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by yason 5mo ago
On the other hand, separating FE and BE between two teams, necessitating proper interfaces, can often be considered a feature.
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by yason 5mo ago
Only physical practicalities will prevent this thinking be applied throughoutly: we can't have guardians preventing people from being scammed face to face. But having to identify yourself on a desktop computer and only be allowed to in
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by yason 5mo ago
Counter-examples are France and Japan. Democracies, electoral terms. A democracy doesn't prevent long-term planning if only the electorate appreciates long-term projects. Democracies can build stuff across parliaments if differences
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by yason 6mo ago
It's a generational narrative here as well: while it gets applied to X, Y, or Z generations in turn and depending on the context - I think it started with X's - but the gist of it is that young generations couldn't afford the
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by yason 6mo ago
> The main issue is that _determining_ which products actually are quality has also > gotten harder in many cases. There was a brief window in time where price would be a useful signal. Among all cheap crap, good quality did cost but
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by yason 6mo ago
> The YouTube home screen is a total wasteland. It's a disaster. It's a > horrific attention suck that's done enormous damage to humanity's > collective attention span. Recommendations are barely any better - &g
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by yason 6mo ago
Why make C-a your prefix key? Just because it's the default in 'screen'? I use C-a a lot to go to BOL, just like C-e to go to EOL. I also use C-b a lot with C-f. The obvious choice is C-z. You rarely suspend processes and whe
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by yason 6mo ago
Despite the drawbacks of its grassroot nature TOFU goes a looooong way. With my own machines I can just physically check that the server host key matches what the ssh client sees. Once TOFU looks good I'm all set with that host because
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by yason 6mo ago
Coding agents and LLMs basically tivoize open source. When AI will eventually become the primary means to write code (because hand-programming is going to be slow enough that no company can continue like before) then that means AI becomes y
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by yason 6mo ago
I don't see how copyright would be any issue. Currently: human output is copyrighted so companies sign a transfer agreement with employees that anything they produce at work belongs to the employer. The employer now owns the copyright
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by yason 6mo ago
The things is, they were and they were not. It's absolutely necessary that there's a line of people somewhere who will understand the path from garbage collection to assembly instructions. We can't build upon abstractions onl
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by yason 7mo ago
In the modern world, this is like saying people under 18 shouldn't have the freedom to be able to read and write. We would be decades back into digital stone age if we had held onto such a preposterous idea in the 80's and 90&#x27
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by yason 7mo ago
From them internets after the x86 version got out, I think. Played enough with what I found around, and I ultimately bought (with real money) the BeOS 5.0 Personal Edition, made it dual-boot my Linux machine and knew that this is it! It fel
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by yason 7mo ago
I bought an Amiga in the early 90's and enjoyed it immensely. Commodore went under and Amiga died. I bought BeOS in the late 90's and enjoyed it immensely like a breath of fresh air in a sewage pipe. BeOS died. With my track recor
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by yason 7mo ago
The other article references in the bottom was much more interesting: https://neilkakkar.com/agentic-debt.html
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by yason 7mo ago
Somewhat ironically, perhaps a formal, deterministic programming language (in its mathematical-kind of abstract beauty) is the outlier in the whole soup. The customers don't know what they need, we don't know what we ought to buil
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by yason 7mo ago
I was going to say this. I never liked the 256-color VGA game (and now comparing, it does look bland) but Amiga struck the best, IMHO, balance between good hand-crafted pixel art but with realistic enough colors to give sufficient depth a
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by yason 7mo ago
One thing that often gets dismissed is the value/effort ratio of reviews. A review must be useful and the time spent on reviewing, re-editing, and re-reviewing must improve the quality enough to warrant the time spent on it. Even long
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by yason 7mo ago
It's well known that in authoritarian regimes (which autocracies generally are) corruption is, rather than a problem, a necessary element of society to keep things going. Anyone with the slightest amount of official power, like a gover
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by yason 7mo ago
Not only a loss but a key disabler. Having used to having the same customized window manager for decades it's impossible to change to Wayland until there's a fully equivalent interface for managing windows so that everything works
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by yason 7mo ago
And if it could tell you that then a third party could force you to reveal that you voted "right" as agreed before. Paper ballots with mutually suspicious representatives of all parties watching themselves during handling and coun
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by yason 7mo ago
Yes, that's why I was reading this thread :) Doesn't help with the current situation though but I hope the partnering between Motorola and GrapheneOS is still up and going in a few years when I'll next have to replace my phon
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by yason 7mo ago
I would certainly be using GrapheneOS if only I could get one to run on something else than a Pixel. I have a perfectly good phone whose bootloader can be unlocked and I can install LineageOS or other AOSP installations there but all I&#x27
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by yason 7mo ago
GrapheneOS always strikes me as "perfect is the enemy of good". I don't necessarily need top-notch security features, I've been all right with all kinds of Android phones. The things I'd like are: - ability to sandb
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by yason 7mo ago
Agreed. Also I think that if you live next to a warmongering country you certainly care more about making a military invasion the shittiest and the most vile thing for the aggressor that you can think of and landmines are cheap and effectiv
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by yason 8mo ago
That looks exactly like an office app should look like. Basic interface patterns, clear distinctive visual areas and borders, all in the tradition of a classical graphical user interface. And yes, classical GUI more or less peaked in the ea
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by yason 8mo ago
Next EU could mandate an attitude adjustment to the industry wishing to sell their products in the European Common Market. Batteries are part of a device. There are other parts that can be replaced by the owner or third parties if there are
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by yason 8mo ago
In general, governments seem to be much more invested in making it illegal to have anything that is too open and too free. Even EU is lusting for draconian control features like chat control where you don't own and operate the software
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by yason 8mo ago
Art has two facets. First is if you like it. If you do, you don't need to care where it came from. Second is the art as cultured and defined by the artistic elites. They don't care if art is liked or likable, they care about the p
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by yason 8mo ago
The point of NFC-on-a-phone is that you don't need the damn banking apps and internet and retailer support for all that to validate a simple transaction. My credit card has NFC, no internet and no app, and it's universal.

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