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by fivre 9mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46277687 mentioned Recoding America as "what you're up against", omitting the important "people had learned what they were up against and were well into the process o
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by fivre 2y ago
chatgpt grant me an AI demon that can transform any manager saying this into a pixie trapped in a cage, attached to each of their ICs' heads for duration of the project, or something
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by fivre 2y ago
zuck is the founder of the company and has been at the helm since its inception consider where that management debt may have come from, and whether accepting the current crunch will somehow alleviate it, or signal that crunch will solve all
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by fivre 2y ago
being politely hostile isn't not being hostile, it's just being hostile while maintaining decorum. there aren't meaningful consequences for a CEO breaking decorum in negotiations with those under them; maintaining it is just
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by fivre 2y ago
are there technical details on exactly what x.com did? cloudflare offers a lot of self-service tools, which can and do allow customers that cloudflare doesn't want to service to use it until someone finds out (my favorite example is th
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by fivre 2y ago
in 2010, i did a study abroad semester in moscow and was confused by all the armed security in grocery stores, standing around, doing nothing. i only later connected the dots from the recent breakdown of social order in the 1990s ( https:&#
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by fivre 2y ago
OIDC seems like it can reasonably help in a fair number of these cases, maybe? it's iffy because (a) the major providers, are, well, Google and their ilk, (b) SSO solutions trend toward reducing user confusion at the cost of choice--im
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by fivre 3y ago
> Use it for art, entertainment, experiments, explorations. Use it to mine the depths of the human soul and reflect back at us what we are. Don't use it for law, health care, directions, or anything humans depend on. you could, but
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by fivre 3y ago
do the people managing the chatbot know that though? this shit gets sold as a way to replace employees with, essentially, just the middle manager that was over them, who is now responsible for managing the chatbot instead of managing people
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by fivre 3y ago
nah, just MGSV, that's the year it came out. shoulda maybe stuck the joke under the other comment re people wanting to fill the anglosphere with garbage to destroy it
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by fivre 3y ago
2001: what is this nonsense plot? why in the hell would anyone fill the world with mass-produced nonsense information? what purpose would it serve!? 2015: what is this nonsense plot? how would you even create a virus that destroys a languag
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by fivre 3y ago
i particularly like that hacking the URL query parameters is apparently the only option for navigating the country and language categories, but those query parameters are at the end of the URL, usually past the edge of the URL bar field the
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by fivre 3y ago
they were pretty consistent about picking good artists though, which was great for scenes i dont follow myself no one person can sift through every scene and genre to find the good shit, and there's plenty of bad shit. i can do that fo
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by fivre 3y ago
yes, i use irssi to hold persistent sessions for all the twitch chats im in. doesn't require anything special beyond an oauth token sent as the server password
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by fivre 3y ago
the original "protocol not commercialized" sentiment in the OP is a bit odd. nobody commercialized HTTP per se (okay, you could make an argument for SaaS CDN proxies, but i don't think that was the spirit of the original argu
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by fivre 3y ago
that has nothing to do with staffing. Korea has a uniquely hostile ISP market where service providers want to charge foreign services ridiculous amounts (versus peering agreements in most markets) for access to Korean consumer networks
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by fivre 3y ago
so are what are you actually opposed to? the general concept of drugs? you can't really get rid of those: pharmacologically active substances exist as a natural consequence of how biological receptor and message-based systems work. unl
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by fivre 3y ago
JSON patches aren't the most intuitive and kustomize needs some helper tooling to generate them for you (given JSON objects A and B, generate a patch that transforms A into B), but overall the kustomize model makes more sense, and the
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by fivre 3y ago
the best part is that Helm does some sort of preprocessing to strip out comments (i think) when templating and validating, so it will report a failure at a line number that doesn't actually correspond to the problem in the original sou
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by fivre 3y ago
it will be necessary to deliver software without bugs that could have reasonably been avoided in time ive had this sentiment thrown at me too often by peak move fast and break things types. it's too often a cudgel to dispense with all
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by fivre 3y ago
i definitely read them. bandcamp had a very skilled editorial team that would reliably surface both new and interesting scenes and archival labels that wouldn't have found much reach otherwise, and ive definitely bought albums and foun
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by fivre 3y ago
i find the OP rather amusing--one of the earlier incidents during my time at Cloudflare (circa 2015) was dealing with prolific domain fronting, where IIRC some third-party proxy tool had set something up to the effect of "send SNI quer
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by fivre 3y ago
CRs that simply instantiate an instance aren't all that useful IMO. they're much more useful if you have something like Prometheus' case where they want to attach configuration to various Kubernetes resources and can't e
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by fivre 3y ago
technical skill matters, and using that technique skillfully for realist interpretations is one of the easier bridges for neophytes to understand the technique abstract interpretation within the confines of a particular medium is harder to
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by fivre 3y ago
That's already the case. ISPs have the freedom to charge prices that vary by region and available service tiers. Most consumers aren't going to care that a portion of the price is Comcast structuring prices so that it can cover ma
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by fivre 3y ago
idk if you've used a chromeos device, but they have an infuriating update schedule where it seems like there are updates daily, and they _always_ require a full system reboot. they apparently can't be consolidated either, so half
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by fivre 3y ago
Amazon isn't necessarily competing better (though they often are--even if im okay getting a slower delivery, not-Amazon vendor sites will do shit like require signature confirmation without the purchaser requesting it, which makes the
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by fivre 3y ago
you're here, and your old blog is about tech stuff, so there's a decent chance you follow a lot of tech people. there are plenty of _those_ on mastodon, because tech people will suffer through bad UX if the product has certain qua
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by fivre 3y ago
Firefox may not be _as_ fast as Chrome, but it's a fairly negligible difference nowadays. rendering speed hasn't been a limiting factor for a while, and i feel like network latency and poor application optimization has been more t
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by fivre 3y ago
neither has anyone else! the inevitable "you could have used something simpler than Kubernetes!" comments that appear every time it's mentioned neglect to note that you're more likely to find a Kubernetes example for wha

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