LargeWu

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by LargeWu 1y ago
First AI is creating our art and pretty soon it will be playing with our toys for us too
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by LargeWu 1y ago
It has almost certainly already been breached.
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by LargeWu 2y ago
"because work is being delivered" This is debatable. My company now mandates all contractors sourced via one specific firm, and more recently that 70% of contractors are located "offshore", which in practice means India.
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by LargeWu 2y ago
This implies it's intentional, that there's some sort of master plan. I don't think that's it. I think he's just intoxicated by the prospect of basically unlimited power and is unable to think rationally about the e
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by LargeWu 2y ago
Jeff Bezos himself could be considered a mega-corporation. We're at the point where the personal wealth of oligarchs such as him has begun eclipsing the wealth of all but the very largest corporations. His own personal wealth would ran
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by LargeWu 2y ago
"Bad spending", according to who? Conservatively, 20% of the nation's wealth goes to the top 1%. The people who need it the least. I can buy the argument that we could be more effective with spending, but not with the idea th
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by LargeWu 2y ago
Scaling with GDP, rather than population, implies that government spending is scaling with the country's ability to provide services commensurate with prosperity.
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by LargeWu 2y ago
Yes, certainly Elon Musk, who owns SpaceX, has no conflicting interest in privatizing America's space operations...
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by LargeWu 2y ago
Why the assumption that an API endpoint should be a 1:1 mapping to a database table? There is no reason we need to force that constraint. It's perfectly legitimate to consider your resource to encompass the business logic for that use
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by LargeWu 2y ago
"It's just an OTA software update" The way the fix is applied is irrelevant. The important thing is that their vehicles have a safety issue and it needs to be fixed and documented for each vehicle.
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by LargeWu 2y ago
I take "fast" here to mean "written to delivery business value as soon as possible"
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by LargeWu 2y ago
This is what fascism looks like.
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by LargeWu 2y ago
The idea that most people just have an extra $7k a year sitting around to put into a retirement account they won't be able to access for decades seems pretty out of touch. A lot of people are just getting by. Additionally, if you live
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by LargeWu 2y ago
Of course voters are subject to propaganda. YOU are subject to propaganda. Yes, you.
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by LargeWu 2y ago
A good reminder never to assume somebody is in an executive position because they are smart or competent. Often they're just sociopaths.
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by LargeWu 2y ago
I think the fact that the PRC would rather burn it all down rather than allow it to be sold speaks volumes that it's not about TikTok as a business venture.
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by LargeWu 2y ago
I would argue that even though you're not on tiktok, you are being influenced by the narrative that China is pushing. There are numerous genocides happening in the world today. Sudan. China (try talking about THAT one on TikTok...). Wh
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by LargeWu 2y ago
It's not about getting our data. The TikTok algorithm is already being used to sow discord by showing stuff the PRC wants impressionable Americans to see. This ability of an adversarial foreign nation to surgically push individualized
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by LargeWu 2y ago
The reflection and hot patching features are often called out as negatives, and in general I agree, but for the most part, they're non-factors. All of the "find_x_by_id_and_status()" methods that rely heavily on reflection ar
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by LargeWu 2y ago
There was a period of time around the height of Rails original heyday where the idea of a very opinionated, complete framework such as Rails got a lot of blowback, which gave rise to the Javascript ecosystem and its myriad front-end framewo
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by LargeWu 2y ago
Norway is famous for the Vikings, who were bringing global culture back home a thousand years ago.
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by LargeWu 2y ago
Correct. A graduate degree in economics is much closer to an applied math degree than something that resembles what we would traditionally consider social sciences.
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by LargeWu 2y ago
Depending on the use case, you don't need to store the entire implementation of the item on chain, just a reference to it. All the implementation could still be stored game-side. You could also apply nerfs/buffs over the top of an
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by LargeWu 2y ago
Thanks for the history lesson. I think this is a much more compelling argument than "blockchain dumb".
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by LargeWu 2y ago
If you invested hundreds of hours into a game and accumulated a significant pile of rare items with in-game utility, and then decided you were done with the game, would you rather a) have the option to sell them for real money or b) have th
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by LargeWu 2y ago
So, the use case I'm thinking of is more along the lines of non-cosmetic assets. Take FIFA Ultimate Team, for example. The way it works currently is that each player in the game has one or more "cards", or sets of stats. Spec
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by LargeWu 2y ago
Gaming is actually a pretty reasonable use case for NFT's, or blockchain generally. At it's core, an NFT is a digital asset with verifiable ownership. Many, many games have the concept of owning digital assets; the fact that they&
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by LargeWu 2y ago
I think it could be argued the problem isn't schools, but families. Or, more precisely, a large subset of families with school aged children do not value education, whether out of apathy or survival. Educational outcomes across socioec
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by LargeWu 2y ago
well, they are part of the original, canonical problem. it's not the original problem's fault if re-tellers omit key information.
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by LargeWu 2y ago
The host might be selecting between two goats, or might be selecting between a goat and a car. Either way, it doesn't matter because we don't get any additional information about whether our original choice was correct. (To clarif

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