Taikonerd

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by Taikonerd 8mo ago
I would also say (d) make it clear to the Soviet Union that, if they invaded West Germany, it would not just be an intra-European war; it would be a world war.
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by Taikonerd 8mo ago
> If you need granular control over every tiny aspect of your container orchestration — network policies, pod scheduling, resource quotas, multi-tenant isolation, custom admission controllers, autoscaling on custom metrics — Kubernetes
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by Taikonerd 8mo ago
IIUC, this was a finding when they ran the Polis experiments in Taiwan: when you map the arguments of the different sides, there are actually large areas of agreement. In other words, the median person who disagrees with you is a "pot
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by Taikonerd 8mo ago
> The thing nobody's talking about is that none of this AI automation works without Backstage doing the boring work of tracking who owns what, how things build, and what depends on what. Do you mean that Backstage has the metadata
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by Taikonerd 8mo ago
This is awful news. I mean, presumably some future Democratic administration will reinstate the rule. But with this precedent set, this might become a switch that turns on and off every time the political winds change. When Republicans ar
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by Taikonerd 8mo ago
> Just adding another service is easy, but making them work seamlessly together is much harder. This argument in favor of PaaS makes a lot of sense to me. A PaaS vendor might say, "sure, you could set up your own observability
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by Taikonerd 9mo ago
Totally agree. But I mean: supposing that we had a voting system where minor parties were more viable and didn't play spoiler. What % of independents would register as Greens, or Libertarians, etc, in that system?
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by Taikonerd 9mo ago
I often wonder: if there were more parties in America, how many of these independents would register with one of them? In other words, if there's a record-high number of independents, how much of it is "market failure" where
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by Taikonerd 9mo ago
I just want to highlight Undue Medical Debt[0], the NGO that helped implement this. They have a fascinating model -- they can buy the right to collect medical debts for pennies on the dollar. That debt would normally be bought by debt-coll
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by Taikonerd 9mo ago
"Once you wanted revolution Now you're the institution How's it feel to be the man? It's no fun to be the man." - Ben Folds, "The Ascent of Stan" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caCuRqedslY
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by Taikonerd 9mo ago
Agreed. I tried using Gemini's voice interface in their app. It went like this: === ME: "OK, so, I have a question about the economics of medicine. Uh..." [pauses to gather thoughts to ask question] GEMINI: "Sure! Me
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by Taikonerd 9mo ago
> We need to go back to a system where there are apprentices and masters Apprenticeships are still around in the modern day -- including for white-collar jobs! Kelly Vedi writes a lot about this in her Substack: https://kel
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by Taikonerd 10mo ago
> for lab-tech salary This is something I don't understand. These companies make good profits -- why don't they pay their experts well?
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by Taikonerd 10mo ago
My impression (and I'm not a scientist) is that the mucosal overgrowth comes from eating an obesogenic diet. (Some combination of too much sugar / salt / wrong types of fat?) If you get the procedure and don't go back t
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by Taikonerd 10mo ago
Interesting link: a company called Fractyl Health is studying a surgical procedure they call "Revita," that they hope can keep weight off for patients after they discontinue GLP-1s.[0] The premise, IIUC, is that obesity is driven
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by Taikonerd 10mo ago
If you're seeing this project for the first time, this link may help: "Links to Explain Oils in 2025": https://oils.pub/blog/2025/12/links.html
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by Taikonerd 10mo ago
Thank you for these pointers!
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by Taikonerd 10mo ago
I feel like even people who don't care much about ideology care a great deal about how much they, personally, are going to be paid. Especially if they amount they're going to be paid is going from $LOTS to zero.
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by Taikonerd 10mo ago
IIUC, in the future, the SS tax isn't going to cover the benefits that SS will be obliged to pay out. So some analyses model the shortfall as coming out of the government's general budget. So, yeah, it's "separate"
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by Taikonerd 10mo ago
I got interested enough in the national debt to do some research: is there a single-issue NGO that's working on the national debt? With a platform that you could imagine a Democrat or a Republican supporting? I found the Concord Coa
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by Taikonerd 10mo ago
IANA economist, but if there were a debt crisis, it would ultimately be about the psychology of the investors who would buy government debt. They want to be very, very confident that they will be paid back (which is why they're willin
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by Taikonerd 10mo ago
Yeah, it seems very unfair. If Party A has 60% of the seats in the state legislature, and Party B has 40%, then intuitively it feels like Party A should get 60% of what it wants. But as you said, Party A actually gets more like 100% of wh
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by Taikonerd 10mo ago
I really like this idea. And it lets ideas grow more organically: instead of a promising pilot program in (say) Maryland which then tries to go national, there can be a club which grows gradually. Another state joins the club in 2026, the
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by Taikonerd 10mo ago
> there was no central public health department If only we had some sort of federal Center in charge of Disease Control... ;-) But I agree with you that the CDC was weirdly passive during COVID. You'd think it would have been the
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by Taikonerd 10mo ago
It's a truism that America's system was never designed -- it's a patchwork of different pieces that each pay for some people in some situations. But I've been reading about our system, since I fell down a rabbit hole
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by Taikonerd 10mo ago
I'm really sorry to hear this. Gel really was an interesting product, and I really liked the idea that queries returned structs linked to other structs via properties, instead of rows like in SQL. I hope some other group picks up the
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by Taikonerd 11mo ago
> well, we never specified _which_ Christmas. The wider Perl community adopted that, and for years it was a running joke that Perl 6 would be "out by Christmas." Of course, people outside the Perl community didn't get
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by Taikonerd 11mo ago
I would also say -- in the late 90s, Perl's claim to fame was that it had CPAN . At the time, CPAN was revolutionary: a big, centralized repo of open-source libraries, which you could install with a single command. Now, of course, th
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Neuro-symbolic AI startup AUI announces new funding(venturebeat.com)
2 points by Taikonerd 11mo ago|1 comments
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by Taikonerd 11mo ago
Is the DX of ReasonML poor? (I haven't used it.) If so, that would be unfortunate... because the whole raison d'etre of ReasonML is DX! Specifically, to provide a more familiar syntax for programmers coming from the curly-brace

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