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by sangnoir 2y ago
> I'm not sure what your idea about PRs and features has to do with the above... he's not there to work on the internal infra framework. My idea is if he's not making the monorepo codebase changes himself, he's going
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> What I am saying—and what you seem to have misunderstood—is that the TOR network is most likely used, precisely because of its strength, for highly sensitive clandestine operations. Tor seems to be a poster child of the "Nobody Bu
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by sangnoir 2y ago
How long has he been interning? Is it long enough for him to have learned how long the timescale big-tech roadmaps operate on? If he wants a feature, he better write it himself (if his PR doesn't conflict with an upcoming rewrite, comi
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Facebook didn't use mercurial because of big O, they used it because of hubris and a bad disk config. Half-remembering a blog post I read - the git maintainers also wouldn't give Facebook the time of day on code changes to a
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by sangnoir 2y ago
I mentioned Handbrake without checking its DVD authoring capability - probably used it to rip DVDs many years ago and got it mixed up with burning them; a better FLOSS alternative for authoring would have been DeVeDe or bombono.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Back in pre-LLM days, it's not like I would have hired a x264 expert to do this job for me. I would have either had to spend hours more on this task, or more likely, this 97 year old man would never have seen his great granddaught
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Perhaps because no other country goes to the same lengths to help its citizens abroad in times of trouble. When there's geopolitical trouble brewing, it not uncommon for other nationalities to take advantage of American evacuations. Fe
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by sangnoir 2y ago
OP was most likely concerned about Israeli businesses that supply (or ship) non-explosive components/products no longer being trusted.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Xbox and Playstation dont earn AMD much profits at all It doesn't cost them much either. Lisa Su, in an interview that was posted to HN a few months ago, said it is a deliberate strategy to repackage IP AMD has already developed.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Why is os and phone model so tightly integrated and locked together, when in the pc world you can generally install any os on any computer? Qualcomm is the reason. Qualcomm wants OEMs to buy new chips every year, and for that to happen
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Parent asked a specific question about the survival of Firedancer and winding down of the crypto arm though. No demise of Jump mentioned.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
"Some guy" who happens to be a consultant with a long list of household-name clients, and seems like a GIS pro
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> For that first part, though, what does that even mean? The military isn't gamifying things and giving folks freaking XBox achievements for racking up killstreaks or anything Fighter pilots have been adding decals keeping track of
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by sangnoir 2y ago
A->B =/= B->A. OPs view is that lack of MI (A) results in homelessness (B). You're taking that further and making the argument that the existence of homelessness (B) implies lack of good institutions (A) - an argument OP did
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by sangnoir 2y ago
A decent number of larger open source projects self-host.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
It's no coincidence that you noticed similarities with DS9 - Paramount ripped off[1] the BS5 script J. Michael Straczynski had submitted to them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtaDXnB1YsA
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by sangnoir 2y ago
If I am mistaken, I would appreciate counter-examples of successful towns that engage libertarian praxis. Living off the grid is one thing, but living in a town or city with shared commons is another.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Without property tax, who pays for the infrastructure and first responders? The no taxes, no rules, and no local government services thing was tried many times without success: in one New Hampshire town, they got overran by bears[1] - who c
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Fortunately, I don't think it really has an analogue in the modern day How about conglomerates having defense contractor and mass media/news subsidiaries? An on-the-nose author may write a newscaster who says that they were
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by sangnoir 2y ago
He also was a SWE at an online payment processor startup during the dotcom boom.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> You cannot pay decent benefits to a growing retired population while collecting reasonable dues from a shrinking working population How does this jibe with ever-increasing profits?
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by sangnoir 2y ago
401k's are a lot like a bunch of ranchers granting their herds 0.01% of their Cattle futures portfolios. Less hyperbolic - the existence of large pools of capital without a voice on the boards is partly responsible for the management-l
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by sangnoir 2y ago
IMO, Stephenson's books are too long for the stories they tell, especially the final 25-33% - those can be a real slog. I gave up on Seveneves at about 90% or the book, reading it was no longer fun. I read a handful of his prior work t
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Crony-capitalism is capitalism, if you don't fall for the no-true-Scotsman fallacy.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> The article talks a bit about how, while Mondragon is a pretty good deal for basic labor, they have trouble attracting high-demand talent like engineers, which they also need Perhaps that's not inherent to high-demand talent, but
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> We are counterintuitively rediscovering skepticism by democratizing nation-state propaganda I don't want "democratized" flat-earther GenAI slop being given equal billing as Hubble or James Web imagery (aka NASA propagand
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Open source and WFH are orthogonal.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Twitter has more lax content moderation - boosting blue-checks resulted in a torrent of OnlyFans porn spam that took several months to resolve (P-U-S-S-Y--I-N--B-I-O) If Twitter didn't have a handle on porn in general, what makes you
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> I don't remember the effective social movements and resulting changes in society you describe coming from threats of violence (in the US) I can think of 2. The end of the reconstruction period (slash-start-of-Jim-Crow) was brought
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by sangnoir 2y ago
I hate commenting on downvotes, but I really, really hope I'm being downvoted for my first sentence, and not the second one.

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