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by wpietri 3y ago
I mean, I get that. It has to be the very rare open source project where the major bottleneck is insufficient opinions, especially of the very common "strident and underinformed" variety. I had MITMed my robot vacuum and discovere
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by wpietri 3y ago
I agree that we can take some stabs at some standards early on. Indeed, we should. But to think of them as then done and dusted for the life of the project is a big mistake. Indeed, I'll note that you left the variables variable for a
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by wpietri 3y ago
More useful to me, certainly. The debt metaphor is most useful when communicating with non-technical people who have at least some business/finance background, in that we need them to understand hidden "debt" in the technolog
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by wpietri 3y ago
Yeah, I have no idea if he's right. But he's very clear.
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by wpietri 3y ago
> But they can still do this [...] attach a tracker I was responding to somebody who wanted it to be "mathematically impossible for them to abuse their power". Attachable trackers aren't sufficient to achieve that.
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by wpietri 3y ago
Cleff and I clearly agree that these things are all debt. And they're all in the technology implementation. I understand why Cleff wants a specific word for his sort of debt, and why he'd like to call tech debt. but I think that p
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by wpietri 3y ago
Previous to the rise of the railroad, each place's time was based on solar noon. That is, when the sun was at the highest point. Which worked fine. It only became untenable when you needed to manually maintain and publish a railroad sc
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by wpietri 3y ago
> Anything short of that is not enough. I like that in spirit, but not as a practical standard. A major function of government is to prevent abuses of power. So I'm more inclined to shoot for overall minimization of abuse.
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by wpietri 3y ago
Sorry, but I don't understand this. Tech debt it any mess that makes it harder to improve the product. You have to pay cost without getting any new value; the benefit for the cost was received previously. People may misuse the term, bu
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by wpietri 3y ago
This is a nice but very long exploration of the tech debt metaphor, raising several excellent points. I especially like comparing it with the business uses of actual debt. The only thing I think I'd add to it is that like actual debt,
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by wpietri 3y ago
I've been using Logseq for a few months and am loving it. Its model is pretty different from Evernote, and in ways I think are superior. The heart of is the daily journal, and you can tag each lump (which they call a block) with hashta
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by wpietri 3y ago
I agree freemium plans have hazards like that. But as somebody who never converted, it was because Evernote always felt kinda shaky for me. I was willing to pay for great, reliable software. But them asking for money for adequate but buggy
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by wpietri 3y ago
As far as I can tell, this author is writing a language just for the experience of writing a language, without much regard to getting it used, so it sounds like their success criteria may be a fair bit different than yours.
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by wpietri 3y ago
Yeah, that's one of the things I was looking for in this game. A friend of mine had an absolutely bonkers advisor who stopped answering my friend's emails. For a while they basically had to stalk their advisor, who would come in a
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by wpietri 3y ago
That's so great. Thank you for sharing it.
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by wpietri 3y ago
>I can't speak for other industries but I know in tech, the college you went to is basically irrelevant 1-2 years into your career. I would like this to be true, but I think it varies a lot. I have seen execs be very excited by name
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by wpietri 3y ago
> You can keep a car going forever. Sure, but not by just replacing the motor oil. Which was my point. You also can't replace "everything in your body" without replacing the brain. Which, given that the prevalence of demen
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by wpietri 3y ago
I was agreeing with zug_zug's point: "The idea that the human body has the formula for immortality 99% right an it just 'forgot to make enough of protein X which has no downsides seems hopelessly naive [...]" That was sp
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by wpietri 3y ago
It's deeply disappointing to me when somebody here responds to one part of a sentence . I get that sometimes people get excited and don't read a whole comment. But I think making it all the way through a sentence is a reasonable
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by wpietri 3y ago
That kind of reminds me of the Monty Python skit where two mafiosi try to shake down the army. Why in the world would Google pay up? Your average ISP needs YouTube to work well far more than Google needs one ISP.
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by wpietri 3y ago
> So, I think the sexism is important to the explanatory narrative because it demonstrates the scale of the power imbalance between the captain and the first officer Exactly. Patriarchy isn't just a system where all men have power o
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by wpietri 3y ago
Ooh, I like this. Too many people start projects at the logical beginning. But what you really want early on in a project is to maximize speed of exploration of the interesting parts. To me there's a clear analogy with startups. The na
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by wpietri 3y ago
I agree with what you said, but I don't see how it relates to the question of whether the sort of silver bullets the forever-young crowd want actually exist.
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by wpietri 3y ago
Because it doesn't answer the question. I was asking about YouTube, which, being part of Google, occupies a radically different position. They aren't using AWS to host their video, so the numbers are irrelevant.
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by wpietri 3y ago
Thanks, this is exactly what I was wondering about. I would expect Google's marginal cost of bandwidth to be approximately zero. What are networks going to do, not connect to Google?
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by wpietri 3y ago
When I point out your handwaving, I am not looking for more handwaving in response. My impression stands. I think you, like many, are indulging in technoutopian wishful thinking.
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Yes, I get that I have to pay a lot for bandwidth. And that you have to pay a lot for bandwidth. My question is specifically about YouTube.
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Do we know that bandwidth costs YouTube a lot?
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by wpietri 3y ago
There's room to improve the median experience, sure. Maybe not a whole lot, though. And I'm not sure people making it to 110 is positive; I'm interested in actually living, not a couple decades of being warehoused. > I hav
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by wpietri 3y ago
Do you have any evidence for your imaginations of how people lived in the past? My understanding is that a healthy old age in the past was rarer, but that we've not really changed the limits, just improved the median experience. See, e

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