EastLondonCoder

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by EastLondonCoder 9mo ago
This frames escalation as if it’s an inevitable byproduct of “not cooperating,” but that’s a choice. Sanctuary policies generally limit voluntary local participation (e.g., detainers without judicial warrants), they don’t “block” federal en
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by EastLondonCoder 9mo ago
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by EastLondonCoder 9mo ago
“Optics” is the wrong frame: this is about legitimacy and consent. A referendum demanded by outsiders under pressure is just coercion with a procedural costume. Imagine Cuba proposing a referendum on Puerto Rico joining Cuba and calling it
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by EastLondonCoder 9mo ago
Not American. Also: reputational damage isn’t a skin that sheds when a government changes; allies and markets adapt structurally.
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by EastLondonCoder 9mo ago
This isn’t really about Greenland’s strategic value; it’s about the category error. You can trade goods, sign treaties, and negotiate basing rights. You can’t “buy” a people or their sovereignty especially when they don’t consent. That’s wh
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by EastLondonCoder 9mo ago
Staff-level frontend/system engineer based in Sweden. 20+ years experience shipping performance-critical, real-time, and composable interfaces in production. Previous work includes: • Custom poker clients and in-house game engines (Gam
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by EastLondonCoder 10mo ago
I’ve ended up with a workflow that lines up pretty closely with the guidance/oversight framing in the article, but with one extra separation that’s been critical for me. I’m working on a fairly messy ingestion pipeline (Instagram expor
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by EastLondonCoder 10mo ago
That’s deliberate. “Correct” implies anchoring to a truth function the model doesn’t have. “Plausible” is what it’s actually optimising for, and the disconnect between the two is where most of the surprises (and pitfalls) show up. As someon
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by EastLondonCoder 10mo ago
I think of it like improvising with a very skilled but slightly alien musician. If you just hand it a chord chart, it’ll follow the structure. But if you understand the kinds of patterns it tends to favour, the statistical shapes it moves t
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by EastLondonCoder 10mo ago
I’ve been using GPT-4o and now 5.2 pretty much daily, mostly for creative and technical work. What helped me get more out of it was to stop thinking of it as a chatbot or knowledge engine, and instead try to model how it actually works on a
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by EastLondonCoder 10mo ago
I’m with the people pushing back on the “confidence scores” framing, but I think the deeper issue is that we’re still stuck in the wrong mental model. It’s tempting to think of a language model as a shallow search engine that happens to out
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by EastLondonCoder 11mo ago
System developer with 20+ years of experience building performant, component-based UIs and real-time systems. I enjoy functional programming and use functional techniques daily for clarity and composability. Recent work includes the TiVo sm
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by EastLondonCoder 11mo ago
I agree that the explicit timeline you get with immutability is certainly helpful, but I also think its much easier to understand the total state of a program. When an imperative program runs you almost always have to reproduce a bug in ord
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by EastLondonCoder 11mo ago
After a 2 year Clojure stint I find it very hard to explain the clarity that comes with immutability for programmers used to trigger effects with a mutation. I think it may be one of those things you have to see in order to understand.
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by EastLondonCoder 1y ago
I’ve been using git for remote collaboration music production for 5 years. We sometimes use branches as well when we are working in let’s two ideas for a bass line. We’ve not really had any issues other than that we need git lfs. The workfl
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by EastLondonCoder 1y ago
Many years ago I used to work for a company in the gambling domain. There was a story going around from years before I joined that hardware TNRGs where used. And one day they failed. I can't remember precisely but heat was involved in
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by EastLondonCoder 1y ago
Clojure/Script and JavaScript/TypeScript dev with 25 years of experience. I've built high performance 2d game engines, 2 poker clients and quite a few MVC frameworks. I like functional techniques, react/redux, react hook
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by EastLondonCoder 2y ago
Clojure/Script and JavaScript/TypeScript dev with 25 years of experience. I've built high performance 2d game engines, 2 poker clients and quite a few MVC frameworks. I like functional techniques, react/redux, react hook
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A real case of Bobby Tables?(parallelparliament.co.uk)
153 points by EastLondonCoder 3y ago|98 comments
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by EastLondonCoder 3y ago
Made by the design agency Söderhavet in Stockholm. More info here https://soderhavet.com/work/sweden/
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Promising cancer vaccine trials by BioNTech(cnbc.com)
2 points by EastLondonCoder 4y ago|0 comments
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by EastLondonCoder 4y ago
Is it really that hard though? On the top of my mind I can come up with several success stories of solving tragedy of the commons type of problems. For example: Global regulation around CFCs made the ozone hole shrink The don't mess wi
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by EastLondonCoder 4y ago
One of the first things I did as a professional programmer was to make a game for blind people where you used audio for navigation. The game was developed in cooperation with a school for blind kids and them using echo location to various d
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by EastLondonCoder 4y ago
This is true, my partner is a social worker and applied for this. It works.
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More evidence for liquid water on Mars(gizmodo.com)
4 points by EastLondonCoder 4y ago|0 comments
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Rotary Cell Phone(youtube.com)
2 points by EastLondonCoder 4y ago|0 comments
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by EastLondonCoder 4y ago
What about https://xtdb.com/
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The trend of using Finnish words for brands(bloomberg.com)
1 points by EastLondonCoder 4y ago|1 comments
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by EastLondonCoder 5y ago
Apparently Eviation is looking into aluminium air batteries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eviation_Alice
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by EastLondonCoder 5y ago
And it can be replicated in a school setting! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbucRPiL92Q

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