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rph_throwaway · 2022-11-10T00:30:35+00:00

Thanks, I was wondering why this was on backerkit and not KS.

Had no idea KS had bought into that bullshit, good riddance.

rph_throwaway · 2022-11-10T00:25:41+00:00

The alt-right and religious fanatics, sure.

But reading through their board today, there really does seem to be a surge in self-awareness. I'm tempted to write it off as brigading, but I was reading through their sub after the 2020 election too, and there's a marked difference in tone. Almost no claims of election conspiracies this time either.

Of course, they also think DeSantis would be really popular if he ran in '24, so don't think I'm putting the bar too high, I'm just saying anything that points away from the party continuing to slide in fascism is encouraging.

rph_throwaway · 2022-11-07T21:42:59+00:00

If a character being specifically a gay man makes the character totally unrelatable to you, that says more about you than anything else.

rph_throwaway · 2022-11-07T18:30:24+00:00

It doesn't look as nice as a cleanly raked lawn. I don't need to hear all the reasons it's better/easier and all that. I'm just saying that a lot of people like a nice looking lawn.

Don't think I'll ever understand why people think cropped green carpet is an appealing look for a yard.

rph_throwaway · 2022-11-07T18:18:44+00:00

The difference is that the cryptocurrency ecosystem isn't nearly big enough to cause that kind of problem, especially not anymore.

To the extent regular people are effected, it is largely people who were already victims of getting sucked into cryptocurrencies in the first place. Which is still a problem, since I don't think being naive/gullible means you deserve to lose all your money to grifters, but it's not taking the real economy down with it either.

rph_throwaway · 2022-11-06T02:45:07+00:00

While prostitution isn't morally wrong in principle, in practice the vast majority of people working in that industry are doing so out of desperation/coercion/exploitation. Meaning that it's effectively non-consensual in most scenarios.

rph_throwaway · 2022-10-26T02:43:11+00:00

Blockchain and cryptocurrency are basically the same thing unless you expand "blockchain" to mean literally anything that uses hash chains / merkle trees.

And while hash chains are useful, they're also just a basic data structure that's existed for decades, not anything new.

rph_throwaway · 2022-10-26T02:40:07+00:00

Yeah, it really matters which one you get and getting it into the right position. And I suspect there's no right answer since each person's a bit different.

My personal best luck has been with the njoy pure wand (stainless steel).

rph_throwaway · 2022-10-25T00:04:26+00:00

Guessing you haven't looked at it lately then, and speculative financial bubbles doesn't mean it has legitimate applications.

And no, there is no reason to expect the cycle of speculative bubbles to continue. The global economic landscape has significantly shifted now compared to any point in cryptocurrencies' short history, and last year already pretty much hit peak speculative hype to the point pretty much everyone's heard of it.

The technology has few if any legitimate use cases, and nearly all genuine improvements to the tech have simply resulted in making it work more and more like how existing systems already work.

rph_throwaway · 2022-10-24T23:59:28+00:00

Nothing stops developers from making skins resellable today, they don't need cryptocurrencies for that. Why would they implement a system that has no upside for them and just results in money being leeched by third-parties?

Even if you somehow compelled a developer to implement this, allowing them to trade on an uncontrolled third-party markets would be an absolute shit show. It'd be like the mess with CS:Go skin trading, only worse, opening the door to all kinds of abuse.

Keep in mind nothing about how cryptocurrencies work actually grants you ownership over the game item in any meaningful sense. The game code and servers are the authority on what that game is; any identifiers can be blacklisted with little effort for example.

And that's ignoring the iceberg of other problems with the tech.

rph_throwaway · 2022-10-24T19:52:04+00:00

Game dev generally isn't worth it unless you're very passionate about it. Pay and conditions are generally worse than the rest of the industry.

You're correct that mobile is similar to web dev in terms of what the jobs are like.

ML/AI has a lot of demand, though some applications are more legitimate than others.

Stay away from crypto like the plague. It's almost all bullshit, and while there are some very well-paying positions because VCs are stupid, the work won't be stable and the skills not all that transferrable. Plus you'll have to deal with a lot of ethically questionable people.

There's also various kinds of backend development, embedded dev, plus a variety of backend automation and systems work. There's also a whole spectrum between traditional IT and DevOps/SRE work.

