Radium

joined 2 years ago
[–] Radium 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That shunt from Perez hurt to watch

[–] Radium 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Anyone smart enough to explain how the gearbox change will affect racing?

[–] Radium 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If you set it up correctly it defaults to a specific flag state if it can’t connect. I.e. always show the user the old treatment instead of the new if you can request the actual state of their enrollment.

They get blocked constantly and my old company just routed the requests through our domain so they’d stop getting blocked

[–] Radium 1 points 2 years ago

Definitely! I’ve used them for years and they are super convenient. Especially in small space living. I have a small server setup in a closet that is a direct attached raid array with an m1 Mac and an Intel nuc on top.

In general I prefer the max because it can do a lot with very minimal heat generation but using a Mac mini as a server has a few downsides that you won’t run into with a nuc. Things like arm vs x86, no way to run the OS headless, cost, etc…

[–] Radium 11 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I’m also a web developer and this person is completely up their own ass. We’ve all struggled with browsers that lag behind standards (internet explorer) or implement them in weird ways (safari). But Mozilla has never even come close to being a problem like the others.

Also I doubt they are using the newest of new web standards that would actually need to be poly filled and even then with modern JS build tooling poly filling isn’t difficult or abnormal. Oh, the bundle for your crappy SPA might be a few kb bigger but that isn’t gonna make a difference.

[–] Radium 3 points 2 years ago

Listening to podcasts on closed source, corporate media platforms like Spotify and YouTube are the worst things you can do for podcasting. Podcasting has always been an open ecosystem built on old school technologies and Spotify, iHeartMedia, and YouTube are trying to insert themselves in order to create an additional Chokepoint in the media ecosystem. Even worse, because podcasts are usually freely available it is a great way to get people who subscribe to streaming services to spend their time streaming something the service doesn’t have to pay per stream for, unlike music

[–] Radium 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

AI does not equal pattern matching and machine learning

[–] Radium 2 points 2 years ago

Might be alone here but louder cars don’t make for better racing. I’d rather make all the cars quieter and do less damage to everyone’s hearing, make it more enjoyable to see in person, easier to hold races in heavily populated areas, etc…

[–] Radium 3 points 2 years ago

Tell me you didn’t read the blog without telling me you didn’t read the blog…

[–] Radium 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Been using some storz and Bickel vapes for about 4 years and still learned a lot of great tricks from this. Thanks for posting!

[–] Radium 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They are protected from losses by their existing profitable market share ( in the billions) so it is unethical to use a tool created to help negate risk for those without the safety of an existing profitable market. There is an immense privilege in being the current dominant party in a market, and we live in a world that has put laws in place to protect companies who become the dominant party in a market instead of laws that equalize the market.

If we were all playing this game as kids, what phillips is doing would be seen as totally unfair, so why is it okay now that we are adults?

[–] Radium 2 points 2 years ago

Seriously. I have the Spotify app installed just to listen to his occasional podcast. It’s inspired me to start writing a self hosted app that will archive all your podcasts locally so next time a podcaster decides to sell out I won’t lost their back catalog. And then I also have a place to stream their newer stuff that I figure out a way to pirate.

The podcast market is in an extremely precarious state due to giant corporations like I heart media and spotify trying to insert themselves into the market, implement Chokepoints with exclusive content, and finally extinguish open alternatives.

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