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Socialism and communism are state ownership. Fascism tends toward private ownership and state control. This is actually easier and better for the state. It gets all the benefit and none of the responsibility and can throw business leaders under the bus.

All real world countries have some of this, but in fascism it’s really overt and dialed up and for the private sector participation is not optional. If you don’t toe the line you are ruined or worse. If you do play along you can get very very rich, but only if you remember who is in charge.

“Public private partnership” style ventures are kind of fascism lite, and they always worried me for that reason. It’s not an open bid but a more explicit relationship. If you look back at Musk’s career in particular there are ominous signs of where this was going.
I really don't have a spare terabyte to save all the "weights available" so I hope someone is. I already have 340GB of language model weights.
But we’re not talking about a grocery store as a comparison, we’re dealing primarily with transaction processing.

And for that Apples IAP fee of 30% is about ten times higher than elsewhere.
Eventually yes, but it took 1 month or so of Twitter being blocked for the company to comply with a court order and have a representative in Brazil to receive court orders.
Or have a tax bracket after which you pay 100%.
> I can count the times I've needed WebUSB or WebSerial on one hand

There are many things that would be possible with WebUSB that current browsers make impossible. My personal example is label printers: I would love for my SaaS app (PartsBox, https://partsbox.com/) to be able to print labels, but there is no way to access a printer from a browser other than through the "Print…" dialog, which is no good if you need to send ZPL2 commands to a Zebra label printer.

WebUSB is not necessarily the best imaginable solution to that problem but it would help.

I don't want to tell my users to use Chrome. But Firefox doesn't make my life easy (see also https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=896666 — a bug opened 12 years ago, about Firefox closing websockets when the user clicks a download link).
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Stability and safety are the least of the concerns in data processing and database workloads. That's totally not the reason why we saw an increase of these systems during the 90s and early 00s written in Java or similar alternative languages. It was ease of use, low-entry bar into the ecosystem and generally developer pool accessibility. Otherwise, the cost is the main driver in infrastructure type of software and the reason why we see many of these rewritten exactly in C++. Rust is just another contender here, and it's usually because of the performance and a lot of hype recently, which is fair.
The "headlights shelf" is because the protruding bumper is designed to be lower, to make the vehicle compatible with other cars during a crash, in order to protect the safety of other cars.

Anyway, the Cybertruck is a uniquely fun to drive and nimble truck thanks to its four wheel steering and steer by wire. The F-150 Lightning feels like a clumsy relic in comparison. It's just an innovative vehicle with a bunch of early teething problems. The amount of hate it's getting is way overblown.
>German winters are nasty, cold, and damp

Worse than Nordics/Scandinavia or neighboring Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Poland? They don't have winter clothing in Germany?

> If your company acts like a typical American one, I can well see a culture clash.

Most of German workers work for German companies following German laws and German culture, not American companies. So why twice the sick days versus EU neighbours?
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> Tesla is done in Europe for political/cultural reasons

Yes, and those political/cultural reasons are: let's not subsidise people who repeatedly and in public make unambiguous Nazi salutes.

TBH it would be nice if those sentiments were spread a bit more widely than Europe.
Porkbun is cheaper than Namecheap by a few dollars especially on renewals. Namecheap’s renewal price is semi-hidden/obscured.

All my domains are with Namecheap except 1-2 I was/am testing on Porkbun but I’m considering a switch since it means a hundred or two dollars a year in savings.
>But I don't think you can limit people's wealth and not call it communism

I'll have "Everything I don't like is communism" for 500, Alex.

Ever heard of this little-known thing called taxes?

Particularly, progressive taxation and wealth taxes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_tax

>What we should do is focus of punishingpeople who abuse thier power.

Wealth isn't power.

Obscene accumulation of wealth is abuse of power in and of itself.
To the laboratory!
> Has anyone ever seen Facebbok as idealistic?

In my experience they were react coders
One shouldn't, but it does fit a pattern for American voters; I more intended it as an exemplar of known behavior. Ronald Reagan was elected Governor of California on the back of his popularity as an actor, popularity which more-or-less carried him to the Presidency (he didn't have an outstanding record as California governor, unless you count "Passing the most restrictive gun control in history to curb the Black Panthers" as outstanding). Simple name recognition can be a shortcut to the Presidency in the US; Americans don't have a tradition of demanding demonstration of a long career of civil service of their Presidents (with the record, to my knowledge, being the most recent one's first election with "zero previous demonstration").

