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by rwmj 1y ago
What I actually said is that it's a chore to run a small website, and that applies even to a simple static site (although you're right, way more if your site runs backend scripts). Bad actors are still going to try to DDoS you, a
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by rwmj 1y ago
I agree there is definitely more work required to get something working with IPv6 (though not 10x). However to say that doing this is "0 x the return". You're ignoring a solid third to half of the broad internet, which is n
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by rwmj 1y ago
There's a lot of bad actors on the internet, which makes running a small website quite a chore -- and this one is much more visible than the average small website. At the very minimum you must keep it up to date, because it will be
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by rwmj 1y ago
The comment above was being downvoted quite a lot, and I'd quite like to know why. It seems reasonable to ensure that IPv6 works as a basic requirement for new projects (at least, ones which can be connected to a network).
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by rwmj 1y ago
They (probably) won't physically fail, but they'll be obsolete compared to newer GPUs which will have more raw compute and lower power requirements.
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by rwmj 1y ago
The technology is there til the GPUs become obsolete, so about 3 years.
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by rwmj 1y ago
Also no one is talking about how exposed we are to Taiwan. Nvidia, AMD, Apple, any company building out GPUs (so Google, Microsoft, Meta etc), even Intel a bit, are all manufacturing everything with one company, and it's largely happe
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by rwmj 1y ago
If you really run it "for years without maintenance" then your blog will get taken over by attackers and used to distribute malware or worse.
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by rwmj 1y ago
But wouldn't a "true" LBO be where the acquired company takes on the debt?
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by rwmj 1y ago
Was Twitter an LBO? I thought the funding came from Musk taking on the debt.
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by rwmj 1y ago
I think it's more like code review, which really is the worst part of coding. With AI, I'll be doing less of the fun bits (writing, debugging those super hard customer bugs), and much much more code review.
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by rwmj 1y ago
I also thought it was charming and well written, and now have no intention of ever going there!
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by rwmj 1y ago
I agree 100%, but I'll note in this case it's trivial to bypass the banner by blocking scripts from sourcepoint.theguardian.com.
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by rwmj 1y ago
Here in the real world companies have 3 choices: (1) comply with local laws, (2) don't operate at all in the country, or (3) operate in the country but ensure they have no staff there and never visit. Anything else is going to involve
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by rwmj 1y ago
> Not that linux was even remotely close to being usable even only twenty years ago I've been using Linux only as a desktop for 30 years, so that's a strange comment. For sure games and other software that was written to run
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by rwmj 1y ago
Really really really missing the point! Firstly I'd object to your statement that you have to buy a lot of stuff to get into it. Record players aren't expensive, and vinyl is also cheap (and don't look on ebay, go to your l
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by rwmj 1y ago
Is the problem not that it's in a war zone?
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by rwmj 1y ago
So in other words, copyright doesn't cover it, thanks for confirming that. The click through contracts you describe have no legal force where I live.
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by rwmj 1y ago
How you watch copyrighted content has never been something that copyright has controlled.
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by rwmj 1y ago
I'm sure that's a problem for Youtube. What does it have to do with me rendering Youtube videos on my own computer in the way I want?
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by rwmj 1y ago
For fuzzing we don't use valgrind, but use Clang + ASan instead. All these tools have their niches.
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by rwmj 1y ago
My possibly controversial take is that the original moon race would have been a lot more sustainable if the US hadn't attempted to land (at first). The Soviets could likely have built a rocket which also orbited the moon, based on V
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by rwmj 1y ago
And hacking on tty software too, the geekiest corner of the Unix tech stack.
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by rwmj 1y ago
https://archive.ph/dSFHZ
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Every country needs to master the Electric Tech Stack(noahpinion.blog)
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by rwmj 1y ago
The other responses to this post are very strange. Here in the UK I too lived in HMOs for many years while I was a student at university and later when I started working. It is simply a normal way of living if you're in your twenties
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by rwmj 1y ago
Confusing headline, but note they're not using "standard silicon chips", like they built this using 74LS logic. They're using custom ASICs but claiming that they can be manufactured on standard nodes eg at TSMC. It&#x
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by rwmj 1y ago
Valgrind is a hidden super-power. In much of the software I write, there's 'make check' which runs the test cases, and 'make check-valgrind' that runs the same test cases under valgrind. The latter is only used on
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by rwmj 1y ago
Germany in the 1920s had hyperinflation so the idea that the rise of the Nazis was caused only by unemployment is, erm, arguable at best. At the very least, hyperinflation so destroyed the economy as to be the cause of the unemployment.
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by rwmj 1y ago
The trouble is that with unemployment it only affects a small percentage of the population and those people blame themselves (as long as it's not a 1930s-style depression), but with inflation everyone feels it every time they go to the

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