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by 9rx 9mo ago
> I don't see how anyone would design a system that executes 200 queries per page. They call it the n+1 problem. 200 queries is the theoretically correct approach, but due to high network latency of networked DMBSes you have to ha
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by 9rx 9mo ago
I thought it was interesting. Going through something like this myself right now, I learned that I don't lose motivation to do the work. I gain a motivation to cut the person out of the picture.
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> it should have been 2025 with the forced retirement of the "forever OS" Windows 10. Still too soon, no? Windows 10 continues to work just fine. The layman using it doesn't really care — and probably doesn't even r
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> You only want to apply expensive fungicide when there is a fungus problem. That means someone needs to go out to the field and check Nah. If you can see that you have tar spot, you are already too late. To be able to selectively appl
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> Hell, the yield on such a small lot (it'll mostly be end rows) will be terrible. One of my fields has a creek in the corner that divides just two acres from the rest of the field. I've never noticed any meaningful yield dra
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by 9rx 9mo ago
All farms need farmhands. On some farms the farmer may play double duty, or hire custom farmhands operating under another business, but they are all farmhands just the same.
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> A guy is paying farmers to farm for him Pedantically, that's what a farmer does. The workers are known as farmhands.
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by 9rx 9mo ago
There are plenty of CCAs out there that will happily do all those things for you. If hiring someone to come work the field is fair game, surely that is too?
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> all the easy to automate stuff has already been done. To be fair, all the stuff that hasn't been automated away is the same in all cases, farmer and farmhand alike: Monitoring to make sure the computer systems don't screw u
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by 9rx 9mo ago
It is trying to take over the job of the farmer. Planting, harvesting, etc. is the job of a farmhand (or custom operator). Everyone is working to try to automate the farmhand out of a job, but the novelty here is the thinking that it is act
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by 9rx 9mo ago
I am curious about what kind of friction you encountered. Were you generating ad-hoc protobuf messages? Assuming you were using Protobufs as they are usually used, meaning under generated code, I saw no difference between using it in Javasc
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> Yes, it can be done with JSON and OpenApi, yet it’s not mandatory. It is not mandatory for Protobuf either. You can construct a protobuf message with an implied structure just as you can with JSON. It does not violate the spec. Proto
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by 9rx 9mo ago
If you are going to use it elsewhere, why not use it for browser stuff too?
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by 9rx 9mo ago
Words don't hurt. The intent behind those words can. But a machine doesn't carry intent. Trouble is that the irrational humans working as implementation details behind ChatGPT and HN are prone to anthropomorphizing the machine to
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by 9rx 9mo ago
Yes, it is not too much to require that that if you offer something to someone that the receiving party is able to have a conversation with you. You can still reject them in the end, but being able to ask the people involved questions is a
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> Remember, ChatGPT is a machine! Same goes for HN, yet it does not take kindly to certain expressions either. I suppose the trouble is that machines do not operate without human involvement, so for both HN and ChatGPT there are humans
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by 9rx 9mo ago
Trouble is, at that kind of scale even your bugs have users.
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> At that point you can well afford to hire people who are deep experts at sharding etc. Can you, though? OpenAI is haemorrhaging money like it is going out of style and, according to the news cycle over the last couple of days, will l
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> The average American is more likely to have about $8k available to them, The average American is more likely to have about $8k available to them, and of course that average is only an average That is the median. The earlier figure wa
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by 9rx 9mo ago
Is it actually more readable and understandable (not to be confused with more familiar), though? It is hard to beat the understandability of the lowest level. Abstractions add unknowns. C's claim to fame was being a "portable asse
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> So, you say a country can't have stable income for farmers and realistic prices for consumers? The topic is supply management. Supply management cannot offer both consumer price stability and stable incomes for farmers at the same
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> i.e. kind of the opposite of what most big ag row crops do now. From what I'm seeing out there, the big row croppers are largely leading the pack in bringing sustainable improvement to soil quality. It has become abundantly clea
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> All farmers are rich. You have to understand that "farmer" doesn't mean "someone who works on a farm". It means "someone who owns a farm". Rich, as in richer than broke? I opened my farm business w
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> large expansion of corn acreage Corn acres have expanded, but the same is also true of other crops. Given corn's role in the crop rotation, it stands to reason that when other crops expand, corn comes with it. There are a lot
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> Maybe not in USA. Maybe not. I grew up on a Canadian dairy farm, and have continued to farm in Canada ever since, so that is beyond my expertise. I have not participated in US-based farming. I can only meaningfully speak to Canadian
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> corn->ethanol is government subsidized robbery. There was that brief period where subsidies were enacted to spur on construction of ethanol plants to take up the excess corn that was rotting leading up to that time. They have long
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> over half of corn acreage is used for ethanol. That doesn't mean much without more details. Corn is used as a tool in the crop rotation to enable growing foods for humans to eat. As we learned before ethanol's time in the s
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> consumers get stable and somewhat realistic prices [...] while farmers also get stable income. Which? You can't have both. Input costs are subject to the whims of non-supply managed markets. When, say, input costs rise either th
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> How do I compile a new kernel with some extra debug printlns and boot it to figure out the panic? First, explain how you are doing it with the AT&T UNIX kernel. We can then help you adapt the process to Darwin. > On any actua
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> if big ag subsidies were phased out, small local farms would have a better chance of being viable. Maybe. The subsidies that we always hear about is a portion of insurance premiums paid by the government. Presumably if the government

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