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by WJW 3y ago
The article also points out that programming, even more than other professions, suffers from a lack of available "old people in the trenches" who can pass on these ideas to newcomers. This is because: - the field has been growing
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by WJW 3y ago
> in any matter they want. Then the next sentence immediately goes into ways in which it is not intended to be used. Make up your mind guys.
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by WJW 3y ago
"I could fix it myself if needed" quite often comes up on HN and other programmer forums but I honestly have to wonder how many people could actually fix deep issues in production grade software. For example, there are plenty of
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by WJW 3y ago
If I were writing such a system it would have very straightforward if-statements linked directly to FAA requirements. No faffy AI stuff is needed.
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by WJW 3y ago
Best I could find was this: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2377785/Google-CEO-... But: - 15 million not 30. - The women he had affairs with don't seem to have been prostitutes and a fair bit older t
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by WJW 3y ago
I don't think you can really say you've "killed" something if it comes back within hours.
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by WJW 3y ago
It's a little bit more complicated than that, it was "the rules said so" and then they just used humans to check if people used the rules. The government at the time was very hard on fraud after a couple of high-profile fraud
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by WJW 3y ago
> The risks in terms of privacy and copyright infringements are currently too high, State Secretary Alexandra van Huffelen (Digital Affairs) said in a draft proposal... Seems reasonable to me. > Van Huffelen added that she doesn’t wan
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by WJW 3y ago
Even easier (and much less error prone when it comes to ACID properties) would be to scale the single instance DB vertically instead.
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by WJW 3y ago
In addition to being non-orthodox, you also have to be right AND it has to be about a topic that lends itself to having a good payoff. You can be unorthodox and right about something but since the thing is 80s era laptop stand color scheme
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by WJW 3y ago
I like lisp but that is saying your dog is very big for a chihuahua.
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by WJW 3y ago
Sure? That doesn't even matter for normal computers though. Busy beaver algorithms can be described in very few lines of code but can generate incredible complexity. It's not super difficult to devise an algorithm that would need
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by WJW 3y ago
From the article: While we are ultimately interested in the physical limits of computers in our universe, working within the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence gives us a precise framework for quantum gravity. As well, a fundamental
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by WJW 3y ago
That makes sense. The whole point of the theory about holographic spacetime is that the 3d universe is completely described by the information densities on its edge. This implies that if you need to contain a computation involving a certain
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by WJW 3y ago
"Always" correct is a very high bar and likely unattainable. It seems much more likely that the amount of errors will trend downwards but never quite reach zero. How could it be otherwise? AIs are not magic god-machines, they have
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by WJW 3y ago
One of those is not like the others. Elevator operators disappeared entirely while the blacksmith profession morphed into the various type of metalworker that we still have today.
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by WJW 3y ago
Smallpox vaccines were quite controversial at the time and opponents went for much the same disinformation tactics as with the covid vaccines. For example, rumors that cow heads would start sprouting from your body were published ( https:&#
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by WJW 3y ago
Communities that wish to keep existing do need new users, yes. Existing users die, lose interest or leave in other ways and if they do not get replaced by new users, the end of the community is inevitable.
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by WJW 3y ago
Look how long it took for people in the Western world to unanimously accept that vaccines do indeed work and to comply with national immunization programs to protect those with compromised immune systems on whom the vaccines won't work
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by WJW 3y ago
Of course, but those were not yet available in 2017. Skaffold v0.1.0 was released in february 2018, v1.0 (first version number which we would've seriously considered) not until november 2019. ArgoCD v1.0 was released in may 2019. When
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by WJW 3y ago
Also out of all the problems with making your own jet engine, not having the plans is one of the smaller ones.
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by WJW 3y ago
Not GP, but one of my previous jobs used to have a deploy method of "ping one of the ops team on Slack to release a certain commit SHA to prod/staging/etc", which might easily take an hour or more if they were busy and&#
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by WJW 3y ago
Honestly asbestos (and by analogy graphene) would be some of the more benign chemicals involved in semiconductor manufacturing. It regularly uses carcinogens, things that will cause miscarriages in pregnant women and acids strong enough to
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by WJW 3y ago
It's really fascinating how long some of these things can carry on. One of my contracting clients has been going for over ten years (!!!) without ever making a profit and even now with the waves lapping at their feet they're still
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by WJW 3y ago
Their problem is also that "all time peak revenue" is not enough to cover even just the server costs, let alone salaries. They're bleeding 30 million USD per year with no path to profitability ever.
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by WJW 3y ago
It's useless to get into an escalatory war with the government. Even if you could get an indestructible wall they can just cut off water and power, then siege your home until you come out to get food or something like that.
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by WJW 3y ago
For sure. When you look at a used car lot or a smartphone for a few hundred dollars, it is easy to forget that they are the product of a system involving (at least!) hundreds of thousands of people working together in a system that has been
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by WJW 3y ago
Mass manufacturing is really hard, it's not really a surprise that many things that we can do on lab scale can't be made to work (in an economical fashion) at mass production scale.
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by WJW 3y ago
Paid in full with what money? There isn't any left. If anything, it is probably in the interest of the real estate owners to free up the building so that it can be leased out to someone else who can actually pay the rent. At the same t
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by WJW 3y ago
Don't forget to mention that most modern kibbutzim went bankrupt though. It turns out that the rest of the world doesn't stop competing with you just because you stop competing with them. See https://en.wikipedia.org&#x

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