Chris Martin / is on Nostr

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2024-09-07 16:41:10

just read the phrase "XMPP is a flexible and powerful protocol"
can anybody give me an example of a protocol that is not "powerful" to help explain that means, as distinct from "flexible," by contrast

2024-08-11 17:19:24

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@npub1c9m…9xjd It's really a shame that computers aren't programmable

2024-04-27 22:07:51

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@npub18ne…2mm9 And the reason you want to know the history is because everything is fine and there definitely hasn't been a regression? 😀

2024-04-18 05:51:21

I think Amdahl's law offers an explanation of why fully automated space communism seems like a possibility. There are some things on a trajectory resembling ever decreasing cost and labor, but perfecting the optimizations of those particular things doesn't give us much overall speedup. The bread toasting machine does its work quickly, but you didn't spend much of your life toasting bread in the first place. Meanwhile some big ticket items really aren't going to advance, like "raising children" which is pretty high on the list of how humans spend their time.

2024-04-03 05:11:16

I don't understand the "overworked software volunteer" narrative. It's a situation that you can get out of by simply forgetting to check your email

2023-12-19 21:00:31

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@npub1c35…9pmh Can't, on a modern webpage it would be a mile-high pile of redundant react nodes

2023-11-22 18:12:04

80% sure this Sam Altman story is a PR stunt to highlight the fake question of whether openai's product is so powerful it might be unsafe

2023-10-29 16:16:00

Do metric people really pretend y'all don't measure stuff with your feet too

2023-09-12 03:42:22

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@npub17es…clcm It seems like in theory that should be fine, since a nix build could easily do that as well. Guessing they don't check hashes though

2023-09-12 00:32:31

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@npub17es…clcm I still don't understand, what does npm do that makes builds not reproducible?

2023-08-05 16:25:24

cycled over to the brewery yesterday and somebody expressed appreciation that we had "real bikes" (no battery)