brightball

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by brightball 3mo ago
All of those caveats make perfect sense.
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by brightball 3mo ago
You can’t abolish the electoral college without standardized voting across all states. A single state or even county allowing frivolous or unverified voting can swing the entire election. The EC provides a failsafe by capping the max impact
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by brightball 3mo ago
I think we take for granted how few databases ever outgrow vertical scaling needs. Usually there will be one or two tables that grow at a dramatically faster rate than everything else and I have always found that those belong in a separate
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by brightball 3mo ago
> 2. Synchronously updated materialized views (Sql Server calls them indexed views). These are incredible tools in complex data situations. I saw a project struggle with complex technical implementations that would be elegant, trivial an
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by brightball 4mo ago
We do a "Lyrical Code" T-shirt where people submit song lyrics as code in their favorite language and then we pull verses from different languages to make a polyglot t-shirt. Last year at the conference, attendees voted for Never
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by brightball 4mo ago
I'd love to get a talk on this at the 2027 Carolina Code Conference (polyglot and cybersecurity). Call for Speakers will open in January. https://carolina.codes
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by brightball 4mo ago
It’s frustrating when easily predicted outcomes are ignored for the sake of feel good policy.
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by brightball 4mo ago
Of course it’s popular. Lots of policies that make no economic sense are popular.
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by brightball 4mo ago
But they didn’t, because Trumps tax cuts didn’t shave off 3.5 trillion of Federal revenue per year. Excessive spending added it. Spending is the only problem.
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by brightball 4mo ago
> Another ~$0.5 trillion is from higher interest payments. A large fraction of the budget consists of wages and actual spending. Inflation is 25–30% since 2020. If we account for only these two things, it is catastrophic. 1. Interest on
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by brightball 4mo ago
Spending more than you have is bad. Inflating the currency making everyone poorer to pay for it is worse. This is basic economics. Yes, excessive federal spending is bad.
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by brightball 4mo ago
We have nearly doubled the federal budget over 10 years. It is a spending problem and a spending problem alone. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48633650
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by brightball 4mo ago
Per the link you provided https://usafacts.org/government-spending/ 2024 - $6.8 trillion in spending $1.3 trillion Defense, $323 billion of which is veteran support (pensions, retirement, medicare, etc). Discretionary
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by brightball 4mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48633650 The average federal budget from 2010 to 2020 was $4 trillion. This year it is $7.5 trillion. There's quite a lot to cut.
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by brightball 4mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48633650
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by brightball 4mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48633650
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by brightball 4mo ago
EDIT: I see several comments suggesting that there is nothing left to cut. I'm not sure how anyone squares that perspective with this federal budget growth chart. The federal budget over time... 2026 - $7.5 trillion 2020 - $4.8 trillio
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by brightball 4mo ago
> hundreds of thousands of dead people No reports have substantiated this talking point to my knowledge.
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by brightball 4mo ago
39 trillion in debt with no Congressional stomach for... - spending cuts - stopping fraud - figuring out how the net worth of people in Congress increases from hundreds of thousands of dollars to 10s or 100s of millions of dollars - address
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by brightball 4mo ago
The people who believe that believe that every US President is appointed by God. This is a very common Christian view and there’s nothing special about Trump in this regard. By the same token, Biden and Obama were also. It’s an interesting
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by brightball 4mo ago
Are we to assume that nobody at the company who had launched more satellites than the rest of the planet combined is aware of this problem?
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by brightball 4mo ago
Hitler explicitly adopted socialist & anti-capitalist rhetoric early on had heavy state control of industry and price controls in place. Political extremist always pander to control the people who will listen to them, selling lies at wo
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by brightball 4mo ago
It's apparently a response due to a noticeable increase in apprehensions over the last 6 years. https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-107501
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by brightball 4mo ago
I know I always did. CakePHP and Rails made it really easy to determine if a request came from AJAX or direct and you could slightly tweak the response to match the medium. Agree that most people didn't, but I was always an advocate.
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by brightball 4mo ago
This was the jQuery way. It was called Graceful Degradation. The entire approach went out of style with the advent of single page apps, React, Angular, VueJS, etc.
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by brightball 4mo ago
Seems like it's going okay... https://x.com/FreddyLA7/status/2064514871685710295?s=20
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by brightball 4mo ago
That’s echoed on X. UK folks grumbling while tourist from other countries are having a blast.
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by brightball 4mo ago
Not for this guy from Germany traveling across the US for the World Cup https://x.com/freddyla7?s=21
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by brightball 4mo ago
I mean...I have a Tesla Model 3 with FSD enabled. I turn it on by default now when I'm in the car and I can't remember the last time I felt like I needed to takeover. It's been at least a month. FSD unsupervised seems pretty
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by brightball 4mo ago
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