belZaah

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by belZaah 10mo ago
The difference is the power people have. A single person has no capacity to spread their specific perspective to tens of millions of people, who take it as gospel. And that person, typically, cannot be made to change their perspective at wi
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by belZaah 10mo ago
I used to think so. But over the past 5-10 years I’ve seen the quality of the mac application go down. Things, that used to work, are buggy. Bulleted lists, indents, even scrolling. Compatibility is going, too. I add pictures to find them n
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by belZaah 10mo ago
I was doing my 3rd 70.3 IM and I was doing badly. Something was off, I had been loosing power since the second half of the bike leg and come run time I was barely making 8 min/km. I was supposed to be doing 6. Seeing no point in contin
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by belZaah 10mo ago
A moshpit is the only consensual form of non-sexual violence outside of sports.
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by belZaah 10mo ago
For microservice count N > 10, if your interdependence count k > 2.867N − 7.724, you are better off with a monolith. The assertion is based on a complexity metric, that has been correllated with cognitive and financial metrics. This c
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by belZaah 10mo ago
How does the free energy principle align with system dynamics and the concept of emergence? Yes, our brain might want to optimize for lack of surprise, but that does not mean it can fully avoid emergent or chaotic behavior stemming from the
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by belZaah 10mo ago
This is insane to me. Not only is the US tax code so complex you need a specialist to help you fill in the tax return but those specialists apparently also have a justified expectation of income and thus can’t be replaced by a freaking web
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by belZaah 11mo ago
Maybe it’s because boys have been told a literal wild animal is preferable to any of the male adults around
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by belZaah 11mo ago
Not telling the population for days on end and drafting people to deal with the consequences without informing them where and why they would be going does not constitute an adequate government response. I lives in the USSR at the time and r
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by belZaah 11mo ago
Yes. It allows criminals to move significant amounts of money without much effort, intervention or tracking. The current ransomware issue is a direct consequence of the attackers being able to utilize a relatively safe and cheap payment cha
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by belZaah 11mo ago
Nice taste in motorcycles without an attempt to be overly pompous about it. Nice clean hand-written HTML, too. Minus .25 points for CSS, could probably have been achieved without it. If you want to go back, why not go all the way to 1995?
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by belZaah 11mo ago
It is doable and you can get presets designed to mimic the look of legendary photography film stock like Velvia. But what they did back then was very much an analog process and thus also inherently unstable. Small details start to matter in
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by belZaah 11mo ago
When did AI become a thing? After it turned out blockchain is not going to change the world after all and the price of a gpu operation dropped dramatically as infrastructure became disused. Something else, currently prohibitively expensive,
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by belZaah 11mo ago
Investors, yes. The leadership, highly motivated to show massive revenue growth, not so much. It’s nothing new, telco industry has seen these mechanisms before, for example
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by belZaah 11mo ago
The MS Azure deal is of the same nature. MS “invests” into OpenAI who then buys Azure services for the investment. OpenAI evaluation is increased and the musical chairs will continue for another round.
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by belZaah 1y ago
And yet the organization is the closest thing we have in the West to industrial-scale slavery
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by belZaah 1y ago
Yeah, no. Had Claude 4.5 generate a mock implementation of an OpenAPI spec. Trivial interaction, just a post of a json object. And Claude invented new fields to check for and failed to check for required ones. It is helpful in reducing the
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by belZaah 1y ago
There was a time, where there were bellows made available along the Thames in London. Because it was believed blowing tobacco smoke up someone’s backside would be a really useful mechanism of resuscitation, in particular in case of drowning
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by belZaah 1y ago
Back in 2000ish, a singular dude built a full-blown bank teller workplace app using IE4.0 proprietary features and client-side JS. Server communication was done by posting a form into a single-pixel frame and then looking for objects in the
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by belZaah 1y ago
True, AI moves the problem somewhere else. But I’m not sure the new problems are actually easier to solve in the long run. I’m a reasonable developer with 30+ years of experience. Recently I worked on an API design project and had to genera
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by belZaah 1y ago
Quality is not immediately economically useful in a way an average MBA would understand and be able to communicate to shareholders. Also, we have spent many decades wrapping layer after layer of complexity on top of the cpu. That is startin
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by belZaah 1y ago
Spent a few hours the other day trying to get Claude to produce some spring-boot code. Match the library versions to behavior and between each other. The thing that it should be perfect for. Nope. The moment I’m not explicit, it doesn’t eve
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by belZaah 1y ago
They know. There’s a big difference being able to navigate the 80% of everyday driving situations and doing the 20% most people manage just fine but cars struggle with. There’s a road in these parts: narrow, twisty in three dimensions, unma
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by belZaah 1y ago
I was architecture team lead at Skype 2005-2011 and persistent queues were the only ones around. Basically, because they knew how to scale databases, our DBA team (Hannu Krosing comes to mind) built queues into and on top of Postgres. It ha
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by belZaah 1y ago
Think of bands, that are together for like 40 or 50 years. 40-50 years of studios, tour buses, airports, soundcheks, press etc. together. It is not enough to be an excellent musician for this to be possible.
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by belZaah 1y ago
I still have an unfinished NetHack 3.2.1 (yes, I’m partial to that specific version, dual wielding is a sin) game I’m reluctant to get back to. I’m so far I don’t want to make any mistakes and mess it up. And NetHack truly is amazing in its
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by belZaah 1y ago
RM2 was a game changer for me: I could take notes both physically and on a computer and have them seamlessly in one place. Until after a firmware update the device became slow to respond and writing quality declined as the pen did not write
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by belZaah 1y ago
Hm, by that definition Hamas has been trying to commit genocide on the Jews since day one?
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by belZaah 1y ago
Former CTO of a country here. Anything GDS did filled me with deep envy: it was beautiful and made so much sense and I had none of it at my disposal. Then Brexit. I was there in GDS offices a few weeks after the vote and the organization wa
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by belZaah 1y ago
But it has. Aircraft have long stopped getting faster or bigger or having a longer range. They get marginally more efficient, but not better for consumers. Cars are mostly the same. Audio codecs. Everything has a balancing loop somewhere. W

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