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by blagie 3y ago
I've definitely build portable systems in Django, back in the day. The trick was to have decent test coverage and run over both (at the time) MySQL and SQLite. (And yes, I should have used postgres). I'll mention: The internet, in
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by blagie 3y ago
I don't need to be sold on the virtues of applications running on systems like SQLite. The nineties had a lot of servers which were very simple (and performant) compared to LAMP, and I like systems like that. What I would like is a goo
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by blagie 3y ago
1) Biological evolution was limited in part since the brain needs to fit into 0.0013 cubic meters and use a maximum of 10-20W. Until recently, for natural selection, keeping within those constraints was much more important than incremental
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by blagie 3y ago
It's less about price than about grades of laptop. For example, if you buy Lenovo, the Idea* laptops will be junk laptops, while Think* will be pretty good quality. There are sub-grades within both. With Dell, there are usually several
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by blagie 3y ago
My experience is different. My experience is that the failures are pretty random. If you expect to lose 20% of laptops each year, after a decade, about 10% of laptops will still work after a decade. It's more if you are willing to work
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by blagie 3y ago
When I was starting out my career, I felt similar. However, today, I have a rather higher bar. The older I've grown, the more I've come to believe employers should treat employees humanely. I'm not quite sure how, if old me m
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by blagie 3y ago
I've felt the same way about several employers, actually. I'm not anti-union in principle, but I was anti-union at specific jobs and pro-union in others. The line is about whether management treats employees fairly. If an employer
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by blagie 3y ago
I recently switched to Walmart Plus. For me, on the whole, it's better: - Shipping times are faster than Amazon. I do consistently see same-day delivery, whereas Amazon almost never did, and had frequent delays (in my area) - Less of a
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by blagie 3y ago
I'm less worried about machetes since they can't kill the whole human population. Even something as horrific as gas chambers only killed a fraction of a percent of the world population. Genocide is ancient, but humanity somehow st
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by blagie 3y ago
Seems like no one writing this article noticed the drone war going on in Ukraine right now. I'm a lot less worried about industrial accidents, and a lot more worried about the path of military accidents. Drones /will/ outpilo
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by blagie 3y ago
Having done similar (not identical) things at that age, a lot of it is quite literally for the LOLs, and more than a bit is for community identity. Fame: Non-existent, since you don't tell people. Money: Non-existent, you don't ge
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by blagie 3y ago
> Here are some generations of my daughter and dog (together!). I will choose to intentionally misread that :)
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by blagie 3y ago
That's interesting. Counterpoint: A wing with the opposite curvature would work too, just much less efficiently. Your explanation has an element of truth, but an element of untruth. It'd take more analysis to tease them apart.
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by blagie 3y ago
Because it's literally what I'm responding to: "You can build a pretty good mental model of flight with either simplified mechanism" For computational models, neither of these are great starting points. When I last looke
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by blagie 3y ago
> You can build a pretty good mental model of flight with either simplified mechanism, but you end up underestimating performance by a fair bit. I've never hear of a good mental model built on Bernoulli's Principle. They are ei
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by blagie 3y ago
It's often said porn drives technology. I clicked through the links in the article, since they sounded technically interesting. They led to AI-generated porn. Those, in turn, led to pages about training SD to generate porn. Now, two di
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by blagie 3y ago
If you're serious, that feels overly broad. I know a lot of very good Googlers. Organizations are a bit of an abstraction in how we organize people. A blacklist seems like a fine idea here, but it's important it be specific enough
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by blagie 3y ago
Both should be blamed. A proposal like this would make me not want to hire Ben Wiser, Borbala Benko, Philipp Pfeiffenberger, or Sergey Kataev, ever. There are projects one of integrity should simply refuse to work on, if they make the world
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by blagie 3y ago
As a (weak) Harvard affiliate, I have to say that grandfather clauses have extensive legal precedent, and have extensive case law supporting their use from 1890-1910, many argued by Harvard graduates. Indeed, similar clauses were commonly i
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by blagie 3y ago
No. If you think that's the whole point, you missed the point. Mathematical beauty was one of the ways to make the point, but far from the most important. As a footnote, one of the changes which happened since publication is the victor
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by blagie 3y ago
Redundant? I think at some point, you missed the point of a DVCS. Scalable? When do you run into issues with git server scalability that an 80486 couldn't handle? Highly-available? At this point, just pay for !@#$ github. But it's
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by blagie 3y ago
No. It's not. Set up git-shell instead of bash, and you're done. It's literally a one-liner. There are similar one-liners for most other use-cases. As a footnote, most environments I'm in, this is a non-issue since devs
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by blagie 3y ago
Most of these arguments are nonsense. "Standing up a git server is non-trivial." It's literally just "git init" and providing ssh access to the directory. Most of the other ones seem to suggest the author never lear
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by blagie 3y ago
I'll clarify Tostino's comment. For most of Moore's Law, price per mm of silicon was constant. A state-of-the-art 10 micron, 5 micron, 2 micron, 1 micron, and 500nm node, at introduction, was basically the same price per squa
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by blagie 3y ago
No. A great time to buy a CPU was a few decades ago, when each new CPU made your computer go 10x faster. Moore's Law was a fun ride.
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by blagie 3y ago
It also depends on how one defines "fail." A majority of startup I know* are "living dead." This means: - There are 1-20 employees - Big-O, investors have seen no returns - Big-O, they're cash-flow neutral and growt
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by blagie 3y ago
My prediction is that this will be like the .com boom. 99% of AI startups will fail. A handful will succeed. Google Series A was $25M at a $75M valuation (source: random web site. Doesn't need to be correct for the point). 1/3 of
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by blagie 3y ago
It's an interesting argument. My feeling, completely based on spending a lot of time in the EU and the US is, and visited a lot of other countries: - In general, GDP PPP per capita correlates pretty well with quality-of-life. - In the
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by blagie 3y ago
As soon as the "current generation" decides to return plundered cultural artifacts, give me a call.
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by blagie 3y ago
If: - Your father became rich as an inventor, creating wonderful gadgets which improved the world - My father was a warlord - My father murdered your father, and stole $1M from him; - invested it; and as a result - my family now has $1B - y

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