ertian

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by ertian 3mo ago
I mean, realistically: let us run your thing, uploaded all data to our cloud, and then let us handle access control.
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by ertian 3mo ago
Someday, Americans may punish him with a presidency.
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by ertian 6mo ago
1969: Every line of assembly code has been coded according to rigorous standards and vetted and reviewed by a panel of experts. 2026: lol we just realized there's a few million lines of extra code running but we can't figure out w
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by ertian 6mo ago
And generally just tear through native populations of birds and small mammals. I honestly think it's irresponsible to have outdoor cats in places where they're not native (which is effectively everywhere).
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by ertian 8mo ago
It could be as useful as a junior dev. You probably shouldn't let a junior dev run arbitrary commands in production without some sort of oversight or rails, either. Even as a more experienced dev, I like having a second pair of eyes on
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by ertian 9mo ago
I appreciated the texture of your message. It's really unfortunate that the bot plague is making us all suspicious of any well-written or idiosyncratic posts.
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by ertian 1y ago
After WW2, Europe and Asia were rubble, and needed to rebuild. And the systems, structures, and customs that had existed pre-war had fallen apart. They all needed, simultaneously, to rebuild and modernize. To do that, they needed cars, mach
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by ertian 1y ago
"Trickle-down" has become a thought-terminating cliche. Of course your country is better off if you have successful companies and high-income jobs.
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by ertian 1y ago
That's just the byproduct of the rest of the world coming back online (plus communications & logistics improving). Look, if you own a company, or are in a leadership position: the entire world is now open to you, both as source of
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by ertian 1y ago
So you'd be better-off if SpaceX and Google were Chinese companies? Also, a lot of the wealth from the tech industry does spill over to the larger community. You're strictly better off having it. If the US had just stuck with th
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by ertian 1y ago
Home ownership rate is higher now than it ever was in the post-war period, actually. It peaked in 2008, and has fallen since then...still higher than the 50s and 60s. Also, did you ever spend any time in those post-war homes? Most of us wou
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by ertian 1y ago
The hollowing out of the American middle class is because the huge, wealthy middle class was a post-war anomaly, from a time when the US had the only intact industrial plant in the world, and lack of communication technology and logistical
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by ertian 1y ago
Cash has centralized distribution, but it's very decentralized in use. That's what makes it useful. However, sometimes people might choose to use a centralized service provider (like a bank, or a credit card company) because it&
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by ertian 1y ago
Many of us took programming 101 in Java and so typed this dozens of times without having a clue what it meant.
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by ertian 1y ago
The point of cash is that it represents transferrable value that doesn't require an intermediary between you and the person you're transacting with. And yet, banks and credit card companies exist and deal with cash. This does not
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by ertian 1y ago
Yeah, I've run a local Kokoro instance, and it doesn't work with Firefox. This uses Kokoro under the hood.
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by ertian 1y ago
Money isn't a difficult concept? Tell that to the people of Turkey, on Venezuela, or Argentina. Ask them about the utility of money as a "store of value" or means of transaction. It can be mismanaged to disastrous effect. Ass
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by ertian 1y ago
Yeah, there's a line early in the article about use, the gist of which is "[unlike cryptocurrency] the utility of the internet was obvious from the start". But it seemed pretty obvious to me more than a decade ago what crypto
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by ertian 1y ago
Ehh, I would put it differently: purposefully decentralized societies are ineffective, and create a power vacuum that tends to be quickly filled. Assuming they would have worked requires a view of human nature that I just don't buy.
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by ertian 1y ago
I guess 1919 is a bit late for rose colored glasses--though there's a shocking number of people who are still nostalgic for Bolshevism after _everything_. You get my point, though. It's one thing to propose an idyllic society. I
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by ertian 1y ago
It's not that hard for a new idea to look good for a couple short months/years. Building an ongoing, self-sustaining society that doesn't go completely off the rails is a whole other thing. There's a reason all these idy
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by ertian 1y ago
> Maybe I am too much of a jaded asshole but anyone who writes something like this needs perspective. This is clearly a person who loved their job, and took it seriously. They had worked hard on something and were looking forward to shar
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by ertian 1y ago
No, unless somebody starts a stream there's no computation. If nobody is watching, it's idle. If somebody tunes in, the server figures out where to start the stream and begins streaming.
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by ertian 2y ago
I'd be interested if it existed...
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by ertian 2y ago
I think that's trying to draw the metaphor too far. The point is just that people have a tendency to be fascinated with their enemies, and exaggerate the differences between them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othe
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by ertian 2y ago
He was making fun of someone for suggesting that the federal government uses SQL. Dude has been burning credibility at an amazing pace.
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by ertian 2y ago
People have built a frustrating system for themselves with a century of complicated and messy political decisions (and resulting regulations). They don't have the will or attention span required to solve the various problems via the sl
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by ertian 2y ago
You're basically just saying it's unfamiliar, and not universal yet. In my experience, using & configuring NixOS is much simpler and easier than most distros...until it's not, at which point, yes, the difficulty curve is
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by ertian 2y ago
Populations tend to unite when confronted with an immediate hostile threat. George Bush's popularity shot from 50% to 90% overnight after 9/11. There's always a sense that "we need to solve this before we get back to our
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by ertian 2y ago
I'm not telling you this is the wrong site. I'm suggesting that maybe if you're looking for news on mature, production-ready game development software, with no hobby project tangents, there's probably better places to

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