shuntress

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by shuntress 2y ago
If it were some random startup that was going to be gone in 2 years anyways I wouldn't have to worry about being opted-in without my knowledge. It does matter more because it's Microsoft doing it.
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by shuntress 2y ago
TCP isn't "ossified" it's stable .
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by shuntress 2y ago
The snark is because the "issues" are misattributed and HTTP does not need to be replaced. TCP is fine. HTTP is fine. We need to stop pretending HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 are "upgrades" and just call it a separate prot
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by shuntress 2y ago
Chrome and the modern browser landscape is a monument to our failure to produce a good operating system.
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by shuntress 2y ago
> they don't spend their time bikeshedding or homogenizing their work. They would if their woodworking projects spanned decades and involved thousands of other woodworkers.
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by shuntress 2y ago
Capacity and Practicality are the major difference. If you do ignore those though, vinyl is a much better long-term data storage solution than CD. A quick internet search suggest that a regular 12" record should have a capacity of
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by shuntress 2y ago
Consumer-grade Project Silica please save me from this long-term storage hellscape.
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by shuntress 2y ago
It's a cute interaction for sure but it's frustrating to see this sort of "I'm doing my best to make our government useless" attitude from the president. A better response would have been "Sorry but your mother
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by shuntress 3y ago
HTTP/2 or How to Cram a Transport Layer "Upgrade" Into an Application Layer Protocol.
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by shuntress 3y ago
I had never heard of HTMX. It's nice to see some appreciation for HTML. And it's especially nice that the front page of the htmx website actually tells you what it is rather than try to convince you how much VC clout it has.
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by shuntress 3y ago
> I am a power user of all sorts of software that I sorely wish had a less cluttered and “more white space” or “more aesthetic” experience I would add to this with the observation that the existence of "power users" is very lik
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by shuntress 3y ago
You can pay for things online with V Bucks as regularly as you like that doesn't make it a real currency.
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by shuntress 3y ago
This is not an appropriate comparison. > I can't realistically use credit cards. I can't walk in a store and pay using my credit card That was true at some point and I would agree that as long as it remained true "Why shou
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by shuntress 3y ago
Wire Transfers are a logistic service you may have someone perform for you in exchange for cash. Half the point of a digital cash is that you never need a wire transfer because you can just exchange the digital cash directly. Effectively th
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by shuntress 3y ago
> After all, whats the harm in letting a little girl from harlem believe someone like her could have been a medieval european monarch? I'm a little confused by this and want to better understand what point you intend to make. What d
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by shuntress 3y ago
This is something that feels pretty lost in most modern crypto discussion. It's evident in literally the first line of the bitcoin whitepaper: "A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be s
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by shuntress 3y ago
It's maybe quick with low fees now while no one is using it. It has the exact same practical problems every other distributed cryptocurrency has preventing it from being useful as an actual currency. If Monero ever started seeing adopt
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by shuntress 3y ago
You could maybe call it a technical issue or an issue of adoption but the fact is that no one is scanning Monero wallet QR codes to buy coffee.
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by shuntress 3y ago
"Bitcoin but its anonymous" does not make Monero a real currency. I guess it helps that its value is relatively stable. But I still can't realistically use it. I can't walk in a store, buy something, then pay with Monero
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by shuntress 3y ago
The "Killer App" for a cryptocurrency would be the ability to use it as a currency.
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by shuntress 3y ago
This is a good general summary: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/our-work/programs/gender-equ...
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by shuntress 3y ago
Whoops! You got me! I guess every time a society starts to empower women after a violent overthrow of a political regime it has been stopped by backlash from surviving conservatives and hardliners and reactionaries.
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by shuntress 3y ago
You seem to be confused. The initial comment was this: > The place we spent the most time in the 21st century, Afghanistan, somehow went from an objective of destroying Al Qaeda to ensuring that girls got a good education and had equal
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by shuntress 3y ago
> Examples? Look into it yourself if you care so much. I don't care to get so far off topic. > [1] The country reverted back to its previous state before the occupation even ended. Ok, so, you would agree then that ensuring that
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by shuntress 3y ago
> Did any of those societies have as many hard-liners who were both running the country prior to a regime change, that were fully committed to political violence to achieve their cultural goals? Yes > It's one thing to slowly shi
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by shuntress 3y ago
> How exactly does providing the latter do anything but piss surviving conservatives and hardliners and reactionaries off even more? It is fairly well understood that decreasing gender inequality by empowering women is one of the most ef
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by shuntress 3y ago
> One could say they almost wanted to the security to fail - so they could respond with disproportionate and indiscriminate force to achieve their actual goals. Is very clearly not saying "the victim deserved it". It is sayin
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by shuntress 3y ago
It still seems wrong to me that we, as a society, have basically accepting this level of crime as just a constant sort of background noise in daily life.
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by shuntress 3y ago
Ah, so this is just a backdoor fee in the franchise agreement? You (the franchisee) must use this specific machine that breaks all the time and for repairs to that machine you must use this specific vendor with whom we (the franchisor)
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by shuntress 3y ago
Ok so, this is good for McDonalds actually?

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