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by seti0Cha 3y ago
Doesn't sound like they needed a microblogging platform, just a web page that could be easily updated. Their use of Twitter in the first place would appear to be the crux of the problem.
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
I don't really know how Mastodon works, but one thing I've wondered is, how does is a small instance affected by federating with a large instance? If, for example, some instance were to grow to a significant percentage of Twitter
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
Do they federate with anybody or are they selective? Who makes those decisions, based on what? This seems like a can of worms to me.
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
All very good points. Still, I hope they pull it off for the shear inspirational value.
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
You should check out his browser hacking videos. It's pretty shocking how much they have already and how fast it's improving. I have no doubt they will eventually be able render the vast majority of websites correctly. The real qu
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
I think Andreas' point is that although there are more specs and they contain more details, they are far less ambiguous so that a careful reading allows one to achieve correct functionality without guesswork. Since he's worked on
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
While I do agree it would be good for those who haven't experienced poverty to get a taste of it, it's not realistic to expect people to feel satisfied simply because they are more fortunate than some other group. Success is alway
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
That was what killed it for me. After they rewrote in Electron, using the app always felt sluggish, and despite the fact that it didn't actually interfere with any of my uses of it, I went from really liking their service to tolerating
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
I agree that many of the features they were adding were useless (to me), but I disagree that you can encompass what they do with the description of storing and editing files. Their value was in the removing any concern a user might have abo
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
I can't comment on the bus line example, but the New York Times had a great write-up ( https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-... ) about subway building in New York. At least in
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
The best people can pretty much always vote with their feet. MS may not see significantly higher attrition, but they may still see attrition of significance. I hope so, for all the employees' sakes.
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
I don't believe I've ever seen 4 junior engineers who don't know what they're doing build anything other than a mess. I don't have any experience with rails, so I can't say whether the mess would be worse, but
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
It did! I tried it out and ended up buying a Lumia. Really liked that phone too. Sadly, the app story was bad and the platform was doomed.
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
I agree with your overall point, but I think you're framing it too strongly. It absolutely is possible to form a shared culture remotely. Many open source projects have demonstrated this as well as various forum and chat communities. H
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
Are you using it as a daily driver? Seems like every time I look into Linux phones, there's always been some fundamental bit of functionality that wasn't working yet, like waking from sleep for phone calls. Are we beyond that now?
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
Huh, OP wasn't kidding. Thanks for taking my question seriously.
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
In what way were they collecting monopoly rents? It seems like what happened was someone came out with a better product and took a bunch of their business. Isn't that exactly what monopolies are expected to prevent from happening, and,
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
The nice thing about htmx is it gives a middle ground between the two. Build with the simplicity of an MPA while getting a lot of the nice user experience of an SPA. Sure, you don't get all the power of having a full data model on the
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
My example appears to have distracted you from the point I was making. Let me make the point again without an example: being vulnerable to one attack does not mean there's no value in not being vulnerable to another attack when the att
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
If your physical device can be unlocked remotely with a 6 digit number, not much, but that's not generally the case.
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
> Auth is as secure as the weakest link True if you are being specifically targeted, but there are whole classes of vulnerability that you are better off not having even if you have less than perfect opsec. To take an extreme example, my
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
The idea seems to be that you will either trust a provider like Apple or Google to keep you private key safe and let them sync it around, or you will create a passkey for each device that you use. If you lose the device, deauthorize the pas
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
I don't know that I would rely on performance on a single search to categorize how a search engine performs even in related areas to that one search. Also, maybe this is a stupid question, but are you letting Google personalize your re
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
If the HOA is entirely elected by the people who live in it, it sounds as if it would be more democratic and more accountable than a town or city government. Your vote will have more power and the people elected will literally be your neigh
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
Housing for people and office space for corporations are very different issues. I agree that companies buying all the personal homes is problematic, mostly because people are not business entities, they live in communities and they have nee
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
It would be a closer analogy, but analogies aren't true or false, they are more or less useful in making a point. As it happens, my analogy was not that useful because apparently many people didn't understand it. The point I was t
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
> At some point we have to stop accepting this narrative that monopolists and other rentiers are doing us all a favor by "taking on the risk" of actually owning things, freeing us of that "burden" and graciously allow
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
What is your exposure then? I don't think I've ever worked at a place that had any interesting in owning the office building they were located in. Usually, they are only interested in part of a building, and they don't want t
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
Land ownership is not free money. It usually involves taking on debt for purchase, then trying to recoup that money through rental. They take risk from the possibility that the land value will go down, they won't be able to service the
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
I'm confused. The company engineered the right to some office space, the landlord engineered a stable income to pay the mortgage, and the bank engineered a loan that pays them interest. Who has what problem? And who got a bonus and ret

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