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How I Made Ruby Faster Than Ruby(noteflakes.com)
87 points by ciconia 1y ago|28 comments
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The Betrayal of Light(jewishcurrents.org)
4 points by ciconia 1y ago|0 comments
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by ciconia 1y ago
Original report here: https://www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-journalists-hamas-hasbara... How unsurprising...
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by ciconia 1y ago
https://archive.ph/TqFSI
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by ciconia 1y ago
> None of these big tech companies have leveraged AI to build anything remotely interesting from a product perspective. Exactly, but this is just the nature of this technology. It can sort of fake human intelligence but not really. You
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Human connection to nature has declined 60% in 200 years, study finds(theguardian.com)
3 points by ciconia 1y ago|1 comments
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P2 – A Functional HTML Templating Engine for Ruby(noteflakes.com)
2 points by ciconia 1y ago|0 comments
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Tech for Palestine(techforpalestine.org)
11 points by ciconia 1y ago|1 comments
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by ciconia 1y ago
https://archive.ph/OJfW6
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by ciconia 1y ago
Hmm, the first city we visited was Fukuoka and basically all 7-11s and the other mini-market chains were staffed by foreign workers. Lots of (Asian) foreigners around the central train station as well. We saw the same in other cities as wel
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by ciconia 1y ago
I visited Japan about two years ago and was kinda shocked at the amount of foreigners (Indian, Bangladeshi, Vietnamese) working everywhere. I gathered from talking to locals that many of them work illegally.
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Moving Away from Elixir(old.reddit.com)
2 points by ciconia 1y ago|0 comments
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by ciconia 1y ago
No, actually there are other considerations you don't have with the classic "poll for readiness then read/write" model, such as holding on to buffers until a completion is received, managing registered files and buffer r
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by ciconia 1y ago
> the incentives are such that O(Really Big Money) optimization projects get staffed unless there is something making them infeasible. Switching to io_uring is not just moving from one API to another. It necessitates a serious rethinking
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by ciconia 1y ago
https://archive.ph/7QfjZ
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by ciconia 1y ago
Simplify as much as possible and reduce the surface area: the least amount of code, the least amount of dependencies, the least amount of infrastructure.
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by ciconia 1y ago
> It was like trying to communicate with a toaster. Yes, that's exactly what AI is.
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by ciconia 1y ago
Fourthed! I've had Macbooks, I've had Windows laptops, and have been a happy full-time Linux user since 2020. Windows is just impossible for anyone that cares about their digital hygiene. MacOS is slow (for software development) a
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by ciconia 1y ago
Because it's (mostly) useless bullshit. I mean, apart from generating fake images/videos, and cheating in high-school/college, what's the value proposition? It doesn't really remove humans from the equation, because
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Like a video game: Israel enforcing Gaza evacuations with grenade-firing drones(972mag.com)
13 points by ciconia 1y ago|1 comments
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by ciconia 1y ago
Haaretz is the only mainstream media to report regularly on Palestinian casualties. It has a readership of less than 5% [1]. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_Israel
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The Shining: my trip to the G7 horror show with Emmanuel Macron(theguardian.com)
4 points by ciconia 1y ago|0 comments
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Tech for Palestine(techforpalestine.org)
18 points by ciconia 1y ago|1 comments
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by ciconia 1y ago
"Any sufficiently advanced AI technology is indistinguishable from bullshit." - me, a few years ago. I find the whole situation with regard to AI utterly ridiculous and boring. While those algos might have some interesting applica
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The tears of Gaza's men are an act of rebellion(972mag.com)
7 points by ciconia 1y ago|0 comments
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I Can't Sleep (2023)(blog.paulbiggar.com)
2 points by ciconia 1y ago|0 comments
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Palestine Datasets and API(github.com)
9 points by ciconia 1y ago|0 comments
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New EV charging feature could make apps and cards obsolete(electrek.co)
4 points by ciconia 1y ago|6 comments
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Operation Spiderweb: a visual guide to Ukraine's destruction of Russian aircraft(theguardian.com)
9 points by ciconia 1y ago|1 comments
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by ciconia 1y ago
Thank God for Linux...

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