SmirkingRevenge

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by SmirkingRevenge 4mo ago
Polars and duckdb interoperate so it's not really one or the other. Other dataframe libraries work directly on duckdb also, like Ibis. FWIW, I think SQLAlchemy does also. In any case though, I find both the SQL and the code there equal
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by SmirkingRevenge 4mo ago
I don't really want the mecha-hitler model running towards me or anywhere
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by SmirkingRevenge 4mo ago
Musk is probably a clinical narcissist (NPD). If that's the case, no amount of power, status, or riches (or ketamine) will ever be enough Their motivations are often cartoonishly superficial and... well... stupid. Stupid in ways that a
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by SmirkingRevenge 4mo ago
* ZoomInfo
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by SmirkingRevenge 4mo ago
I don't know about that, but if they exist, they need to be stronger institutions that take more of an active role in picking/filtering candidates. The introduction of the partisan primary has been an unmitigated disaster for our
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by SmirkingRevenge 4mo ago
You’d be surprised how bad/incomplete the data usually is and how much work it takes to make those datasets really useful or reliable. That’s one reason Xoom Info was able to sell for a billion dollars and even their data has a lot of
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by SmirkingRevenge 4mo ago
A primary role of political parties has traditionally been to filter candidates. It's literally their raison d'etre Sanders wasn't even a Democrat. He switched solely to run in the primary. It's neither scandalous nor su
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by SmirkingRevenge 4mo ago
> Parties cater to their bases, and putting yourself out there as an unreliable voting bloc is exactly how you get your demands ignored. I wish more people understood this. Instead, there's this mistaken notion that you give away le
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by SmirkingRevenge 4mo ago
The trend has been going that direction, where low turnout elections favor Ds and high turnout favors Rs. But only kind of... that holds when Trump is on the ballot. Trump seems to activate a segment of low-info, low-propensity voters who s
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by SmirkingRevenge 4mo ago
IANAL, but from all the legal podcasts/commentary I consume, I get the general impression that standing is a bit of a mess and is applied in highly inconsistent ways throughout the legal system
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by SmirkingRevenge 4mo ago
Ah interesting history there, thanks. Maybe I'm using the term incorrectly The continuum I was picturing is: big central planning government <--> little-to-no government (anarchy) In any case, I guess I'm just restating a v
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by SmirkingRevenge 4mo ago
It's the anti-establishment impulse taken to extremes. Anarchism is one of the niche destinations of that mindset. Another, ironically, is full blown communism. What's sort of funny, is how all these seemingly polar-opposite anti-
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by SmirkingRevenge 5mo ago
> Trump seems to be able to do that well enough in the normal business world Eh it doesn't work any better in the business world really. His only move is shameless bullying, belligerence, and vexatious lawsuits. It works on some sma
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by SmirkingRevenge 5mo ago
> The U.S. is more diverse than it's ever been [1], and under Trump we're still below the deportations of Obama's terms. Ethnic diversity is neither really here nor there in terms of the measurable needs that immigration f
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by SmirkingRevenge 5mo ago
Ah yea, I've only owned one with the physical escape key. That would be annoying.
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by SmirkingRevenge 5mo ago
The parents tone wasn't warranted, but bugs like this could be more serious if combined with privilege escalation bugs in the sandbox. Ideally, sandboxes should be like Vegas - what happens in the sandbox stays in the sandbox. (I'
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by SmirkingRevenge 5mo ago
Man I miss the touch bar. Never got why people hated it so much
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by SmirkingRevenge 5mo ago
There's a darkly simple answer - they won't be provided for, they'll be culled.
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by SmirkingRevenge 5mo ago
Ah wow I see you did work for Code Weavers. You guys are rock stars! Once upon a time I was a paying customer (like in the early early aughts). Glad to see them still doing their thing.
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by SmirkingRevenge 5mo ago
Re-reading that, "most" might be too strong a word - "many" would be more accurate. A few recent examples of games I've tried: - Borderlands 4 was basically unplayable on my hardware (9800 X3D, 3080 TI) - though I d
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by SmirkingRevenge 5mo ago
The progress is vast, but at the same time, it feels overstated. Linux still is not a great daily driver for video games in many circumstances, unless you're on a specialized device like the steam deck that gets extra attention to smoo
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by SmirkingRevenge 6mo ago
> I’d say it’s the greatest potential modifier disability there is What a great way to describe it.
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by SmirkingRevenge 6mo ago
Yea, ADHD attention is a like targeting system that has only one setting - it's constantly seeking the most stimulating activity nearby and never stops - sometimes the most engaging feeling activity even changes from minute to minute.
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by SmirkingRevenge 6mo ago
I always picture it like trying to force and hold a strong magnet flush against the like pole of another. It seems like it will be easy at first, but the closer they get, the harder it becomes and just as you are about to manage it, they fl
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by SmirkingRevenge 6mo ago
Speaking for myself, it's less of a yearning to write more code, than it is a yearning for tools that work a specific way. I write plenty of code at my job, and generally don't have the desire to write more code as a hobby, except
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by SmirkingRevenge 6mo ago
Yep, I'm going to say the overwhelming use-case will be slop-4-revenue. Slop is starting to dominate uploads to some music services, so I think it will only get worse from here
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by SmirkingRevenge 6mo ago
To be fair, it really has been the structurally anti-democratic elements in the American system that enabled Trump to come to power in the first place, and that have allowed the GOP to remain competitive nationally for quite a long time, de
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by SmirkingRevenge 6mo ago
The two parties couldn't be more different today. Republicans are basically an authoritarian party that would be more at home in a place like Russia - or China - today. That being said, democracies are about generating consensus betwee
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by SmirkingRevenge 6mo ago
It's not true that people just sat by and watched. There was massive public backlash and real organized resistance, especially in the streets of Minneapolis. People literally put their lives on the line, communities banded together to
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by SmirkingRevenge 6mo ago
The moral high ground claims here can be generalized: Liberal democracies have moral high ground over authoritarian dictatorships (at least along that one dimension) The US is backsliding tragically (and stupidly) and may lose that moral hi

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