I see what you’re saying, but the fact that it can be ambiguous is actually what makes it so useful to fascist organizers.
They thrive on phrases that allow them to wink at each other when they want to, but claim innocence if someone calls them out.
14kB club: “Amateurs!!!”
https://dev.to/shadowfaxrodeo/why-your-website-should-be-under-14kb-in-size-398n
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14kBpage can load much faster than a15kBpage — maybe612msfaster — while the difference between a15kBand a16kBpage is trivial.This is because of the TCP slow start algorithm. This article will cover what that is, how it works, and why you should care.
The original source was much more sensible.
The comparison makes sense for evaluating whether you’re over-invested in something. Like, if Nvidia suddenly poofed out of existence, would it seriously be worth 16% of everything the whole country makes in a year to get it back?
Owning a car that’s worth 16% of your yearly income sounds reasonable, no matter what your actual income is. A Pokemon card collection that’s 16% of your income is probably too risky, no matter what your actual income is.
Also, GDP is a decent scale to use for charting investment in a productivity tool, because if GDP ramped up at the same time as investment then it looks less like a bubble, even if they both ramp up quickly.
But that’s not what we see. We see a sudden and volatile shift, nothing like the normal pattern before the hype.
Jimmy Wales: Libertarian that ended up creating perhaps the most successful collectivist project of all time.
The medical labs probably don’t walk away from it with a perpetual license to monetize your DNA however they see fit
Its supposedly open source??
NPM users: “…and?”
“Putting the same person in charge of both the IRS and SSA creates a conflict of interest when SSA wants access to legally protected taxpayer data,” Kaercher said.
Sure does. Really bad idea even if “CEO of IRS” was even a role that made sense in the first place.
Peter Molyneux Studios presents, a Peter Molyneux production: Peter Molyneux’s Masters of Albion, by Peter Molyneux, featuring Peter Molyneux, and special guest Peter Molyneux
Is the IP still trapped in legal limbo?
Headline makes her sound petty, when she’s actually the most important anti-monopoly figure of the past 40 years
AI bubble will pop by 2030. (I fucking hope.)
Makes sense they bought Star Wars, so they can legally say “I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it further.”
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Idk.
It was hard to find things even with a search engine, and it was full of scams and spyware, and obnoxious designs that got in the way of the real content, and the most popular chat rooms were run by power-tripping nerds with too much free time and an endless interest in CSAM and Nazi ideology.
Not like today, where… uh… well…
People have thought for thousands of years that they were living in the time of a great final battle against eternal tyranny — and that they were destined to fail.
There’s a strange comfort in being certain of doom. It makes the world simple and understandable. Predictable, and therefore less jarring. Doom is invulnerable to good news — in fact, good news is always bad news in the framework of doom, because it means delaying the inevitable and inviting false hope.
But the real story of the last several thousand years is that the world is complex. People are more complex than we could’ve understood even a hundred years ago. And the universe may be even stranger than we possibly can imagine.
I’m not telling you to be certain of a positive outcome. I’m just telling you to let go of certainty.
if you fuck it up they will bail for another platform
They might also start using another platform. But they’re unlikely to leave completely.
Cory Doctorow put out the first hour of the audiobook on Enshittification for free, and it covers this very well.
They actually acquired Fyre.Festival.exe. Explorer just doesn’t show the extension by default.
To be clear: I’m saying that an ongoing supply of pure water is a requirement of the cooling method they chose, not that they were required to choose that method. The poster I was replying to asked how water could actually be consumed and not just reused.
They need to use very pure water, and it evaporates completely, so it must be continually replenished.
Funny story… Flock is already pitching that.
Those additional requests will reuse the existing connection, so they’ll have more bandwidth at that point.