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I think this is one of those "race to the bottom" things where businesses endlessly undercut each other until everyone loses

Hmm did you read the article? One specific attack vector they show has nothing to with Git or pushing/pulling to repositories. It shows an install.sh which curl downloads a master.zip from a public github repo and executes files within it.

Except getServerSideProps is no longer used in Next 13 and actually you have no simple access to the request object anymore. Have to write middleware for everything, it is extremely frustrating

I'm a professional programmer not a graphics person, so take with a grain of salt. It looks cool! The intro is fun and the scrolling title bar is a nice touch (although I think some people might be turned off by it)

I will say though, to me personally it looks very simplistic. For example, the button and the textbox appear to have no styling. Also I don't understand why there's an X in the top-right corner which repeats the intro animation.

Did the Chinese government ultimately regulate the market to protect people and prevent this kind of corruption?

Not to be rude but this source code... makes me wonder if I ever want to use Zig. It looks barely readable

https://github.com/andrewrk/poop/blob/main/src/main.zig

  In this implementation, to maximise performance, we consider each individual byte of the file separately, and look it up in π.

LOL so you get to store your data for free, and all it takes is allocating like 8 bytes for every byte. This project is galaxy brain

Oh god please don't give them any ideas. Delete this ASAP

Well I've had my car broken into, and I've been assulted twice by homeless people--once spat on, and once physically jumped/attacked. (Edit: also the more I think about it, the more I remember other scary/dangerous incidences)

Nope, none of this changes my feelings, and certainly does not grant me "depravity tokens" that I'm now allowed to cash-in. "Hello, I have five depravity-tokens from being treated badly by a homeless person, I'd like to spend it on treating them badly in return."

I agree that we need to be mindful about our approach. Homeless people can't be given unlimited luxuries because we can't afford it as a society.

That being said, your comment comes across as reductive to the homeless population as being nothing more than a snide, tongue-in-cheek joke.

This "Normal people" messaging is what allows us to abstract homeless people into this "other" group, which is dangerous and inhumane. Like it or not, these people with all of their problems are a part of us all.

  For those with mental health you obviously can not decriminalize this

The exact opposite is true. It must be decriminalized for those with mental health issues.

Criminalization of drug use was never about crime or drugs. It is to install a pipeline for people in poverty to be directed into a for-profit prison system in which they are used as legal slave labor under the 13th amendment.

Drug use is not ever a criminal issue. It is a health issue full stop.

Meanwhile people say "But the homeless people will just use public wifi for porn!"

Like... okay, and what are you using your wifi for?

Regardless, removing this would just make them more stressed and irratic. There are worse things than legal porn on public wifi. If this tradeoff means 1% of them feel relaxed enough to actually do a job search afterward, and get motivated to get money for a more comfortable, more private place, then it's worth it.

But this is all a red-herring and not the real issue.

The lack of a panacea--a silver bullet solution to homelessness--does not mean all our resources are just a suboptimal waste. These incremental improvements are worthwhile when the cost tradeoff is so tiny (e.g. an internet modem with a properly configured firewall basically runs itself)

This is such a lazy approach to social issues.

Being poor and homeless is so hard. The system is built with countless chicken-egg problems that make it almost impossible to climb out of poverty. On top of this, elitists who are so disconnected are arbitrarily enforcing this kind of amoral depraved nonsense.

Should we just keep stripping the needy of more and more resources until eventually maybe they'll just disappear or die because fuck them for existing and inconveniencing us?

Good grief.

  I think all the countries with "free" healthcare end up with having absurd waiting times

The irony is that we also have absurd wait times in the USA for our paid healthcare. At least other countries get it for free.

This is such a common trope that the USA tradeoff is that we pay to get higher quality expedited care, but it's just not true

Ah it was a miscommunication then, my bad!

I interpreted "capturing value" as meaning "capturing potential value" i.e. some untapped resource, or in other words generating value.

So it sounds like we're talking about the same thing then just in different ways.

  Nothing new, just trying to capture industries/value.

None of what you said sounds cynical imo, just un-businesslike I suppose.

Who cares about shifting paradigms / something brand new? Not every business has to change the world. Most shouldn't.

The whole point of a business is to capture value full stop. Not to play around with lofty surreal visions of grandeur.

I think you're supposed to have a backup off prem in case of some disaster so you're not just losing everything at once

The fact that talking to your daughter about her day when she comes home is a nuisance to you, which the office saves you from, is a very interesting detail

This is a falsehood. You are trying to stir up controversy

I worked at Google and chose to leave after a year. I agree with a lot of the negativity against Google here

Another way of wording what you just said: "What if cancelling the subscription is more costly than keeping it?"

Uh... then keep it, because that means it's providing value to you.

I like how the original comment gave some thoughtful napkin estimates about how this product may be worth several thousand dollars as a function of time saved, and your counter argument is just "nah it's $30 total" with absolutely no reasoning or logic.

Like it or not, this is the kind of response from an engineer that falls into the category of emotionally cheapo.

I remember learning about this in EMT training. That a tiny air bubble in an IV line is lethal is a popular myth. Actually apparently IV lines have air in them all the time, the body is not that fragile

Maybe a trust issue? e.g. Mozilla did not want the Debian team the ability to create some strangely modified version of Firefox that would be mistakenly connected to Mozilla.

Back then perhaps there was not enough context to know that Debian could be trusted.

The interesting thing is that the pain actually did go both ways. The lack of Firefox and the need for Iceweasel actually confused me as a young developer, and put me off Linux for a long time, because it made it feel like a cheap knock-off. I was unaware that they were otherwise identical.

Thank you!

Code can be simplified. Change:

  linkTitles.map(title => Link(title))

to

  linkTitles.map(Link)

Only teasing. In all seriousness this looks really nice and reminds me that I want to get a new e-ink reader! It's been like 8 years since I last used one so I imagine the technology has come a long way.

Anyone here recommend a reader if money is no object? I want the highest quality one on the market that will last years. Primarily for reading, but perhaps also some note taking.

If you bring a banned book into a library, they will reject it and turn it away on the basis of state extortion for risk of being defunded or other legal issues. That's what we're talking about here.

We're not talking about curation, and it is bizarre mental gymnastics to propose they are remotely similar.

EDIT. BTW even curation-excluded books are accepted by libraries. Libraries operate in networks, and they exchange / send overflow books to each other all the time.

Considering two of the first commenters in this gist are Kirby and a Dall-E anime girl, sounds like a spot on assessment.

Not that people should be shamed for their personal interests! Everyone should imbue some of their personal style in their work, that's how we generate creativity and so forth.

That being said, I think the problem is when personal style overlaps too much in what needs more professional separation and distancing. It seems like that can be a recipe for too much ego that creates rifts.

There is a risk that we start turning a serious endeavor into a personal project / hobby, or worse just treating it as a joke; leading to situations like:

  Up until recently, I was part of two private online discussion spaces where a bunch of Rust people hung out.

I remember FlyFF from my childhood! Never spent money on it, but yeah that was my first experience with a "pay to win" game model, so I can see how kid-you would have done this.

no shot anyone actually types this out, right? surely this must be generated by machines for machine ingestion.