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Software Engineer
Making the state obsolete

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2025-12-06 04:16:58 UTC

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Have you used AWS? It ain’t exactly miles ahead. I can’t wrap my head around just why cloud computing DX is so unbelievably bad.

2025-08-07 09:32:52 UTC

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Agreed. Who’s the “they” that’s orchestrating this? If it were a top down effort, wouldn’t there be enormous pressure for any one car company to break rank, make beautiful cars, and sell them like crazy?
To build on your point, car companies are all dealing with the same laws of physics, guiding them to similar aerodynamic designs. Also, these days car manufacturers often re-use the same car platform/chassis for many different models, further restricting their design in exchange for better production efficiency.

2024-09-15 13:22:50 UTC

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Keeps magically scrolling me back to the top 🙄

2024-02-28 17:17:22 UTC

Gresham's law: "bad money drives out good"
I had someone ask me how Bitcoin could succeed given this law. But Gresham's law isn't a law like the laws of physics - rather, it's describing people's natural responses to incentives. If bad money really did drive out good, people would use dirt as money, or perhaps even the words "thank you" uttered by the purchaser. Clearly this isn't a universal law. Instead it is the outgrowth of two different types of money with different intrinsic values being declared by governments to have the same face value. When the US government replaced silver coins with silver plated coins, businesses were forced to accept both types of coins at the same dollar-denominated value. So when someone needed to buy something, they would want to spend the coins that were worth less and hold on to the ones that were worth more.

2024-01-29 01:51:22 UTC

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