I'd love to give you some hard data on this in modern times, but AFAICT no polls are even asking questions as simple and obvious as "When did you first hear of Donald Trump?" or "Do you trust an actor more than a politician?"
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It would sell great in Hungary...if they could afford it...
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I'm sorry, are you suggesting that AIs are being trained on AI-generated data?

What can possibly go wrong?!?
> I personally don’t care about alternative app stores

I've seen this sentiment a couple of times here and I think it's the wrong framing on what the EU is trying to do. Third party app stores aren't the point; they're just a vehicle enabling users to choose which software they want to use without interference from Apple. The indie devs using AltStore PAL don't all necessarily want to use it, but they're forced to because of the way Apple chose to implement DMA compliance.

In fact, the DMA doesn't even explicitly require that gatekeepers allow third party app stores; they can only allow direct distribution (e.g. via web sites) instead, if they want (this is to the best of my understanding of the text, but IANAL).

When you say you don't care about alternative app stores, what you're really saying is that you don't care about the end user's ability to use apps that aren't approved by Apple. That is certainly an opinion that many folks have, but I'd prefer that they refrain from hiding behind the shield of "third party app stores are weird and who even cares", whether deliberately or not.
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If only that was true. In reality, outside of the more online-fraud-savvy demographics...
Otaku/doujin culture, and the creative industry that rose around it in Japan, is as good as it gets when it comes to finding good ideas and propping them up. Basically anyone who can draw can release their own manga/webnovel/illustrations on pixiv, twitter, and others, get a couple volumes out with this or that publishing house, see where it goes and whether the public catches on. Self-publishing plays a huge part in this, whether it's doujinshi (self-made [often derivative] books sold at conventions like Comiket, Comitia, or online, with a substantial proportion of r-18 [but not only] content), doujin music albums, indie games and visual novels, etc.

Funding for anime adaptations is plentiful, and fan support helps bridge the confidence gap where production committees (consortiums of multiple publishing/IP companies pooling the money to distribute the risk) won't go for more indie / experimental works. Profit is recouped on developing the brand and merch, while leaving plenty of room for directors and studios to establish their own auteur identity. Studios are getting leaner and more focused these days, splitting off into smaller entities kicked off with a project or two with more margin for talent to shine.

It's not all perfect, though. Freelance work and lack of mentoring has really put a dent into the supply of new animators, who lack job security and often swing between studios left and right, but there are industry efforts to fix this and preserve knowledge, with the oldest pioneer animators now starting to hit their 60's and 70's.
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I’ve seen people smugly post ChatGPT screenshots without commentary with the intent of ending a conversation in a “I’m right and this proves it” way.

Of course, the wronger the answer is the more likely they are to have that attitude.
Real adults use lynx & curl, so I’m not sure what adults you’re talking about.
> Facebook beat MySpace IMO because it tricked people into using real names

No, FB was a much better product, it was far more connected, any way easier to talk and make friends online. It also was a lot more reliable.

> Facebook was not kind to 3rd party devs.

Indeed, they were not kind, mainly because they realised, way too late, that the API they had designed gave third parties way too much access to the "social graph". (see Cambridge analytica, although actually its much more smoke and mirrors than you might imagine)

They needed to cut down that access because 1) they'd been told to 2) they realised that people could extract that data for free, thus denting their analytics advantage that made advertising so lucrative.
Very nice animations.
The fingerprinting risks, to a layman, seem to be a red herring?

Have the user consent occur before the point of enumeration.

Or lock it behind the user already having installed the pwa and require confirmation (i.e. a browser site gets a flat denied message, a installed PWA gets a permission prompt).

Sort of depends on Firefox supporting installing PWAs though..

For webserial this feels like it would make sense... WebUSB does feel like an overreach and too much.
Yeah but agave is also a natural product from the agave plant, not artificially made, so it probably contains more useful nutrition, although I guess less than honey. But better than synthetically made anyway.
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The sad part is that his nazi salutes don’t even top the list...
Tesla is done in the US as well. The brand damage is irreparable at this point with at least 50 percent of the population.
The $2000 strix halo with 128 GB might not compete with the $9000 Mac Studio with 512 GB but is a competitor to the $4000 Mac Studio with 96 GB. The slow memory bandwidth is a bummer, though.
I didn't say the products are trash because of who is at the helm of the companies. They are just bad compared to alternatives. Period.
So, credit score with extra steps, and no rewards (lower interests) for people who could prove that they are solvent and responsible with money.
Quicky someone make Zig bindings.
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You are not losing functionality if it was never implemented in the first place.
WebUSB and WebSerial are not standards, so your rage is misdirected. Keep using your security cheese of a browser if you need that feature. Otherwise others (like myself) are okay with having fewer security risks in their browsers.
Part of the team here - Happy to discuss this further if you have any question about the move.
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Whenever I talked about this with Tesla fans they kept parroting this line about Tesla being "a battery company that also makes cars" or similar. I can understand that this (having some non-car products and a charging network) grants them an advantage of sorts, but they're by far and away the most valuable company by market cap, while having a fraction of the sales of companies like Toyota, GM, Honda etc. It's like the market is expecting Tesla to explode in sales in the coming years and I can't see it, not just because people are turning on Elon Musk but because I don't know if they can even build enough cars to meet that expected valuation if that demand was actually there.
Post 2020 (?) hardware is all pretty good; not much delta, IMO, for most people.

