rektide

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by rektide 3y ago
These asks are so at ends with one another. FoundationDB is not easy to set up. And it ships with near nothing out of the box; you have to build layers atop it's foundation to do nearly anything. But the polish is through the roof an
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by rektide 3y ago
Operational experience would be my first guess. A lot of folks already know how to backup, replicatie, & stream postgres quite well.
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by rektide 3y ago
As nation's try ever so hard to dynamite the Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace & exert control wherever their citizens travel online, the difficulty in figuring out regulatory compliance keeps skyrocketing. It gets harder a
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by rektide 3y ago
I'm sympathetic & way more agree than disagree. But DNS doesn't fill me with joy. It's quite centralized, quite a huge organizational vulnerability. If we had some alternate addressing schemes in the browser that could do
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by rektide 3y ago
The main reason why is that Meta is a colossal vast data gathering beast, that for example flagrantly fucks around bypassing the GDPR. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36583651 Now, I personally I think it's trying
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by rektide 3y ago
Far less offensive but the DC metro got screen ads & it just so cheapens the experience. Used to be a kind of impressive semi-brutalist feeling, which isn't super fancy or anything. But now just tacky.
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by rektide 3y ago
It's been pretty amazing how stagnant the monitor space is. I too am really craving an 8k@120 monitor, although there's a decent chance I'll balk at the price.
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by rektide 3y ago
To me it comes down to which Apple can more reliably deliver, that will see regular use. I have a hard time knowing what unique VR experience would keep people coming back day after day. But we know for a fact people use screens for desktop
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by rektide 3y ago
Intel is such a hero of this world. They make so many amazing things happen. And they do the job well. There's obvious/huge ecosystem examples: there was a whole industry around ultra-proprietary SSDs, and Intel rolled up their sl
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by rektide 3y ago
Excited to see another very cross platform terminal! I've been using Alacrity but copying to clipboard has been a nightmare time and time again, in all kinds of circumstance, and I switched out in despair just this weekend, but after t
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by rektide 3y ago
Apple has been smart to present it as a desktop replacement (as opposed to some ar/vr/metaverse device), which is something they can deliver that will let users bring their existing apps to the new medium without adaption. Ideally
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by rektide 3y ago
A major thread through the talk is that there are powers that be that think they have the answers & want to shape & mold us. Not super clearly stated, but implicitly said, it rarely works & the hubris almost always causes huge p
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by rektide 3y ago
I'm exhausted by single-process programming languages. I think it's totally not worth our time to care at all about this problem any more. We need to figure out how to build systems more broadly. We're stealing useful energy
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by rektide 3y ago
The brother doest protest too much. To me, it is exceedingly clear almost every other industry of this planet has far far better developed industrial practices and standards. They can go to school & learn how to do the thing. There&#x27
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by rektide 3y ago
What a fragging amazing treasure. Rushkoff has just gotten better and better over time, more and more on point. Humble fun opening: > I thought i was supposed to go out there to do this talk on the digital future & do this talk on t
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by rektide 3y ago
I'd also (re-)add: film is just one part of a transmission process. Film has to be developed into something. And that's a chemical process, which is non-linear. Developer, the bath you put film in to activate the still blank but e
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by rektide 3y ago
People are amazing. I love this. Adore it. A thread of various awesome enterprising hackers, searching for truth, and using observability & tools to uncover meaning. Then bend reality to their whims & desires. This is the best human
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by rektide 3y ago
My skepticism at such overaching efforts is usually quite high. Apologies for discriminating on name/using popularity contest metrics, but seeing @grvydev's name on the repo is... great ! They've become a proven master of we
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by rektide 3y ago
This take is absolute classic Telegraph shit. My own tendencies lay way more in sympathy to the people, support protests, believe it's part of the great arch of society. I don't want to agree with this article at all. And it'
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by rektide 3y ago
I don't know the term but you can also basically varyingly-indirectly pay to get in to most Ivys & other schools. I wonder what those admissions numbers look like. I don't have a ton of info, but I've been at two differen
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by rektide 3y ago
I can't wait to see a similar review of Bergamo/Zen 4c. Die shot analysis shows the cores themselves, not counting the L3 cache, are also 35% smaller than regular cores. But most of the specs look the same. There's a huge mys
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by rektide 3y ago
> Some people really want to have a production line of developers hammering away boxes of value then can capitalize on, Infoquake / Jump 225 series had an amazing fun-in-a-dystopian-way visions of this Taylor-ian model of progra
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by rektide 3y ago
Why stop there? There was a great project that I keep forgetting the name of / link to... It simulated the chemical process of developing film. I keep wanting to dig it up & play with it. Such a neat effort.
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by rektide 3y ago
No one put it there. We the people were inactive & didn't figure out how to weave together our individual & community sites to create a compelling multi-party space. Or we could try to create alternative centralized but non-cor
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by rektide 3y ago
On the one hand the failure is legit, success foiled by rampant vendorization & byzantine inscrutable tooling pumping out forsaken impossible to introspect generated code. But also CORBA was maybe as far as I can tell the first programm
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by rektide 3y ago
Web Annotations spec is a great starting place & I hope we can some day see some real breakout wins from it. I'd love to see some cross integration with ActivityPub, as a syndication/transport! What I really want is no site to
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by rektide 3y ago
Nothing else involves as much invention. We know intimately everything that goes into buildings & have built very similar buildings that serve very similar used millions of times. Each software has unique intent & is hugely hand cra
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by rektide 3y ago
Axiom 2a of the web emphasizes this, > a URI will repeatably refer to "the same" thing And further, > the significance of identity for a given URI is determined by the person who owns the URI, who first determined what it
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by rektide 3y ago
I don't think of gRPC as object oriented, but I don't have a ton of experience with it. It seems like a service oriented system, with endpoints that accept parameters & return data. There's not, to my knowledge, much in t
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by rektide 3y ago
Ah yes, the forever cry of fascism. 'Only centralized winner take all systems can ever win. Anything else is surely too difficult & could never ever possibly get anywhere. Because that's what my very important opinion says. Ge

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