camgunz

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by camgunz 2y ago
> That said I totally get that writing specs are hard, so not dissing the authors as such. Oh definitely. Yeah maybe I come off as anti-spec or something, but in this case I just think MP was really well thought out, and then Bormann hun
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by camgunz 2y ago
No in practice people just ignore the spec, but that's not really what you're hoping for when writing one.
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by camgunz 2y ago
Sure, I think CBOR's "suggested" tags (or whatever they are) are probably useful to most people. The tradeoff is that they create pressure for implementations to support them, and that's not free. For example, bignum lib
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by camgunz 2y ago
Disclaimer: I wrote and maintain a MessagePack implementation. To be uncharitable, that's probably because CBOR's initial design was lifted from MP, and everything Bormann added to it was pretty bad. This snippet from your great p
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by camgunz 2y ago
Disclaimer: I wrote and maintain a MessagePack implementation. Hey that's me! Yeah they fixed that, but there's other parts of the spec that are basically unworkable like indefinite length values, "canonicalization", and
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by camgunz 2y ago
Anywhere in the EU.
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by camgunz 2y ago
Absolutely yeah, this is why you get loss leader prestige stores and dozens of clone businesses because that's what unimaginative banks will finance. It'll give you expensive salads, but that's about it.
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by camgunz 2y ago
Yeah I'm on a Mac. Uh, you know I really had a memory of homebrew getting things out of the .app or something, but I really can't find any evidence that was ever the case. I blame sleep deprivation, this is like the 13th blunder I
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by camgunz 2y ago
I was forced into using some kind of Docker thing at my last job, where I looked into the license and it starts out: "Docker Desktop is free for small businesses (fewer than 250 employees AND less than $10 million in annual revenue), p
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by camgunz 2y ago
Well, maybe more embarrassingly I read your post backwards. But Thomas' concurrence is basically "only Congress can legislate". I will say it's super unclear how our government works now. SCOTUS is like "sure, go ah
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by camgunz 2y ago
I didn't downvote you; I think your response is a good road to walk down here. Replacing people: There's probably a lot of nuance here, but I would rephrase: tech is about empowering people to do something else. There's this
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by camgunz 2y ago
> More broadly, the Supreme Court has made clear that the Constitution imposes important limits on Congress’s ability to influence or control the actions of officers once they are appointed. No they did the opposite when they overruled
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by camgunz 2y ago
Congress
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by camgunz 2y ago
The constitutional argument is ridiculous; we've really been frog boiled into a wildly different understanding of executive power than even the most monarchical Founders imagined. Article II sections 2 and 3 are short and grant almost
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by camgunz 2y ago
3. "Replacing people": Just googling reveals this has already happened. 4. "Incorrect information and bias": LLMs famously hallucinate. 5. Concentrating power: Practically no individuals are capable of running, let alone
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by camgunz 2y ago
I think you're right about all this. Fundamentally, world cities have just become too expensive. If you want to live in them you have to be wealthy or earn a high income, neither of which are historically associated with culture genera
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by camgunz 2y ago
100%. Lately I'm kind of obsessed with cities "in the middle". I don't really know what the definition is exactly, maybe like "you have a pretty big train station" or something, but yeah something where you get
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by camgunz 2y ago
My friends and family primarily use Signal and it suits 100% of our needs. It's probably one of the most successful tech decisions I've ever made.
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by camgunz 2y ago
I don't remap; I use ^[.
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by camgunz 2y ago
Sure, sorry, but the point still stands. Both these ideas (replace the workforce with AI and UBI broadly) are entirely disconnected from reality. Fortunately it looks like AI is hitting a ceiling so we'll probably avoid broad social de
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by camgunz 2y ago
There's ~127m households in the US. At even $2k/mo (read: roughly the poverty line) that's over $3 trillion, which is half the US annual budget. UBI as a justification for throwing millions of people out of work is a joke. Bu
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by camgunz 2y ago
Hey to all you NL people (we're in Den Haag) - I've been researching solar water heaters and they look really promising? I've read they even work in winter. Is that wishful thinking in a country like NL?
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by camgunz 2y ago
Without wading into the "good guy with a gun" debate, tl;dr: almost no humans want to effect the level of violence required to execute a home invasion, even if the risk of being shot is zero. A big deal is made about guns as deter
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by camgunz 2y ago
> The reason this does not happen is because everyone has a gun. Probably not. The reason we're not permanently locked in a life or death battle against each other is that very few humans like committing violence. It's a pretty
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by camgunz 2y ago
The FAA is pretty bonkers; Rayiner is right here. Besides, what other system beyond "humans trying to work in a political controlled environment" are you advocating here?
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by camgunz 2y ago
This is her news outlet: https://www.thefp.com/ . 99% of the articles are expositions of right wing talking points; and the same goes for her personal columns. I'm not saying that's wrong or bad. I'm pointing
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by camgunz 2y ago
I'm a Democrat; I'm upset about both. There's a difference between talking like you're an LLM trained by focus groups and endangering your political rivals with your rhetoric. A lot of Democratic senators are/were g
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by camgunz 2y ago
I know I skipped my usual edit sweep and my post above was pretty wordy as a result, but TL;DR I think giving her a rifle fits with Trump's pattern of "say it without saying it". If you don't agree, I'm fine concedi
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Ukraine I think is a pretty good example of where we've learned our lesson. We're working with allies, we aren't involving US or NATO troops, we're broadening our coalition and isolating our adversaries, etc. I think we
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by camgunz 2y ago
I 90% agree on the foreign policy stuff. I'd even go further and say advocates for invasion never considered Iraq was actually pretty good for a country in that region. Not only were they a key counterbalancing force to Iran, they were

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