roguecoder

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by roguecoder 9mo ago
I feel like just making kids lie about our age was pretty effective back in the day. Those of us who lied knew we were going into adult spaces, hid our irl identities, and learned how to behave. Then Facebook convinced people social media w
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by roguecoder 10mo ago
We could get back to that world with anti-trust enforcement and mandatory licensing, while still keeping whatever positive effects competition has had on content production (which I think are debatable at best: it seems like no one outside
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by roguecoder 10mo ago
That has not been my experience with those tools. Super-procedural code in particular is too complex for humans to follow, much less AI.
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by roguecoder 10mo ago
Or overworked. We can deploy on Fridays. We don't, because we aren't donating our time to the shareholders.
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by roguecoder 10mo ago
They've always been flakey. At least these only impacted their own customers instead of taking down the internet.
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by roguecoder 10mo ago
Akamai manages it.
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by roguecoder 10mo ago
The deploys are very unlikely to be managed from the same system.
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by roguecoder 10mo ago
This is Cloudflare. They've repeatedly broken DNS for years. Looking across the errors, it points to some underlying practices: a lack of systems metaphors, modularity, testability, and an reliance on super-generic configuration instea
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by roguecoder 10mo ago
Yep: it is wild for them to claim that a strongly-typed language would have saved them when it didn't. Relying on language features instead of writing code well will always eventually backfire.
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by roguecoder 10mo ago
I notice that this is the kind of thing that solid sociable tests ought to have caught. I am very curious how testable that code is (random procedural if-statements don't inspire high confidence.)
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by roguecoder 10mo ago
Costco had a deal on solid-state UPS & solar panels a while back that I was happy to partake of
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by roguecoder 10mo ago
A functioning FTC sure would. Too bad business hated Lina Khan's basic anti-trust enforcement so much they decided to throw in with fascism.
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by roguecoder 10mo ago
As long as David Zaslav is kicked to the curb instead of given power inside Netflix, this could still be a win for the world. I don't know how else we were going to get him out of there. Heck, Netflix might actually promote Our Flag Me
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by roguecoder 10mo ago
That's what governance is for, though. These laws can be changed to require collaboration or remove the artificial monopolies. They haven't been because the people being hurt by it are way less organized than the people benefittin
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by roguecoder 10mo ago
Much like local control of zoning, that is an principle that many folks take on faith as being "good" despite all the actual outcomes. In collaborative productions it is almost never the "individual" artist anyway: it&#x
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by roguecoder 10mo ago
Disobeying unjust laws is a moral imperative. Working around laws that hurt society is good for society. Changing laws that aren't benefiting society is the sign of a functioning government.
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by roguecoder 10mo ago
Copyright has never been about benefitting consumers. Or artists, for that matter. It was invented to protect publishers (printing press operators). That continues to be who benefits from copyright. It's why Disney is behind all the ma
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by roguecoder 10mo ago
Hoarding is never good for society. It is wild that we've adopted laws to reward it.
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by roguecoder 10mo ago
That would also solve the problem of AI training data. Build a data set, wait 14 years, and it's guaranteed to be legal.
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by roguecoder 10mo ago
This is why zoning should never have been made a local question. People who want to live in the area but can't because it is unaffordable don't get a vote, and the exclusionary communities become self-reinforcing. But Americas rea
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by roguecoder 10mo ago
Living on the street sucks. It is painful. It is a lot harder to stop using pain killers when one is in actual pain.
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by roguecoder 10mo ago
Interestingly, churches are one of the ways you still could, given that when zoning conflicts with practice of a religion zoning often has to give way. Get some folks with development experience and start a Hospitaller order.
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by roguecoder 10mo ago
American-style zoning is illegal in Japan: https://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.htm... All zoning is at the national level, with none of the opportunities for NIMBYs to keep new people out of t
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by roguecoder 10mo ago
It can also be incredibly dangerous in the event of fires.
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by roguecoder 10mo ago
This is part of the advantage of SROs: every person has their own space, with a locking door.
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by roguecoder 10mo ago
Fentanyl came around decades after the zoning changes targeting these.
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by roguecoder 10mo ago
Not necessarily. I have a stew place by me that is $12 for a plate of veggies + meat that is easily two meals for me. There are plenty of food trucks around with good options in the $5-10 range. And that's before we're looking at
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by roguecoder 10mo ago
Tech workers are prime targets for SROs, and it is wild that zoning has kept them out. I have had plenty of coworkers who ate the vast majority of their meals at work anyway and only used their kitchen to store clothes. This portrays them j
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by roguecoder 10mo ago
That's interesting: it reminds me of the results we're seeing from workplace democracy in Germany. Companies with workers on their boards are significantly less likely to go bust than companies where only investors' opinions
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by roguecoder 11mo ago
Frameworks are a major contributor to these dynamics, which is a little unfair to blame on the language, but I've seen orders of magnitude difference. I had one time it was faster for the three of us to rewrite a web app in Rails than

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