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by acdha 9mo ago
Some people are willfully blind but there are a ton of people who are comfortable enough that they can just tune out. This kind of extreme stuff, things like the tariffs, etc. are getting through to them but it has to get shockingly bad for
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by acdha 9mo ago
Think about why the administration and its backers lie so frequently: they know they’re lying, and they know that evidence will come out showing that they’re lying, but they’re gambling on a lot of people being busy and not following the st
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by acdha 9mo ago
What authority did they have to arrest him? He wasn’t an immigrant covered by a warrant, impeding whatever legitimate tasks they were doing, they chose to walk over to him, chose to initiate physical violence against the first person, chose
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by acdha 9mo ago
I don’t think it was perfect back then either but it felt like it got worse. I think this may prove a strategic error: checking all of those enterprise boxes gets you in the door but they don’t have Microsoft’s clout in that market and depe
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by acdha 9mo ago
I’ve liked using GitLab but it’s definitely felt like their IPO lead to more chasing flash and less attention to quality. They yanked the support rep which customers used to get–everything goes through sales now–and started putting most fea
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by acdha 9mo ago
Look, I even share your language preference but this is still unnecessary.
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by acdha 9mo ago
The problem is that the NYT won’t post about everything and a large number of people won’t see it when they do or will immediately dismiss it as “fake news” because it’s politically inconvenient. This is kind of like the difference between
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by acdha 9mo ago
It’s not just them, but curl is one of the most popular open source projects in existence and it’s used in areas where security is a significant concern. The security industry has a lot of emphasis on someone’s portfolio for hiring, which i
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by acdha 9mo ago
So not very many, and even fewer support your sweeping assertion. This is nowhere near the repetition or reach of messages pushing religious or anti-environmentalist groups because a publication in an obscure journal is read by a tiny round
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by acdha 9mo ago
In many cases we are, though. A ton of machined things use metric units (and thus need metric tools), and that’s spreading into a lot of other areas like medicine and food packaging. It’s nowhere near absolute but the trend is noticeable.
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by acdha 9mo ago
> Pollution doesn't make academics use terms like my truth, your truth or "indigenous ways of knowing". First, it absolutely does those first two things: climate change denial has been a half century of pretending that sci
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by acdha 9mo ago
I wouldn’t see it as having a “right” to a business model but more like an accelerated tragedy of the commons. LLMs can’t reason but they can chip away at the easiest parts of the job, which is great initially if you can take advantage of t
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by acdha 9mo ago
> Universities have pushed post-modernism since the 60s which is the precursor for the deprecation of truth. This is wildly overstating the influence of post-modernists or universities in general. There is a war on objective reality but
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by acdha 9mo ago
It’s also interesting because the whole SV model assumes demand which goes way down if a genuine AI enters the market and starts cutting into middle class jobs. There aren’t many ads targeting low-wage workers, not nearly enough to support
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by acdha 9mo ago
Textual looks really nice, but I usually make web apps so I haven’t tried it for anything serious: https://textual.textualize.io/
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by acdha 9mo ago
AI is starting in a much easier business environment, where so much data is online and things can be done by APIs which would’ve required moving paper around in the 80s, but it seems like we’re still missing the clear wins PCs had almost im
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by acdha 9mo ago
Domestic manufacturing isn’t coming back without a thoughtful investment program. A lot of older people still think of China like in the 1980s where it was mostly low-wage, low-quality products but that’s nothing like true now and they have
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by acdha 9mo ago
Potentially, but it would be good to have them make a specific claim with evidence because otherwise we’re just guessing. Things like that report have some very opinionated conclusions which we might not otherwise want to spend time discuss
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by acdha 9mo ago
Do you have any evidence to support those claims?
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by acdha 9mo ago
Sure, so at that point how much are we really saving versus using a better alternative? Using YAML correctly is harder because you need not only to do the validation everything needs to do but also doing other things specific to YAML to avo
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by acdha 9mo ago
Prior to all of the important distributions consolidating on systemd, you had to support each distribution’s convention for customization, overrides, dependencies, conventions for things like changing users or locations for PID files, not t
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by acdha 9mo ago
I think you’d have a more fruitful discussion if you stopped trying to call people noobs when they don’t agree with you. For example, I’ve been dealing with SysV since the early 90s and while it’s gotten better since we no longer have to su
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by acdha 9mo ago
I think this is the key insight: most of the problems are related to management decisions so they’re only DevOps failures to the extent that the movement failed to get political pressure to fix those.
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by acdha 9mo ago
YAML is okay for writing structured prose for humans. It’s terrible for anything consumed by programs because even that single microservice has a high likelihood of some problem caused by YAML’s magic typing, silent data loss due to indenta
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by acdha 9mo ago
systemd would be a derail even if you weren’t misrepresenting the situation at several levels. Experienced sysadmins in my experience were the ones pushing adoption because they had to clean up the messes caused by SysV’s design limitations
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by acdha 9mo ago
> So while “from scratch” is debatable it is still immensely impressive to be that AI was able to produce something that even just “kinda works” at this scale. “From scratch” is inarguably wrong given how much third-party code it depends
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by acdha 9mo ago
I think the problem is that advertising is one of the few areas where you can scale revenue without the user’s permission. Once you start depending on it, there’s always pressure to beat last quarter’s numbers and it’s easy to tell yourself
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by acdha 9mo ago
If “non experts” aren’t welcome, can you establish your expertise on the topic? In particular, what’s your experience with mining thorough ice or maintaining industrial operations in the Arctic or near-arctic conditions?
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by acdha 9mo ago
Sexist attacks and lying about an imaginary sex-for-reviews scandal didn’t put a spotlight on anything. It wouldn’t excuse their actions even if they had been doing some real ethics work, but they weren’t even showing up to do productive w
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by acdha 9mo ago
> Regex is not used for parsing HTML or C++ code. So it is not good for complex tasks. Again, this is too binary a way if thinking. There are string matching operations which are not parsing source code and regular expressions can be a c

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