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by briantakita 3y ago
Attention needs to be paid to foundational primitives that support a more elaborate architecture. An elaborate architecture built on low quality primitives lacks integrity. This integrity issues will need to be addressed one way or another.
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by briantakita 3y ago
Aircrete, Hempcrete, & foam housing are alternatives. All are inexpensive, have good insulation, & can form interesting single story houses.
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by briantakita 3y ago
I see AI as a tool to express creative intent in ways not practical before it came about. It could be naivite full of unintended consequences. But it's hard to not focus on the benefits of the latest tech. The current crop of tools are
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by briantakita 3y ago
> Then don't say it. Some things need to be said. Some people need to do a better job. I hate saying it because I want America & it's founding principles to succeed. Boeing's performance & response to accountabilit
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by briantakita 3y ago
> Number of comments and upvotes doesn't suggest lack of curiosity Yes, I agree with you. I was doing double speak. Many things of public interest are nudged "off the front page". Promoting Political Bread & Circuses i
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by briantakita 3y ago
Are you surprised about the lack of curiosity on this sort of case? When many here are within 2 degrees of the people involved. Most within 3 degrees. It's a small world
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Quantitation of microplastics accumulation in human placental specimens(academic.oup.com)
1 points by briantakita 3y ago|0 comments
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by briantakita 3y ago
Why do you need chunking? Are there any use cases other than. Your js payload is huge and you are using a Single Page App?
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by briantakita 3y ago
> Since our enemies "used" that word, you are only one if you also live in the past tense. Kindof like the English speaking people of Japanese descent in the Western US circa 1940. Stripped of their property & sent to inter
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by briantakita 3y ago
> The Anglophone world has negative connotations for the word 'propaganda' purely because our enemies used that word more than us. Who is "our" & "us"? If it's not me, am I "the enemy"?
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by briantakita 3y ago
> No. It's all C code in the stacktrace. And kernel devs still don't have to deal with Rust, if they don't want to. Thank you for the answer. I was wondering since the conversion to Rust is a large undertaking & rewri
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by briantakita 3y ago
Lawyers & economists contribute more to GDP than farmers...yet most lawyers & economists are a net negative in real terms while farmers provide food, essential for life. If GDP was the end all be all of measurements, why is Russia
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by briantakita 3y ago
> Mate, you want to tell me that a country that had 1/6 of all the resources of the planet collapsed into oblivious because of the Western sanctions and mean Western banks? I'm sorry, I'm not buying it. Are you talking abo
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by briantakita 3y ago
What's interesting is that capitalist systems often make socialist systems poor through sanctions, military intervention, & other underhanded tactics. It's a geopolitical game of control & socialism stands of defiance over
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by briantakita 3y ago
Financial engineering is designed to benefit the designers of the financial systems. There is a sales pitch to convince people to play along, but it's a net negative game & not designed to benefit everyone else.
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by briantakita 3y ago
Solopreneur programmers collaborating using open source software to create businesses would be more fair. Even if it no longer makes sense to "keep the band together", the programmers have a greater chance of having something tang
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Tech Giants Turned Ukraine into an AI War Lab(time.com)
3 points by briantakita 3y ago|0 comments
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by briantakita 3y ago
I released it a few days ago & I appreciate the feedback. A single__hyop is a strategy to run a hyop mapped to a key...opposed to a multi__hyop which runs multiple hyops on keys delimited by whitespace. Other strategies are possible, li
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by briantakita 3y ago
Love it! I think this idea has some legs in that a programmer can build their own f****k. Bundling only the pieces that they actually use. I don't see why it should not be used in a production environment...other than someone in the in
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by briantakita 3y ago
I like Tailwind because it's easier to prototype & modularize design. The HTML can be copied from templates, other sites, & it more or less works. Carson Gross, creator of HTMX, wrote an article about Locality of Behavior, whic
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by briantakita 3y ago
The whole thing is a fraud to capture (no pun intended) markets...and put meters on what was once free.
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by briantakita 3y ago
> Their competitors - which like the US military will be state-controlled entities - for burning the most fossil fuels aren't exactly known for their transparency. The Pentagon has never passed an audit, so it's not known for i
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by briantakita 3y ago
The largest polluter in the world is the US Military.
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by briantakita 3y ago
The battery could be used to power a cathodic protection system with a sacrificial anode. Looks like some there will be some job openings for corrosion engineers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathodic_protection
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by briantakita 3y ago
The battery could be used to power a cathodic protection system with a sacrificial anode.
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by briantakita 3y ago
Welcome to the rentier economy. Where less goods are produced & the workers are homeless...While people who own multiple properties extract maximum rent to barely get by themselves.
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by briantakita 3y ago
I credit Nathan Wilmes for showing me how to speed up my development techniques & decision making...Mainly by observing him work during our pairing sessions. It's interesting how one can learn effective practices that are difficult
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by briantakita 3y ago
I had the pleasure of working with Nathan Sobo when he joined Pivotal Labs ~2008. He had a burning desire to create a transformative text edior/ide back then. He is bright, not only in an intellectual & talent sense, but also in an
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by briantakita 3y ago
> any theory of _why_ Russia would care about an inconsequential CSS-related lib Most likely he didn't want to deal with the maintenance burden of CSS-in-JS or React. I must be Russian because I don't want to deal with that eit
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by briantakita 3y ago
> I'd like to see more discussion of the safety impact; Another concern is building stability, whether or not the actual construction process followed code, whether or not structural maintenance is adequate, & the age of some hi

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