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mixologic
·vor 11 Tagen·discuss
US States aren't allowed to have permanent DST, but they can have permanent standard time.
mixologic
·vor 12 Tagen·discuss
Its a nightmare because it erodes trust. Doctors are not "always right" which is why "always get a second opinion" is codified in culture.

But AI's problem is that its completely full of shit, sometimes, and the people most qualified to evaluate whether its full of shit are the doctors, not the patients, but just like OP's original article, patients are left feeling like their second opinion from AI might be more trustworthy than their doctors opinion.
mixologic
·vor 13 Tagen·discuss
Read up on the "chicken tax" for how long the auto industry has navigated weird assemvly games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
mixologic
·vor 18 Tagen·discuss
"killed" is a bit of a stretch. High prices on all gear is here to stay. This is the new normal. Unless that simply means that nobody buys consoles/pc's.

But you cant compare the price point with what it used to cost and imagine that its overpriced now and that people will seek alternatives. There aren't any cheaper alternatives.
mixologic
·letzten Monat·discuss
Never, ever put a form into a popup. Ever.
mixologic
·letzten Monat·discuss
Privacy and Bot defense are opposite ends of the same fulcrum. If you permit privacy, the site/service has to trust users to behave and follow the rules. If you track users, then the users have to trust the site/service owners not to abuse that trust. There isn't really an in between.

So if you want privacy, you have to accept poor and sometimes insecure services.
mixologic
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
Right now the only codebase I care about them fixing vulnerabilities in are the 3800 repositories that got stolen from GitHub.

"Vulnerabilities in the software that makes the internet" is honestly lower priority than "The platform that the software that makes the internet uses to make releases" If buyers of those internal repos find ways to break into GitHub such that they can cut software releases, or poison github actions from a distance, then we're all in a very ugly mess.

Don't forget that in those 3800 repos is likely also npmjs.org itself.
mixologic
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
Heh, you mean the railway that was part of the whole "my production db got deleted in 9 seconds" story?

That company sounds a lot like one that doesn't focus on the right things.
mixologic
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
For me the big question with something like Zed is how/when does it get monetized?

How does Root/Ventures, V1.VC, Matchstick, Redpoint, and Sequoia get paid and what does that eventually look like for the people who have adopted Zed?

Does it enshittify? Does it just get bought by somebody else and languish?
mixologic
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
yet. The hallmarks of enshittification are there. We've all been through the cycle of "this product is too good to be true, and provides considerably more value than it costs" "Customer Acquisition/Market Capture" phase. And we know what has to come next. They have to make the product profitable, because you cant just burn up VC money forever.
mixologic
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
This makes me wonder when we'll start trading memory on the commodities markets.
mixologic
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
https://signpath.org/ is about as close as you can get.
mixologic
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
Theres two different steps, there is signing and there is notarization. You sign with the developer certificate using productsign/codesign, and then there is notarization, which you use notarytool to submit your signed binaray to apple to notarize.

finally you then take their response and staple it to your binary. Its a lot of steps.
mixologic
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
The meme investors can stay irrational long before gamestop gets a growth story. If they haven't given up on their get rich quick scheme that's lasted over five years now, I really don't think they're going to jump ship now.

The sad part is that gamestop is offering 55 billion, yet only has 9 billion in cash. The only way they come up with that much capital to buy ebay is to dilute the existing shareholders to a point that "to the moon" will just be moondust.
mixologic
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
Yeah, thats FUD. Cloudflare hasnt called anybody demanding huge sums of cash and holding your domains hostage. As a registrar they're fine, dont play scammy scum upsell games (because they have a real business model that isnt just registration skim).
mixologic
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
DMARC isn't really that big of an issue to wrestle with, and I don't see how it gives anybody influence or power.
mixologic
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
Worth noting that mcollina is a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee
mixologic
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
This is already true if you want to run a piece of software on an iPhone, on MacOS, on Windows, on any video game console.
mixologic
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
I find it amazing that skills are essentially excellent tools for humans to understand too.
mixologic
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
pretty sure I've had slack show me whole web pages without kicking me out to the mobile browser.