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by bccdee 1y ago
"Merit" is not a singular monolithic quality. Highly skilled immigrants have many meritorious qualities, like education and professional skills, which are not heritable and which cost money to acquire. Between an affluent child of
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I actually don't think it's fine to hear someone mention another culture and immediately butt in to say how disgusting you think their dietary practices are, especially given that our culture engages in factory farming, which is f
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The primary reason I was admitted into my local gifted program was because my parents and teachers pushed to get me into it. At age 6, I scored a high enough IQ to get in, but my family had to pay to have the test administered privately. Th
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by bccdee 1y ago
The actual thing that we're getting N+1 of is network round-trips. An additional network round-trip is way, way slower than an extra JOIN clause. That's why N+1 query patterns aren't a problem when you're using a local d
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by bccdee 1y ago
You'd probably want to put the sqlite db in a volume & run litestream in a separate container that restarts automatically on failure. Systemctl's only in there to restart it if it crashes; litestream itself is (iirc) a single
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by bccdee 1y ago
Litestream is dead simple to setup. You make an S3 bucket (or any compatible storage bucket), paste the access keys and the path to your db file in /etc/litestream, and then run dpkg -i litestream.deb systemctl enable litest
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by bccdee 1y ago
Whatever database you end up using, you'll need some sort of backup solution. Litestream is a streamed backup solution which effectively doubles as replication for durability purposes. MySQL, Postgres, etc. have a much greater overhead
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Whale hunting (and dolphin hunting) tends to come up any time the Faroes are mentioned, and I don't understand why it's such a cause celebre. I don't see how this is worse than any other form of hunting or fishing, and frankl
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by bccdee 1y ago
If you're willing to invest ten minutes and a tenth of a cent, you can spin up a virtual server in an American server farm and set up a SOCKS proxy with `ssh -D 8080 -nNT <user>@<host>`. Then in the Network Settings dialogu
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by bccdee 1y ago
> Victim mindset (mentality) is the name for a specific set of traits that are objectively corrosive to and individual and society. Okay—I was interpreting it as the mindset of someone who considers themselves to be a victim (which may l
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by bccdee 1y ago
Every productive social movement begins as a circle jerk of complaints. The circle gets bigger, and the jerking gets faster, and suddenly you're in the streets demanding suffrage for women or whatnot.
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> Is your issue with the way I framed victim mindset or my point that a major risk of AI is propagating victim mentality? The former, I suppose, but the latter is downstream of that. > It feels like you keep taking a less than respect
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by bccdee 1y ago
My issue with the notion of a "victim mindset" is that sometimes people are legitimately victimized, and in that context, it's often useful to identify as a victim. So what if people are susceptible to being upset by things
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It is not acceptable to genocide the population of a country as "punishment" for the actions of its government. Moreover, to attempt to excuse genocide in this manner is disgusting. Stop posting.
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I'll bite the bullet and respond to this. Those claims have been investigated and were found to be insubstantial. Given that the government of Israel is extraordinarily biased in this matter and would never, under any circumstances, ad
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The thing is, the biases I see propagating on social media are not generalized, anti-everything biases. They're specific and targeted against groups who people in power want to use as scapegoats.
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That's not an acceptable statement to make in a public forum. During a discussion about the Rwandan genocide, you would not say, "I guess the Tutsi found out that invading a nation and assassinating its president is a pretty bad i
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> The genocide has been recognised by consensus amongst experts,[11] a United Nations special committee[12] and commission of inquiry,[13] humanitarian and human rights organizations,[14] and international law experts[15][16] including m
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I don't see why chatbot platforms would ever be interested in promoting such a bias. Seems like it would just engender dissatisfaction with the status quo that benefits the tech oligarchs who own those platforms in the first place.
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> It's entirely possible to have a 100k LOC system be made up of effective a couple hundred 500 line programs that are composed together to great effect. To me, this sounds like an nightmare—I'm sure anyone who's worked at
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> Things like libraries, scripts, and skeletons tend to be far better solutions for those problems. My feelings exactly. LLM code generation (at least, the sort where people claim they're being 10X-ed) feels like it competes with fr
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Ironically, given that it probably mistakes a sigmoid curve for an exponential curve, "Failing to understand the exponential, again" is an extremely apt name for this blog post.
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If anyone at any time can simply choose to be happy, why do we care whether (for instance) our arms get chopped off? We are equally capable of choosing to be happy with or without arms. Why do we avoid harm?
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> There's literally nothing about the process that forces you to skip understanding. There's nothing about C that "forces" people to write buffer overflows. But, when writing C, the path of least resistance is to prod
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> the idea that technology forces people to be careless I don't think anyone's saying that about technology in general. Many safety-oriented technologies force people to be more careful, not less. The argument is that this te
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by bccdee 1y ago
Yeah that's probably fair. I haven't used a commit-centric workflow in a professional context, so I can't really say how often, if ever, these issues come up.
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And then when people put comments on your commits and you force-push new ones, does it link the updated version of each commit to its previous self, giving a clear timeline of comments and changes? I don't think so. But if people write
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by bccdee 1y ago
By exercising their judgment, I suppose. How does anyone know if any take is good? Even experts sometimes post bad takes. There's no substitute for critical reading.
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> The atomic level of work should be a single, logically coherent change to the codebase. Sure, and we must make that correspond to the atomic unit that our collaboration tools provide us for reviewing and merging. In Github and similar
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You're talking about large-scale hyperexpensive infrastructure research projects with uncertain payouts, which is something that the state already excels at. Public grants are responsible for bankrolling an enormous amount of the resea

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