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by sectiondetail 7y ago
I think this is going to be an "agree to disagree" situation. Frankly, I think Activitypub is just fine as the basis for building Twitter alternatives. Most complaints I've read about it are from people who dislike its lack o
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by sectiondetail 7y ago
I disagree. I think most of the people in this thread are promoting Activitypub merely as a starting point. Sure, it could use some tweaks and improvements, but it's a good foundation to build on.
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>I m surprised every time i see people here asking for the evil that is censorship. I'm sadly not surprised. While HN does attract hobbyists like me interested in technology and how it affects society, it also attracts a lot of thos
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by sectiondetail 7y ago
I don't think people are pushing ActivityPub as a silver bullet, so much as they're using it as "the currently-available and less-awful alternative to closed silos". If someone is starving, they're not going to hold
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by sectiondetail 7y ago
This is specifically why SpaceX rarely patents anything. From a 2012 Wired article [0], Musk is on record as saying "We have essentially no patents in SpaceX. Our primary long-term competition is in China—if we published patents, it wo
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by sectiondetail 7y ago
They're called search warrants. They're not called find warrants.
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I think it's because he hadn't learned a whole lot of bad pacing habits at that point, but had already developed a strong descriptive style. Snow Crash is an evolution of that. The pacing is a mess, but entertainingly so, and the
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by sectiondetail 7y ago
Sounds like my reaction to Neal Stephenson. His phrasing is godly. His plotting is godawful.
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by sectiondetail 7y ago
>Somewhat related, but I have hard time watching older shows/movies where the plot only works because people do not a have cell phones. One of the funniest moments in the Buffy spin-off Angel was when the title character was trapped
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by sectiondetail 7y ago
>In my opinion there’s simply too many dependencies to begin with. Some of the simplest things put into a GitHub repository to be “shared” with the world is great—as a gist file. Software needs to be a little more self-contained. Softwar
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by sectiondetail 7y ago
One of the things I'm most excited about related to Starship is its landed mass capability for science purposes. Imagine being able to build radio and optical telescopes in the Daedalus crater on the central lunar far side. They'd
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>and I'd be shocked if there's a viable company in either the Boring Company or hyperloop. One of the things to keep in mind about Musk's various projects is that every single one of them has a practical application for Ma
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>Yes, I'm not sure what the future holds for HTML but I'm confident the ultimate goal of webassembly is to make the browser a secure place to run full native like apps. That suggests some apps will not use HTML and just render
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The word "health" occurs precisely once in this article, and only in the context of encouraging job mobility. Not health care for all to end the obscenity known as "medical debt". Not health care for all to enable early
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by sectiondetail 7y ago
Desktop Chrome, yes. There's a darn good reason why my browser of choice on Android is Firefox, and that reason is spelled "ublock origin".
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by sectiondetail 7y ago
I think Microsoft's engineers would love to, and do wherever possible. But Windows' #1 selling point is backwards-compatibility. It's possible that there's types of security hardening that simply can't be done witho
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by sectiondetail 7y ago
At the risk of sounding like someone who wants to spark a language fight (which I genuinely don't) this is why I love Go. The standard library is so good that I rarely need to bring in any third-party dependencies, and the few I do use
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I love everything related to css grids. Subgrids enabled by default is going to simplify my life greatly. Thanks, Mozilla!
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I'm about as old-school anti-Microsoft as it gets (I had a 4-digit slashdot ID!) but even I have to admit that they've been pretty serious in offering olive branches to the broader open source community in the past decade. I'