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We all share a single photon in some theories. When time has no meaning, it can run through the whole universe in a strobe. Large correlated events need to exist because smaller correlations do. It only makes logical sense if you try to remedy the movement / distance paradoxes.

There’s probably an information density limit, which is why far away galaxies will never have their information reach us after a certain point. They might as well not exist to us, because their information will never be useable in a correlated way.

How big of a problem is dependency duplication on 1TB drives?

When combined with Flatseal as an easy to use privilege granting system, it really is hard to beat.

So the solution is to get more doctors who can then unload the burden. If you look at the cap on medical school enrollment in the US, it’s very much an artificial supply restriction to keep wages high.

Temporarily at best. If I invent fire and lock it down so that only my grill can use it, while also releasing feel good propaganda to convince people that it is the only way fire works, yes it’s more beneficial than not for a time. As society grows around the concept, the artificial limitations begin hindering the elevated stage more than helping.

These companies have convinced unwitting masses that this is in their long-term best interests. I assure you it is not. It is about being controlled, and the invisible limitations placed on an individual when they grow to love their chains.

We need to nail down what authentication and authorization do on a wide scale before we can pin down better naming. I agree with most of this.

At this point I’ve reined it in to be a tool. When it formed, it was so useful it became my primary method of communication. As I’ve progressed, it’s now a part of my tool bag I can call on. I only learned English as a toddler, and it’s definitely my native language, but I came from having another native language first. I often wonder if that’s why my brain didn’t form an inner voice. I had to learn a new native language at a critical learning period, and I ended up somewhere half way.

Sure. It was at the end of the semester, filling in surveys for the class. I volunteered to submit the names to the office. All of the sheets were in the envelope, the total number submitted written on the sheet ready to send to the office. Then one student came back in a gave their sheet in. My two classmates left over asked me to scratch the old number and add one to it. I refused for no good reason, in the wrong from a process perspective. I didn’t change it and didn’t want to. After my classmates pushed, I still refused stating that it really didn’t matter.

I went ahead and submitted the envelope containing 23 sheets with the number 22 still written on it. I felt liberated. Like I said, unimportant, but a flip switched. It was like I learned that it was ok to make mistakes while making decisions, so I let this one by.

I relate to this through my childhood. I had no inner voice, it was all images and feelings up until college woke my inner dialog. I always felt others knew better, and I became a people pleaser due to the lack of autonomy I felt.

It took one unimportant moment of standing up for myself that turned me from a yes follower, into a combative agreer. I had a series of nights where a puzzle appeared to be being solved in my mind, and an inner voice began to form.

Social interactions go much more smoothly when you can think before you speak in terms that others can understand when the words leave your lips.

Thanks for sharing.

Good ideas should have a provisional naming period where a standardize name can be agreed on. Anything else leads to fragmentation and lock in due to domain specific terminology.

Right, if my algorithm stores weights based on recent input data, the execution path will vary.

It’s only $20/mo. Just don’t ask for how long.

The cheap sticks work if you don’t mind buying a bunch and sending back the ones that don’t work together in your config.

Binning is likely the problem.

Even paying cash. Unless the establishment offers a cash discount, you’re paying inflated credit card induced compensatory pricing.

It’s a real shame banks received 2-5% of most transaction for what costs them pennies. Sure, there are benefits, but their ask isn’t covering it.

This is when you implement signed local web app components that cannot change unless authorized.

Yes, let’s split development into code silos where you have to relearn everything on the whims of a few big ecosystems. Don’t forget 6 different native apps to make sure your 2D maze game renders everywhere.

Or you make a decent framework for cross-platform interactivity that’s write once and get back to business.

You keep your native apps. I’ll keep the freedom that platform agnostic code provides.

I prefer my computations have unreported errors at the whim of explosions billions of light years away. Makes me feel connected to the universe.

What makes you so sure the photon didn’t originate from your eye and finish where you saw them?

The two are not mutually exclusive.

It’s a shame it can’t just be giving back to the community and not questioned.

Why is selfishness from companies who’ve benefited from social resources not a surprising event vs the norm.

Don’t forget the dead butterflies.

> I agree, because it was the easiest way to solve the problem of providing value to users. Redundancy and coupling of unrelated implementations is expensive. In the extreme, it’s O(N^2) expensive if you're going to bridge every separate system. Far easier to just build it once.

Of course it’s cheaper when you have the government’s backing and tax benefits to help you. The real question is.. cheaper compared to what? There are no other options now.

> Sure, but rephrasing that would be "if companies did more work at no direct benefit to themselves, it would be easier for people to not use their software." Where is the benefit to them? And if this were easy to do, why hasn't the open source community done it? The only thing stopping them is when they build it, nobody (modulo the rounding error of dyed-in-the-wool computer fans) actually wants to use it.

