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by zeveb 7y ago
> the Web is simply not made for small devices with touchscreens I think that you are 100% incorrect: the Web (i.e., HTML) is perfect for small devices with touchscreens. As asdff notes, late-90s websites would work perfectly on a mob
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by zeveb 7y ago
I don't think that your African simile holds historically, as the slave traders were IIRC typically Arabs , not Africans, who just went on slaving expeditions into the interior, and had no scruples doing so.
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I am reminded of Senator Romney's campaign's ill-fated ORCA[0] from 2012, which was apparently not well-tested prior to rollout. Seems like technical-project failure does not respect party lines. 0: https://en.wikipedi
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by zeveb 7y ago
> You cant teach a class full of elementary schoolers 'from home.' Why not? Kids seem perfectly willing to sit in front of screens — they would probably be perfectly willing to sit in front of screens on a group chat, learning
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by zeveb 7y ago
It's a really, really good practice, whether or not one's firm mandates it. An employer has every right — moral everywhere, legal many places — to monitor your usage of its hardware, software and networks, which implies that if
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> "Real" negotiation takes place when there is no such equilibrium. For example, hostage negotiations, car sales, or a negotiation between a landlord and the tenant are of this sort. Maximizing your utility minimizes the other&
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by zeveb 7y ago
> If you play soft to improve the relationship with some random trinket vendor in a touristy location for example, you win nothing. Is it really true that you would win nothing ? I think that one might be a better person to leave just a
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by zeveb 7y ago
Sounds like it's working as intended: preventing services from restricting the rights of their users to run, modify & share source code.
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Why would charities and academic institutions be writing anything but free software?
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by zeveb 7y ago
Wireguard is really, really awesome. I've been using it for a bit now and it almost completely Just Works™. I've only had two issues, one of which is known and the other of which I think is probably my fault somehow. The first i
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by zeveb 7y ago
I've had that feeling too, but I wonder if it's because the good old Internet of enthusiasts enthusiastically posting about the things that enthuse them has given way to the faceless content farms to such an extent that even Googl
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> But to me, as someone living in the UK, the idea of a delivery person leaving a package on my doorstep for someone to steal is mad. I think it's true that across most of the U.S. if it weren't safe to leave a package at one
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by zeveb 7y ago
No, it'd be more like 3.4 million people protesting stuff. And yes, if 3.4 million people globally cared about something while the other 7.4966 billion didn't … I wouldn't expect to see much motion on it. As a point of compa
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by zeveb 7y ago
I completely agree. My team has spent the last several years building software we then deploy with Docker and Kubernetes, and looking back I think that our software would have been much better deployed as statically-linked binaries on si
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> So, when you see people lobbying against legalizing weed, some of that is genuine concern, but it also aligns very closely to people who realize what a drop in prison inmates could mean for there business... ( their , BTW) Cf. the Cali
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by zeveb 7y ago
Oh, I’m with you. But I won’t be surprised if it gets increasingly uneconomical to try to own my own technology. Already, phones don’t have Ethernet ports — what will you & I do when they no longer connect to WiFi?
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by zeveb 7y ago
I suspect that the endgame for the IEEE, the telcos, the government, FAANG &c. is for essentially all devices to be IoT devices connecting to someone else's server, with end-user-constructed and -managed networks to be within round
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by zeveb 7y ago
My only feedback is to consider pure Debian stable rather than Ubuntu, particularly on the server side. Other than that, it sounds like a pretty decent way to get things done.
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> Labor costs are the only thing? Fuel efficiency and traffic Is that the case? A quick Googling indicates that buses get 4–6 mpg; let’s go with the pessimistic end of that and assume 4 mpg. Diesel currently costs $3/gal and the a
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by zeveb 7y ago
I believe that this is arguing from a false premise: the reason that companies despise the AGPL is not, I think, that they fear that they fear accidentally violating copyleft and thus being forced to buy a proprietary license but rather tha
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> People who choose to turn off JS are excluding themselves. JS is part of the web platform, and there are tons of amazing things it allows you to do. People who choose to turn off JavaScript are protecting themselves, because JavaScript
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> Rendering markdown client-side seems like a fine way to implement a web page. Requiring readers to execute arbitrary code in order to read content seems like a terrible way to implement a web page. Nor is it cheap: it requires every
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The one remaining use of the word ‘Macintosh’ by Apple(tidbits.com)
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> Just like how Borges’ Library of Babel contains every possible book (within its limits of size and format) You're welcome to look around for messages here: https://libraryofbabel.info/ I don't know if anyone
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by zeveb 7y ago
I think his point is that it stands to reason that machine-converted C→Go code may be pretty ugly. Maybe it was better when it was clean, Plan-9-style C? Maybe it is better now , after some number of years of cleanup?
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> Second hand smoking is a thing Second-hand smoking is no more a thing than pink fairies are a thing. It's junk science used to justify a moral panic — at its root, the same impulse behind drug laws, anti-homosexual laws and racis
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by zeveb 7y ago
One could perhaps be forgiven for wishing that the deletionists would … delete themselves. Seriously, though, bytes are cheap, and an article sitting somewhere in Wikipedia doing nothing and bothering no-one is pretty damned cheap too.
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by zeveb 7y ago
Amusingly, in my dialect 'ear' is pronounced like 'eer', not like 'EE-ur.'
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That's so cool! Yet another example of Lisp enabling what other languages get in the way of.
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> probably make your Makefiles non-portable (eg macs don't have a recent bash). Is there any point in supporting a platform which hasn't updated its major version of Make in over 15 years?

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