troupo

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by troupo 9mo ago
In his first term people were suggesting that he's functionally illiterate and is incapable of following even the teleprompter. Whether that or he always thinks he's smarter than anyone so wouldn't follow the teleprompter wri
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by troupo 9mo ago
Re-watching Bush Jr now, in Trump era, makes Bush sound like a veritable genius. And we thought then that he was stupid (and in comparison to himself from a decade or two earlier he was)
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by troupo 9mo ago
Upton Sinclair coined the oft-cited maxim “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” I propose a corollary: It is difficult to get a company to see that certain of its core c
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by troupo 9mo ago
Steve Yegge used to be a decent engineer with a clear head and an ability to precisely describe problems he was seeing. His "Gooogle Platform Rant" [1] is still required reading IMO. Now his bloviated blogposts only speak of a man
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by troupo 9mo ago
Android isn't web either, and you're fine with using it. It's only familiarity. I have the same issues doing anything on Android.
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by troupo 9mo ago
> I don’t know, actually look at your wheels and brakes every few thousand miles instead of let them ride for tens of thousands without service? Let's read the text further and see the description for the winner, Mazda 2, emphasis m
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by troupo 9mo ago
All pained analogies are both pained and invalid. iOS is not a liquor store, and allowing people to use other payment processors or even other stores on the platform is not selling liquor to minors. Note how your analogies immediately fall
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by troupo 9mo ago
> no moral obligation for Apple to adopt any particular policy unless all major digital game store operators (Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Valve etc) are subject to the same requirements. Why? iPhones are not gaming consoles.
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by troupo 9mo ago
That's what Apple already doing: applying arbitrary categories and charging arbitrary amounts of money because "transaction costs and platform or something". 1. Where the hell is the notion of "using the platform for fre
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by troupo 9mo ago
Yes, because intimidation and scare tactics work
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by troupo 9mo ago
> Why did we let mobile go down the one-app-per-website path? Because the web is still barely usable for anything more complex than showing a few lines of static text and an image? Because for almost as long as (modern) mobile apps exist
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by troupo 9mo ago
It's not DNS It can't be DNS There's no chance in hell it's DNS ... It was DNS
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by troupo 9mo ago
> I find a Linux host with a development guest OS the best to work in. I had a friend who runs Windows host (because of gaming) and Linux as a guest OS for development for the same reasons :)
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by troupo 9mo ago
While that's true, I still don't have any issues running any stack on Mac (I've had Java, Python, C++, some Rust, Erlang/Elixir; previously I also had PHP and Ruby)
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by troupo 9mo ago
> For anyone hosting a product on servers (almost everything web related)... there IS something special about linux: It's where your product is going to run in production. I've been at several corporations and companies where t
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by troupo 9mo ago
Both MacOS and Windows with wsl are perfectly fine for development. Especially MacOS. There's literally nothing special about Linux when it comes to development. And there are quite a few downsides especially when it comes to some spec
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by troupo 9mo ago
Indeed, those crowds haven't been targeted, and TSA fails to detect 90-95% of tests to bring anything dangerous on board. So what does that tell you?
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by troupo 9mo ago
> The harder you make it to down or hijack a plane, the fewer downed planes you will see. You know that TSA fails in 90-95% of cases and that crowds before it are a much jucier target?
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by troupo 9mo ago
> The existence of master locksmiths (and door breaching charges) doesn't mean you shouldn't lock your door at night. The TSA checkpoints are the equivalent of moving all your belongings onto the lawn, and then locking the door
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by troupo 9mo ago
> You can't protect against an opponent who's motivated to learn the inherent vulnerabilities of our systems, many of which can't be protected against due to the laws of physics and practicality Ah yes, the insidious oppon
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by troupo 9mo ago
> has a tendency to go for very non idiomatic patterns (like using exceptions for control flow). It tends to always write Java even if it's Elixir. Usage rules help: https://hexdocs.pm/usage_rules/readme.html
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by troupo 9mo ago
Sigh Time to setup my own dedicated servers.
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by troupo 9mo ago
There's a difference between "imagination and willingness to experiment" and "blind faith and gullibility".
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by troupo 9mo ago
Ah yes. The "mission" of pointing out how bad companies are in the most trivial details.
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by troupo 9mo ago
Was it Hetzner, or was it an attacker hosting on Hetzner/Linode?
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by troupo 9mo ago
That was 2024 (still inexcusable), they managed to fix it at one point https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46734771
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by troupo 9mo ago
> It's something they should fix and if they did would you suddenly switch to Scaleway? You know why I have this screenshot? Because I literally tried to switch to "great European alternative" that is "as slick as DO&
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by troupo 9mo ago
Last time I wanted to try it it was nowhere near DO: https://x.com/dmitriid/status/1835649083345649780
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by troupo 9mo ago
Last time this came up I decided to try Scaleway which is at the top of their "cloud computing" list. "European alternative" that doesn't know that European addresses have non-ASCII characters: https://x.
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by troupo 9mo ago
You don't many do. And, again, Spotify doesn't pay money to artists directly, but to rights holders and distributors.

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