BaseballPhysics

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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
> Even if it was, that isn't a critique of the comment's argument. Yes, it is. The core of their comment is "oh noes western values will be lost!" (Or as they put it: "the global West has values worth preserving
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
> I believe thinking too much about kids is a trap. Basically you should have them if you can. I cannot think of worse advice. Congratulations to you that you found a life that works for you. But the idea that people should just stop thi
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
You realize China is having its own demographic crash, yeah? And India's birth rate is at or below replacement? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_India Bluntly, whether you meant to or not, this com
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
So, to be clear, I spent my time reverse engineering software rather than the hardware itself. That said, my observation is that a lot of hardware reverse engineering is software reverse engineering since the software helps you understan
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Absolutely. And the other thing I love about it is the communities are typically super open and collaborative. I remember back when I first got into GBA development, there was a ton of docs, tools, libraries, and other things that folks ha
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Yes, just hacking nights and weekends. I've done my fair share of console reverse engineering, developing software for console devices (mostly GBA and NDS development, but a fair bit of SMS and Genesis reverse engineering), etc, and it
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
> Jit.si must not care about privacy or they'd have other OAuth options from the start. Such as? What provider would you be comfortable with?
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
If they took away the code or relicensed it so you couldn't run it yourself I'd have a lot more sympathy.
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Yup, very true.
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Shame the dream of multicast died...
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
ffs, they're OAuth providers . It's not like they're passing the video streams over to Google and Facebook so they can mine them for PII. All they'll learn is that a user with an identity on their platform is using Ji
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
No, this is like a restaurant giving you free food, and then when they change the recipe, you saying "WTF, you changed the food and now it's too salty, I hate it. Yeah, I could cook my own meal, but screw that, I demand you fix i
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
> but we badly need more options just as accessible- what other E2EE anonymous web-browser accessible tool is as available to the masses, that they can be convinced to use? Just stand up your own instance and make it available to the ano
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
> I doubt this is due to illegal things. There's kind of a limit to how much you can do illegally on a video feed. ... are... are you joking ?!
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Fascinating reading the angry comments here. Don't blame Jitsi. Blame the people abusing their previously wide open service. They're why we can't have nice things. As for expecting them to run their own auth service instead
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Just because you define "decentralized" as strictly "peer-to-peer" doesn't mean everyone does. Wikipedia literally uses the word "decentralized" to describe the Fediverse, which would seem to violate your
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
It goes to show how your upbringing affects these things. Before Ruby I spent a lot of time in Smalltalk which really shaped the way I thought about language and program structure, APIs, etc. I'd also spent a metric ton of time writi
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Just popping in to say: me too! I feel like there needs to be a community or forum for people like us. I know at least one other person in my circle doing the same. Seems to be rare but more common than I realized...
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
So I just need to upgrade my current induction stove to a newer model? That seems reasonable... ;)
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Not worth it. A temperature controllable kettle that shuts itself off and can keep water warm is both incredibly convenient and far more safe.
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
It's Electron-based, yes. Anyone using it on Wayland with fractional scaling will know that...
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
No you don't. A ban forces industries to create alternatives. Otherwise they won't bother. You just schedule a phased elimination over time so those alternatives can get developed. That's precisely how the Montreal Protoc
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
What? The things I may want to learn or do in service of a hobby or personal interest are very different from those topics relevant to my professional life, and the motivations and the value I get from it are entirely different as well. And
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Except ironically there's a theory that a lack of parasitic infections may contribute to autoimmune diseases: https://focus.science.ubc.ca/worms-ae3a1579c58c Humanity evolved with parasites. Like gut bacteria, excessi
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Ah but that's a very different thing. You're treating tech as a hobby and engaging with it accordingly. This piece literally started with: > My software developer colleagues often ask me where I do get all the time for reading
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Guess again. I'm old enough to realize that tying your self-worth to objectified life goals and measurable achievements is a fool's errand sold to us by a self-help industrial complex designed to make us feel as bad as possible a
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Hmm, you're gonna need to explain that again. How will this help me increase my LTV and ensure I'm optimizing every minute of the day for maximal productivity?
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
> goal-setting, time management, and motivation. Oh good. More productivity hacking. Maybe I should come up with some KPIs? Put together quarterly reports? Find more ways to quantify my self-worth so I can maximize it?
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Yeah except the piece started with: > My software developer colleagues often ask me where I do get all the time for reading all the tech books or articles, watching conference talks and listening to podcasts. They're not talking a
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Another commenter also made a very good point: you've gotta let off the gas a bit. If everyone is going flat out, the surrounding pressures will cause people to prioritize being responsive to those pressures. But that requires a funda

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