It’s not a fair fight at this point. Google won’t rank those projects higher than they’re legally required to, so not many people see it. They don’t have the propag.. er.. media reach, so they remain an unknown to fear. The big guys release a press snippet and get 90% user coverage. Good will has value, but large companies lose that value proposition once they reach critical mass and can remove “Don’t be evil” from their manifesto. This is a scale and control problem.

> I used to believe this. I have come around to the thinking that after spending decades telling people what they should want, maybe I'm wrong and people know what they want better than me. Mastodon is free and (relatively) easy to install and maintain. Why do people stay on Twitter? It's not because Elon Musk is tricking them. I think you make a point regarding Big Brother, but it underestimates the benefits of staying in the maintained channels. If someone steals my money out of my bank account, the FDIC makes me whole. Who makes me whole when someone steals my Bitcoin? If Facebook did something illegal to me, they're a big enough target for the FBI to intervene. Who intervenes if my Mastodon admin uses my PII against me? They're judgment-proof, and criminal investigation doesn't enforce on small potataoes like that. Larger, consolidated firms are bigger targets and easier to keep in line. A lot of crime happens in the ecosystem of small communities not in the spotlight.

Mastodon kind of sucks right now, to be fair. It’s slow, barely knows what to show, and then switches around posts randomly. Twitter has users, and that has value. It’s easier to setup a centralized posting platform than something community driven. People generally want what is fastest and works. A marginally better platform isn’t worth switching to for most people. People generally want the bare minimum to meet their criteria. The problem is that these are “free” services where the true cost is amortized over time. They know what they want, but they have nothing to gauge with anymore. It’s not like you can compare sticker prices. The price is well hidden. Another issue with safety is that you need a lawyer for digital crime, not a police officer. That’s the barrier. We don’t have well defined law. It’s the slightly less wild west.

> People have all the tools to change out of corporate systems right now; they don't because it would make their lives worse, materially. They're not waiting for a savior to walk them off the plantation; they had the option to wander off in the wildnerness and they chose to live (virtually) where people are.

They’re trained from a young age to admire brands and creators. Few question the sphere they live in; fewer still take action. The tools to leave are inaccessible when you have no free time left after work and family duties. Interop is key to competition now that the reactor is pumping. We don’t have real competition without it. They’re not waiting for a savior because they don’t feel the effects daily beyond a few ads. It’s a slow process that hides the true outcome.

You probably want to grant full rights to an outside authentication/authorization service that handles the fine grained rights for private tables.

That way you don’t lock the main functionality up with the rights management aspect and 1,000+ custom permissions and role sets.

Authorization is the front door to a hallway with keyed doors behind. Have a peep hole to authenticate where necessary, but don’t complicate the core product with it.

Heck, roll your own version if you have time. With this system you can change it in and out and not have to rewrite your base to accommodate. An oversimplification, as are most things.

My .02c

This didn’t have to be the case. It was purpose built around these megalithic designs by these large companies. Now advertising and culture curation ensure it’s always displayed in a positive light. Google, Apple, MS, all know to use angelic white light in their branding (slight hazy, blurry, seems to penetrate where it shouldn’t be). Apple stores even mimic a church design. It’s not that people don’t want to. They don’t know any better and are addicted.

These are not scions of capitalism. These are anti-competitive ecosystems by design. Having to do more work wouldn’t be a thing if the protocols were designed to aid communication outside of corporate channels. People are afraid, not unwilling. Big brother says it’s not safe, so they go to the cozy sphere they know and regrettably trust with too much of their lives.

It’s a nation state problem too. The US gets economic advantage from having the major players local. It’s hard not to lose ground when a federated system in Sweden or China can chip away at your control base. So we subsidize and solidify. We get temporary advantage for long-term decay and virtual feudalism.

People lived under monarchies for a long time before a streak of luck, war, and land changed it.

In fact, that’s how US laws were intended to work. Federal gives guidelines that apply to all states. The states narrow the scope for any issues that arise.

The best is a message notification in the bedroom at 2AM, or maybe it’s an update. I’m in the process of replacing it with HA voice with the atom boxes.

It probably won’t be as good, but it’s time to jump ship.

A space interferometer as well. Unfortunately, the planned SIM mission was shelved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Interferometry_Mission?w...

How about glass bottles and reusing them like we used to.

If fixing technical debt after the fact costs more than 10months of operating. You have a problem. Not counting the extra hours needed to maintain an archaic codebase. This was more about the uncertainty of threads succeeding. It’s easier to swallow writing off a port than a brand new implementation.