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by simias 5y ago
At this point I really wouldn't dare making any projection on the future of cryptocurrencies. You can't rationalize irrationality. Let me remind you that currently Doge coin, a literal joke fork of LiteCoin that traded for a fract
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Of course not, what you need is model the way your ear handles sound coming from various locations then model this and reproduce it. It's like VR, but for your ears. That's how ASMR effectively works. If you want full immersion yo
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by simias 5y ago
>There's still no way to replicate the sound quality of being close to an orchestra. That's why I always tend to bail out of audiophile discussion but I'll bite: why? What's so special about the soundwaves going into
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by simias 5y ago
It doesn't matter, it's good marketing. It's not rational, but it lets Apple posture as being "high end". The utter majority of people won't be able to tell the difference but then again the utter majority of p
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by simias 5y ago
Sorry, I was making a general case. I think being opt-in definitely alleviates most concerns. I just generally dislike this trend of putting telemetry in every singe application, it sets a bad precedent and can easily be abused by less prin
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by simias 5y ago
Telemetry doesn't guarantee that people won't pull numbers out of their asses. There are lies, damned lies, and statistics. Designing good telemetry is hard, interpreting the data well is harder (and it's tempting to cherry-p
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by simias 5y ago
Telemetry can be useful but it's hardly the only way, and it doesn't have to be opt-out. People made "product decisions" before the internet.
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For sure, unless they use a very computationally expensive hash. Beyond that I'm not sure why they'd get from that, given that non-static IP addresses are very common on the internet and NATed networks even more so.
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by simias 5y ago
I admit that I sometimes do this myself, but it's usually a last resort when I deem that a more elegant solution would probably end up being a lot more complicated and probably not a whole lot more efficient since the cloned data is on
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by simias 5y ago
I appreciate the encouragement! Maybe I will, but first I need to write a custom blogging system. In Rust of course.
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by simias 5y ago
When my Rust code successfully compiles, it usually works. Frankly in terms of user experience it's selling point #1. I could talk about the borrow checker, trait-based generics, native build system and dependency management, performan
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by simias 5y ago
$5million spread between an unknown number of people and that need to be laundered before it's turned into Rolexes and Mercedeses. Given the high risks it doesn't sound like a great deal to me especially since competent hackers ca
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by simias 5y ago
That's definitely a high salary except for the biggest companies in the richest parts of the richest countries. I do thin the parent's point still stands though, my current salary is not nearly that high but you'd have to pay
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by simias 5y ago
I think it's both: people who have something to hide for the government can make it pretty hard (but not impossible) for the authorities to track them down. On the other hand average people who don't have "anything to hide&qu
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by simias 5y ago
"At least" seems like a very good way of introducing a DoS vector. I think that 1024 was probably too short as a limit, but I think that it does make sense to impose an arbitrary upper bound to reject malformed requests early. I d
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by simias 5y ago
This doesn't really improve the optics. If anything it makes it worse: if very technical people who clearly want to escape government oversight can't, what hope would my 60yo "I think Windows and Word are the same thing"
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by simias 5y ago
We'll see about that whenever Discord wants to cleanup their act for a buyout/IPO/advertiser/whatever and they start banning things that are not corporate-friendly. Many internet users sure love complaining about "m
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by simias 5y ago
That's for network-level drama, sure, but in my experience most of the day-to-day drama was at the channel level and anybody can start a new channel. And back in its heydays there were enough big IRC networks that you could just hop fr
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by simias 5y ago
I do recall that many ISPs had specific provision against running IRC servers in the ToS (IIRC OVH does/did?), although in my experience it wasn't actively enforced unless you started causing trouble. Ditto for bittorent.
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by simias 5y ago
Is that really specific to IRC? I'm sure there's at least as much drama on Discord or large Whatsapp/telegram groups today. Any community with sub-groups and a privilege system for ops/voice/... will generate drama.
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by simias 5y ago
Weaponized FOMO in realtime at a worldwide scale. It's a tough societal problem to solve. With good old pyramid schemes it took a lot more work to it off the ground. Now you can just astroturf on Reddit, Discord and the big social netw
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by simias 5y ago
Please don't be obtuse, I obviously wasn't implying that 100% of cryptocurrency enthusiasts are in a specific age range, I'm just saying that culturally they probably have more of a following in a younger crowd.
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by simias 5y ago
Meanwhile larger networks become increasingly inefficient because without trust all transactions have to be checked and rechecked and rechecked and rechecked. But fear not, $magical_solution is around the corner and will resolve all of this
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by simias 5y ago
Some of it is that, some of it is just simple greed. Many people think they're too good to fall for pyramid schemes and MLM, yet they'll dump money into cryptocurrencies or some meme stock because they think it'll make them m
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by simias 5y ago
If we judge by the result these app store seem to do fairly well security-wise, no? Compared to Windows as a case study of what happens when you let users install anything they want from untrusted sources, it seems that the app stores do fa
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by simias 5y ago
Google de-facto controls the browser but it doesn't control the OS, its motivation is absolutely transparent here: make the browser the OS. It even auto-updates transparently by default so Google can push its code almost live to its us
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by simias 5y ago
I understand your frustration with downvotes but it's not too bad in general in my experience. It's Apple discussions in particular that are hopeless, you have the rabid fanboys one one side and the rabbit haters on the other. I g
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by simias 5y ago
I still only send plaintext myself, but clearly that ship has sailed. Many mailers don't even bother adding a proper text/plain alternative anymore. I caved in and replaced mutt with Thunderbird personally. Not only for properly d
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by simias 5y ago
Sure, but the language was smaller back then (not small, mind you, but smaller). Boost was only created in 1999 after all! Also, people have been complaining about C++ compile time for as long as I can remember, so I don't think it nec
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by simias 5y ago
Keep in mind that a language like Rust would've been effectively unusable in its current form 25 years ago due to the RAM and CPU requirements by the compiler. As CPU and RAM increases you can make smarter compilers and generalize thin

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