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by darksaints 1y ago
The thing that a lot of western countries should keep in mind about Milei is that he promised a lot of pain before the prosperity would come... and he did it . Inflation continued for 6 months into his presidency, and then it dropped to lev
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by darksaints 1y ago
They don't care about the spending. They yammer about it as a way of shifting funds towards things they care about, like the military or their new gestapo or buying votes from their disaffected constituents, but they've never give
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by darksaints 1y ago
Mohammed bin Salman and Trump are in each other's pockets . One of Trump's first acts in his first term was to approve the sale of military equipment to Saudi Arabia for the first time. At the time, MBS was the defense minister,
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by darksaints 1y ago
The article came with receipts. Novati's defenses come across as a raving lunatic, all with unsubstantiated claims. And considering that it has been widely claimed in that subreddit, also with evidence, about his use of sockpuppets, I&
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by darksaints 1y ago
You're seriously gonna Streisand yourself with your defenses here. Nothing but narcissistic defense mechanisms on display.
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by darksaints 1y ago
I hope he sues you.
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by darksaints 1y ago
The really major one is the only one that matters. If you are running a datacenter that needs to always be up and running, you're going to need backup power. A power grid that goes down once a decade for multiple weeks is far worse tha
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by darksaints 1y ago
There's no single definition of strong with respect to typing, but I would probably put Java into the weaker of type systems, though it has gotten better over time. You can usually tell by how many casts you see in the code, and with m
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by darksaints 1y ago
> I worry everyone is chasing benchmarks to the detriment of general performance. I've been worried about this for a while. I feel like Claude in particular took a step back in my own subjective performance evaluation in the switch
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by darksaints 1y ago
I'm with you. America is already a failed state, a dead man walking, and people are still pretending like it can be fixed. There's only one way this country can be saved and, regardless of the process to get there, it would culmin
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by darksaints 1y ago
Goods are priced by what sellers can get away with, and when you have tariffs on your competitors, you can get away with more.
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by darksaints 1y ago
As someone who kinda followed this debate for a while, I will point out that there is actually a large split down the middle of the on whether minimum wage increases decrease employment. And that split isn't actually due to ideological
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by darksaints 1y ago
I'm actually a huge fan of the extreme level of simplification that electric cars have to offer. They literally eliminate the need for thousands of high maintenance moving parts, and replace them with motors that can run hundreds of th
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by darksaints 1y ago
I don't have much experience with lidar, but I do with machine learning based approaches with photographic data. There has been a massive explosion in the last 5-10 years in filtering and processing algorithm advances that can more rea
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by darksaints 1y ago
Exactly this. The ability of LLMs to write code is going to strongly depend on the availability and quantity of training data. But agentic coding is more than just LLMs, it is also the various abilities that give feedback to the LLM to refi
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by darksaints 1y ago
> In any case, you can easily get most of the benefits of typed languages by adding a rule that requires the LLM to always output Python code with type annotations and validate its output by running ruff and ty. My personal experience is
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by darksaints 1y ago
I feel like I have had just as much luck with LLMs writing Rust as I have had with Java, Kotlin, and Swift. Which is better than C++ and worse than Python. I think that mostly comes down to the relative abundance of training data for these
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by darksaints 1y ago
We have been suffering from this problem for nearly 50 years now, due to ineffective supreme court checks and balances in the face of psychotically expansive executive interpretation of the law in the era of the war on drugs. Americans will
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by darksaints 1y ago
MacOS is a hybrid kernel, which has been becoming more microkernel-like over time, and they are aggressively pushing more and more things to userspace. I don't think it will ever be a full microkernel, but it is promising to see that h
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by darksaints 1y ago
True, but the last time I checked (several years ago), the size of the portion of code that is not drivers or kernel modules was still 7 million lines of code, and the average system still has to load a few million more via kernel modules a
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by darksaints 1y ago
I remember back when Rust was still in so much flux that there were regular discussions about syntax, and there was a proposal very similar to the syntax of carbon: square brackets for generics and type annotations, parens for indexing, etc
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by darksaints 1y ago
For the love of god, can we please move to microkernel-based operating systems already? We're adding a million lines of code to the linux kernel every year . That's so much attack surface area. We're setting ourselves up for
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by darksaints 1y ago
I have personal experience outrunning a bad diet as a division 1 swimmer. I was on a 7000 calorie a day diet, which was actually difficult to pull off, and I specifically had to supplement my diet with things like snickers bars and peanut b
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by darksaints 1y ago
It kinda sounds like it, though the article explicitly said it's not VLIW. I've always felt like itanium was a great idea but came too soon and too poorly executed. It seemed like the majority of the commercial failure came down t
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by darksaints 1y ago
Colleges becoming more vocational is a consequence of colleges becoming more expensive for students. If you are paying all of that money for college, you better get a good job out of it. I don't see that as a bad thing necessarily, but
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by darksaints 1y ago
There are historical examples of entire villages around lakes suffocating during a limnic erruption. I can't exactly find what sort of specs an installation of a large co2 battery might have, so it may be small beans relatively speakin
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by darksaints 1y ago
This has been a huge frustration for me, but the wild thing is that we've built up so many tools over time that help humans only for AI coding tools to wild west it and not use them. The best AI coding tools will read docs websites, te
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by darksaints 1y ago
He actually used steel cables for his initial prototypes, but steel cables have a problem with rolling fatigue that actually gets worse the larger the diameter...so if a tiny steel cable is not strong enough, you might actually have to chan
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by darksaints 1y ago
Spectra and Dyneema are both UHMWPE. They're different brand names (from Honeywell and DSM respectively) but chemically and mechanically the same, possibly with some small and insignificant differences due to manufacturing processes.
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by darksaints 1y ago
Notice that the two reasons I mentioned don't hinge on changing anyones mind. 1 - They boost dopamine reward systems in people who get "social" validation of their opinions/persona as an influencer. This isn't somet

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