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How Catastrophic Is It If the AI Bubble Bursts? An FAQ(theringer.com)
4 points by _bohm 11mo ago|1 comments
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by _bohm 1y ago
On the contrary, it is not a mundane issue. Traffic infractions and parking violations such as blocking bike lanes or crosswalks directly contribute to a less safe environment for everyone on the street. Traffic fatality is the third leadin
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by _bohm 1y ago
This is cool! @OP, are you the creator of Geoscript? I've never heard about this anywhere else before.
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by _bohm 1y ago
Most database systems are designed to amortize fsyncs when they have high write throughput. You want every write to be fsync'd, but you don't want to actually call fsync for each individual write operation.
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by _bohm 1y ago
It is really crazy how limited debugger options are on macOS. Is it simply the case that there are not that many people writing code in systems languages on macOS outside of XCode?
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by _bohm 1y ago
For sure. And oftentimes these less sexy features or certifications are much more cumbersome to implement/acquire than the flashy stuff these startups lead with
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by _bohm 1y ago
"Easy to provision" is mostly a strategic feature for acquiring new users/customers. The more difficult parts of building a database platform are reliability and performance, and it can take a long time to establish a reputat
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by _bohm 2y ago
While not about resentment towards universities specifically, I thought this article in The Baffler [1] did a good job of framing a dynamic that, I think, contributes to this phenomenon. My interpretation: As the country has entered the pos
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by _bohm 2y ago
Citizens United was certainly disastrous, but there were many avenues to buy political influence before it.
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by _bohm 2y ago
Having that power is inseparable from being a billionaire
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by _bohm 2y ago
My guess is that your original comment got downvoted because you characterized people with this kind of discretionary power as "upper middle " class (I would just call this upper class as it is realistically a very small portion
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by _bohm 2y ago
Read the interview that Ross Douthat did with him in the NYT
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by _bohm 2y ago
In general, everything allocated within an arena has its lifetime tied to that arena. In lots of situations this is a fine or even desirable property (e.g., a single request context in a server application), but can be a tough restriction t
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by _bohm 2y ago
They're a great fit in many situations but certainly not all. Why not teach programmers a variety of allocation strategies and how to recognize when each might be a good fit?
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by _bohm 2y ago
This is a fantastic post. I really feel like these concepts should be introduced to programmers much earlier on in their education and this article does a great job of presenting the info in an approachable manner.
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by _bohm 2y ago
Great article. Another example I'm aware of is Blockhead, which is an experimental DAW that focuses on sampling and audio clip manipulation. The creator (@ColugoMusic on Twitter) regularly posts clips and progress, which I find fun to
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by _bohm 2y ago
There is a ton of reliable load-bearing software out there written in C++. I don't think the fact that a piece of software is written in C++ is enough to presume that it has memory leaks.
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by _bohm 2y ago
Depends on how you write tests. If you're writing tests by looking at the code you wrote and just asserting that it behaves as written, then yeah. If you're writing tests that assert that your code conforms to a predefined specifi
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by _bohm 3y ago
> Bids for construction of the proposed Outer Harbor Tunnel were opened in July 1970, but price proposals were substantially higher than the engineering estimates.[11] Officials drafted alternative plans, including a four-lane bridge, wh
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by _bohm 3y ago
In the US it seems there's still a decent appetite to connect to the history of the genre. Carl Craig, Kevin Saunderson, Juan Atkins, Jeff Mills, etc. still tour regularly. In NYC, DJ Assault is currently holding a residency at Market
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by _bohm 3y ago
It would be a bit of an apples-to-oranges comparison. FoundationDB is a distributed KV database that supports range queries. FASTER is an embedded KV store that only supports point lookups. The use cases for each are rather different.
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by _bohm 3y ago
You are equating the output of the model with the views of its creators. This incident may demonstrate some underlying dysfunction within Google but it strains credulity to believe that the creators actually think it is objectionable to gen
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by _bohm 3y ago
Maybe my comment wasn't clear. I don't mean to say that wokeness is defined as "idea that I disagree with", but that it is a politically charged term that is not merely synonymous with "overcorrection", as the
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by _bohm 3y ago
"Wokeness" is a politically charged term typically used by people of a particular political persuasion to describe people with whom they disagree. If you asked the creators of Gemini why they altered the model from it's initi
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by _bohm 3y ago
There are some people who are arguing this point, with whom I agree. There are others who are arguing that this is indicative of some objectionable ideological stance held by Google that genuinely views generating images of white people as
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by _bohm 3y ago
It’s being politically sensitive to assert that this was obviously the intent of Google and that it demonstrates that they’re wholly consumed by the woke mind virus, or whatever, as many commenters have done. The sensible alternative explan
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by _bohm 3y ago
Reading the OP charitably, I think it was a genuine mistake.
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by _bohm 3y ago
Would add: Go and protobuf/gRPC
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by _bohm 3y ago
> cultural marxists I think maybe you mean just "Marxists". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_th... To your question, I do think the term is becoming heavily watered down as I see i
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by _bohm 3y ago
GCP started turning a profit last year.

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