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by abraxas 4y ago
Yeah, I won't argue that we made no progress. But most of the amazing life expectancy progress came from combatting infant mortality. As you can see from your own sources, the life expectancy of a senior adult only increased by a handf
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by abraxas 4y ago
I think in due course you'll get to see how impotent a lot of modern medicine is when faced with certain maladies especially those that come with advanced age, e.g. cancers, strokes etc. We're far better at telling you what you&#x
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by abraxas 4y ago
It's easy to imagine a utopian future where aging and mortal disease is conquered, climate change and sustainability are figured out and molecular machinery can produce any consumer level products in an instant at trivial cost. In such
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by abraxas 4y ago
What the author misses is that we perceive our welfare by measuring it against our peers. The people of 1918 had no idea what inventions were coming in 100 years and even if they could postulate some of them it was purely in the realm of sc
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by abraxas 4y ago
Most of you here who are under the age of 40 probably do not appreciate how we came within an inch of having the world run on a monopolized MSInternet(r) in the late nineties. Microsoft had its foothold in every aspect of consumer facing co
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by abraxas 4y ago
Her sudden death was a shock to me and to many sci-fi fans around the world. I really hoped that Xenogenesis series would gain one more volume. I think Octavia would have written it if not for her untimely death. The last book seems to end
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by abraxas 4y ago
Well, that's not a very round number in any counting base I can think of...
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If you exclude Teslas and plug in hybrids then most EVs are incredibly reliable. Yes, power electronics wear out and break on occasion but that’s nothing in comparison to the complexity of an internal combustion vehicle. And car manufacture
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by abraxas 4y ago
Elon Musk is a spoiled manchild who got in over his head with his accidental purchase of twitter. Twitter is a hugely bloated company with an absolute shite of a website that renders too slowly to be acceptable on my 1Gbps fibre optic inter
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by abraxas 4y ago
For me that was cs231n delivered by Andrej Karpathy. I consider it the best “from first principles” lecture series on neural nets that I was able to follow despite my somewhat rusty calculus and linear algebra.
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by abraxas 4y ago
Those did not come with a centralized repository of crap that every project pulled from. You composed your dependencies carefully and checked them into your source code control.
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by abraxas 4y ago
What a mess. I wish there was a viable alternative for people working in machine learning that isn't goddamned Python.
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by abraxas 4y ago
Things went south when Java's Maven gained traction. Before that projects usually contained all their dependencies in a binary form (.so, .dll, .jar etc) or sometimes in the source form. Then Maven showed up and popularized the instant
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by abraxas 4y ago
Unfortunately, a large problem with this lipstick on a pig approach that Amazon took with CDK is that the moment something fails to work you are right back to combing through Cloud Formation scripts. The abstraction is so leaky that I don&#
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by abraxas 4y ago
I'm not that familiar with the requirements of a big OLAP setup but can you explain why they can't be met by creating a logical replica using something like pg_logical? I understand that the shape of the schema has to be somewhat
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by abraxas 4y ago
I'm quite the fan of streamlit but do not love its way of handling state. The only way to have a semblance of state captured between browser refreshes in streamlit is through query params. Have you taken a bite at that problem in your
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by abraxas 4y ago
Thanks for clarifying this. My dabbling in Rust a few years ago ended when I could not find a satisfying answer to the question "how do I prevent any unwanted dynamic allocations in this language?". At the time I found no good ans
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by abraxas 4y ago
Oh, they were around in the eighties. Except at the time they made crap bought by those who could not afford a Sony. LG was called GoldStar at the time and had to rebrand as the original name was in tatters due to their poor quality. Howeve
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by abraxas 4y ago
Yeah, I know that Hitachi makes industrial equipment. I'm talking consumer products divisions here. Also yes, HP is alive. It is a shadow of its former self when it comes to the impact on the industry. Sony is the name that fared best
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by abraxas 4y ago
To your point, I remember growing up in the mid eighties to early nineties there were a handful of "invincible" companies that we were sure weren't going ANYWHERE within our lifetimes: * Sun Microsystems * Silicon Graphics *
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by abraxas 4y ago
I'm learning Python after 35 years of working with statically typed languages (Pascal, C++, Java, a bit of Typescript lately) and by god this is hard. Not because there is anything in the language that I don't understand but the l
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by abraxas 4y ago
Kind of a perpendicular discussion but it amazes me that with this language server thing hipsters turned what was a very mature and proven pattern (a plugin architecture) into a distributed software problem. My god talk about doing shit the
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by abraxas 4y ago
Well, the answer has to be the "metaverse". The jury is of course out on whether it will take root the way the internet did.
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It's that. Over applying patterns in the areas of the code that are unlikely to need the extensibility afforded by employing these patterns. The cost of using the patterns is that they add a level of indirection which later costs you a
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by abraxas 4y ago
I started my first dev job in early 1997 which is more like 25 than 30 years ago but I think the milieu was similar. The internet was mostly irrelevant to the line of work I was involved in although it was starting to have impact. We had on
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by abraxas 4y ago
This resembles the colour theme of NEdit on Irix as I remember it from the mid nineties. Hmm, I got nostalgic saying this. Now I'm going to hunt the exact replica of that theme.
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by abraxas 4y ago
I’m conflicted on efforts like this. On the one hand SQL is for better or worse the Lingua Franca of database interfaces. On the other hand these half hearted, castrated implementations rarely work with tools geared towards working with tru
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by abraxas 4y ago
Yes, those games with realistic graphics mostly resemble American gang violence movies. Not sure who enjoys this kind of ambiance. I'm glad the indie game scene is as vibrant as ever because in the early 2000s the urban ghetto simulato
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by abraxas 4y ago
Yeah, other than Kafka, Spark, Cassandra, Flink, Hadoop, Elasticsearch what has Java ever done for us!
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by abraxas 4y ago
Yeah, that matches the Pareto principle and lines up with anecdotes collected by Graeber in his essay and his book "Bullshit Jobs" [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs

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