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by ysavir 3y ago
Doesn't Advanced Search have the same problems? Ultimately, every input on an advanced search page can be a filter. The tagging issue, while incredibly valid, doesn't seem to be an inherent part of either approach.
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by ysavir 3y ago
I wouldn't call it narrow. I think the fantasy + gunpowder settings are the less common.
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by ysavir 3y ago
I'm not the GP, but for me it was an issue while wanting FF open for regular use and debugging, and another to run for automated feature tests. It's been a few years since I've tried, so I might be forgetting the exact circum
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by ysavir 3y ago
People are loud. If you live in a city where people walk around, you'll hear every conversation from your street-facing windows. Cars are more obnoxious for sure, but they're hardly the exclusive problem contributing to noise.
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by ysavir 3y ago
What made GraphQL become important?
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by ysavir 3y ago
Does using Graphql inherently solve the monolith problem, or is adapting GraphQL just a biproduct of looking for a federated system?
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by ysavir 3y ago
When I read the title, my impression wasn't that it regarded keeping a vulnerability private until fixed, but that there was some functionality that tencent didn't want people to know about.
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by ysavir 3y ago
You're right. You weren't speaking with that intent and I brought that context into it. My apologies there. I think I was responding to the idea that because the government was acting in self-serving ways, that we were necessarily
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by ysavir 3y ago
It's not about who's in the right. It's about whether this law, as it plays out, acts in the best interest of the people. We can't let our impression of how things should play out be determined by asking which self-servi
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by ysavir 3y ago
Are we cheering on Facebook? It feels like a situation where all the foul players--the platforms, the government, and the media--are all losing. The article author tries to say "Individual Canadians who use the platforms to find links
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by ysavir 3y ago
I guess it can be. To me it's more for calling attention to a current event (api shutting down, breaking changes at a service, privacy concern, etc). Kind of like a PSA. Using it as a blog post feels inappropriate to me. But checking t
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by ysavir 3y ago
But this isn't really a C&D letter. It's just a request to stop using their name. Feels like Rowe is assigning it the C&D label, probably since it makes things sound more dramatic, when it really isn't.
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by ysavir 3y ago
> I think you're assuming more of my answer than what I gave. That's fair given that this is the point of the article, but it's not mine. I'm very specifically only responding to "is there a per-user marginal cos
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by ysavir 3y ago
Sure, but these aren't business model problems, they're business growth problems. The concern wasn't how to find 1B users in the world (and what do you have to do to get their money), it's whether scaling to 1B users inh
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by ysavir 3y ago
> _very different_, when the user's environment is different. And 1) you haven't seen shit if you think you can perfectly control the user's environment. 2) every new user is a chance for the environment to bite you. Can y
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by ysavir 3y ago
That's applicable to websites, where you have to handle requests from all your users, and more users means more requests to handle. But if we're talking about plain old regular software, something that needs no server to operate,
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by ysavir 3y ago
The meeting in question may have been with their therapist, based on the context.
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by ysavir 3y ago
You need to be good enough to succeed. People needn't go beyond that to maintain a status quo.
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by ysavir 3y ago
That seems more like an interim step to me. I imagine what will follow is one of three things: 1. An affected restaurant increases costs for online purchases to compensate. 2. An affected restaurant stops offering delivery. If it's not
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by ysavir 3y ago
That seems a big stretch, especially for the purposes of lumping it in with fire and combustion engines. Being crushed under a wheel has more to do with circumstance than the wheel itself, whereas fire and combustion engines (though the mor
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by ysavir 3y ago
> But so have fire, the wheel, and the automobile Not sure what harm you attribute to the wheel, but the harms of fire and combustion engines are currently world-class problems, such as the climate. Very much "if we knew then what w
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by ysavir 3y ago
Originally: very few input toggles with little room for variation and with consistent results. These days: Modern technology allows us to monitor the location of the sun 24/7.
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by ysavir 3y ago
Can you elaborate on what you think is "batshit crazy garbage"? I'm not challenging the notion, I just think your post would have much more value if, instead of dragging HN's populace through the mud, you concentrated on
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by ysavir 3y ago
By that logic, why put any files in directories? Let's keep the entire project at the root level. The truth is, it's not that the current project roots are a mess . It's that there's a complete and holistic category of
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by ysavir 3y ago
I doubt there's any legal way to say "we'll only read your manifests". Programmers may know what that means (and still debate it, honestly), but I'm skeptical the law has the ability to distinguish between the desig
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by ysavir 3y ago
This exposes exactly why crypto is _not_ a solution: It's only a preferable alternative when the broader societal context is a strong net negative. In the current US, while financial censorship can happen, it doesn't happen often
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by ysavir 3y ago
I thought the Gracchi brothers[0] might be an example of what you're looking for, but a quick skim of the wikipedia page (it's been almost two decades since I read their history properly) suggests that even they weren't examp
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by ysavir 3y ago
It's not about the techs themselves, it's about how investors and shareholders push for the hot new thing to be included in the company, even when it's not relevant (or adversarial to) providing a great product.
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by ysavir 3y ago
As another "fan" of Caesar, I agree with this take. There's much to be appreciated about Caesar when looking at his strategies, tactics, politicking, etc. He was absolutely brilliant. But that was all born on the backs of usi
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by ysavir 3y ago
> Def 2 is actively bad and wrong, though. It happens to fit simple apps (and simple bits of complex apps) so it looks reasonable, but what's really needed is an off-ramp to let the model actually be what it should be, which is a do

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