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by zoul 1y ago
This is not about finding the most effective solution, it’s about showing that they “understand” the problem. Could they write the algorithm if it were not in their training set?
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by zoul 1y ago
I love it. It feels great to have a search engine built for users, not advertisers or investors. Trivial stuff like being able to remove some domains from search results. Or not having to wade through AI bullshit to get to the results. Or,
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by zoul 1y ago
The naming conventions are nicely sadistic.
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by zoul 1y ago
My only regret is the game is not designed for the player still roaming the world and finishing various quests after the main story ends, like in the various Marios. If you want to keep playing, you have to keep Ganon alive and get the regu
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by zoul 2y ago
Higher income does not equal higher quality of life. Which is, arguably, what really matters to people.
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by zoul 2y ago
The author addresses this in the text: > There are also false prophets—we all want quick solutions, and sometimes we get (too) excited about people who promise them. For example, in Germany, some claim they have “made Microsoft’s cloud E
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by zoul 2y ago
Nothing is bullet proof, bad things can happen on Fediverse too. My point is that the Fediverse is much healthier in this regard.
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by zoul 2y ago
The issue is that “BlueSky” is, for most of its users, the centralized official app. If that gets bought and starts blocking or demoting content from “non-official” clients, switching to a third-party client will not help you since you woul
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by zoul 2y ago
For me, the most meaningful test of decentralization is whether one player can decide what most of the users can see. And that is entirely the case with Bluesky. You can own your information alright, but what is it good for when the single
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by zoul 2y ago
Not every european company embodies european values. As an example, Signal is listed as a US company people might want a european replacement for – and yet Signal represents european values much better than many of the alternatives.
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by zoul 2y ago
But the users are not. The app and the AppView can be bought and then you are in control of what people can see. Good luck trying to move them to the alternative.
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by zoul 2y ago
You can move your data, but whoever controls the AppView controls what people see “on Bluesky”.
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by zoul 2y ago
I would be so much more interested in Bluesky if it were technically impossible for a random super rich guy to buy and bend it to his whims.
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by zoul 2y ago
What class is US healthcare best in? It’s probably among the best in quality you can get as a rich individual, but as a system it’s deeply flawed in many factors. US doesn’t even make it into the list of best 50 countries by life expectan
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by zoul 2y ago
fascist
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by zoul 2y ago
As I understand it, the story is not the advertising network getting the private data — we have all known that for a long time. The news is that even the unsuccessful real-time auction bidders can get a lot of this data.
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by zoul 2y ago
It isn't some kind of cynical surveillance play. The overwhelming experience of the contemporary internet says it always is.
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by zoul 2y ago
Yes! Instead of data-driven management, I believe in conversation-driven management. Frameworks such as OKRs are a way to spark helpful conversations.
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by zoul 2y ago
The complexity fatigue is something that I can certainly relate to. Things like caching, request deduplication and incremental static regeneration across multiple pages can easily lead to site that’s harder to reason about than I would like
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by zoul 2y ago
https://mathstodon.xyz/
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by zoul 2y ago
Got Garmin Fenix, use mainly for the sports features. Lasts a week on a single charge including several activities with GPS usage. Can’t imagine having another device to charge daily.
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by zoul 2y ago
In my experience unsoundness is almost never a problem in practice, see here for details: https://effectivetypescript.com/2021/05/06/unsoundness/
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by zoul 2y ago
That’s a beautiful essay, thank you very much.
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by zoul 2y ago
Having the same language on the client and on the server is a huge productivity booster for me. I can’t imagine writing so many things twice again. Have you tried it?
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by zoul 2y ago
Are we demonstrably getting better open source software? By what metric? (Not sure myself, asking in good faith.)
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6 months ago, I left the bullshit industrial complex(joanwestenberg.com)
237 points by zoul 2y ago|196 comments
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by zoul 2y ago
As a positive example, Mastodon seems to work fine.
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by zoul 2y ago
But sorting issues according to their rough size is precisely what makes at least basic sense. A scale of trivial (can make many of those in a day), simple (several of those a day), medium (roughly a day of work) or large (days) makes it po
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by zoul 3y ago
While ActivityPup is endearing, can we fix the typo to ActivityPub? :)
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by zoul 3y ago
It’s the other way around. If YouTube doesn’t consent to the rules of EU, they can leave the market.

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