Firefox mobile with uBlock is a game changer.

I'm on a 5 y/o Android and it's just dandy over here.
If you're looking for a QMK alternative to Via, I recommend you try using QMK Configurator and QMK Toolbox. The combination is not as ergonomic as Via, but at least you get a graphical keymap editor that compiles firmware and is far less bloated. The experience has been good with my Keeb.io boards.
While that shows a good use case for a minority, it doesn't refute at all “zero benefit to the overwhelming majority of end users”. Most end users don't have configurable keyboards, and even less program microcontrollers.

This is why it is contentious: On the one hand you have a great QoL benefits for a minority of users who are more than willing to accept the potential fingerprinting risk and consider other dangers to be overblown hypotheticals, or are technical enough to mitigate those issues. On the other you have the vast majority who have no need of the feature at all, and are probably unaware of any risk and will be until it becomes apparent in a can't-be-undone manner. Google sides with the former, Firefox and Apple err the other way. At what point a small potential risk for everybody is worth QoL benefits for a relative few, is the main point of contention (the second largest probably being a mix of “is the risk really a risk anyway?” or “but you'll be fingerprinted to buggery & back anyway so what difference does this bit-or-few of data really make?”).

A side issue is the concern about the browser becoming a bloated almost-but-not-quite full OS, and a huge mess that needs much effort to maintain to keep its growing attack surface defended.
I did not mention apple in my comment. And what you wrote does not contradict what i wrote.

If they truly started with customers, perhaps we can agree that having to click another site to get to a simple one line answer is wrong. Thats why people prefer LLMs, they get the answer without having to click to multiple sites. But it's good for competition. In cases where customers and competition is at odds, ideally the law should favor customers. Except in EU, it favors competition. Customers dont have a seat at the table, competition does.
> Since DMA came into effect almost two years ago, can anyone comment on its effectiveness?

I'm so glad you asked, because I wrote an entire website about it: https://doesioshavesideloadingyet.com/

Executive summary: Epic Games benefits greatly from the DMA, but powerusers and smaller developers don't get much benefit. This is due to Apple's lackluster compliance measures that are currently being investigated and may be deemed illegal.

We might hear another update from the EU rather soon though: https://9to5mac.com/2025/03/10/report-apple-will-be-fined-by...

I really hope that the DMA does not go down in history as a failed experiment, because that will be a huge loss for open platforms as a whole.
>> Donald Trump had his top advisor and megadonor show off Tesla models for a tacky photo-op in the White House driveway, where the president told Americans to support the company and pledged to buy a Model S himself.

The President of the United States is hawking cars on the White House drive-way....I did not see that one coming
Also curious what is their long-term future as collectibles. This vehicle is emblematic of the question. With cars and especially EVs being proprietary software on wheels, how collectible are they? In another era, the cyber truck would definitely be collectible.
Still looks a bit dark to me, though the main issue is that webbrowsers simply refuse to display the image in a 1-1 resolution.

Edit: Oh and I see you suffer from the patterned runs of pixels that plagued madshi ;-) It's one of the reasons I prefer simple patterned dithers
I will bet that that did not take into account that the bonding substrates have different coefficients of thermal expansion. Bad engineers only look at the glue, and not what the glue is holding together.

But wow, why do people like the following put up with such bad design and engineering and still praise the company?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT8FC4yF_68
How do you know they are not done by slaves?
Based on crime research, it seems that most organized crime is composed of modern day slaves, with varied degree of slavery. The most extreme are those that involve trafficking. It is a key distinction of the lowest level of their hierarchy, including the aspect that the lowest levels do most of the hands on work and most/all of the interaction with victims.

