jraedisch

Divide and conquer?! Twitter could have been IT and somehow did not make it. Now we have many contenders and with Europe witnessing being cut off from American services, many are betting on growing public budgets for infrastructure projects. I paid for Mastodon(.social) for a while and somehow still think, projects funded by users should be the norm, but web B2C always had a hard stance in EU, pitching for public funds seems to remain "the winner"/most viable option in this space.

If understanding correctly, Absurd (by the Pi LLM harness devs) minimizes the pure db approach as much as possible. I only just started getting into the topic myself, though.

https://github.com/earendil-works/absurd

I would like to read more about Larry Page, too.

Me too!

Stefan Munz called this “YOLO vs tight-leash” at a very entertaining agentic coding meetup in Hamburg recently.

https://bsky.app/profile/stefanmunz.bsky.social

https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/de-DE/agentic-coding-meetup-ham...

The reasoning could be that this makes reliably scaling down (and thus keep making a profit) easier, starting with getting rid of SREs.

We have similar movement going on with Xing here in Hamburg, Germany (once conceived as a LinkedIn competitor).

Great names that still have a lot of momentum, but are expected by ownership to slow down.

Reminds me of Scott Galloway’s most profitable investment having been a yellow pages company. Yes, the market shrunk, but they could shrink running costs as fast or even faster.

That would be fine. There are also many that do not like swimming.

I will vote for the party that has a believable plan. So far, at least in Hamburg, Germany, I feel it is mostly a fight amongst many for the same, very scarce resources.

I love swimming and direct access to "nature". You left out child and health care, too. I do not see how any of these are prestige goals.

So when I think “every important thing in my life is scarce”, that is just incorrect imagination? 11 billion people can live on a lake with perfect child and health care?

When discovery on Nostr was way worse I needed some way to find accounts to follow. So I built a quick Postgres based search:

https://sps.bio/?q=scifi+-bitcoin+-russia+-mastodon

Beware of spam. I did not clean the data for a while.

What’s your approach on evaluating an unofficial build?

Switched to iPhone since I did not want to throw away another perfectly fine phone because of lacking security updates.

Had a Nokia 8 before and would still have it if Nokia kept supporting it. Some things (e.g. Keyboard, VPN integration) were superior to my new iPhone.

Definitely. Turns out I have about two accidental flags a year.

How would you incentivize people to have children?

For people to be able to save and expand their wealth in land, land needs to remain desirable. Desire is driven by the need for housing. Need for housing stays high if the rate of new housing stays low. Thus, rate of new housing stays low. Else we would have a lot more very beautiful sky scrapers.

Of course singing more to your children is probably a good idea in general, and being sensitive on how you might (without a good reason) treat them harshly or differently, is also a good idea. But for that you need energy, and that energy will then be missing somewhere else, assuming things in general are efficient. And if they are not efficient, we should discuss why they are not.

I do not disagree. Let me rephrase: I think it is much more important to discuss how much we want to spend to raise our children or how and how much we need to work, than discussing boys vs. girls.

Parents should not have to earn money at all. They should all stay at home and take care of their children. At (pre-)school there should be no more than ten students in a class, taught by the best teachers earning the best salaries, 50/50 male/female across all subjects.

What I want to say is: for me, this is mostly an economic debate, and boys vs. girls always seems like a red herring to me.

One of the old scifi movies that aged really well.

Others that come to mind:

- The Day the Earth Stood Still

- The Andromeda Strain

Twitter is the worst, apart from all the other social networks.

"On Twitter, you don't see people; you see tweets."

Very well put.

You need somewhere to persist writes from those CGI scripts.

Does he "invest" in Bitcoin, or Cryptocurrency in general?

Maybe do not publish the tx and be the only one including it in potential blocks until successful.

Sorry, mate!

Webpacker was the first time I ever felt comfortable writing React. It just worked for me. So I have to disagree here.

“Bitcoin uses more electricity per transaction than any other method known to mankind, and so it’s not a great climate thing,” is all Bill Gates seemingly said. Even I think, less energy consumption would probably be better, and I am pro Bitcoin at this point in time.

Wanted to basically write the same thing. It is also the reason, why I (and many others) write less sophisticated one-liners and more really dumb code, than I did 5-10 years ago.

"Frankly, if there were a 'global currency' it would be de-facto something like a massive, well managed ETF fund whereby 'credits' would map to a portion of said assets. It could be anonymous, and maybe transactions could be decentralized - but - there's no getting around mapping the value of the currency or asset to some part of the system, they cannot be independent. And frankly it would need to be 'so huge' that it would imply a kind of Global Central Bank of some kind, which we would never agree upon."

If everyone agrees on putting their wealth into Bitcoin, and then invests them into others, wouldn't that be kind of what you are describing?