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by treyd 3y ago
What incentive do Gates or Thiel have for doing that?
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by treyd 3y ago
One thing with explicit drops that Rust is having is that the thread can get SIGKILLed at any point without running destructors, which can complicate sync primitives and cause deadlocks in other threads if RAII is used for that. People do
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by treyd 3y ago
I'm kinda skeptical of security devices like this that don't have their own screens that let you know what you're authenticating. Obviously there's some applications where it's fine but if the PC it's plugged
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by treyd 3y ago
It's still very possible to install classic real mode PC OSes on modern hardware.
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by treyd 3y ago
They wouldn't be PCs if they aren't on x86, just call them computers.
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by treyd 3y ago
Merry Christmas!
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by treyd 3y ago
That's still an apples-to-oranges comparison since Facebook made it trivial to onboard to from in the Instagram app and made sure that lots of mainstream celebrities (and more importantly, advertisers) were posting there from the begin
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by treyd 3y ago
Yet another reason the software running on these automotive systems should be free and open source. It would be great to see the control logic and know that it's doing the right thing.
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by treyd 3y ago
This seems entirely standard for that kind of game. Trolls absolutely will try to rules lawyer so articulating points clearly that ought to be common sense makes it simpler to moderate transparently. What points do you take issue with?
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by treyd 3y ago
That's going to be a long way off since it's a Java project and fairly well integrated into Android's APIs.
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by treyd 3y ago
You have to be an Apple customer to use Beeper Mini with iMessage. What's your point?
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by treyd 3y ago
> Most people really don’t care about all this stuff, they just want a product that works well, with minimum fuss. And nonetheless there's demonstrable harm to the broader industry being caused despite their lack of care about it.
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by treyd 3y ago
This is really it. It's exactly the same scenario and it would be great if it could be restated for the new networks we use today. History repeats itself.
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by treyd 3y ago
I don't know how this isn't an antitrust thing since Microsoft was almost broken up over basically the same thing. Just goes to show how cocky megacorps have gotten.
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by treyd 3y ago
That's a huge indicator to me that Fedi is wayyy ahead any of the other "alt social media" projects. That normal, non-technical people use it to talk about normal real-life things in their day wayy more than they use it to j
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by treyd 3y ago
Nuclear power, end-to-end, doesn't emit substantial amounts of CO2, which is the only pollutant we don't have solutions to. What are you referring to?
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by treyd 3y ago
You don't need NFTs to do this though, you can just use signed commitments stored in some public log.
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by treyd 3y ago
They also play games where they refuse to lower rents even when they're going empty because it will lower the resale value of the property. There's lots of economic games you can play when you own a large percentage of the rental
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by treyd 3y ago
Isn't this was bluetooth was supposed to be able to help with?
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by treyd 3y ago
The core misunderstanding you have here is about the role of miners. The game theory that makes blockchains safe to use in a untrusted distributed fashion is that anyone can just look at the chain and be convinced it's correct under i
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by treyd 3y ago
They did not "scale just fine" because the situation is so much worse in many newer networks that the default way >99% of users interact with it is through a trusted gateway provider instead of running a full node
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by treyd 3y ago
> I remember the day it cost more to bootstrap an entire node than make a transaction. In what units?
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by treyd 3y ago
That's a huge change and putting it in domain specific terms obscures the implications. It changes the chain growth rate from up to ~52 gigabytes/yr to up to ~410 gigabytes/yr, it also means that the network takes 8 times as
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by treyd 3y ago
To maintain the current level of security then, all else being equal, the total fees collected will have to increase by the amount the subsidy decreases by. So each byte of block space will cost more for the person buying it. That could b
715.
by treyd 3y ago
> and with literally a one line change Except we know as software engineers that solutions to problems at scale are never that simple. The "just increase the block size limit bro" solution doesn't consider the externaliti
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by treyd 3y ago
> no sane landlord is leaving their place empty in hopes of market based rental increases There's plentiful documented cases of this happening. Rent rates for a building influence the average local market rate rents which influence
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by treyd 3y ago
Yeah and then all the companies that pay their workers well are undercut by those that don't and all the now-unemployed workers have no choice but to work for less than a fair wage. Many such cases.
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by treyd 3y ago
Also of note is that the US doesn't really have sectoral bargaining like, say, France does. This would prevent scenarios where nonunionized companices in a sector can start up and outperform established unionized ones just by hiring d
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by treyd 3y ago
There's a huge swathe of projects that have no (or very little) use for client side js.
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by treyd 3y ago
Fwiw, many feeds provided by Mastodon instances are available as RSS. Same for other Fedi software, like WriteFreely.

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