I view articles like this to be similar to those that explain and analyze the behavior of foot solders in street gangs. Who do they approach, how, what strategy do they employ to build trust, and how do they avoid detection.
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What are the good code / technology / devops related learning platforms that are still good or that people using nowadays? I feel like I need to level up as a programmer for the age of AI and would love to know what people are finding useful these days, the signal to noise ratio online has really massively changed and so it would be nice to get recommendations of newer platforms if this post catches on. Thank you!!
I wasn't the one who posted the original comment you replied to.

And yeah, reading other people's opinion can help you give perspectives and come to your own personal views. But I also think that certain newspapers seem to weave in little opinions in between the facts, and sometimes it's hard to separate them. And I empathise with the annoyance of that.
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>Nothing that we do is so unique that another competent engineer shouldn't be able to fill in for you when you are having an off day.

There is a big difference between filling in someone on an off day, and actually taking over their job. It's only felt over weeks and months.

"Consistent, careful, workmanlike": this does not describe the kind of software built by most teams, but it does describe the work of good individuals.
For correlation to be 1, it's not enough that all snakes have scales. You also need all scaly animals to be snakes.

Here's a toy example. Imagine three equally sized groups of animals: scaly snakes, scaly fish, and scaleless fish. (So all snakes have scales, but not all scaly animals are snakes.) That's three data points (1,1) (0,1) (0,0) with probability 1/3 each. The correlation between snake and scaly comes out as 1/2.

You can also see it geometrically. The only way correlation can be 1 is if all points lie on a straight line. But in this case it's a triangle.
No, mozilla is a corporation like any other. And the majority of donations they get on the non-profit side don't even go towards the browser or anything surrounding it.
Same, better to think about ways to actually help them than mock them.
You can limit people's wealth and it's not communism. If it was communism then they wouldn't have any wealth at all. A limit would just be democratic capitalism with a limit. There's no rule in capitalism that says you can't be taxed, or that the taxes couldn't be designed to approach a wealth limit. It's an economic system, not an entire governmental and social handbook.
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I’m not sure that’s true in general. I see many people do the polar opposite: spout “every politician is the same, they’re all crooks”. Which isn’t helpful either.

Could be a generational or cultural thing, though.
1) Genetic code translates groups of 3 DNA bases (codons) to 1 aminoacid. But more than one group encodes the same protein. Example: TCT, TCC, TCA, TCG, AGT and AGC = all of them encode Serine. So there are some mutations that lead to the exact same protein. You may think of it as a form of data encoding with some basic data recovery properties.

2) DNA has 2 matching strands. Basically, 2 copies of the same information. DNA constantly degrades and is constantly repaired with information from the other pair. You may think of it as RAID1.

3) We have 2 copies for almost all the genes. Some more than 2. Hemoglobin-alpha has 4 copies. For keratin we have 100+ functional genes (and more non-functional). [1] Think of it as data backups and versioning.

4) For some organism functions, more than one protein do the same job. For some metabolic pathways there are alternatives. It's like we have both GTK and QT working at the same time for any program, and some ancient TK and SDL remains form our ancerstors that could be used if all else fails.

5) The "program" can still crash. It's a miscarriage / spontaneous abortion. Try again with different versions of "libraries" and it will work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keratin-associated_protein
Musk didn't "buy" Tesla, he was its first investor, at a time when the company had only 3 employees, and he was chairman of the board since then (and he's its biggest shareholder to this day). Anyway, he was always involved in the design decisions (IIRC Model X falcon doors were his idea).
Model 3/y are still the best priced electrical vehicles on the market. There are enough poor people that can’t afford the new Mercedes CLA and must drive model 3 instead. I wouldn’t invite Elon for lunch, but I wouldn’t invite German brand managers either.
They are super profitable because of the naivety of their customers and for that you can't blame the companies themselves.
What do you mean by I/O exactly? Because to me handling HTTP requests definitely requires I/O, no matter how you technically implement it. Does the program start anew with new arguments for each HTTP request, and if so how is that an improvement over I/O syscalls?
> Who cares about what the plebs do?

Blink, WebKit, and Gecko devs probably.
Why do you think it's strange?
> digital “purchases” are transferrable and have all of the rights and privileges afforded to physical goods.

I concur. We need to establish a "secondary markets act", which would allow individuals to transact accounts and digital items worth under a certain amount (let's say $10k, as a non-waivable right, so it wouldn't apply to larger B2B contracts). Essentially, these things should be viewed as property of the consumer and be freely sold. Without the freedom to transact, there can't be a free market.