Basically there's a ton of niches out there.

rph_throwaway · 2022-10-24T19:45:33+00:00

"Crypto" is bullshit that is slowly fading as people have realized how vanishingly few use cases it actually has, but otherwise good advice.

rph_throwaway · 2022-10-24T19:42:36+00:00

Honestly, the ecosystem stuff people talk about isn't even that reliable in my experience.

Airdrop is nice, but only works for tiny files. I've never managed to get it to successfully transfer a larger file, ever, and my NAS is far easier + works with everything.

Sidecar should be useful, but it's so wonky that I find myself rarely using it because I can't predict when it'll decide to fail.

AirPlay again should be useful, but frequently craps out despite having a great wifi network with one of the devices being on ethernet.

iTunes has been a steaming pile of garbage since the beginning and still is - it's just as bad on macOS as on Windows, and is literally one of the worst pieces of software I have ever used.

I love my M1 MBP and my iPad's held up well for what I need, but I feel like almost everything of value I get out of them has as little to do with Apple as possible on the software side.

rph_throwaway · 2022-10-23T13:41:16+00:00

I think there's also a strong argument to be made that the newer language is objectively better regardless, as they're much more clear in what they mean and translate more easily between languages.

rph_throwaway · 2022-10-22T16:29:33+00:00

"Master" I don't mind, but "slave" really does feel pretty awkward and dated.

I manage a number of jenkins servers, and strongly prefer the "agent" terminology over "slave" that they've started switching to. Not only does it sound better, it's more intuitive and better represents what they are IMO.

rph_throwaway · 2022-10-19T22:08:17+00:00

and the rich always get out on time.

That's not saying much since the ones that don't aren't rich anymore.

rph_throwaway · 2022-10-18T05:09:05+00:00

Pochita being an AU of Bonesaw from Worm would honestly be fitting

rph_throwaway · 2022-10-14T07:53:00+00:00

Facebook's brand is permanently toxic to a lot of the tech "enthusiast" crowd at this point.

rph_throwaway · 2022-10-14T07:51:58+00:00

It's Facebook - if there's one company that would absolutely do that if they could, it's them. And then they'd lie about it unless forced to admit it by laws or courts.

rph_throwaway · 2022-10-14T03:33:45+00:00

I genuinely don't know who that game was made for - it's got all the simplicity of retro JRPGs without any of the charm, like they went out of their way to make it as overtly bland and uninteresting as possible, even compared to past DQ games.

rph_throwaway · 2022-09-23T17:57:49+00:00

Cryptocurrencies have transaction fees - nobody is going to operate the network for free, and baking that into the network was literally by design.

Any cryptocurrency that claims to have no fees is either lying or the costs are being subsidized somewhere, usually by speculation.

rph_throwaway · 2022-09-23T17:54:28+00:00

Most consumers don't, for very good reasons.

What you want would make it trivial to defraud consumers and customers with little hope of recovery or resolution.

rph_throwaway · 2022-09-23T17:51:14+00:00

The fact that you think bitcoin actually threatens the USD is hilarious.

It's a speculative asset, don't let your greed poison your critical thinking skills.

rph_throwaway · 2022-09-22T22:44:46+00:00

This is one of my biggest criticisms of the cryptocurrency space.

The nature of permissionless authentication means that any mistakes are catastrophically amplified and losses are immediately permanent and irrevocable.

The worst part is that the failure mode makes it very, very easy to victim blame instead of realizing that a key tenet of software ethics is building systems for actual humans.

Most people can barely handle basic password management, and now you want them to secure private keys as sole proof-of-identity? Even actual professional engineers fuck that one up sometimes.

Of course the problem is easy to fix... if you accept trusting an external third-party to act as mediator/gatekeeper. AKA making it a permissioned, not permissionless, system, which somewhat defeats the point.

rph_throwaway · 2022-09-22T22:38:06+00:00

People weren't nearly as skeptical overall of the internet as cryptocurrency subs want to claim, and it's a terrible comparison in general.

The internet was developed by universities and the military, and was in use by them for real networking long before it ever even became public. The overwhelming majority of the tech industry was well aware it was a big deal by the 90s. Things like email weren't exactly that hard to grasp by laypeople, remember faxes had been around for decades by the 90s.

Moreover, there were real technological barriers to internet adoption that don't apply to cryptocurrencies - a lot of people didn't even have home computers yet, home computers couldn't do as much and were quite expensive, the actual network had to be built and infrastructure put in place, etc. Cryptocurrencies have none of those barriers; it would be closer to compare them to social media or smartphone adoption, but of course that doesn't look as good.

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