Aqueous

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by Aqueous 3y ago
JSON is one of the most succinct formats that you can use to express an arbitrary data shape of hashes, arrays, and primitives. It is highly useful and covers 99% of cases.
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by Aqueous 3y ago
You really can't see the parallels? An aggressive, unilateral land invasion of an Eastern European country? Really, zero parallels there? OK! Doesn't seem like you're debating in good faith but that tends to be the case with
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by Aqueous 3y ago
It’s misleading and gives people the wrong idea about plants?
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by Aqueous 3y ago
And that is a gigantic cop-out that indicates you can't defend your position. Surely there must be a corollary to Godwin's law for the inablity to defend yourself to comparisons with WW2 when it's the best example available?
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by Aqueous 3y ago
I had a falling out with the primary account I cared about on Twitter and saw it as an opportunity to make a clean break from the platform. I have re-opened Threads and followed a significant chunk of the same people I used to follow on Twi
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by Aqueous 3y ago
Of course Russia doesn’t want NATO expansion! It makes us (NATO. Yes, "us.") stronger and them weaker. It is manifestly opposed to their stated interests of encroaching on territories they wrongly view as theirs. That's preci
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by Aqueous 3y ago
It’s been my impression that Nintendo wouldn’t go for this unless coerced or without any better options to stay soluble. We are talking about two diametrically opposed visions of what video games should be, just like Apple and Microsoft had
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by Aqueous 3y ago
This is nonsense. Companies may be saying that because it’s the official line but they simply don’t have the power to force the people they need back to the office. Workers aren’t going for it and companies who offer remote now have a compe
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by Aqueous 3y ago
Don’t pick ‘trending’ - pick something that’s been around for 30 years and growing the entire time. JS and Python check those boxes but also ‘boring’ languages like Java. The best thing about Java is that companies find it solid and predict
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by Aqueous 3y ago
Because there couldn’t be a relationship between ‘causing brain lesions with frequent use’ and ‘acting weird?’
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by Aqueous 3y ago
This is a common misunderstanding. The main mechanism for self-correction in science isn't about replicating or refuting findings. It's about which science survives to become the basis of other science. If a finding does not bear
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by Aqueous 3y ago
Can you tell us the obstacles for incorporating learnings from or even backporting the work from PyPi back into CPython?
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by Aqueous 3y ago
thought this was "The 'three things' exercise for getting out of talks." I'd be very interested to read that article.
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by Aqueous 3y ago
I think almost more offensively, is the concession that he did Nobel-level work but was ‘No Einstein.’ We are talking about the smallest fraction of individuals who are capable of insight in physics at that level, and I can’t help but think
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by Aqueous 3y ago
I honestly don’t see what demographic the Mac Pro serves that the Mac Studio doesn’t.
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by Aqueous 3y ago
Very good point - a huge chunk of the slowdown also comes from all the work around ensuring operational excellence. Monitoring, dashboards, testing, logging, CI. It's an incredible amount of labor to create production quality software
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by Aqueous 3y ago
It often strikes me as difficult to fathom that it took only a couple engineers a few months to build the MVP of the company I work for - that has since grown to be a global, publicly traded corporation with many thousands of employees - bu
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by Aqueous 3y ago
It seems like a lot of writing, including this, that might otherwise aspire to ‘solve the hard problem of consciousness’ instead attempts to explain why experience is needed, or how it came to be advantageous and evolve, and not how it is p
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by Aqueous 3y ago
When you say oversmart are you taking about people who believe they are very smart or people who are actually very smart? Your ‘no experience’ comment makes it seem like the former. And if they are not actually smart, you can probably demon
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by Aqueous 3y ago
Why is this the top story? This is a major foot gun. Don’t write business logic in the database. You may think you are simplifying things but in fact you are making them more complex. Instead adopt a solution for structuring your business l
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by Aqueous 4y ago
What's easier - managing cloud costs or managing a datacenter or co-located physical hardware and setting up and maintaining all the functionality you need to do proper CI / deployments / monitor uptime / data analytics?
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by Aqueous 4y ago
Love the idea that a bunch of managers who failed to control their cloud spend are now blaming the cloud for their failure to control costs. The problem isn't the cloud it's that they are just wantonly spending money without the p
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by Aqueous 4y ago
You can’t see how one story makes them look much worse than the other, especially after a potential years-long cover up?
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by Aqueous 4y ago
This has gotta be one of the dumbest, most self-negating arguments I’ve seen so far. ‘I asked Nature to request that Shi publish several SARS-related coronavirus sequences that had been reported in the journal. Within days, she provided the
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by Aqueous 4y ago
Either I'm confused or the article is. Article seems to keep relating higher complexity to higher organization. But higher complexity is tied to higher entropy and dis organization, not higher organization. Generally, more complexity
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by Aqueous 4y ago
Doesn't just stopping using version ranges also help with this? I've never understood why people would allow a package manager to update a piece of their code for them automatically. Using specifiers like ^1.5.3, allowing package
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by Aqueous 4y ago
should GPT be putting a signature into any text it produces, a kind of watermark or attestation? it could be even embedded in the characters themselves. Obviously not foolproof as you can simply remove it but for those who forget it would b
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by Aqueous 4y ago
I think it does the opposite of not inspiring confidence. A good leader knows when they’re facing a tough problem that they don’t have all the answers for and they need help solving it. Reaching out for that help rather than trying to muddl
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by Aqueous 4y ago
starship is too whiz bang and not casual and cool enough. i suspect once space travel is common and every day enough it will become mundane to talk about it and at that point an improper noun like ‘can’ will become commonplace. i figure thi
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by Aqueous 4y ago
George Hotz is exactly the kind of cowboy programmer that drives me up a wall. I encounter them in my company all the time. Due to some early success ( or even not ) a Self-absorbed, know-it-all who can produce gobs of code in the mold of a

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