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by rout39574 3y ago
Why do you find central corporate control to be a defining feature? I am drawn much more to the technical features of the system. I think of IRC, Mastadon, and Jabber as social networks; If you rule out Jabber it seems to me you must als
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by rout39574 3y ago
I agree: > designed to create and make use of a graph of relationships between people. I assert that a universe of people maintaining killfiles is exactly this. It is the default-trust map of social network, in which one imagines that t
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by rout39574 3y ago
I agree that moderation policies are important. But I think it's missing a point to decide that "A social network with bad moderation policies" is therefore not a social network. Easy comparison: Mastadon has distributed i
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by rout39574 3y ago
I disagree. I've never yet seen a forum environment which was more usable than GNUS was for me 20-mumble years ago.
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by rout39574 3y ago
Can you articulate the ways in which it seems not-a-social-network to you? Comparison with reddit might be useful. The only fundamental distinction I can draw is that there's no unified source of identity in usenet. All the rest of th
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by rout39574 3y ago
I'd suggest "pythonic", rather than obvious, for that sentence. It's one of the ways the community reminds itself of the utility of consistent discipline.
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by rout39574 3y ago
So I imagine you have that perspective because you started less than 20 years ago. In some ways the idea of the Pythonic Way to do things evolved in opposition to Perl's vigorous advocacy of More Than One Way. Python has been really w
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by rout39574 3y ago
Immune, no. Far less prone to bit rot? yeah. My source is running backups for a significant fraction of a large univiersity for ~20 years. We had a routine cadence of tape errors, which were much less frequent than our routine cadence o
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by rout39574 3y ago
Exactly. IBM's had several generations of tape tech in the can, and has managed the rollouts with calm competence for at least back to '97 when I got started in the backup business. Their research is a prominent part of the LTO pl
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by rout39574 3y ago
Yes, that is indeed the question.
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by rout39574 3y ago
I think you might want to contemplate that "Fashionable" is semantically equivalent to 'dated'. You are excited that it's dated to 'now'. I know you see this fashionable UX as an advantage, but what I th
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by rout39574 3y ago
More like someone who works on their own car. Yeah, they lose the occasional weekend to the maintenance, but they love that they've had the same car for 35 years. However with Emacs, there are a few thousand other people working on th
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by rout39574 3y ago
Let's say you have an investment account with millions of dollars in it. Let's say for the purpose of the example you are earning 30% a year[0]. You're accustomed to use that account to fund your travel. You convert some s
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by rout39574 3y ago
Consultant / operator. We were student employees, who were nonetheless in charge of all the systems. It was an absolutely awesome experience.
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by rout39574 3y ago
I was in that room! Poor fellow. It was the demo of our new UPS; I can still remember the gradual fading fans and clicks of capacitors. He was really nervous showing the new install off to us, and he was just talking through the position
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by rout39574 3y ago
COVID is not a good model for the Spanish influenza. I highly recommend The Great Influenza: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Influenza-Deadliest-Pandemic-Hi... We were so desperately lucky. It was not "like covid".
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by rout39574 3y ago
Yes, anything the FSF blesses also qualifies as open source. Can you articulate what point you're trying to make, that this supports?
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by rout39574 3y ago
Hah! Password count cousins! I'm 484 in lastpass.
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by rout39574 3y ago
My read of it was that the circles are centered on the date of the failure, and the stacking was some flavor of minimum height. The result is you get an approximation of "area under the curve" of bank value that has failed, while
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by rout39574 3y ago
I'd say, "Our few failures now, which we think of as plausibly just the leading edge, are already comparable in size to the _entire_ 2008 cascade." Losing stuff now seems... premature, but not insane.
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by rout39574 3y ago
much of what you're suggesting can be done with a tiling WM. In Xmonad, I do something similar with a concept they label "workspaces", in that a given workspace has an accreting collection of features which can be summoned
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by rout39574 3y ago
Bravo on the ethical double-take. It's hard. If you're so inclined, I'd like to hear your speculation: would you have found that second thought as easy if your wheat ETF were _up_ 31%?
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by rout39574 4y ago
I'm not sure it's "unseating". Moving from one lobe of enclosed corporate power to another doesn't help. I think this serves more to enclose that which was free, than to liberate what was closed.
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by rout39574 4y ago
I think that the LLMs "Can't do that now", and I find it plausible that the LLM model won't be able to do that ever (but I'm a podsphere follower of that industry, no authority on my own). But I think it's a f
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by rout39574 4y ago
Your children's neighborhoods are dramatically safer than yours were, which were safer than their parents'. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-462091/How-children...
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by rout39574 4y ago
Not a hallucination. Black body radiation coming off that thing that's nearly sun-hot pumps a lot of energy out into the world. Everything that can absorb some of it does so, and twitches. We tend to think of radio receivers as somet
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by rout39574 4y ago
AC is pretty power hungry; solar panels on the roof of an average van (best case) aren't going to make much of a dent. I find estimates of 10-20 miles per day of range in the best cases. At current prices, my sense is that solar panel
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by rout39574 4y ago
It's disheartening to have the top comment on this discussion be a discouragement from individual contributions because the solution is imperfect. Let me suggest a thought pattern which might ease your difficulty. It's hard to ima
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by rout39574 4y ago
Nerds with more dollars than sense. And that's looking in the mirror; I feel the pull even though I no way could afford it. Though I'd pay a bit more not to have the NFT. :P
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by rout39574 4y ago
Consider JSON output formats, and jq as your swiss army knife between operations. The disadvantage of "first class values" is that now you need a type system to help determine what values can be used in what way, and it becomes co

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