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by WJW 3mo ago
I don't think it'll be too hard; you can build infinite legendary iron from just a dozen or so foundries on Vulcanus. Legendary coal and stone are not much harder, and from legendary coal you get legendary plastic and then legenda
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by WJW 3mo ago
I'm especially stoked about space-to-space logistics. One of my first projects will be an in-orbit space platform factory, so that making a new space ship won't take a bazillion rocket launches just for the platforms.
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by WJW 3mo ago
How does that change matters? If anything that makes it even worse. If not enough of your people can't be bothered to join the military even when an enemy army is invading, perhaps the country in question should draw the conclusion it&
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by WJW 3mo ago
If the country doesn't have enough people to defend it, perhaps it's good and just that some other community gets to control the territory? A country isn't really anything except for its people, after all.
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by WJW 4mo ago
Why do you think stablecoins cannot be taken away? There are already many cases where eg Tether got a court summons and handed over the contents of certain wallets to the local authorities.
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by WJW 4mo ago
Not GP, but I think they mean usecases like limiting how many times any given IP address can access an API to a certain amount of calls per minute. For example, you might want to restrict login attempts to at most 10 per minute per IP to pr
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by WJW 4mo ago
Non-caching things I regularly see people do with Redis: - Rate limits for API endpoints via the leaky bucket algorithm - Feature flags and stats tracking - Websocket pub/sub - Background job queue In general, lots of things that need
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by WJW 4mo ago
Oh don't worry, if history is any indication it shouldn't be much longer than 30-40 years from now. Basically 2 generations from the previous shift. In the meantime, be the change you want to see! You don't have to be darker&
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by WJW 4mo ago
Not GP, but after doing Crafting Interpreters I was kinda left with a gap in my knowledge regarding the conversion of an AST into native code. Also kinda missing was optimization passes over an AST. I somewhat understand the idea, but it wo
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by WJW 4mo ago
Stick two of them together on the same axle then.
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by WJW 4mo ago
Eh. The only real things you need are: - On startup processing begins at a known address, and you put the bootloader code over there. Hardware engineers can guarantee this for you. - Every time you execute an assembly instruction, the progr
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by WJW 4mo ago
Ehm no? Do it yourself if you want. I'm already happy.
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by WJW 4mo ago
Well the most basic redis replacement would be just a global hashmap to replace GET and SET, possibly with a background thread to periodically delete expired keys. But obviously that stops working as soon as you get a second node. The entir
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by WJW 4mo ago
On a plane built in 2025 and only started doing production flights in February this year. There's video of the incident and it really does like it just suddenly collapses. Several people injured but thankfully nobody died. Insane how B
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by WJW 4mo ago
This entire article tries to make a point that it's not just "great men" or "structural forces" alone being responsible for the course of history, but then completely misses the point again by labeling someone in po
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by WJW 4mo ago
Well obviously. Vesting schedules are explicitly designed the way they are to keep people around. That's their entire purpose. Retirement is inherently a choice to earn less lifetime money and pour that time into family and other thing
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by WJW 4mo ago
For myself I usually call it "(not) playing to win", after David Sirlin's book (see also https://www.sirlin.net/ptw for the free web version). In it, he describes a phenomenon in competitive videogaming where
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by WJW 4mo ago
Sure but these things are not really "odds" anymore, right? The most searched terms might be a mystery to the general public , but not to the engineers at Google. It gets even murkier when you can influence the outcome. The exact
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by WJW 5mo ago
Sure they do: https://prodemos.nl/kennis/informatie-over-politiek/wat-is-e...
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by WJW 5mo ago
Sanctioning people is basically risk-free and more importantly dollar-free. Fighting wars is extremely not-free, as Trump is currently discovering in Iran. I personally rate the risk of the US actually invading Greenland as not higher than
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by WJW 5mo ago
It's not only about the data, it's about the risk that the US would basically turn off things like tax collection and doctors' visits in the Netherlands as part of (say) a first strike on Greenland. Sure, the chance is low. B
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by WJW 5mo ago
So what do you expect the outcome to be if Trump complains to Rutte, who will then do... what exactly? Ask the current PM to do him a favor because of "reasons"? An overwhelming majority of people in the Netherlands oppose selling
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by WJW 5mo ago
It would be so much easier if we could precisely specify what we wanted, without all the double meanings, slang and general ambiguity that comes from using a natural language. If only there was an entire class of well-studied languages whic
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by WJW 5mo ago
Maybe we can have Large Logic Models instead, and they could have formalized keywords with rigid meanings? Like IF, WHILE and FOREACH maybe. Or even ASYNC if you want to be modern about it.
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by WJW 5mo ago
There's also "slow compared to C" and "slow enough that you notice when using it as an interactive shell". Running something like `Dir.each_child('.') {|x| p x}` in the interpreter completes in 1.3 millise
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by WJW 5mo ago
So there is a project that you care enough about to keep it alive, but 1-2 hours every FOUR YEARS is too much? At some point I just have to call you lazy dude. Either the 1-2 hours is a drop in the bucket compared to what you spend on it an
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by WJW 5mo ago
America: You need to be more self sufficient and not lean on us so much! Europe: <launches European payment initiative> America: NOT LIKE THAT!!!
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by WJW 5mo ago
Eh. Words get overloaded all the time and this is a website focusing on programming after all. Would you consider "Python by example" or "C by example" to need disambiguation because they're not about snakes or abou
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by WJW 5mo ago
Like NASA rockets don't have components whose manufacture is very carefully distributed over all US states just to keep the senators happy. In any case, there are plenty of EU giants (ASML, SAP, Siemens, Alstom, Rheinmetall, etc) tha
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by WJW 5mo ago
> I hate that this shit goes unpunished. The apes did get punished though? And the hedge funds correctly took advantage of irrational behavior by other actors in the market. This is how price-finding in the markets is supposed to work, I

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