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2y ago
They have their own fleet of planes for shipping. Amazon’s vertical integration is their mote.
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2y ago
Some people think it’s fun.
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2y ago
> trivially DOS'd with recursive data loops or deeply nested over-fetching requests The depth of recursion can be limited in servers like Apollo. Maybe “trivally easy to misconfigure”
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2y ago
> by using platform Y instead of Z does not exempt one from being political That’s… exactly what I was saying with “ any platform that uses decentralization as a selling point is inherently political”…
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2y ago
None of that would matter if they could find the holy grail though.
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2y ago
> This hasn't said anything of value, since everything is political. I really disagree with this statement. Many things are political, but not everything. (Unless you’re abstracting the word political to the point of it meaning any
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2y ago
“Political” and “decentralized” Are not mutually exclusive. In fact, any platform that uses decentralization as a selling point is inherently political, as the only ones that care about decentralization are the ones who care about politics.
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2y ago
> thought the future was running actual code on the blockchain and using that as part of the backend What did that code do besides process transactions and distribute tokens? Almost nothing. It’d be the payment gateway layer of any backe
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2y ago
No
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2y ago
JavaScript didn’t always have async await. The implementation details also affect runtime performance. JavaScript rarely blocks execution, it’s what makes it snappy. For example, Python blocks by default, unless you run your inside a Python
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2y ago
At the end of the day, web3 is just the web with a new payment processor (a blockchain) That payment processor just has no support, no UX team, no security team, and nobody to hold accountable. It’s actually a more trust based system than w
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> Arguably the kinds of antibiotics we need the most are ones with significant side effects I don’t think there can be a better example of perverse incentives than this.
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2y ago
A browser which implements a subset of the specs that major browsers implement is still part of the open web. A browser which implements unique functionality breaks away from the open web.
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2y ago
> Python was an example of my point, but I was thinking even more along the lines of any scripting language that employs pre-processors, so the code inlining works I’m sorry, I’m not really understanding what you mean here. > client-s
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2y ago
It was a tough read, but I really liked it. I’m going through the rest of the book of the new sun now. Im sure it’ll be rewarding to read it again after finishing the series.
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2y ago
I remember the market stalled in price movements, but the attitude always seemed to be bullish beyond all reason. Never noticed that attitude before 2020
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2y ago
It may or may not be pseudoscience, but I’ve noticed brain.fm really helps me stay focused. I’ve been working on a puzzle game pretty consistently while using it.
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2y ago
Tho most likely they wouldn’t pay out any royalties and if there is legal action, they’ll just count it against the profits of the movie and record the whole thing as a wash and pay no taxes and no royalties.
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2y ago
> The current bull run, as far as I can tell seems to have two legs. I feel like that’s just what the market has been like since 2020
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2y ago
Shadow of the torturer by Gene Wolf And Several play throughs of Caves of Qud. Been on a weird sci fi kick this year.
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2y ago
Honestly that sounds terrible for the web. JavaScript is weird, but it was specifically made and has evolved entirely for making non blocking, snappy, event driven user interfaces. Python was not. Also, you’d end up breaking the very standa
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2y ago
Yeah currently young adults are screwed when it comes to gambling addiction. They were children in the heyday of abusive loot boxes and cs go gambling. Turned 18 right around when sports betting apps became legal. In their early 20s crypto
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2y ago
Yeah and their logo is funny looking too
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2y ago
I think it’s far more likely that a specialized model would be make for a such a task. Just like with chip design. I’d be surprised if they weren’t already using some kind of ML/statistical analysis in the design of engines. When I rea
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2y ago
> It's as vague and un-actionable as you can get. But it isn’t. Knowing that information is encoded in the weights gives us a route to deduce what a given model is doing. And we are. Research is being done there. > "Informat
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2y ago
At a cheap buffet, probably both
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2y ago
It’s called Raku
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2y ago
What’s worse about it? It never tells you the wrong thing, at the very least.
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2y ago
> Which old school scaffold etc tool does that? create-react-app and yeoman
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2y ago
> I only have to write the meat, for instance; result, err:= doSomething() Ever heard of snippets? They do that too, but much more energy efficient and faster.
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