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Comment · 11 months ago
Don’t all non-European people look alike?
Comment · 11 months ago
I remember when people claimed to use NixOs in order to have a deterministic, repeatable setup.
Comment · 11 months ago
Your understanding of not-containers is incorrect.

In non-containerized applications, the data & state live outside the application, store in files, database, cache, s3, etc.

In fact, this is the only way containers can decouple programs from state — if it’s already done so by the application. But with containers you have the extra steps of setting up volumes, virtual networks, and port translation.

But I’m not surprised this has to be explained to some people in 2025, considering you probably think that a CPU is something transmitted by a series of tubes from AWS to Vercel that is made obsolete by NVidia NFTs.

Comment · 11 months ago
I’ve never seen nix, but I’d rather learn “yet another language” than fight yet another yaml syntax.
Comment · 11 months ago
I think Instagram has pink headings and Facebook has blue. So they’re practically different companies.
Comment · 11 months ago
Also, Instaface doesn’t need developers. Their product was completed at least a dozen years ago. And it was created by a team of a dozen or so engineers.
Comment · 11 months ago
Tech workers used to not be average people.
Comment · 11 months ago
Sounds like the guy that invented bicycle helmets. He didn’t want Nazis to feel safe letting their kids ride bikes to school either.
Comment · 11 months ago
And we wouldn’t have a use case for Ai without StackOverflow & Google’s broken search.
Comment · 11 months ago
We already have POST, PUT, and PATCH that do the exact same thing. Why not have another version of GET that looks the same as POST and is subject to personal interpretation.

FYI: QUERY is for GET requests where the query string make the URL too long. It does this by sending a body like POST.

In the past, POST meant you were sending a body, and GET meant you received a body. And the people got religious about a pseudoacronym called REST.

Comment · 11 months ago
Left to their own devices, the LLMs would probably design a pocket watch.
Comment · 11 months ago
Can you explain why we pay Sam Altman & Elon Musk? Or Jeff Bezos & Bill Gates? They’re just middlemen collecting money for other people’s labor.
Comment · 11 months ago
The reality is that every middle aged loser knows more than they ever wanted about kpop, labubu, and furries just goes to show it’s all a centralized homogenized monoculture being forced on everyone.
Comment · 11 months ago
Do they have real beans in them?

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