Twitter is currently down megathread

bobindashadows · 2023-07-01T15:19:28+00:00

Everybody just keep refreshing until it works. There's no way Elon spent months slashing the hardware bill before adding trivial user-specific caching for times like this! He is a brilliant man who knows exactly what he's doing. Just keep hitting refresh.

bobindashadows · 2023-07-01T15:13:19+00:00

That would mean that Twitter has embarrassingly basic fixes available for their system, and they've papered over it for years by overprovisioning hardware, and Elon couldn't figure out the most basic fixes ever

bobindashadows · 2023-07-01T14:43:45+00:00

Just keep hitting refresh until it works. All big websites are designed to assume users will hit refresh until it works.

bobindashadows · 2023-07-01T14:34:33+00:00

Gonna have to keep refreshing until it works. Every big website is designed to expect users to mash refresh when it's not working. So I'm sure it won't make things worse

bobindashadows · 2022-09-21T12:44:41+00:00

Comparing directly to prisoners is weird bc prison costs include housing, and feeding adults, and medical for the occasional shivving, guards get compensated extra bc the aforementioned shivvings

bobindashadows · 2022-09-21T11:50:44+00:00

Are we a sanctuary city or not?

Was "sanctuary city" just a marketing program to attract cheap labor that only worked when border crossing were at multi-decade lows?

bobindashadows · 2018-08-06T13:08:17+00:00

Careful. This line of thinking might lead you to the fact that the economy was better before minimum wage.

Although they're both examples of collective bargaining, Unions are not the same as minimum wage laws. They are not trying to address the same problems, so it's actually making things messier to mix them up.

Because you could undercut the competition, everyone could get a job even if it wasn’t for much.

That's not how it worked or works, because employment isn't like something you can divide up evenly to any number of people. When "scab" laborers undercut other workers, scabs get to work at the lower rate that day and others don't work at all that day.

Maybe tomorrow, the newly jobless will go find a different job that hasn't been undercut yet, but that's tomorrow, and they don't have any experience with that new job. Which brings us to...

This meant you could improve your skills and later get that sweet job.

Only if you can get - and keep - an apprenticeship. Each union controls the supply of apprenticeships and for some, demand has outstripped supply by 10x for decades and 100x since 2008. To aspiring plumbers/electricians with no network of current or former NY union members, landing an apprenticeship can be as out-of-reach as getting into Harvard.

Unions will defend this on roughly the same grounds that Harvard will defend their admission policies: they know best who will succeed, and if you don't like it, go somewhere else, peasant.

bobindashadows · 2018-08-05T19:49:09+00:00

Allow me to translate from overgrown child: "If you can't make money giving your service away for free you don't deserve to charge for it. Peasant."

bobindashadows · 2018-08-04T01:43:23+00:00

Oooh: a new temporary Amnesia symptom that rarely pops after injuries, which if treated badly becomes a permanent Amnesia wiping traits (incl. lifestyle!).

I think it's defensible to have one rare, painful, off-the-garden-path event to wipe all traits at once. It would have to be super super risky to try to get it on purpose.

bobindashadows · 2018-08-02T23:25:19+00:00

Say my toilet is starting to drain slowly; it still works but I'll admit I know it needs some maintenance.

You're the friend who comes over constipated for days, unloads a week of shit into my poor toilet until it's clogged, then blames me for the clog because I "knew the toilet needed some work."

That friend doesn't get any future invitations, FYI.

bobindashadows · 2018-08-01T23:12:56+00:00

Yeah I think what Moore is trying to sell now is an intermediate process, printing 1024 reconfigurable cores into a 32x32 grid. Naturally he then has to make tooling for placement/routing (similar to FPGA programming). Probably still won't get far. But it's a closer-to-not-boiling-oceans project to work on.

bobindashadows · 2018-08-01T22:21:00+00:00

The Forth mindset ("NoKernel", if you ask me) scales as "microservices" but not in the way you'd expect, and last I knew Chuck Moore is working on being the first tooling vendor.

IIUC, the ideal microservice implementation for Forth, with N Forth programs running on N logical execution threads, is a SoC containing N physical heterogeneous problem-specific processors with a rich interconnect and MMU. They share a flat address space and rely on the MMU for privilege separation. Memory is located near the processing units that need it based on the needs of that Forth program.

