therealx (u/therealx)

therealx commented on Elon Musk, master promoter keith404.medium.com/elon-... · Posted by u/keith1

What insane predictions?

SpaceX landing rockets? It’s really cool, but no one reasonable said you cannot land rockets. People questioned if it’s worth it. And this question still remains - they massively overestimated size of the market (they were planning to have launches weekly or more often). Instead they have rare commercial launches and they use it for internal project, that has also lots of questions about profitability. But it successfully kicks can down the road.

Electric car wasn’t questioned if it’s possible (expect for some freaks). And first mass market EV wasn’t even from them. Leaf (with its many flaws) until not long ago was best selling EV combined. It was questioned if you can make in a way that profit, range and scale can meet. And Tesla still struggles at all of them.

Boring tunnels? Look at the tunnel in Las Vegas and tell me with a straight face that this is a future of transportation.

therealx · 5 years ago

To be fair, that’s one of the worst tunnels in any city. I’d rather drive into NYC.

therealx commented on A “deepfake” is at the center of a harassment case, but what if it’s not faked? dailydot.com/debug/deepfa... · Posted by u/danso

NortySpock · 5 years ago

Couldn't you just "rebalance" the JPEG artifacts as a final pass? Or some sort of slight blur that re-jumbles the least significant bits of every pixel?

therealx · 5 years ago

Yes, this is standard in the forgery business - dust and speckle filter, drop the res, ensure the light is balanced, and maybe blur if you can get away with it.

therealx commented on Cycling is more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities theconversation.com/cycli... · Posted by u/dfgdghdf

Laarlf · 5 years ago

I look at European city centers where cars often times get thrown out now and: they don’t agree. Profits were way down even before COVID. Even if you offer people the option to not use their car, they will avoid it. No form of transportation will ever be as pleasant to use. Cars don’t make cities unpleasant, cities themselves are unpleasant. No matter if cars exist or not. Bikes, pedestrians and cars must be properly separated to make safe cities. Doing that would maybe convince a few people to take a bike.

Or we can go back as you described. Destroy the cities we have built and build small walkable towns. That would mean that you have no say in what your job will be, but your parents do. That’s over 100 year old concept that worked well back then and would probably work well if you built it up again. But with modern demands of “personal freedom” it’s impossible to build.

therealx · 5 years ago

The thing that changes this is good public transport. Not buses - buses have a mindset issue. Subways, light rail, and bikes for the last mile.

therealx commented on Modern CI is too complex and misdirected gregoryszorc.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/zdw

brown9-2 · 5 years ago

Your CI pipeline builds and tests your project, which is the same thing your build system does, except they are each using different specifications of how to do that. The author argues this is a waste.

I think by introducing continuous deployment you are changing the topic from what the author wrote (which strictly referred to CI).

therealx · 5 years ago

I would think the build system would only build the binaries or other compiled source. The CI pipeline would build and test.

therealx commented on iOS 14 and Facebook Pixel causing increase in PSL inclusion requests github.com/publicsuffix/l... · Posted by u/CameronBanga

jakear · 5 years ago

The fun thing is you can s/PSL/DNS/g and the statement still holds. Same for BGP

therealx · 5 years ago

BGP and DNS survive due to relative obscurity, despite everyone using it in some way. Web devs do not give a shit about BGP (sadly.)

therealx commented on Screw it, I’ll host it myself markozivanovic.com/screw-... · Posted by u/markozivanovic

clairity · 5 years ago

i think you need to go up a level of abstraction from this perspective to see the utility for the average consumer. we each have computers all around us, phones, tablets, tv's, and increasingly everything else. it's so hopeless to manage, much less understand, these mysterious machines for more and more people. what you want is a company you can trust to manage these things for you but gives you the ultimate, yet cognitively bounded, control over them.

for instance, plug in a smart device and have confidence that it's not doing surreptitious things behind your back, because it's automatically segregated into its own vlan and given only enough network access to be controlled by you without needing to know much about the underlying technologies involved.

therealx · 5 years ago

It's not "hopeless to manage", learn some networking and be forever rewarded. Same with learning to manage devices, servers, etc. I develop now but I'd be much less valiable without that background.

therealx commented on Screw it, I’ll host it myself markozivanovic.com/screw-... · Posted by u/markozivanovic

deckard1 · 5 years ago

Docker feels like the equivalent of the teenager that doesn't want to clean his room so he just pushes all his mess under the bed.

The complexity is still under the bed. We're all going to have to dig under that bed one day. Or we're just going to end up buying new hockey sticks, football pads, etc. Which is to say, we're going to end up with Linux on top of Docker on top of Linux.

therealx · 5 years ago

Amen. I find generic scripts to be way more mangemaable. You can still use them with docker, but you can also just buy any Linux VM and go.

Also, easy to backup.

therealx commented on Screw it, I’ll host it myself markozivanovic.com/screw-... · Posted by u/markozivanovic

yakubin · 5 years ago

Thank you for the detailed reply. I'll try it out (in a VM first).

therealx · 5 years ago

It's 1000% worth it. The skills bleed over onto Mac, and now Windows. Best skills of my tech life, almost.

therealx commented on Screw it, I’ll host it myself markozivanovic.com/screw-... · Posted by u/markozivanovic

eptcyka · 5 years ago

Nix helps with this. Or at least it intends to. I still need to track down what's vulnerable and what isn't, but most of my setup is reproducible thanks to Nix.

therealx · 5 years ago

Just firewall off all management interfaces and allow via IP as needed. It's still possible your webserver will get become vulnerable, but you'll prob here about it here if it is.

therealx commented on SPAs Are Dead? leastprivilege.com/2020/0... · Posted by u/wstrange

hawski · 5 years ago

I hoped that designers learned something and decided to stop the war against their users. I did not hold my breath.

To clarify I have nothing against actual web applications like an image editor or a game. However a wiki (I don't appreciate Notion), an online shop or a damned blog should not be one. I want my history, link copying, bookmarking, middle-clicks and Ctrl/Cmd-clicks to work as intended.

therealx · 5 years ago

Isn't it so relieving now that the pendulum is swinging back?

I'm so glad I moved into C# and non-web dev/management and got out of that rat race. Tech always swings back and forth, but I'm so very happy to have made it past SPAs being the end all be all.