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Pretty much, we got from network of blogs and forums to all-encompassing massive social networks that impose same rules and sensibilities on everyone regardless of sense and reason, regardless of local culture or really anything else.

Like recently here in Poland we had cause of someone's motorization-related facebook page (basically diary of him building his tuned car) got banned after he posted a poll that dared to contain the word "czarny" (black).. someone else got banned for posting pic of their kids on vacation etc.

I think fundamental problem of it is it being basically a monolith and is now hard to untangle that.

IMO better architecture for such "IOT HUB" would be a rule-engine that basically just takes code (embeddable language like Lua or outright WASM) and runs them against incoming events. Maybe add pluggable storage so the code can use some kind of persistency on top of it.

Then UI would basically be just a configuration interface for that rule engine. So to run high availability you'd just run the engine on 2 nodes and sync the configs, and configuration/dashboard/whatever else using it could run separately on "bigger" machines.

The new propane or CO2-based pumps the temperature it keeps working is also lower so it isn't much of a problem for most places if you are in market for one currently.

To help ensure messages you send to Gmail accounts are delivered as expected, you should set up either SPF or DKIM for your domain.

But spammers already do that, why would enforcing that even help ?

It took like a decade to get average LCD screen to look as good as old CRT. And still need a ton of post-processing to make old pixel art games to look as good as before on LCD.

And I did play a bunch of games 10-20-30 years after they were released and they still hold up. My limit seems to be around SNES-era graphics, before that it just feels too ugly and clunky for me.

Sure, many games just feel like any modern titles do everything better, but some play just fine if you can stomach some of the obsolete mechanics.

I fired up Doom 2 again on one of the many ports and it looks great, all the nice memories came flooding back, and yet it wasn't the same. It made me realize that the magic wasn't in the games, or the computers or the people. The magic was in us being a bunch of kids born into infinite curiosity and no (real) responsibilities. That magic unfortunately cannot be recreated in adult life.

I thought about it a lot and come to conclusion that every new interesting experience bumps our "standard" up and so once you accumulate a ton of that it's just harder and harder to be wowed by new game, even if it is just fine, fun and plays nice. But me getting my first car in my 30s was still thrilling and I was giggling like mad so dunno about "kid" part. Yeah kids know shit all so everything new is exciting but that doesn't mean you can't find magic moments in the adulthood, just amount of work required is higher.

You can just buy same chip if someone somehow decided to check random flash chip vendor.

More sensible way to stopping that would be writing eeprom with encrypted key burned into the GPU itself but I doubt NVIDIA bothered, money loss for few people willing enough to take their GPU apart to replace a chip is insignificiant.

Driver side sucked on AMD since the cards were still ATI tho

I'm waiting for something like that but with built-in buck-boost to make it immune for charger quirks

I use it when it's 12V, it's probably most popular barrel plug voltage and also used in a lot of audio devices (aside from guitar pedals which have 9V with reversed voltage... fuck that)

Pretty much. Near-everything aside from "one man project hacking" will have some amount of "office hours" just used to coordinate with co-workers, plan, code review, or frankly just doing stuff like reading the docs or specs.

Even assuming "you can only do 3 productive hours a day" (which is a lie with appeal to authority mixed in. "Look that guy that made shitty web framework did it, it must be good!"), that does apply only to coding, there is more to being developer than just programming

Especially the advice that you must stop after three hours even when you're "in the zone" seems hard to justify. Instead of insisting on a hard and fixed number of hours everyday, I think it's much more fruitful to follow a flexible time model (which is actually implemented in many work places today): if you happen to have a very productive day, just keep milking it and put in some extra time. In return, you can take that time off on some other day.

I'd even call that advice outright idiotic. You wasted time to get in the zone only to throw it away

I feel like any recommendation of "do X hours of this" is a delusion. We're not robots, we have better or worse days and more or less engaging tasks. If task is "here are API docs, make a bunch of code and tests for it" I can do it whole day without much slowdown.

