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by abtinf 1y ago
Let them use the hardware they want. Why does their ideology have to infect my device? I want a platform with no escape hatches. Yet they are intent of making this impossible for me. When I want open hardware, I have many options.
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Mercantilism is evil.
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I’ve now spent a couple hours using it. Once I started using it for actual diagrams, the issue completely faded away. Scrolling a super long vertical-only document is an unimportant edge case. This is the god damn holy grail of ascii chart
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I am trying it for the first time. One point of feedback, with the caveat that my only experience so far is opening the tutorial: I immediately hate that when intending to scroll vertically using the trackpad on my macbook, it constantly un
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by abtinf 1y ago
> created by AI AI does not create anything, anymore than Word writes documents or Photoshop creates photos.
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Go has problems, sure. But I’ve yet to see a hit piece on Go that actually holds up to real scrutiny. Usually, as here, objections to go take the form a technically-correct-but-ultimately-pedantic arguments. The positives of go are so overw
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by abtinf 1y ago
Unrelated, but it would really be nice to have a chart breaking down Price Per Token Per Second for various model, prompt, and hardware combinations.
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Based on Apple's acquisition of FoundationDB, this seems like it will have negative consequences for public development of OPA. What are the counterexamples, where Apple acquiring a project results in it being more open with sustained
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Of course arrests = jail. What do you think happens when you are arrested? You are taken to jail. At least for a few hours, or overnight, or even several days depending on the court schedule. And then there are the mountain of legal fees an
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I’ve posted this before[1], and have searched, but still haven’t found it: I wish someone would write a clear, crisp explanation for why MCP is needed over simply supporting swagger or proto/grpc. [1] https://news.ycombinato
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> she’s actually really reasonable and I like her From what you’ve written, she didn’t treat your actual condition and thus put you through needless suffering and placed your health at risk.
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Wikipedia literally has an extended section on this issue. No one is going to give you citations for something trivially googlable. > In September 2022, a British woman was arrested and charged for holding up an "abolish monarchy&qu
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That quote could be taken straight out of “Yes, Minister”.
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I’m thinking of things like Room 641A. Is that regarded as a base?
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For the sake of argument, let’s assume everything you said is true. Would you agree if I reworded my statement to “ultimately, all money eventually flows to people, whether for their labor or due to their ownership of the entities receiving
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by abtinf 1y ago
Gold. The purchasing power of Gold has been remarkably consistent over the long term. That is, if you convert the gold to dollars, how many eggs could you buy? To learn more, read up on the work of Keith Weiner of Monetary Metals, or listen
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I haven’t checked, but I would guess this number even includes things like NSA outposts (since NSA is part of DoD) and embassies (which are protected by Marines).
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Certainly. So would materials expenses and theft and insurance and so forth. But the confusion is that somehow, money not spent on “salaries and compensation” doesn’t go to people. All of it goes to people. Defense spending isn’t buying “de
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> If you look at a map of our military bases, we have many bordering China. I think our total number is close to 900. I would grant them the benefit of the doubt if English wasn’t their native language, but they’d identified as a US citi
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All spending everywhere is essentially “salaries and compensation”. It’s not like you get to the end of the supply chain and suddenly are paying God. Money always goes to people.
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When you make insane claims like “the US has 900 military bases close to China”, you discredit yourself and your entire body of work.
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WaitGroup.Go looks great. Going to be able to delete a lot of code, replacing boilerplate with calls to it.
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This is a fantastic prompt. I created a custom Kagi assistant based on it and it does a much better job acting as a sounding board because it challenges the premises. Thank you for sharing.
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> non-rationalists do at least benefit from some intellectual humility The Islamists who took out the World Trade Center don’t strike me as particularly intellectually humble. If you reject reason, you are only left with force.
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The more irrational the law, the more words must be said about it. Same for religious philosophies.
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> giant How would we know the size? Relative to what?
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I think the play on words is: invisible hand + (iPhone) touch screen = invisible touch.
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I wish someone would write a clear, crisp explanation for why MCP is needed over simply supporting swagger or proto.
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Why not just use Temporal?
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Yep, and I’ve noticed the same thing with in vscode with both the cline plugin and the copilot plugin. I configure them both to use local ollama, block their outbound connections via little snitch, and they just flat out don’t work without

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