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> base their identity on being a broker of status or power because they themselves are a powerless outsider once removed from the community

Who would ever maintain power when removed from their community? You mean to say they base their identity on the awareness of the power they possess within a certain group?


Maybe it's culture. Software is hard and the less unknowns you have in development the better. Frontend tools have exploded in complexity[1], but they get the job done. There are great alternatives nowadays, like phoenix liveview, but they would require full rewrites and possibly a change in language and software architecture that most teams just can't do, maybe because they are already heavily invested in whatever framework they are using or they can't afford to shift to elixir (or other languages, paradigms...).

So they stay in this marshlands of bloated UI frameworks, and they need to push updates and new features which makes the problem worse.

We seem to try to explain everything in software in technical terms, but sometimes at the end of the day culture and communication plays a larger role I think. Software is built by humans after all.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34218003


What do you mean by priced? And how did you come to the conclusion that that concept is alien to the author? Do you mean to tell that premature optimization by itself explains sluggishness of websites? I think you could be a bit more clear in your comment.

If you didn't validate the instructions, maybe it just extrapolated from the structure of other recipes and general description of drug composition which most likely is in Wikipedia.

might be, I did it to check if it will activate the internal constraints. looked plausible enough.

> Over the years, nearly everything on the vehicle has been replaced or repaired, and Campbell says the only original part is likely the body, and even that has had work done on it.

Tercel of Theseus


From the original post from seuros:

July 10: AWS sends verification request. 5-day deadline (including weekend).

July 14: Form expired. I contact support. Simple question: “What do you need from me?”

July 16-20: Four days of silence. Then: “We’re escalating to the appropriate team.”

July 20: New form finally arrives.

July 21: I submit ID and utility bill (clear PDF). Response time: 10 hours.

July 22: AWS: “Document unreadable.” The same PDF my bank accepts without question.

July 23: Account terminated. My birthday gift from AWS

> Doesn't make it less bad but it's not like AWS just deleted an account out of nowhere

You are right, it makes it worse.


Disagree on making it worse.

Really the only thing I can find in here that's odd is the fact that these kind of closures are NOT reversible like most of them are.

I agree that it's weird that you're communicating and trying to comply with the ask and they still close it. But if this would be reversible like other account closures then it's just following policy.


It's hard to imagine something worse than total sudden obliteration, but I think if I had the chance, provided all the required information and still had my account killed, I'd be extra pissed.

> I thought we were past that

We are.

Before we had disagreements in the scientific community by respectable agents.

Now these are not a return to old debates, it's just that the current administration is abusing its authority to control information.

It's just a manifestation of the post truth.

This administration is abusing its authority to subvert instruments intended for specific uses in order to apply them to the trumpist agenda. The censorship of universities, sacking of govt agents that disagree with the administration, deportation of students, civilians being sent to El Salvador, the wrongful application of the Magnitsky law...

You don't need to take these threats at face value in order to stand agains them.


Funny how "dog whistle" seems outdated. It's now more like a bullhorn.

You just have to put some effort into separating your dotfiles into a generic layer and a customization layer. Done something like this with my dotfiles repo, which now triples as a generic archlinux customisation tutorial with hyprland and a description of the backup strategy that is tightly coupled with the configuration layout: https://github.com/gchamon/archlinux-system-config

What hasn't happened with Oracle...

For instance, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39618152


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