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by cbeach 2y ago
In case anyone else was wondering: Goodhart's law is an adage often stated as, "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law
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by cbeach 2y ago
I love Postgres but wouldn't want to use it for everyting. Taking graph databases, for example, Postgres (via Apache AGE) stores graph data in relational tables with O(log(n)) index lookups and O(k ⋅ log(n)) traversal* Whereas a true g
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by cbeach 2y ago
Interesting. Thanks for the details, and for the link to the React->htmx migration.
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by cbeach 2y ago
As I understand it, HTMX front-end components aren't re-usable in the same way as ReactJS components. HTMX components are 1:1 coupled with back-end code. So if I try to build a complex UI with nested structures, I'm going to have
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by cbeach 2y ago
I've spent years slowly migrating a personal project from PHP to Scala/React, and I'm devastated if React is out-of-date already. The web tech treadmill is relentless! Seems the author recommended HTMX as an alternative in a
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by cbeach 2y ago
ah that's strange - I thought I had linked correctly. And now it's too late to edit :-(
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Abacist – Calculations with non-decimal units and mixed bases in Scala(soundness.dev)
34 points by cbeach 2y ago|6 comments
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Just to be clear I am pro-choice and I support mothers and their bodily autonomy. I think the Dems will continue to lose elections if, in their hysteria, they attibute bad things to Trump that had little to do with him. If the Dems and thei
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by cbeach 2y ago
As a European I'm glad that Trump was elected, despite his personality flaws. Biden was openly hostile toward my home country (the UK), and was a dead end when it came to negotiating the free trade deal we should be aiming for now we&#
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by cbeach 2y ago
A lot of people predicted WW3 as soon as Trump took office in 2016. The reality was that Trump's unpredictability and Machiavellian approach to diplomacy put a chill on many of America's global rivals. With the Abraham Accords, Tr
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by cbeach 2y ago
Firstly, Roe vs Wade was overturned in 2022 during the BIDEN term. Secondly, Trump has never called for a federal abortion ban, nor, in fact, a state abortion ban. Thirdly, there are currently exemptions in ALL states that protect abortion
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by cbeach 2y ago
The delayed throttle response is really aggravating whenever I get into an ICE car. And the noise, the vibration and the smell of the fumes. You really start noticing these things around you when you’ve got used to the clean and silent oper
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by cbeach 2y ago
Fair comment. I'm very much opposed to the "Croydonisation" of the countryside in the UK With rising pressure to house hundreds of thousands of new arrivals every year, there are no easy answers. Do we make miserable dense ci
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by cbeach 2y ago
Surprising that my personal account, all of which is a truthful reflection of my own lived experiences in both urban and countryside settings, is considered "ignorant." I'd be interested to explore the reasons and/or psy
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by cbeach 2y ago
I never felt more isolated and lonelier than when I was in a dense urban environment and reliant on dirty, unreliable, often unsafe public transport to get around. If I ever blew my nose after travelling on the London Underground, the tissu
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by cbeach 2y ago
I'm in the UK. Our healthcare is socialised. My elderly nan had a fall this morning and has badly hurt her back. She has been lying on the floor in her house since this morning (six hours so far), immobile, waiting for an ambulance to
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by cbeach 2y ago
It'll be interesting to see if protectionism works better for America than Yugoslavia. Domestically, America has a strong free market economy, and it has healthy trading relationships with most other nations. What Trump proposes with C
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by cbeach 2y ago
Apologists for socialism will state the usual: "But that wasn't /real/ socialism" Socialists tend to believe that real socialism hasn't been tried properly yet. That's how they explain the litany of failur
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by cbeach 2y ago
Amazing, thank you!
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To avoid anyone else wasting a click, this isn't the video
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Does anyone know of a video online demonstrating this app? I've had a look but can only find screenshots
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by cbeach 2y ago
On a related note, I recommend this short presentation by Hacker News regular @simonw on the history of airships, including a look at the future of airships: "When Zeppelins Ruled The Earth" (6m47s) https://www.youtube.
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by cbeach 2y ago
> Considering Musk isn't the founder of Tesla, that's obviously not true Tesla began as a very early-stage startup in mid-2003 but produced nothing prior to Musk. It was Musk that made the investment (in 2004) that Tesla needed
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by cbeach 2y ago
It's available in the UK as of yesterday, but is it available in the EU yet? Doesn't look like it, reading https://x.com/openai
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by cbeach 2y ago
I’m not sure the scale of corruption in US government really compares to the scale of corruption that existed in Soviet Russia. > it has failed for millions of Americans while propping up the very few It only “fails” for people that lack
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by cbeach 2y ago
A system that centralises power over everything into the hands of a single government will ALWAYS end in corruption, surely that’s obvious? Under capitalism, individuals are allowed to own enterprises. If they’re corrupted, they’ll fail and
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by cbeach 2y ago
Sadly the UK has also been hit with the fallout of the EU's AI Act, and we are also not able to have Advanced Voice Mode. I have just cancelled my Plus subscription because of this, and wrote to OpenAI to explain that the EU's AI
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OpenAI's Advanced Voice Mode Unavailable in the EU(techradar.com)
4 points by cbeach 2y ago|5 comments
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by cbeach 2y ago
Thank you very much. I will email next time.
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@dang - looks like this article has been flagged tactically for ideological reasons. Can you please restore it to view?

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