posts and interactions. Most importantly, you are not keeping your identity, but merel
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by rglullis 2y ago
> And honestly in some low-population towns it might well be the most sensible solution. That is reversing the logic a bit. The reason that low-population towns don't get to develop their own robust economy is very correlated to
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by rglullis 2y ago
Yeah, my point exactly. Everyone wants to find an excuse to avoid doing the difficult thing instead of organizing themselves to solve their systemic issues. Berlin also has lots of homeless people. It also deals with junkies in the stations
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by rglullis 2y ago
I don't have any "feeling of powerlessness" when I am on a plane, or a taxi, or a bus or train or a boat, because I believe that whoever is conducting those vehicles have interests aligned with mine: to get safely and unevent
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by rglullis 2y ago
You are arguing based on sunk costs, and even if rail was not an alternative , the US could be investing in other modes of transport: light rail (trams), buses and electric bikes. Also, you are not accounting for externalities. Get the sub
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by rglullis 2y ago
Right, because drug dealers and VC-fueled companies never managed to get market share by price dumping and subsidizing the costs in the beginning to kill the competition. Uber is now finally posting a profit: are they now really cheaper&#x2
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by rglullis 2y ago
> It doesn't really fix any of the scaling problems with car transport regardless. But the investors are not saying that, and they won't be around when everyone else gets stuck with the bill in the future. The key point of the
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by rglullis 2y ago
> In the case of San Francisco Is Waymo planning to stay confined to California only? The US? Car-dependent US and Canada? No, you can bet that their investors are betting they will be able to export their "solution" everywhere
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by rglullis 2y ago
Pushing for autonomous vehicles will lead to a local maxima which is worse, more expensive, and less universal than solutions that already exist and have been deployed in every developed country that is not increasingly car dependent.
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by rglullis 2y ago
On an airplane, the pilot has skin in the game. If he screws up, he will pay with his own life. What happens to the developers/manufacturers of a driverless car that kills a passenger or a pedestrian?
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by rglullis 2y ago
> I still feel far less vulnerable than taking public transit or walking. This sounds incredibly dystopian. What hellhole do you live? What are the dangers you have from taking public transit?

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