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by abernard1 6mo ago
My sole comment is that people who use verbiage like this are mentally ill. Not "mentally ill" like I'm calling them an epithet. But like, actually mentally ill. There are things that are simply not pedagogically useful in th
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by abernard1 6mo ago
Amazing that choice of curricula for elementary schoolchildren draws such a reaction. Kids can read whatever they and their parents want. Schools don't have to teach it.
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by abernard1 6mo ago
All of which is confirming my point. The Iranians are a beautiful people and a beautiful culture that is still run by maniacs. The original person's implication that the "antagonism" towards the IRGC is novel to America is si
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by abernard1 6mo ago
"antagonistic" They are a theocratic regime which is not supported by 80% of its population. Being gay is punishable by death. They employ surveillance from China to ensure hijabs are worn by women at all times. They ban access to
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by abernard1 6mo ago
Most likely motivational media for their new child recruits: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/04/iran-recruitm...
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by abernard1 9mo ago
They of course are "not better than in the USA." But one can hold that weight long past you're drowned in the ocean.
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by abernard1 9mo ago
Whatever the epithets, the truth of the matter is those urban areas are closer to what Canada aspires to be (and currently is). Whereas the parts of Canada she cares about are alive and well in the US (and used to be more like what Canada w
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by abernard1 9mo ago
> When I think about the counterfactual me that grew up in a large American city, New York or L.A. instead of Toronto, And just think, those are the American areas most common to Canada. There are places in America where those counterf
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by abernard1 9mo ago
> This ICE stuff is that scaled up to a multi-billion dollar federal agency with, apparently, no accountability for following the law at all. It should be mentioned that "illegal" is a definitive word. There are definitely peop
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by abernard1 10mo ago
By all means use Segment. Segment was a great technology with an incredible technical vision for what they wanted to do. I was in conversations in that office on Market far beyond what they ended up doing post-acquisition. But a company tha
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by abernard1 10mo ago
> The "micro" in "microservice" doesn't refer to how it is deployed, it refers to how the service is "micro" in responsibility. The "micro" in microservice was a marketing term to distinguish
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by abernard1 10mo ago
I remember when microservices were introduced and they were solving real problems around 1) independent technological decisions with languages, data stores, and scaling, and 2) separating team development processes. They came out of Amazon,
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by abernard1 10mo ago
They also failed as a company, which is why that's on Twilio's blog now. So there's that. Undoubtedly their microservices architecture was a bad fit because of how technically focused the product was. But their solution with
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by abernard1 10mo ago
I've been developing under that understanding since before Fowler-said-so. His take is simply a description of a phenomenon predating the moniker of microservices. SOA with things like CORBA, WSDL, UDDI, Java services in app servers et
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by abernard1 10mo ago
A useful distinction I've made before is that of technical vs business services. This also mirrors the alignment that arises in tech companies between platform (very useful to be centralized) vs architecture. Platform technologies are
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by abernard1 11mo ago
We should terraform Australia first. Gigantic. Full of energy. Able to support massive inland freshwater lakes with desalinization. Essentially unlimited solar yet unable to utilize spare capacity. And it's already been wrecked from bi
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by abernard1 2y ago
As a history refresher: DOGE is part of the USDS, created by Barack Obama in 2014. Dealing with PII was an overt part of their remit, as the Medicare system (written in COBOL) had substantial difficulties dealing with regulatory change, and
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by abernard1 2y ago
I was asked to join USDS by the head of the agency in 2018. I am fully aware of the widespread fraud they were encountering, as well as the technical difficulties of fixing it. I am also aware of the less-than-neutral culture that pervaded
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by abernard1 2y ago
The USAID revelation revealed how they were funded. Along with thousands of other news organizations domestically and globally.
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by abernard1 2y ago
My comment was simply in direct relation to the poster's comment about trustworthiness of government. But as to your assertion of "illegally terminated," let me provide some context. Not a single lawsuit has provided evidence
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by abernard1 2y ago
Your comment is quite extraordinary as Orwell's work dealt with an unthinking bureaucracy resembling the Soviet Union. He also had the foresight to see the U.K. could be a totalitarian state. An honest assessment of the revelations of
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by abernard1 2y ago
As you are not an American, let me educate on what that bill did. Much like the "Inflation Reduction Act" which was a clean energy bill that had nothing to do with inflation, the bill did the exact opposite of what it claimed. - I
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by abernard1 2y ago
The author identifies problems with a system measuring targets, but then all the proposals are about increasing the power and control of the system. Perhaps the answer—as hippy sounding as it is—is to reduce the control of the system outrig
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by abernard1 2y ago
The reason it is an indictment of their reasoning capability is that—no matter how much energy is spent trying to say they are not—these are really stochastic parrots: they do not understand the symbols they are operating with. They operat
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by abernard1 2y ago
> just like you wouldn't judge a blind person's intelligence for not being able to tell if an image is red or blue. I would judge a blind person's intelligence if they couldn't remember the last sentence they spoke wh
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by abernard1 2y ago
> The line defining “code” and “data” is thus heavily blurred and any argument about how humans are far superior because of the “reduced number of training examples” is definitely missing the millennia of evolution that created us in the
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by abernard1 2y ago
An honorific. So much of this dynamic language performance improvement on the Graal JVM was proven out by Chris Seaton. May he rest in peace.
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by abernard1 2y ago
All this is saying is our neural architecture has specific places that respond to danger and the instinct of fear. Anyone who has seen an MRI knows this is the case. It does not mean actual knowledge of snakes is encoded in our DNA. Our b
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by abernard1 2y ago
Some of this can be fixed with architecture, some with tech practices. In no specific order: - Create a concept of an "enrollment" that is different than an "account." It allows record-keeping for the steps leading up t
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by abernard1 2y ago
DNA is around ~725 megabytes. There is no "snakes are dangerous" encoded in there. Our training data is instinctual behaviors we recognize from our sensory inputs. The idea that we're "pre-trained" the way an LLM

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