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by Spivak 1y ago
I think we mythologize the relational model a bit too much to call nosql dbs vibe coding. DynamoDB is quite good and you can point to some very large customers using it successfully.
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by Spivak 1y ago
This argument can be applied equally against the weekend so I'm not sure it holds that much water. We've figured out how to have people work 5 out of 7 days, what drastically changes if it becomes 4? What if it had always been 4?
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by Spivak 1y ago
I think the article is better without the pearl clutching of how could our righteous and holy OpenAI promote such sinful language— like yeah this is a hilarious blunder for them but the incel world itself the far more interesting part. Even
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by Spivak 1y ago
Well the main barrier is that getting a radio that transmits on 304MHz is a huge PITA so you end up having to go full SDR to get that frequency and it's way more effort than the off-the-shelf 433Mhz boards that control other small ele
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by Spivak 1y ago
> For example, annual jobs can be represented as a infinite looping program that sleeps for a year Does your system actually implement true durable compute? Like I can restart my mac or stop the daemon and it's (apparently) not only
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by Spivak 1y ago
I think the point is that GraphQL solves the problem, a client only actually needing a subset of the data, by allowing the client to request only those fields.
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by Spivak 1y ago
But 45% of companies don't regret replacing their workers with AI? You can't tell me that those numbers aren't a massive success story for AI vendors.
908.
by Spivak 1y ago
So you have two prompts, one is ambiguous and the second is the same prompt but with the ambiguity resolved. In the first prompt the replicated pattern is to ask for clarification, in the second prompt the replicated pattern is to perform t
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by Spivak 1y ago
I don't think there's a dichotomy anymore, every car manufacturer is a tech company now. Tesla is a car company run like a tech company and I'll take Honda or Toyota over them every time. And it's not like the tech chops
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by Spivak 1y ago
It's a whole separate skill to be able to code with an audience, let alone an audience who is judging you. I could forgive a non-technical interviewer not knowing this but surely someone who is a dev themselves understands the very rea
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by Spivak 1y ago
I will take the other side of that bet. I've joked for years about aspartame surely going to give me cancer and yet despite the not inconsiderable amount of research into it trying to find a smoking gun the results are at best vaguely
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by Spivak 1y ago
People are being really weird about greens which have almost no caloric value and supplementary health benefits at best when for all of human history the name of the game is cheap readily available carbs, fats, sugars, and protein. That&#x2
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by Spivak 1y ago
> It's easy to inadvertently break one's system rpm/yum/dnf actually have a system for this called protected packages which can't be uninstalled without some ceremony on the part of the caller. Distros use this f
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by Spivak 1y ago
This is my read on the situation. I have been weirded out when I get "excellent" service at a restaurant. Like my friend, you literally aren't getting paid enough to give this much of a shit. You're doing me a favor by w
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by Spivak 1y ago
From the article: > Flanked by Dr. Marty Makary and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who lead the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health, Mr. Kennedy said in the video announcement that there was no clinical data to supp
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by Spivak 1y ago
> For customers, paying with bitcoin is as simple as scanning a QR code at checkout Well yes but where's the rest of the owl? Is it assumed I already have some software ready to send my BTC via Lightning to the merchant's walle
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by Spivak 1y ago
pydantic does have @validate_call for this use-case.
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by Spivak 1y ago
next() is just sugar for iter.__next__() A common case where you would have a free function which mutates its parameter would be a function which takes a file handle but it's also the case that you wouldn't have a mutable default
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by Spivak 1y ago
America the land-mass and US citizens, of course people don't hate us. America the political entity represented on the world stage by our government, oh yeah people are pissed.
920.
by Spivak 1y ago
There is an ecosystem of competing CDNs. Blocking any one CDN necessarily impacts all the sites hosted on that CDN. This is a function of being a webhost with multiple customers not being Cloudflare specifically.
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by Spivak 1y ago
Python made a choice to have default values instead of default expressions and it comes with positive and negative trade-offs. In languages like Ruby with default expressions you get the footgun the other way where calling a function with
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by Spivak 1y ago
Does it actually matter that Discord is closed or would the problem still exist if Matrix won and the content contained within was nonetheless still not indexable by search engines and communities were invite only? Because the fact that Dis
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by Spivak 1y ago
> least in the US there has been a shortage of elderly care workers Well yeah, because it's difficult, taxing, often traumatic work that pays the same as any other nursing job with a higher QoL and social status. And even then they&
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by Spivak 1y ago
Yes? Old age, and to an extent disability, are great systems for deciding this because unless you die young everyone becomes both.
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by Spivak 1y ago
Concert tickets are still that low, you just can't go to stadium shows for supermassive artists at that price. A saturday night at a popular EDM venue with a 2k capacity headlining an artist with ~500k monthly listeners on Spotify will
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by Spivak 1y ago
You can solve the means problem by making everyone wealthier or by lowering everyone's expectations. The problem is that "how much it costs to raise children" is dependent on your environment. One group's normal is anoth
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by Spivak 1y ago
I mean the real answer for how to "mind control" players into following your throughline is just leaning on the existing industry visual grammar for communicating with players. * Make the place you want the player to go lit up, an
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by Spivak 1y ago
Like for example you can play every GameCube game that was ever released for the system. There's readily available archives you can download and well-known console mods available to play them. This kind of thing just isn't possibl
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by Spivak 1y ago
> Why are the fancy ones all top cut instead of side cut? It's just weird that way. How very dare you. They're the superior cut and it's appalling side cut even exists. To answer your question though it's because th
930.
by Spivak 1y ago
You would buy them out so they could focus 100% of their time to an endeavor that doesn't bring in any money except from a ludicrously generous gift from Google that might be illegal? Like I get it, I wish they could just be a browser

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