sunaurus

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by sunaurus 11mo ago
The question posed sounds like "why should we have deterministic behavior if we can have non-deterministic behavior instead?" Am I wrong to think that the answer is obvious? I mean, who wants web apps to behave differently every t
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by sunaurus 11mo ago
I hate submitting any kind of form on any website from my phone, because I can't open dev tools and see if there were any errors in the response which were invisible in the UI.
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by sunaurus 2y ago
I've always found it ridiculous that Sony is allowed to sell their consoles and games in my county without allowing me to create a PSN account. They even sell the digital PS5, which REQUIRES a PSN account to get any games. And then, ev
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by sunaurus 3y ago
That's interesting. My feeling is that things became MORE explicit with hooks, not less, so I'm quite confused still. > What you're probably thinking is "it's faster to write a TODO example app with hooks".
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by sunaurus 3y ago
I've seen this criticism several times on HN, but have never been able to relate to it. I've been using hooks since they were introduced, in several teams (at several different companies), and I've never experienced them bein
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by sunaurus 3y ago
I always mentally autocorrect "unlimited PTO" to "there is a limit to PTO, but we won't tell you what it is!"
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by sunaurus 3y ago
That seems a bit dubious, can you point to any research which backs up this statement? Intuitively it seems to me like you would need to be switching input devices extremely often to avoid RSI (as in, once every few MINUTES rather than ever
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by sunaurus 3y ago
> How would constructing a new ship from new materials ever count as being the same as the original ship? If it's a perfect replica (as you said in your original comment) then by what parameters is it different from the original shi
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by sunaurus 3y ago
What you're saying seems like a clear contradiction to me. In your first paragraph, you say that we can take for granted that when an original is destroyed, having a replacement will preserve consciousness. Then, in your second paragra
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by sunaurus 3y ago
But why would the feeling of continuity be broken by an instant replacement? In both cases (gradual and instant replacement), at any given moment, there exists only one entity with your consciousness and self of sense and continuous memorie
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by sunaurus 3y ago
That brings me back to my original question: > What is the difference between slowly replacing your cells a few at a time through biological processes, and instantly replacing all of your cells through the teleporter? If you believe that
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by sunaurus 3y ago
What is the practical difference, though? From the point of view of the entity whose atoms have been replaced, I don't think that the speed of replacement has any noticeable effect. And the previous versions are all "extinct"
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by sunaurus 3y ago
There is no single "you" in this scenario, there are two distinct persons. One experiences being transported to Mars, the other experiences the transporter failing and them being stuck on Earth.
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by sunaurus 3y ago
Why do you think those two questions have different answers? For me, the only logical option is that both questions must have the same answer (regardless of what your answer is).
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by sunaurus 3y ago
> Imagine the "destroy the original" part of the teleportation fails. Is your consciousness still in your original body or on Mars? Certainly, still in your original body. How do you reach this conclusion? The only conclusion I
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by sunaurus 3y ago
What is the difference between slowly replacing your cells a few at a time through biological processes, and instantly replacing all of your cells through the teleporter? In both cases, an older version of you is "extinct", meanwh
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by sunaurus 3y ago
I migrated from Google Workspace to Fastmail last year, I've been super happy with it. I also tried Outlook and Zoho. I prefer Fastmail over those two, because it's really simple (may be a con for some) and has a very snappy UI.
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by sunaurus 3y ago
I'm the admin of https://lemm.ee , I believe we have a pretty decent setup (AFAIK we are the only serious instance doing horizontal scaling), so I would cautiously recommend anybody interested in Lemmy to consider us for the
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by sunaurus 3y ago
I've also spent a day away from Reddit, but unfortunately, Lemmy has completely replaced my Reddit addiction. Net effect is that nothing has changed, and I bet I'm not the only one in this boat.
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by sunaurus 3y ago
In my experience, people understand federation quite easily if you just use the e-mail analogue. Even completely non-technical folks understand that regardless of whether they are on Gmail or Outlook or iCloud mail, they can send e-mail to
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by sunaurus 3y ago
One of the interesting thing about the open source federated alternatives (like Lemmy) is that each instance can run their own version of the UI. So even if the maintainers decide to completely redesign everything, nothing is stopping insta
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by sunaurus 3y ago
If you wait 3 minutes on Mars, why would an instant teleport back to Earth result in you arriving just after you went poof rather than 3 minutes after you went poof?
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by sunaurus 3y ago
Thanks, that's what I was afraid of. I guess I've been trying to look for a shortcut, but in the end I'll have to dive much deeper and learn much more to really understand this topic. I've read the tachyonic antitelephon
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by sunaurus 3y ago
Everything you say makes sense if you already presume that FTL implies breaking causality, but I'm missing the explanation for why FTL implies breaking causality in the first place. I mean, it's completely logical that if you get
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by sunaurus 3y ago
Does anybody know of a good intuitive explanation for the claim that FTL breaks causality? By intuitive I mean something more than "the numbers in this formula don't add up without breaking causality". I've tried to buil
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by sunaurus 4y ago
I switched to a Safari-first approach for web development a while back and it has reduced my pain considerably. In fact I use it as my main daily driver browser in general now. I've yet to run into a single case of some code running we
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by sunaurus 4y ago
I have an example from elsewhere in Europe. 115k a year in my country (~90k after all taxes), in the suburb of a city with 100k population, gets you the following: mortgage payments for a nice 4 bedroom house, payments for a luxury car, fue
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by sunaurus 4y ago
> With timezones: * I want to call my friend in Germany. What time is it for her? I guess I'm UTC-7 and she's UTC+1, so she's 8 hours ahead of me > Without timezones: * I want to call my friend in Germany. It's the
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by sunaurus 4y ago
Was it at least private DNS?
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by sunaurus 4y ago
> It took us (a team of 3) two solid years before we considered ourselves on par with those old boards, feature-wise. This is really interesting to me, because I created an "old" style forum from scratch for a gaming community

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