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by teiferer 1y ago
Does that mean the admin server is not open source?
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by teiferer 1y ago
Nice! Would be great if you could include in your launch message how you plan to monetize this. Everybody likes open source software and local-first is excellent too, but if you mention YC too then everybody also knows that there is no free
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by teiferer 1y ago
And half those comments have been misinterpeted to literally mean code. More concrete illustrations of the concepts would have been nice. Not everybody is well versed in what Erlang-like actors are, or capabilities, and how they play so nic
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by teiferer 1y ago
I don't care about syntax. The concepts were too abstract though. I'm sure these descriptions make sense if you already know what it's about, but in that case you are hardly the target audience..
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by teiferer 1y ago
Sure, if I go dig deep I'll find that. But I was talking about the sales pitch. Once it's necessary to go click links in a levels-down comment in the HN discussion section, you've already lost most folks.
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by teiferer 1y ago
Well, average life expectancy in the middle ages was in the low 30s or high 20s, but the child death factor does not bring the typical old person age to the 80s that we're used to from today, but into the late 50s, early 60s. That was
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by teiferer 1y ago
It is higher, but not that much higher. It's not like 90 or 100. For the U.S. you have https://www.ssa.gov/oact/population/longevity.html for this.
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by teiferer 1y ago
I gave it an honest look for 5 minutes and after still only having found a 3-line hello world I gave up (and came here to complain). It's great that you have all that philosophy behind it, all sounded great, but if you don't show
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by teiferer 1y ago
The divide described in the article is just nonsense. Maybe it's more along the lines of those who focus on quality versus those who focus on shipping. In the end, we want both, but which aspect is more important to either party is wha
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by teiferer 1y ago
Kudos to OP for not immediately thinking about how he best could monetize this. I'm glad FOSS made Shareware die out, but now web apps requiring me to create an account first have taken its place. Kudos to OP for resisting that too.
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by teiferer 1y ago
How does laziness cause a slowdown? It merely reorders work done, it doesn't necessarily create more work.
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by teiferer 1y ago
Could an OCaml expert give a quick take on the view that if FP, why not go all the way and do Haskell instead? I mean, if "correct, efficient, beautiful" are attributes of OCaml (and I know opinions differ, but let's assume f
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by teiferer 1y ago
It's pointless in the sense that the word "inverse" in the term is pointless, a mild way of saying that it's confusing or even unnecessary to the point of being incorrect. The discussion about it is not pointless since i
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by teiferer 1y ago
Wow, thanks for the explanation! That was driving me nuts too, as I was waiting for the point where they would invert the thing they built and what that would look like, though that point never came. But now I don't need to put in the
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by teiferer 1y ago
Is Peergos the answer I'm looking for? If so, what's missing is a big push on the business/PR side. They'll need to replicate what Signal did for chat so that even my 80-year old mom can use it. Any other alternatives?
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by teiferer 1y ago
Couldn't this be solved by technical means? All those self-hosted boxes in people's homes could federate. That would allow the friends to upload their photos to an album. If you want to have copies of them on your local hard drive
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by teiferer 1y ago
It's hard to distinguish "worse because lighter" from "worse because planned obsolescense". Historically, both effects correlated in their introduction into design and manufacturing consumer products. Attributing ev
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by teiferer 1y ago
Which greatly illustrates the point that it's mote of a feeling than inherent property. People got used to expect crap quality from lighter products, because at the same time as plastics became more available and more versatile, so d
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by teiferer 1y ago
Few people I know have a turnaround on gear as the footwear nerds. The year is split into multiple seasons, they buy a bunch of shoes for that season, wear them only a few times if at all, and when next season comes it all goes to the trash
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by teiferer 1y ago
> Both Communism and Socialism are failed ideologies. Millions dead. Geez, seriously? The most successful societies in the world and human history have combined aspects of capitalism and socialism. A market based economy with social cons
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by teiferer 1y ago
> Why do low class urban people buy sneakers for hundreds of dollars that, again, for every single purpose they use them for - are essentially identical to some no brand sneakers that would cost a tenth as much? I just made the mistake o
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by teiferer 1y ago
> Prior to that energy was almost seen as disposable Turns out that from an environmental perspective, that view was bad anyway and I'm glad it's gone for good (even if the AI hype almost makes us forget that again). I don&#x27
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by teiferer 1y ago
> My suspicion is that when products are successful and mature but reach market saturation, profit growth pressure leads to cutting some corners on every iteration, and hence to a slow decline in quality over the years. I'm sure tha
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by teiferer 1y ago
A billionaire asking the grandparents for help with a newborn instead of spending some dollars for that help? C'mon, have you ever had a newborn?
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by teiferer 1y ago
Way to go to keep the boring chores of the first months with the partner and join the fun when the little one starts to be more fun after a year. With all that cash, I'm sure they could buy a bunch of help for the partner too.
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by teiferer 1y ago
There is lots of rationalizing going on in his article. > I returned early from my paternity leave to help participate in the Codex launch. 10 years from now, the significance of having participated in that launch will be ridiculously sm
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by teiferer 1y ago
>It's hard to imagine building anything as impactful as AGI, Where is this AGI that you've built then? The reason for the very existence of that term is an acknowledgement that what's hyped today as AI isn't actually
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by teiferer 1y ago
As long as you view LLM as just a tool to do some mostly-mechanical changes to some codebase, you are missing the big picture which the article is about. What do LLMs mean for your mom? For society? For the future world view of your kids? N
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by teiferer 1y ago
> small ICs The majority of open source code is contributed by companies, typically very large corporations. The thought of the open source ecosystem being largely carried by lone hobbyist contributors in their spare time after work is a
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by teiferer 1y ago
Sure, DDoS protection sounds useful, but that's not at all what the article is about.

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