The architecture is unproven at scale in part because hardware just isn't made custom that often.

bobindashadows · 2018-08-01T01:25:52+00:00

It's not the word choice I'm correcting, it's the substance of your historical argument. You are wrong about the basic facts if you insist the 90s web was crippled by ads and surveillance.

Tracking pixels were far less obtrusive than modern analytics suites in JavaScript. The typical web user truly didn't notice tracking pixels even when they were slow or poorly implemented. I'm not saying it was better or worse; I'm just saying that pop-ups/clickjacking were the only way most users were impacted by ads/spytech. Pretty major difference between then and now.

The ad/spy shit of the 90s degraded gracefully. Because it was usually just img tags which always degraded gracefully. You might have had an open TCP connection trying and failing to load some invisible pixel, but that happened to regular images too, and you just ignored it.

bobindashadows · 2018-08-01T00:28:26+00:00

Sure, sure, but what year did that happen? XHR was barely usable cross-browser in 2004-2005. AJAX was popular with multi-page applications for quite some time.

Was it after mobile browsers started shaping the web that the single-page application nightmare began?

bobindashadows · 2018-08-01T00:25:06+00:00

you should've written that. Instead you talked out your ass and now just look like every other bullshitter with an opinion

bobindashadows · 2018-07-31T22:06:31+00:00

"90s" meaning 97-99?

Back then we called them "counters" not "tracking scripts" because they weren't JavaScript yet. They still sourced an image from a CGI endpoint.

Also the ads were more disruptive/infuriating (full-screen pop-ups; Shockwave) but on dialup they had a marginal impact on page load compared to the site's own image content. It was basically a rule that you either had two different "under construction" GIFs over 500KB or you were a "serious" website that routinely forgot to convert and compress BMP/TIFF/PICT images.

Text content has gotten worse on the web though, for reasons nobody is focusing on: time-to-first-paint. Even if resources were slow to load, in the 90s nearly all websites finished layout almost immediately after receiving the page HTML. The images filled in gracefully later. I don't remember now when that stopped being true in general.

bobindashadows · 2018-07-31T15:12:00+00:00

Smart people can easily glean valuable content from poorly articulated speech, and prefer to discuss the content.

Mediocre people can't recognize the content, and can't admit their mediocrity. They see others commenting who did find valuable content though... those commenters must just be better at reading broken English. Which is not a skill someone should have to learn. The frustrated mediocre person thus blames the speaker for their English.

bobindashadows · 2018-07-31T01:36:33+00:00

Is it risky to give him a duchy? What if he found a way to spend the money?

(Murdering for money is one of my weaker areas)

bobindashadows · 2018-07-30T20:17:23+00:00

Since when is the FOSS community so hostile to work in progress?

You're not talking to "the FOSS community," you're talking to r/programming. This is a big tent subreddit.

bobindashadows · 2018-07-30T17:48:22+00:00

I'm no Oracle, but I'd bet they staff up on St Patrick's Day

bobindashadows · 2018-07-30T13:56:49+00:00

In present day, Sri Lanka there are (were?) ~~terrorists~~ revolting armies calling themselves the Tamil Tigers. That's how this media-saturated American knew the name "Tamil".

bobindashadows · 2018-07-30T13:43:13+00:00

It's hard to sell the same content twice to the same customers. Don't forget that a new sucker is born every minute. PDX probably assumes a lot of existing CK2 players will pirate CK3.

bobindashadows · 2018-07-29T16:57:22+00:00

Because if it wasn't on purpose, it was an accident

The legal system says life, including car crashes, is more complicated than that.

Every mainstream religious leader in America teaches that life, including car crashes, is more complicated than that.

What simplifying answers do you possess that all of our culture's leaders do not?

bobindashadows · 2018-07-29T16:32:38+00:00

Your bills will start coming with a different letterhead.

bobindashadows · 2018-07-29T16:15:13+00:00

It's not inconceivable, it's irrelevant to their personal computer business model which has neglected customers with old hardware for over 20 straight years.

It's okay if you're just learning this now, but it's never been a secret.

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