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by afavour 7mo ago
Yes, the technical problem is fundamental. But if Deno managed to be a truly great runtime that solved a lot of people’s gripes with Node and made ES modules etc the price of admission for using it there would have been momentum to create
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by afavour 7mo ago
As someone who has mostly just tinkered with this stuff (while using Node extensively at work) I see two truths: - Deno initially seemed like something a number of us were clamouring for: a restart of the server JS ecosystem. ES modules fro
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by afavour 7mo ago
I hate clickbait headlines but I disagree. Let a site succeed or fail based on their choices. If they want to use clickbait headlines they won’t get my clicks. Rewriting headlines feels like a fundamental break in the contract of a search e
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by afavour 7mo ago
And so, more core functionality developers depend on becomes dependent on a continuing stream of billions in VC funding. What could go wrong?
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by afavour 7mo ago
> absolutely foreseen in comprehensive United States military planning [citation needed] I don’t doubt there was a plan written up, they have plans for all kinds of scenarios. But we have no idea what that plan says. It could well say “a
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by afavour 7mo ago
But that’s not Node’s fault surely? Shouldn’t Postgres be providing an NPM module given the popularity of Node?
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by afavour 7mo ago
What happens to relative imports?
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by afavour 7mo ago
What would a Node-native database connection layer look like? What other platforms have that? Databases are third party tech, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to use a third party NPM module to connect to them.
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by afavour 7mo ago
> And at most restaurants, I've never noticed a "premium" for it I just did a quick search on Uber Eats in NYC. Every Beyond Burger I found was between $3-5 more than a regular burger. That’s the reason I stopped eating th
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by afavour 7mo ago
So the existence of one unwanted side effect means we shouldn't care about any others?
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by afavour 7mo ago
Well I think the operative question here is “preferred by who?”. The current government prefers it. Voters do not. None of us are obligated to indulge the “secondary title” nonsense in an executive order clearly designed to sidestep the act
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by afavour 7mo ago
They haven’t, though. In the decades that followed World War 2, creation of the UN etc, the number of people dying in warfare and civilian death due to war dropped dramatically. No, it wasn’t zero. But there was still a notable drop. I don’
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by afavour 7mo ago
> as the current preferred name "Dept of War" is now for a different posture with regard to America's adversaries. …which is the bad thing being discussed, yes. I don’t really understand why “there used to be one” would be
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by afavour 7mo ago
Reminds me of this classic: — working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now" “I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want
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by afavour 7mo ago
I view Doctor Who as part of a great tradition of sci-fi that pushes boundaries. Tennant's era was a primetime TV show that featured gay characters (Captain Jack in particular) without treating it like it was a big deal. When at the ti
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by afavour 7mo ago
Insane that this took six months. AI facial recognition should be considered about as reliable as a polygraph, which is to say not usable in court at all. Shame we’ve got ICE agents roaming the country also using facial recognition to find
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by afavour 7mo ago
If there’s no increased productivity then what’s the point in spending all the money?
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DOGE Operative Accused of Planning to Take Social Security Data Is Named(wired.com)
19 points by afavour 7mo ago|1 comments
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by afavour 7mo ago
I don't really see any relevance to "me too". Far more likely it's to cover from insane overhearing in the pandemic era, and no one wants to admit they overdid it.
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by afavour 7mo ago
Yup. I thought this was an interesting take on the Block layoffs, from a former employee: "I Worked for Block. Its A.I. Job Cuts Aren’t What They Seem." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/opinion&#x2
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by afavour 7mo ago
An encryption key could be stored in a QR code and the user could be sheltered from any technical issues. To be honest if we’re talking truly accessible, even usernames and passwords aren’t great. Users forget them. That’s why a lot of site
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by afavour 7mo ago
The same one that hides its agents behind masks.
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by afavour 7mo ago
If I had to make a wild guess, xAI. The article states they took a job at a government contractor. It’s interesting (horrifying) to think of the implications actually. People wouldn’t buy this data directly, it’s too obviously illegally pro
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by afavour 8mo ago
> China accidentally built a distributed neural network of manufacturing intelligence where knowledge diffuses horizontally across thousands of agents I find it difficult to take statements like this seriously. China has built an incredi
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by afavour 8mo ago
If you wish to avoid downvotes you might benefit from stating why you think ActivityPub’s decentralization is superior. We’re in a thread discussing an example of Bluesky decentralization so it’s clearly possible.
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by afavour 8mo ago
I don’t see the relevance in the question, the US does not have open borders. And if you’re suggesting AI is somehow magically able to detect citizen from non-citizen then your understanding of AI is woeful.
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by afavour 8mo ago
I don’t see any contradiction with what the OP said, though. You don’t have to be morally superior to still be concerned about a country’s forces killing you.
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by afavour 8mo ago
Absolutely. But it’s still relevant because depending on your goal (and your resources) a bad deal that burns cash might still be a positive outcome. Not dissimilar from Musk buying Twitter, objectively he overpaid by a ton for a business t
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by afavour 8mo ago
I assume OP is talking about an ideological motive to take over the media industry and pivot it in a rightward direction. That’s certainly what happened with CBS News, I think it’s fair to speculate about CNN too. No idea why OP alluded to
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by afavour 8mo ago
> The work is good until a company decides to operate with leaner teams and keeps the people committing code. I'm no AI booster but I think this is exact scenario where AI-driven development is going to allow those non-coding develo

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