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by yason 8mo ago
What's wrong with clothing manufacture, commerce and trade, and fashion that brand-new clothing can be just trashed and destroyed? The industrial process (and, to add, global economy relying on slave-cheap labour in a far enough coun
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by yason 8mo ago
> If you do not know what you want to build That describes the majority of cases actually worth working on as a programmer in the traditional sense of the word. You build something to begin to discover the correct requirements and to pic
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by yason 8mo ago
> The “magic” for me was that computers were completely scrutable and > reason-able Yes, and computers were something that gave you powerful freedom. You could make a computer do anything it was physically able to as long as your mi
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by yason 8mo ago
Most everything I've done professionally in my whole life has been about figuring out how to build something that doesn't yet exist. Usually this means a process of trial and error where I first try to build the full problem domai
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by yason 8mo ago
The creative process is not dependent on the abstraction. > For me, lots of programming is the same. I just want to assemble the pieces How did those pieces came to be? By someone assembling other pieces or by someone crafting them toget
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by yason 8mo ago
Note there is no intrinsic reason running multiple streams should be faster than one If the server side scales (as cloud services do) it might end up using different end points for the parallel connections and saturate the bandwidth bette
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by yason 9mo ago
Because Wayland only does essential low-level stuff such as display and graphics it forced people to start coming up with a common Linux desktop (programming) interface out of nowhere to basically glue everything together and make programs
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by yason 9mo ago
Yeah, and like it's name a torque converter can actually not only transmit torque as well but also convert rpms to torque. Running the engine at high rpm at standstill converts revolutions of the input shaft to torque on the output sha
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by yason 9mo ago
What is the next safe haven for smart people? It used to be Internet back when the name was still written in the capital first letter. The barrier to utilize the Internet was high enough that mostly only the genuinely curious and thoughtful
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by yason 9mo ago
Problem is that banks place a lot of trust on a locked-down phone and I have a hard time trusting a blackbox device I don't really own but only paid for. That's the reason I mostly use online banking on the web, not on a device. I
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by yason 9mo ago
I don't know but to me this all sounds like the antithesis of what makes programming fun. You don't have productivity goals for hobby coding where you'd have to make the most of your half an hour -- that sounds too much like
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by yason 10mo ago
How are they going to verify it's not some kid telling he's 18 with a fake picture? Demand a photo of driver's license? Got one here, right out borrowed from dad's pocket. The article also mentions inferring age from the
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by yason 10mo ago
You could draw long/short straws to generate bits but since the challenge limited the tools to mortal bodies any other guessing game would do. One could put his hands behind his back with one hand palm open and the other hand in a fist
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by yason 10mo ago
This is absolutely not limited to EVs, the same enshittification is in a lot of ICEs and hybrids as well. Today's cars won't be driving in 2040 when a student could buy it for a grand wit 300 000 miles on the clock, and keep fixin
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by yason 10mo ago
As others have noted copyright duration is ridiculous. But more importantly it lacks severe counter-forces to balance out the explicit monopoly. Since the point of copyright is to offer an incentive (to profit) from works it should be tight
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by yason 11mo ago
For a lot of things, zero value would be a high peak. Often the value is negative. Thus: You don't update anything if it works and it's not connected to internet. If it works and is connected to internet, then disconnect it from i
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by yason 11mo ago
> youtube into just a search bar, with some subscriptions on the side for creators you actually care for That's exactly the only way to use Youtube: start with the subscriptions page where you see new videos from channels you follow
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by yason 11mo ago
YouTube has the best content that you absolutely can't and won't find in commercial productions, and exactly because they aren't producing anything, they're just a platform. I think the sub-$10 premium without music was
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by yason 11mo ago
I tried it because I was less and less happy with Google and the various free alternatives never quite hit it. With them, I'd have to go back to Google every now and then to get better results. I thought I'll try Kagi for a month
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by yason 11mo ago
As someone who got onto the web in HTML 2.0 era I can feel the appeal of Gemini, although I disagree about their attitude towards static inline images. In day-to-day world that's what separated HTML from the earlier text-based hypertex
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by yason 11mo ago
On the other hand, how the heck are they claiming to own any of that if they can't even produce the paperwork. A big enough developer would be able to remaster the game just enough to provoke a lawsuit from the "rights holders&quo
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by yason 11mo ago
China has been a rising star for a long time, albeit not without its share of problems obviously. I heartily agree there's a lot of momentum in China to the direction of things getting better whereas traditional western countries lack
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by yason 11mo ago
> It feels like we are in a weaker position then ever: militaristically, > economically, scientifically, and so on. Meanwhile the threats of China > and Russia and what could happen in the next few years are quite concerning. On th
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by yason 11mo ago
If that's the gist of it, then: > Government actions that restrict the ability to privately... This seems weirdly backwards. The main problem is not generally what government can and wishes to restrict, it's all the proprietary
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by yason 11mo ago
I'm sorry you don't get it and that you feel they're excessively sensitive. On the behalf of the HN community would you like to share with us more about how you feel about it so that we can better understand your position. I&
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by yason 11mo ago
I'm not part of Mozilla or any of the communities and I understood the situation by reading the damn post, on the first time. In the follow-up, any words concerning how the person feels, words on how to talk about this further, and wan
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by yason 1y ago
> That's just means you're effectively acting as a moderator yourself, only > with a whitelist. It's just your own direct curation of sources. That's exactly how a useful social information system works. I choose w
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by yason 1y ago
> Why would the former pay obscure artists more? I don't want the obscure artists to get more ― or less, for that matter. I want the artists I listen to to get my money, obscure or not. That's a simple transaction and has worke
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by yason 1y ago
Schedule a post to be published next month and bump it forward a sufficient period each time before it gets to trigger?
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by yason 1y ago
> Customer-Support is usually happy to have a clear-cut criteria to reject > support-requests as "officially out-of-scope". All they needed was criteria at which point they can tell their customers "Please test if this

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