alpinisme

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by alpinisme 6mo ago
Adulterated food products, shoddy construction that burns like paper or crumples in an earth quake, snake oil medicine, etc. are well attested in underdeveloped nations and in history at scales far above what we see in societies with the ki
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by alpinisme 6mo ago
Tangent but I love the accessibility menu you have. Made it super easy to tweak the page to be more readable for me
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by alpinisme 6mo ago
Your readme would really benefit from code snippets illustrating the library. The context it currently contains is valuable but it’s more what I’d expect at the bottom of the readme as something more like historical context for why you wrot
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by alpinisme 7mo ago
That is in fact the only way most laws work: freedom of movement, except if you’re arrested and detained in accordance with law. Freedom of speech except when you are falsely yelling fire in a crowded theater or slandering someone. In gener
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by alpinisme 7mo ago
That link itself calls out that conformant implementations can’t be relied on to call callbacks. > A conforming JavaScript implementation, even one that does garbage collection, is not required to call cleanup callbacks. When and whether
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by alpinisme 7mo ago
What does playing fair mean in this context? It would be one thing if you were a paid subscriber complaining that even paying sucks so you left, but it sounds like you’re not.
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by alpinisme 7mo ago
Well, you could look at it from the perspective of incentives. The number of people who would commit a financial crime for $LARGE_SUM in exchange for a short stint in prison is much higher than the number of people who would commit rape or
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by alpinisme 7mo ago
The original comment asserted that there are “probably” a finite list of reasonable things everyone could agree on. The examples were parenthetical and surely not meant to be the last word. The point they were making (rightly or wrongly) se
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by alpinisme 8mo ago
Sometimes I just want to open a project quickly and take a look without getting all dependencies installed and the lsp working and so on. Sometimes I want to look at another team’s project even though it’s in another language than my team w
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by alpinisme 8mo ago
Where I live June sunrise (with DST) is 5:11am and sunset is 8:21pm (a city on the American east coast). I just can’t imagine a majority of people would want 4:11 rising and 7:21 setting.
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by alpinisme 8mo ago
That’s probably just the classic HackerNews title shortening algorithm at work.
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by alpinisme 8mo ago
Yes and no. Obviously it’s unusual rounding or I wouldn’t have said “I guess technically,” but rounding is all about domains and relevant precision. To be honest, when someone says “billionaires” I don’t assume that the number 1,000,000 is
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by alpinisme 8mo ago
I’ve seen your case more than the ransom scenario too. But also even more often: early-to-mid-career dev saw a cloud pattern trending online, heard it was a new “best practice,” and so needed to find a way to move their company to using it.
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by alpinisme 8mo ago
I guess technically musk rounds to a trillion. 852B acc to Forbes
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by alpinisme 9mo ago
These just-so narratives about how slavery was abolished for rational economic reasons can be quite frustrating. Obviously historically most people who owned slaves didn’t stop owning slaves because it was more profitable to give freedom an
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by alpinisme 9mo ago
The consequences for wrong ai need to be a lot higher if we want to limit slop. Of course, there’s space for llms and their hallucinations to contribute meaningful things, but we need at least a screaming all caps disclaimer on content that
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by alpinisme 9mo ago
Most wealthy people aren’t sitting with their money in the bank but in investment assets like real estate and stocks.
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by alpinisme 9mo ago
No, being a member of a “terrorist organization” and the government allows itself latitude in defining that. It’s much easier to associate someone with an organization than to show personal acts of terrorism.
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by alpinisme 9mo ago
People can and do fight things they agree with on the principle of not wanting to do something because they were told to. You fight it just to say “you can’t tell me what to do” (for precedent) not just to actually defend a position you b
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by alpinisme 9mo ago
The same point holds of interfaces. And it’s not clear what the alternative is. No type system I’m aware of would force you to change all occurrences of this business logic pattern, with or without ad hoc polymorphism. But at least ad hoc p
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by alpinisme 9mo ago
In some respects, the ideal world is one in which everyone’s premiums are tied to a free and easy Apple Watch-like device that silently tracks exercise, blood sugar at a frequency that can tell when you ate a big dessert, air quality (and t
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by alpinisme 9mo ago
Insurance that is maximally responsive to patient health changes in terms of cost (ie making healthier people pay less) ends up being an inefficient way of just having people pay for their healthcare directly. And it naturally means the peo
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by alpinisme 10mo ago
I’m honestly stunned that people use AI for personal communication. It seems so alien to me.
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by alpinisme 10mo ago
As one data point, I would.
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by alpinisme 10mo ago
Probably but at the risk of giving a bad analogy maybe the distinction here is like that between an itchy wool sweater (uncomfortable, broadly decreases mobility by making you not want to move) and a garment that actually restricts movement
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by alpinisme 11mo ago
Not commenting on the quality of this post but occasional writing that responds to an event provides a good opportunity to share thoughts that wouldn’t otherwise reach an audience. If you post advice without a concrete scenario you’re respo
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by alpinisme 11mo ago
In a world where some but not all programs are “diploma treadmills,” you would expect that the reputation of the bad credentials would go down and the good credentials would go up. In some sense if the credentials were really being used (an
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by alpinisme 11mo ago
I’ve never heard of anything more happening than being reminded not to do that (pretty much the only time it happens is when someone is talking with product support and lets slip a feature or product they’re working on will solve a complain
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by alpinisme 11mo ago
I guess that depends on how hysterically you read the word secret (including projecting hysterics on others using it). But we at work have a lot of secret projects. Basically everything is given a project code name until it’s public and if
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by alpinisme 11mo ago
Oh jeeze. I can’t believe I flipped that. I find myself wishing I could delete my comment.

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