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Damn I wish I thought about that title.

Streaming is expensive, but less than you think. If you run your own servers and don't use the cloud, you can serve a million user a month for a few thousand dollars.

Indeed, having focus on content instead of people make things much more civil organically.

HN makes it look casual but it has a very active and diligent moderation and a whole automated system to detect spams, self promotion, hateful comments...

The basic design is on purpose, but the backend doesn't match the front.

I do, the American make sure we can't miss it.

And of course, I specifically states it's an anecdotate about people around me.

I would say that the stupidest of the left is smarter than the stupidest on the right, but being smart is not what we are talking about.

This site proves you can be pretty smart and damn hard to colaborate with :)

Also I would argue that being a communist is not the same distance from the center as being a maga.

But more importantly, this is irrelevant.

Cause I'm not american.

I don't have nazis if this is what you are refering to. Just like I don't have murderers and rapists.

But I do have communists, anarchists on one side, and royalists (people in favor or a king) and pro putin on the other. I have anti-vax and phd in physics, millionaires and state help seekers, cops and people making their own amphetamin, people going to all protests and those telling off illegal immigrants to the police.

It's like saying it's both hot and cold. You can argue I don't live in the sahara or in the north pole, but I live in France.

I have a large and very eclectic group of buddies, ranging from one extreme to the other, in term of politic, life style, believes, education, etc.

Anecdotally, this is true in my circle.

Left leaning people around me think they are more open minded, but really they just have a different set of things they accept. They have the same number of icks, just not at the same place.

The big gap is in how they behave when in contact with things they don't like.

And right leaning people have been so far more capable of cooperating with those who don't match their values.

Also, on paper, left leaning have expressed more humane values, espacially when very general or abstract. But in the day to day, when it comes to the mondain or practical, I've seen the sexist or racist guys help more my muslim or girl friends that the ones saying every body is equal.

It weirds me out.

Energy is a bottleneck to life in general, and the whole humanity.

It's like saying your employees need oxygen to breath or they can't work at scale.

I like the concept.

The nice things is that it abstract the conditions checks on whether something is done, has succeeded or should be retried.

The bad things is that it abstract the conditions checks on whether something is done, has succeeded or should be retried.

It's nice because that's something you do again and again, and that's a lot of code. A lot of ways it can go wrong.

But it's bad because that's a huge chunk of black box magic that may execute remotely. If you need a custom or more optimized behavior anywhere in this logic, you are done for. If there is a bug/problem in this logic, it's game over. I also have to imagine debugging and error reporting is likely not super fun.

One point in particular that strikes me, is that impotence is generically guaranteed with something like "has this task executed without error last time". But usually, what I want is something much more specific, like "has that entries been updated", "has that file been created" and so on. From a bird view, it looks the same, but from a system reliability point of you, they are not at all the same.

Hard to see how they avoid duplicate results, overlapping tasks, etc.

I don't think they really can at that level of abstraction, which means you need to implement it manually.

Eventually it seems it's a huge dep to bring in for the actual practical problem is really solves well.

But I'm willing to be proven wrong on this one, because the tech is really damn cool.

A game is just a game. There is nothing vital to it.

It's the easiest thing in the world to boycott.

And yet, players consistently fail to make the editors pay for their bad behaviors. EA is still craping on their clients. Blizzards fails forward. Loot boxes, DRM, crippling anti-cheat mechanisms, buggy games with expensive DLC and micro payments are everywhere. Sony even infected their customers with a rootkit once.

If you keep giving them money despite this, then they have correctly noted they can charge you for their fun system despite the inconvenience.

Already more games have been created and published than a human could finish in an entire life. And that's games, not music, movies, series or books.

You could just stop buying any new game forever and have an entire life of wonderful gaming experience.

Hell, I'm still playing old snes games, or the flash version of isaac.

So not buying from an editor?

Easy.

Stop complaining.

Act.

Tabs have states.

The section explaining that Python dev is particularly hard on NixOS hits home.

> I’m amazed that nobody had the idea before,

Kubrick ghost is going to haunt this guy. That's literally a smaller version of the giant ring in 2001.

Some people somewhere will say that the EU is once again regulating instead of innovating.

But I really like this change.

Simple, I'm on Mastodon, Substack, Threads and Bluesky.

And they are all barely breathing.

The community density is low (because of the split), the discovery sucks (because of decentralization and no algo to suggest content), the culture is homogeneous (I encounter people mostly from one political side) and the publication of limited quality.

You can't start new communities from old users. Communities are built by the young, they are the ones with the creativity, motivation and free time to do it.

That's why twitter, made mostly by young people from 20 years ago, still got the inertia of it, are is more interesting and active.

And that's why tik tok and roblox are full of life. I'm sure the kids are also elsewhere, where we are not looking, creating the communities of tomorrow.

That's assuming he would have fallen asleep without autopilot.

Anytime this word is used it sounds so much newspeak to me I forget it's a real one.

A google account is not required to use an Android device.

So if you don't tie all your contacts, sync and backup to your google account, you can have a phone that they won't lock you out of.

Snaps are yet again at the center of the problem. It's been more than 10 years and they still cause issues, are generally hated by the community and a PR disaster.

Ulid have a short representation that uuid7 could use but doesn't define. Also, has UUID7 been standardized already? I thought it was still in the pipeline.

Statistically, being successful on accident with paypal, tesla, starlink and space x each individually is pretty improbable given the complexity of each.

All of them? That's doesn't seem rational.

Employees always say it's management, management always say it's employees.

But in most companies, it's both.

And people suck at discipline.

Hopefully their country doesn't outlow watching porn itself, because in that case they are just accumulating evidences against them.

Nassim Taleb was right again.

I have dumb phone for that. If they pressure me to install something on it, I just bring them that phone (with my real sim), and ask them how we shall proceed.

You don't offer alternatives. Either a product or service is valuable enought to get customers, or it's not and it dies.

It will actually benefit small structures that have no money for marketting anyway.

And big ones won't be able to rely on their treasure chest to generate more of it, they will have to earn it.

Yes in the same way micro services are a standard in the industry.

What's wrong with graphql is what's wrong with k8: people use it in the wrong context, and the right context is not most projects.

Yep, also GraphQL and all those data lakes.

That reminds me "XML is the future": https://www.bitecode.dev/p/hype-cycles

Yes but except in remote areas or with specific natural features, where you can't get to other people easily, having a phone not cut for days is not critical enough that it justify maintaining a whole parallel infrastructure.

You may argue it does, but it's easy to figure out: in my country you can get it in some places, but it's an expensive premium.

Very few people do. Which mean they don't value it as much as they say they do. The ones that do usually are the ones that have the need to be able to call health institutions in emergency.

Turns out humanity survives very well without a phone, and while I get how it can become a big problem for an individual, on average for the whole society, it doesn't balance out.