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by zaphar 5y ago
To be clear Mastodon is not claiming that T can't use their software. They very clearly state that he can absolutely use their Software so long as he abides by the license and provides attribution as well as any modifications to the so
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by zaphar 5y ago
Your forgetting the surprise twist though. The cult loses control of that very society in part due to that very indoctrination.
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by zaphar 5y ago
I'm not sure it's feasible to do better than that. They clearly call out the reason there. The domain has a poor reputation. The sheer amount of manual labor to field questions for every good actor who unfortunately is caught in t
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by zaphar 5y ago
This is overly simplistic. Frequently you get blocked because your IP block legitimately has a lot of people with poor computer hygiene who are a source of large amounts of spam which puts your IP on a reputation blocklist. There are legi
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by zaphar 5y ago
One man gets to decide the direction and has ultimate control. This is one of those statements that sounds pithy and is theoretically correct but in practice. The person at the top has far less control than people think they do an
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by zaphar 5y ago
If you are considering trust as a binary state then it's exactly as trustworthy as the manifest file. If you consider as a continuum then it's strictly more trustworthy than the manifest file.
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by zaphar 5y ago
I'm sold. What's your migration story from decades old MySQL Database over to CockroachDB? I'm only half joking there.
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by zaphar 5y ago
The weird things about personal attacks are that sometimes it can be very difficult to figure out what might be perceived as a personal attack by someone else. Which is why a certain amount of conservatism in your communication is so impo
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by zaphar 5y ago
All a webmaster who doesn't like it has to do is not use Cloudflare. If you need Cloudflare then you need TLS MiTM and those Captchas and you are glad they exist. If you don't need Cloudflare and don't like them then just d
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by zaphar 5y ago
I actually think in a way one of Facebooks core proposition is being the internet for most people which is not that far off from AOL. The similarity here is that no one knows what is going to render FB obsolete right now. Just like no one
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by zaphar 5y ago
In Go returning a list of items that are one of a set of different types would be poorly handled. It's possible but very awkward. You would probably drop down to just a slice of interface{} and then have to use reflection to figure out
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by zaphar 5y ago
I suspect part of the problem is that true sum types are poorly represented in many of the languages that use these databases. In a sense because of the layer these sit in the stacks they have to appeal to a lowest common denominator. If th
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by zaphar 5y ago
If money is donated you can bet that the giver will have some input on the work. It's human nature. If you want FOSS maintainers to be paid a living wage the likely outcome is that some percentage of the givers will have sway or defact
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by zaphar 5y ago
Depends on what you mean by contribute. If you contribute by hiring the maintainer to do maintainer work then that falls in the great company category. If you contribute by just shoveling a bunch of patches at already overworked maintainers
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by zaphar 5y ago
Journals don't actually sell editorialization though. They sell exclusive access to content. They claim the content is valuable because they curate/editorialize it. But the core offering isn't the curation. It's the excl
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by zaphar 5y ago
Nah, I'm still in the bemused stage. They may actually succeed in making crypto a normal thing adopted by society. At which point I'll transition to my usual next stage. Being resigned to yet another bad technology solution to wha
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by zaphar 5y ago
When my ISP decides to replace DNS traffic I call it a MiTM. I happen to be technical enough to fix it. Many of my friends are not.
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by zaphar 5y ago
To be fair though, being able to MITM the DNS is kind of a massive security hole. One you are abusing in a productive way but one that many others abuse in very non-productive ways.
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by zaphar 5y ago
There point of that statement is that you need data to train a valid model for your usecase. And you may need a lot of it if you are trying to train a neural network. Using a pre-trained model only works if the usecase it was trained for ma
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by zaphar 5y ago
I don't understand what he means with the build systems comment? What does that have to do with Glue systems? I could speculate that he wishes the build systems accounted for all the supposedly siloed dependent systems in some way but
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by zaphar 5y ago
They do. Google employs a lot of engineers on fully open source work including but not limited to Chromium.
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by zaphar 5y ago
We are so close to being in violent agreement. I find that extra bit of information to be crucial you do not. I think you are perhaps discounting the value that Go allows you to add in your apis by making the error type explicit which then
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by zaphar 5y ago
But the flow of the program isn't only or primarily about the happy path. I find it annoying when languages that don't force explicit error handling choices, force me to go searching for the non-happy path. Where do they handl
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by zaphar 5y ago
Java doesn't require you to handle exceptions. This is not the criteria you should use to determine if you need handle the exception. The fact is that even code that does no resource acquiring could throw an exception. It might not
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by zaphar 5y ago
Why? I mean it's clearly Embrace. But Embrace and Extend are the goals of OSS. MS is a for profit company true. But OSS has never been anti-profit. The last E is problematic of course and MS has a history of going for Extinguish in the
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by zaphar 5y ago
Character count is not generally a good measure of the quality here. I think the biggest issues aren't the verbosity but how complex it can be to express some of the most common operations. Filter is harder than it should be[0]. Same t
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by zaphar 5y ago
Might have a few new moons afterwords.
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by zaphar 5y ago
I never graduated from college. I also worked at Google for 7 years and never once got that vibe from my coworkers. It probably varied by office and I was in the Chicago office. But even on my somewhat frequent visits to New York or Califor
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by zaphar 5y ago
I think you vastly overestimate the skill level of enterprise developers. Enterprise may pay a lot but they also hamstring developers in some interesting ways which tends to attract people who are better at the political game than the tech.
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by zaphar 5y ago
That might at least in part be because you are an SRE and at some point you hit your limit of inscrutable error messages happening in production.

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