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by theK 3y ago
I agree it's not perfect but: 1. For cases where seconds matter in human interaction there are well know and efficient protocols to sync 2. Often 2-3 seconds turn out to not matter but being on the right time zone does. It is an evolut
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by theK 3y ago
Therad histories like these make me remember, man, I do LOVE hacker news!!! Thank you @dang for the many years of service and excellent moderation <3 EDIT: typos
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by theK 3y ago
Okay, 100k means we are getting to the point where one can safely edit a large piece of text, say a blogpost or a small scientific paper if you are lucky. It still means most of the long running interactions will get clipped/compressed
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by theK 3y ago
Yeah sure, some time in the future. For now I think the fuzzyness and mediocre quality of the responses you get at scale are probably big showstoppers for usage at large. Also, I've not followed this domain over the summer, are we stil
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by theK 3y ago
Ditto. Also, postgres partial indexes can be quite helpful in situations where you want to persist and query intermediate job lifecycle state and don't want multiple rows or tables to track one type of job queue
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by theK 3y ago
> capitalized on millions of hours of free work from unpaid contributors Does this hypothesis really hold up? In my experience the contributor community remains small and often even dormant compared to the userbase of an opensource proje
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by theK 3y ago
That doesn't have to mean anything though. I set up a couple of job posts some months ago, in that case we where trying to hire devs roughly in a specific time zone. As linkedin didn't support that we had to leave the location fil
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by theK 3y ago
There is PGP you know? EDIT: obviously this only sort of solves for the "individual" side of your remark but it is something at least.
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by theK 3y ago
Reading through your link I caught myself thinking if I would put up with all those boilerplate nix steps just to add a new page to the site. Don't get me wrong, I get that you gain big amounts of flexibility out of it the way you do i
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by theK 3y ago
Can you elaborate? AFAIK the GPL just naively enforces that something needs to be and remain open source. How can it turn closed source into open source?
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by theK 3y ago
I think the problem with the revenue rhetoric is that these services are consumed by the general consumer and the people that read this discussion generally are only a neglibile size of that market segment. So, even if all HN readers affect
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by theK 3y ago
Is the FP5 at all available in the US right now?
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Fairphone 5 is out with day 1 /e/ OS option(murena.com)
3 points by theK 3y ago|4 comments
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by theK 3y ago
The worlds "most sustainable phone yet" just came out and this time you can get the de-Googled version at the same time! https://shop.fairphone.com/fairphone-5
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by theK 3y ago
How much of an effort is it to get this working with webcals? I love the idea but don't use google at all...
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by theK 3y ago
I was made aware of one inaccuracy in my comment and I cannot edit any more so here goes: The research was on the variations of "quasar radio intensity", not pulsar frequency. The scientists formulated a model to statistically pre
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by theK 3y ago
If I'm not mistaken it is this part: > Lewis explained that the brightening and fading of quasar light, known as their variability is like the stock mark, unpredictable on the surface but with statistical properties that allow it to
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by theK 3y ago
What the article actually wants to say (and it does so down the line) is that: > If you look at a pulsar, that is 12B light years away from us, it will pulsate significantly slower than expected. In this case, I think, it is that the pul
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by theK 3y ago
I think the problem you mention has to do with the fact that software does not apply to one specific domain. It is easy to formulate a framework of engineering rigor for specific domains but this is not easily generalisable to all domains t
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by theK 3y ago
There is a YouTube channel called asianometry which did some videos about UV lithography. Form what I remember the processes vary significantly in each generation so that there probably is little to no real overlap. I'm no expert thoug
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by theK 3y ago
I am building an incentivized market to keep data available on the web(3) without having a centralized entity taking care of it. Without a smart contract running on a block chain this isn't possible. https://permanentum.io
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by theK 3y ago
You only need FDIC in systems where you don't own the coins. Cryptocurrencies actually obviate a lot of added fat like this ;-)
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by theK 3y ago
Oh right! I said crypto on hacker news! what was I thinking?! :-D
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by theK 3y ago
Agreed. As I say in the original comment > process will ... eventually fail if the public cannot appoint people to be vigilant full time for them. And I was exactly thinking of paid full time work.
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by theK 3y ago
It just splits the web. You will have web properties that don't necessitate its usage. These will be available to everyone. Then you will have the Googlesphere which will have all google sites and all sites integrating google services
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by theK 3y ago
Yeah but the process to exchange the token will be "open sauce"! </troll>
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by theK 3y ago
In the 2000s it was funny how corporates just failed to understand how client server models worked. Nowadays it is just sad and a reason to move more and more towards crypto for the day to day banking stuff...
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by theK 3y ago
There's two aspects to that actually. 1. Often the feedback goes completely to the wrong address. You won't stop Google from doing google things. 2. Most often the depth level at which the discussions on web standard are made will
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by theK 3y ago
Why doesn't anybody pick up elm in these comparisons?
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by theK 3y ago
Not only the truth finding part but also the understanding nuance part. Great journalists excel at identifying important nuance to complex situations and bringing it to light. A very good skill to have as an engineer, especially when moving

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