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  • PGP can also do that, properly implemented, a PGP key with a large web of trust, can be just as effective at making immutable certified statements without having this weird cash based speech thing that crypto has going for it.

    The fact that every single action you do with crypto involves spending money is ridiculous. I don’t mean the scams and stuff, I mean, every single thing, every transaction, every smart contract, every interaction, who wants to play around with a system that just pilfers your cash from you just for the privilege of exploring it.

    At least with aws I can run code locally before they rob me.





  • I just don’t understand how someone can read all the warnings, get a driver’s license (implying their knowledge of the rules of the road) and presumably have years of driving experience and magically think it’s ok to just stop paying attention.

    It doesn’t matter if the car fully promotes itself as self driving, it doesn’t matter if the laws surrounding it still require you to be present and in control.

    It’s no different than 1000hp cars, just because the car is marketed as such, doesn’t magically make it legal to go 200mph.


  • It’s because computer science degrees aren’t really programming degrees.

    A computer science degree sets you up to be a scientist, most common dev jobs are just glorified Lego sets patching libraries together and constructing queries. There is skill, knowledge, and effort in those jobs, but they are fundamentally different.

    Most common software dev jobs are closer to the end user than not.


  • To add, it is typically manifested as generic ‘compute’ or in the case of azure ‘functions’ where you environment the code is running on is abstracted away, instead you are just paying for compute, e.g. this function takes x time/cycles to run and so it costs y to run it each time.

    In theory you don’t need to worry about scale or anything, just deploy your function, and pay for what it uses.


  • This is so not true unless you are using some super stable old Debian release and aren’t doing complex work.

    Most DEs are super buggy, especially the darling child kde, which right off the bat makes things not super stable.

    Additionally some of the most loved distros are rolling release and inherently unstable.

    Hell, I use multiple distros daily, fedora and slackware, I also use windows for work, windows is by and large more stable in my experience.

    Slackware has kernel panics monthly, kde crashes on fedora, Wayland has too many problems to count, meaning I have to switch to x sessions all the time.

    Most GUI software I use has tons of visual glitches.

    Yes it’s tolerable, that’s why I still use it, but I wouldn’t exactly say it ‘just works’

    I would estimate I restart my fedora computer about 4-5 times more often than than the windows computer, and usually I have to restart fedora because of serious hard crashes (e.g. kde crashes so hard that I can’t even switch to a tty, meaning I need to hard reset)