Can anyone please ELI5 what this is about? What does the phrase "Slate Star Codex" mean? Now that all his blog posts were gone, what topics had he generally written about that attracted so much attention?
Readit NewsCuriousReader13 commented on Don't De-Anonymize Scott Alexander dontdoxscottalexander.com... · Posted by u/mxschumacher
CuriousReader13 commented on Alone in a Crowded Milky Way scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac
What’s the point of settling on planets if you can sustainably develop anywhere in space, which I think is within the reach of any typical space-faring civilization?
IMNAL. How about GNU asks Mozilla for a permission to call any modifications it makes "GNU Rust"?
CuriousReader13 commented on Story of Odoo: Open-Sourced Competitor to Oracle, SAP breakoutstartups.substack... · Posted by u/ankitkumar98
How does Odoo compare with Tryton (https://www.tryton.org/) today?
For a little background, Tryton is a fork of Odoo when it was still called TinyERP, motivated by disagreements among TinyERP founders and early developers on the technical and business directions.
See 2016 HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12985791
CuriousReader13 commented on The modern web is becoming unusable omarabid.com/the-modern-w... · Posted by u/csomar
Here is how I deal with the problem:
1. Customize a decent browser eg Firefox to my own safety standard (disable cookies, Autoplay, etc.)
2. Treat every website like an application. If a site is usable under my settings, fine.
3. If a site needs an additional capability, e.g a login credential or cookies, only provide them for that site if it’s compelling enough, otherwise blame the site and move on.
After customizing for a few dozens of sites, and not being able to use countless others, the modern web becomes a lot more manageable for me.
CuriousReader13 commented on The Bloomberg Terminal, Explained vox.com/2020-presidential... · Posted by u/yarapavan
After reading threads like these[1]. I can't help but feel that MOST interfaces should indeed be like the bloomberg terminal - great example of security-focused, minimal latency and maximum functionality product.
In reality, however, some Bloomberg users struggle daily with inaccurate data, lack of documentation, manual (slow) help on trivial issues, and poor performance when running analytics. It is more like a bloated GUI app pretending to be a terminal, worst of both worlds.
CuriousReader13 commented on An investigation into the smartphone tracking industry nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/danso
This data seems highly valuable to hedge funds: if a fund could pin the devices of well-known bankers and executives of potential acquisition targets, it could see deals coming before announcements. Is this legal?