Calamitous

“People are so dumb, we have to protect them from ideas we think are dangerous”?

Yes, back before Microsoft became a household word.

The old “nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft” argument.

I did not expect to read through and run every simulation. But I did.

Ah, reddit is leaking again.

> imagine what your workplace would be like if after holding a job 4-5 years

Hah, I wish we could hold on to engineers for 4-5 years…

I had to switch to Safari for the menus to work correctly.

Ironically, after working in cubicles and hurk open floor plans for most of my career, now I have an office with a door. Ten feet from my bedroom. ;)

Out of curiousity, what do you use instead?

> Do you trust your next door neighbors to become ag scientists to be good stewards of their land?

As someone who lives in a rural/agricultural area, yes.

> getting fired seems like a much larger problem than being bad-mouthed online.

I’d argue the opposite: if I’m fired, I can get another job. If I’m bad-mouthed online, that can affect all future job prospects.

I want the dystopia I was promised in my youth, not the one I got.

> It will be very easy to bypass, making this a very stupid law.

It’s not about being effective, it’s about making things illegal. It’s trivially easy to break the speed limit, but that doesn’t stop local police using it to collect millions of dollars of fines every year

How is Brave working against the user’s interests? Not being snarky, I’ve been using it for a while and it seems fine.

> i get downvoted by the lisp crowd every time i bring up that the repl isn't a differentiating feature anymore

I’d suggest it has more to do with tone than content.

What does this have to do with the west? Do the bad actions of Shell excuse those of China?

That’s one of the nice things about Kagi: you can lower our block content farms, and elevate sites like stack overflow.

I love his work. It’s filled with these pithy little gems:

> I'd call for all the chemists who've ever worked with a hexanitro compound to raise their hands, but that might be assuming too much about the limb-to-chemist ratio.

> I wish the protobuf library wasn't awful

I’m curious what you don’t like about it? I haven’t used Go in anger, but I love protobufs, and it’s shocking that Go, of all languages, would have a substandard implementation.

You would think. But while it’s not common, in my experience, it does happen. I recall one job I had in a startup where the CTO was a screamer; he’d literally storm around the programming pit shouting at everyone when he was in a mood.

FTA:

> the number of Reddits that have gone dark expanded from around 7,000 to more than 8,400

Annoyingly, there's no context for these numbers. Is this 10% of all subreddits? 90%? Does it cover half of all users? They're meaningless numbers that "sound big."

“Locally hosted cloud infrastructure!”

It’s not even the speed, it’s writing queries. The syntax is clunkier, and since you don’t have a nice clean schema, you end up doing a lot of jumping through hoops to check for the presence of keys/proper data types, etc. Or doing your basic data validation in your app instead of letting the database do its job.

Most common one I’ve seen in the last 5-10 years: using a JSON column instead of putting in a lookup table, or instead of properly analyzing and normalizing your data.

That’s a mistake that you’ll be paying for for a while.

Or when “log in” Is hidden in a menu, while “sign up” Is a nice clear button on the home page.

> One of the most frustrating things about the LastPass leak is that they still haven't provided all the information needed to determine whether a customer is at risk.

Worst case: it’s entirely possible they don’t know.

I suspect it has more to do with the availability of employees rather than the cost. But I’ll admit that’s based on my hearing anecdotal tales rather than hard facts.

I think you are vastly overestimating the number of people who want to be farmers.

Another nice thing about Kagi is that you can eliminate domains from your search results. Obvious content farms are pretty easy to spot and remove.

I’d be curious to hear what you’re using on iPhone for voice-to-text. I’ve tried a few things and the results have been pretty awful for me.