rickycook

i _adore_ matrix! keep up the good work!

best not talk about the price of medicine in USD; people might lose their lives

i’d say that multiprocessing probably covers 90% of “do it in the background” tasks, and asyncio covers 90% of async networking tasks

futures, uvloop, tornado, twisted, coros, gevent, etc are kinda just all related to, or do similar to asyncio

threading is kinda not as useful as you might like in python because of the GIL (simplistically, assume that python can only do 1 thing at once regardless of having multiple threads available or not until you know why that’s not always the case)

a core dump of the brain is pretty damn big... so that’s not really saying much; just that maybe we don’t have a man data to restore from

and i hate that they removed it in the latest generation! i know you can do the hold down on space instead, and i know that you can then tap with a second finger, but there’s so much more you could do much quicker with the force touch keyboard!

i’d argue that it’s not “designed to fit our workflow” so much as designed around a subpar, but flexible tool that everyone was using. that don’t make it good; that just makes it ingrained

who ever said free? they could make a paid service like LE with automated renewals etc that integrates better with enterprise software, or that does better audit logging, or any number of things. let’s encrypt is a great service, but there’s still plenty of money to be made off overzealous corporate security policies

advertising yes, but also why they are kind of lax on piracy: the real money is in corporate, so you have to keep people using your ecosystem at home so that’s what they want to use at work

i don’t think people were labelling him a nazi; i think they had issue with their own projects, or their name being accidentally associated with nazis

the very point of esperanto is that nothing is of “similar difficulty”, so even comparing to spanish is disingenuous

they did call out scooters and drones, so id guess you’re right

i agree with you completely, but a law is far more clear cut than complex social dynamics.

the outcome is similar in either way, and both are equally bad, but one is far easier to define specific actions, and specific parties that are not acting correctly.

it’s not either or

have you ever tried to start a competitor to facebook? plenty of platforms have, and you haven’t ever heard of them because whilst better, facebook has a monopoly by way of critical mass... it’s almost impossible to pull significant populations away from their platform: not even google could, and google plus was an excellent product; far better than facebook in almost every way

i think the problem is that the current chinese government is going further and further away from what average chinese citizens would probably want, and them using misinformation to keep order

hong kong has demonstrated, with some of the largest protests in global history, that they do not want the chinese government to interfere with the autonomy that they currently have. the chinese government has responded with misinformation to sway their population so that they can continue to constrain hong kong in ways that they don’t want

the point isn’t really that the chinese government isn’t better than an alternative, it’s that it’s going in a direction further away from what it’s citizens would generally agree they want, and not allowing people the knowledge to even know it’s happening, let alone the freedom to have a discussion about alternatives

true, and that’s definitely a problem, but government is a bigger issue because they have the ability to force a population: corporations can only influence (we can have a different discussion about how corporations give you “choice” but not really, but i think they’re different cases, and government is clear cut)

i tend to agree with the sentiment, however i’d say the important distinction is that a government has the ability to force things on people, a corporation only had the ability to influence “choice”... we can discuss whether that choice is truly a choice in many cases, but i think the initial difference is enough for it to stand on its own on the other side of a clear line in the sand

because the data on the phone is containing or designed to contain data for use by a phone because a phone isn’t a computer...?

upsetting, yet expected

maybe in america, but in australia we have a huge amount more UV because of the hole in the ozone layer. i was in the US for the first time a few weeks ago, and the first thing i noticed was “huh... i didn’t know that going out in summer, the sun could literally feel different”... in australia it feels, no joke, like you’ve stuck your arm under an oven: you can feel the dry heat and UV. in the US, the sun was just a nice warm heat.

please, it’s a big problem over here... people should go outside (and we have a very “beaches and surf” type culture), but sunscreen is hugely important, and often forgotten.

for some people it isn’t, but i think he’s referring to the fact that food is pretty damn far toward the base of maslows hierarchy. many people (myself included) believe that a measure of a society is how far up the triangle you can get before needing to do something you don’t want to do to reach higher (eg work in order to improve your hobby skills)

then get a new doctor. there is no medical rationale behind this, and they are letting irrational personal feelings get in the way of your good health

there is no other behaviour that you’d want for that situation though... garbage collection is necessary, and if your cryptographically pinned content is deleted, you want something to fail rather than change to different content

all concepts you mention aren’t conceptual problems. the world is better with the concepts of technology-assisted taxi hailing, and not having to carry cash (i think you’re basically alone on this one; this is the biggest and best technology change in my life in years)

regardless of your opinions of the specific problems with the current platforms, they’re not problems with the concepts... and those concepts are enabled or improved by high bandwidth mobile internet

and regardless, you’re kinda missing the point: 5g will absolutely enable new businesses (and more importantly new concepts), because it’s happened with every single bandwidth upgrade we have ever been through! you can’t conceptualise them now, because nobody has yet! if you could, you’d have started uber before uber, google before google, etc

from what i understand (and i could be wrong), you could make biofuels using atmospheric co2, alguae, heat from the grid during low demand... when you burn it, it releases that co2, but when you’re not it acts as a big carbon sink

could be totally off base, or very much a “not yet industrialised” process... but the idea is super cool none the less

they have a copy of a static image that they likely already have access to. very different to a high res alternate image, from a different angle, with a different expression, in different lighting

well you’ll be pleased to know that the data plane API is a sidecar. you don’t have to run it if you don’t want to :)

possibly, but what do you consider “write ability”? someone mentioned in another comment that if you control enough high power devices that report status to the grid (eg car chargers) so that the grid can take action (so read only but some other system uses it to take action) you can do plenty of damage

they don’t really have write access, but they kinda do?

does modern nuclear eschew digital controls? i mean... i’m sure they have manual cutoffs and sensors that humans monitor; can’t have some rogue hacker able to turn a nuclear plant into a huge catastrophe from the other side of the world and all...

but i’d think they’d be largely automated to reduce human error?

people experiencing hardship having phones is an incredible thing. it allows people to help themselves, and is the reason services like https://askizzy.org.au/ exist