"I didn't bother to read, please shorten it up for me peasants" is the most arrogant thing you can do in online forums

You have no right to call anyone else "arrogant" Mr. main character complex

Having said that, even as a hobbyist, I don't see what's wrong with it? Maybe I have written some code that is already running on my Arduino, and I want to add a sensor that is only available for RPi, without having to hop onto another platform... nothing wrong with that.

...use a piece of wire ? None of the interfaces are fast enough to need a breakout board.

It's not "all arduino to rPi hats" adapters either (which would be far more useful tbh), it's "that special expensive ARM stick from arduino to rPi hats".

Not at arduino prices

There was also never expectation of privacy of communication. You can send your emails thru amateur radio in plaintext just fine

Soo its adapter to make small board that is more expensive and slower than rPi... bigger ?

What exactly is the selling point of that ?

The excessive restrictions harm more boring usage like "I want to check my email from the woods on infrastructure that I built and maintain". The larpy usage doesn't care, because it's mostly fantasy and if there were some doomsday event no one is going to care what encryption you're using (or at least won't be able to do anything about it). :)

Amateur radio bands are not intended to work as ghetto ISP bands.

Whether there should be some lowers band available for that is another discussion.

All the time. Fiat 126p ("Maluch") was famously known for being as safe as Mercedes ("in both of them crumple zone ends at engine") and being as sporty and advanced as Porsche ("both have engine in the boot")

Well, petrol or diesel isn't that nice either

Well the idea is stupid and makes no sense but

How is this any easier or more effective than just having a website that hosts its own advertising assets

advertisers REALLY don't want you to do that because it's far too easy to cheat.

App still needs to be written to be scalable. And if shit hits the fan moving to cloud (...or just renting dedicated servers at 1/3 the cloud cost) isn't too bad

I feel like a lot of that shifted now.

You can just have on-premise k8s and keep most of the velocity gained from developers being able to "just run stuff" instead of anything having to go thru sysadmins.

You can just rent few servers off OVH to start and not have to worry about actual hardware, while still being few times cheaper than cloud.

Yeah you won't have access to the slew of cloud services and will have to deploy your own database but with amount of readily available code and software to do it it doesn't really slow down experimenting all that much

It's insane between actually renting servers, or even classical "bare" VPS providers and cloud too.

Renting dedicated server off company like OVH, or even co-locating your own is also far cheaper than cloud, few times over, without fuss of turning your house into datacenter.

Ozone hole was "just" replacing one chemical with another and changing refrigerator units a bit; CO2 emissions are orders of magnitude bigger as near-everything related to industry or standards of living emits CO2 in direct or indirect way.

It seems we will do anything to avoid the obvious - we need to reduce energy use and transition to green generation.

Well if you haven't noticed yet, that's the hard part and some emission is inevitable at least for near future. We won't get rid of fossil fueled planes or cargo ships anytime soon

Merge part isn't pluggable like that IIRC. Would be interesting if that was given stable interface, then supposed "smart merge" tool could iterate with few ways to merge code while running tests to check which one produces least/no errors

That's the problem. It is not working. It's great for big companies to stop their competitors, but not for actual innovation.

While "patent troll" might be inaccurate they pretty much stifled the technology development for a decade

Git doesn't store diffs on logical level. Git operates on snapshots of trees. Commit is not "a collection of changes", it's a snapshot of a tree with attached predecessor of it.

Then the another layer (which can be git, but also can be any other tool, adding custom diff tool to git is very easy) uses that to generate diffs.

There is zero stopping anyone from adding contextual diffs to Git. Just ask it for content of both commits and feed it to the algorithm.

Yes, git underneath stores data as diffs but they are only vaguely related to logical structure of commits

You assume projects are fulfilling because they have "public utility" (whatever the fuck that means). That's your assumption, not objective fact.

I would not work on boring ass project with cripping management problems and think that's fulfilling. I assume you have recruiting problems because most people share that sentiment.

People like to work on interesting stuff without much office politics, that is "fulfilling" to them, even if outcome is app that would be "boring" to the outsider.