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by avidphantasm 1y ago
Brilliant, 996 yourself out of a job.
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
This, and no one will understand the software that is created. Then you are beholden to AI companies who can charge you whatever they want to maintain the AI code. Will this be cheaper than paying software engineers? Maybe, but I could also
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
For more advanced terrain analysis, see GRASS GIS ( https://grass.osgeo.org/ ). It’s a but clunky, but accessible from QGIS via a plugin. Whitebox also has some nice terrain analysis tools ( https://www.whiteboxgeo.
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
You know that river was bad if they closed it in 1925.
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
Oh, absolutely.
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
This title is misleading. It makes it seem like the robots did this autonomously, when in reality hundreds if workers were involved. The “robots” were “smart jacks” I would say. Humans couldn’t have done this without hydraulic jacks, they u
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
And both missionaries and mercenaries are responsible for the abuse and obliteration of many millions. Neither are forces for good.
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
Windows NT had the ability do away with drive letters since maybe the beginning; I was certainly running NT 4 and Windows 2000 like this. The problem I think is that every legacy app would instantly break if they couldn’t use drive letters
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
I don’t care if the probability of failure is lower in a helicopter than automobile. The failure modes for helicopters are all worse than that of an automobile. Chances of dying if something goes wrong is much higher.
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
The only way I will ride in a chopper is if myself or an immediate family member is being flown to a hospital.
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
The "one IP per container" approach (instead of shared IPs) is similar to how kubernetes pods work.
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
Reminds me of when they added more transparency to the UI around Mac OS X 10.9 where they argued that it "helps you focus on what's important". Huh? By showing me what's behind what I'm trying to look at? The first
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
Yeah, I would imagine they maybe started with off-the-shelf tools that were then gradually replaced as the system grew and matured.
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
Yeah, I am constantly curious about how the sausage that is cloud services like AWS is made. It seems generally slick on the surface, but what’s holding it all together? I imagine it as a tangled ball of tools like Puppet, Chef, etc. and cu
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
I just use pytest-docker-compose, then I don’t need to bother with NPM. I usually don’t like “magic”, but pytest’s fixtures are so powerful I’m okay with a little bit of “magic”.
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
Came here to say this. Well said. Also language skills and reading have a complicated relationship. My daughter was saying sentences like “no suppository for me!” when she was two (she had constipation issues). But is now seven and while sh
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
Exactly. The power of MMT is that it credibly explains what taxes actually are (not a source of government funding, but control rods for inflation and a constant source of domestic demand for the currency that helps maintain monetary sovere
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
Thank you for elucidating the fact that US “borrows” in its own currency and so as long as we have monetary sovereignty (which we do to a great degree due to USD being the global reserve currency) we have no deficit problems (as long as we
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
HFTs gonna hook up to LHC and do femtosecond gold futures arb. plays.
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
Spotlight search on macOS is in general kinda…spotty. Now that we have super fast SSDs it should be instantaneous very reliable. How hard can this be? BeOS seem to have figured it out 30 years ago. Apple missed a chance to fix this once and
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
You cannot put LLMs in control loops.
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
It would be more impressive if the AI could make it as a real 2600 ROM, since the programming model is much different than what it was likely trained on, and requires more knowledge of how the hardware works (and is just much harder to do i
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by avidphantasm 2y ago
My lay understanding is that the US can’t have USD be the global reserve currency without running trade deficits. Countries need dollars because it’s what oil and other commodities are exchanged for. At some point, the only way to get dolla
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by avidphantasm 2y ago
I have been using Python for 20 years, and have been an intermediate to advanced user of it for last 5-7 years. I use it mostly for scientific computing (so lots of Numpy, SciPy, etc.), IoT data processing, and also for some microservices t
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by avidphantasm 2y ago
Assuming we have anything close to reliable data coming out of BLS going forward.
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by avidphantasm 2y ago
There is a through line from Goldwater to Nixon to Reagan to Gingrich to Trump. Connective tissue has been provided by the likes of Roger Stone. This has been a 60-plus year project to overturn the New Deal.
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by avidphantasm 2y ago
For the millionth time, we don’t pay the government. The US federal government is not funded by taxes. The US government spends money into existence. It taxes money out of existence to help control the supply of money, inflation, etc. Stop
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by avidphantasm 2y ago
I’ve found that self-tapping screws and an impact driver give me the same effect.
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by avidphantasm 2y ago
I was recently experimenting with local-only LLM coding assistant in JetBrains products. They did speed things up a bit, but I quickly realized that they were essentially automating the creating a copy-paste errors, resulting in time lost t
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by avidphantasm 2y ago
The notion of no longer training radiologists because computer vision algorithms and deep learning are good at detecting cancers in imagery strikes me troublingly naïve. Who fucking trained the AIs? Will the AIs magically be able to detect

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