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by zzzeek 2y ago
wordpress is such a disaster
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Page 284 of Project 2025: "The incestuous relationship between the NIH, CDC, and vaccine makers—with all of the conflict of interest it entails—cannot be allowed to continue, and the revolving door between them must be locked. As Sever
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by zzzeek 2y ago
The point is to create chaos and panic so that , after a sufficient period of general suffering, the government can come back with a "solution to the problem" which is typically some vastly inferior approach with heavy privatizati
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OpenMoxie – a local network hub for Moxie robot (open sourced by Moxie devs)(github.com)
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you can't say "they don't care" though, the folks making these screens are obviously pretty motivated to keep squeezing out more profits and care a lot about that. if they "didn't care" they'd have t
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by zzzeek 2y ago
if you trust the CCP (which to be clear refers to the government of China, not the actual people who live there, just like any country) to be more respectful and magnanimous to its citizens and human rights overall than the US, you might
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TikTok is a restricted information environment controlled and manipulated by literal tyrants. Subjects that are disfavored by the CCP are heavily penalized by their algorithm [1] if you are looking to safeguard against tyranny step 1 is
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by zzzeek 2y ago
the government of China is a hostile adversary and they dont just spread gobs of misinformation and pro-CCP propaganda on TikTok, they also heavily censor topics the CCP does not like. This is not about free expression so much as where t
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by zzzeek 2y ago
this likely helps: > Congress created a $52.7 billion semiconductor manufacturing and research subsidy program in 2022. Commerce convinced all five leading edge semiconductor firms to locate fabs in the United States as part of the progr
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by zzzeek 2y ago
that is exactly noah's point, that TikTok is an extremely potent application. Except it's not "a business" deciding this it's "a government", and China does not want to pass off this much capability to s
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by zzzeek 2y ago
why did they sell Grindr when presented with an identical set of constraints / demands ?
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right instead Biden ordered US Steel to close and cease all operations, just like Beijing is doing to TikTok. /sarcasm there is no comparison between these events
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hacker news has a lot of ideological community problems but HN is not "massively centralized", it's just a narrow window into the US tech scene with a relatively small community of people. I think there's a great argumen
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by zzzeek 2y ago
noahpinion has a great post [1] on this today and he points out the interesting observations we can make: 1. because it's "Beijing" who is tasked with deciding whether or not TikTok can be sold makes it extremely clear Byted
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> ORMs are just a terrible idea - conceptually messy, hard to debug and optimise, full of needless complexity. and that's why ORMs are so unpopular and entirely absent from successful production applications for the past 30 years
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I was actually going to comment on how breathtakingly ignorant the blog post author was for making this statement. What on earth ORM would make a UNIQUE constraint against multiple columns without an explicit instruction, much less where so
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what a weird writer, lots of interesting things to talk about but this very long essay continued to circle back to being author-self-obsessed with their own prowess and drawing out huge expositions and bullet lists on how well they are at p
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by zzzeek 2y ago
> It's meant to elicit an emotional reaction and get people to read their article I'll grant it for an article for wide readership but as a general tool of technical discourse used in places like github issues etc., highly inap
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by zzzeek 2y ago
I am so deeply pissed off at people who look at some completely useful, universal, widely-used-for-decades canonical command that's at the center of tens of millions of manual and automated deployments, picks out some esoteric details
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cosign, this story is outrageous, it is Lawyer Time, Now. The university is completely out of line and this has all the makings of a disastrous outcome the way they are operating
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traffic is a crappy externality that harms everyone, drivers, non-drivers. non-drivers are harmed by pollution, slower buses and cabs, noise, slower emergency response times. drivers are harmed by all those things as well plus the stress
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ha, I drive / train into Manhattan from outside a lot so I'm by nature on the "edge", and this change if it reduces traffic makes me more likely to drive :)
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that's what they wanted it to look like. plenty of evidence aired at the congressional hearings showing this was a highly planned act
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I dont think journalists really find J6 to be important at all. Even left leaning journalists pay lip service to it but shrugs, buncha white dudes blowing off steam I think is how "everyone" sees this. As evidence, look at the
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sticks are super personal and the breakage you'll find has a lot to do with things like thickness but also the wood, Vic Firth are hickory sticks which last a lot longer than a maple stick for example. (it also depends on how you are
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PostgreSQL is very very good about really never doing this, and also a scalar vs. list is pretty much a PostgreSQL case since most other relational DBs dont have a native ARRAY type. I think you're mostly thinking of MySQL that has
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by zzzeek 2y ago
> You totally miss that Redis is more like a remote interpreter with a DSL that manipulates data structures stored at global variables (keys): I think he makes the point that these "global variables" are dynamically typed; you
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Sam Altman and Aaron Swartz Saw the Future(flaminghydra.com)
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Opponents of Elon Musk claim he stripped them of their X badges(cnn.com)
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it's likely not the case here but more powerful unions can block non-union scabs from taking the jobs of striking workers (in that this is usually part of the contract the union has with the employer). at scale, unions have a lot more

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