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by talkingtab 6mo ago
I started reading Byte when I had no way to understand what it was talking about. There were technical terms that I simply had no reference for. What the heck is an assembler? I suppose it was an example of immersion language learning becau
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by talkingtab 6mo ago
I also have used DO for years, and was very happy with the quality of their service. Until I found the alternative prices. Not as easy to use, but much better performance for much lower prices.
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by talkingtab 6mo ago
The introduction lost me. To quote: "Japan’s vast railway network", but it does not address the mouse in the room. Japan is approximately the size of California with a population density that is three times that of California. I w
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by talkingtab 6mo ago
Anyone interested in creating a CommunityEmailAlliance. Like dkim but with blocks on corporate email systems that allow spamming?
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by talkingtab 6mo ago
The substantial issue is not "unconstitutional" or "revenue", but instead "corporate protectionism". The elephant in the room. There are certainly concerns about home distillation. The question is whether We ad
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by talkingtab 6mo ago
Personally, I am guessing it is the other way around. Not first killer app, but first a parallel networking stack, etc. The idea that anyone is too firmly entrenched is always true. Until it is not. We are not still using horses, nor castin
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by talkingtab 6mo ago
fork it. Fork the internet. How about that? We have this stupid system built on people paying to target us. Is that "the" internet or is it just one internet, and not a very good one. This is supposed to be a place for hackers. So
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by talkingtab 6mo ago
Our collective learned helplessness in the face of being bombarded with advertising, propaganda and outright lies is just astonishing to me. Not an article about fighting back, or doing anything, just the resignation of a follower.
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by talkingtab 6mo ago
This. Spinning up Postgresql is easy once you know how. Just as SQLITE3 is easy once you know how. But I can find no benefit from not just learning postgres the first time around.
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by talkingtab 6mo ago
This "drift" is not a drift at all, nor is it new. There are many names for this such as cargo cult and think-by-numbers (like paint by numbers), ant mills. It is recipes. And many, many common recipes demonstrate a wide spread la
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by talkingtab 7mo ago
The concept is good. It is in the right direction. I think it needs to not have a dependence on github. This is a microsoft thing, and at best it means this will become another way for a corporation to make money from people. Speaking of mo
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by talkingtab 7mo ago
It is the corporate internet - the one by the corporation, for the corporation that is dead. Or at least everything in it is dead. The death blow is AI, but it was almost there anyway. The good news is that the community internet - for the
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by talkingtab 7mo ago
I initially read this as "I want to experience aloneness, how do I do it". I read it that way because to me, being alone is an incredibly wonderful and useful experience. You can know things when you are alone that you cannot othe
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Amazon degraded shopping- you have to put in cart to see the price
15 points by talkingtab 7mo ago|13 comments
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by talkingtab 7mo ago
The definitive reasons why you should NOT buy these products. 1. While the hardware and performance are amazing, the user interface is the opposite. Imagine buying a luxury car with amazing performance only to find that simply opening the d
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by talkingtab 7mo ago
Apple has created a social system - the company which causes this. Perhaps it could be called "The Next Big Thing" syndrome. In the past this worked for Apple. Unfortunately creating the "Next Big Thing" requires a creat
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by talkingtab 7mo ago
My pet theory is that: 1. many people use Letsencrypt for website certificates 2. letsencrypt recently stopped automatically sending "It is time to renew your certificate" emails. 3. People (like me) got used to those emails and
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Is Amazon Shipping Broken for Everyone?
1 points by talkingtab 7mo ago|0 comments
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by talkingtab 7mo ago
The top comment (right now) is saying this cannot be done. That is wrong. It is exactly the same as those people who said "We cannot build an internet because of [insert infinity of issues]". The one we are using for this discussi
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by talkingtab 7mo ago
1. Put a note in robots.txt that says "By accessing this file more than one time per second you agree to pay a fee of $0.1 per access plus an additional $0.1 for each previous access each day. This fee will be charged on a per access b
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A Replacement for Domain Names
2 points by talkingtab 8mo ago|3 comments
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by talkingtab 8mo ago
Somehow the fundamentals of places like linkedin, gmail, google, facebook, etc have eluded people. 1. they are selling you as a target. 2. some people, governments, groups, whatever are willing to pay a lot of money to obtain information ab
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by talkingtab 8mo ago
Absolutely. If you weren't there for it, watch this. If you really want to understand AI, here it is. Hilarious. "Nobody ever got fired for AI".
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by talkingtab 8mo ago
The fundamental issue is that our public school system turned into a training ground to serve corporations. To teach us all to be followers. Raise you hand. Sit still all day. Now there are fewer and fewer corporate jobs so that purpose is
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by talkingtab 8mo ago
The point about trust and respect is a good insight. Especially in the context of our current internet. A friend once said to me "trust is the one thing you can't get on then internet". So how would one bring that trust to th
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by talkingtab 8mo ago
It does not matter if a hypothesis is discredited if it helps you build an effective model that works. If you use a discredited hypothesis to make bread and make a great tasting and edible bread, then the hypothesis has value. Even if it is
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by talkingtab 8mo ago
When we think about communities we need an effective model of what they are and how they operate. What then is an effective model for a community? In "Twitter And Teargas", Zeynep Tufecki argued that the community afforded by Tw
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by talkingtab 8mo ago
I'm beginning to suspect HN also needs such a bill. Maybe it is not AI content, but so many prominent posts on HN feel like advertising. Perhaps that is the good thing about AI is that it decreases the trust level. Or is that really a
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by talkingtab 8mo ago
Yimby vs Nimby is yet another divisive jingoism - simply putting tags on things and then using them as if significant. The situation is more complex. The forces about housing right now are incredibly destructive. Rich people want to make mo
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by talkingtab 8mo ago
AI is the poison pill for corporations. They cannot resist the idea that with no people to pay they will make even more profit. If you think about that, and understand that AI is about search, then you see that there will be enormous opport

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