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by davidw 11mo ago
I am imagining my mind recalling and replaying the 'greatest hits of dumb stuff davidw did' more frequently after this treatment and I don't really like the idea.
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by davidw 11mo ago
With my luck it'd replay that one time I did the stupid thing in high school more frequently.
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by davidw 11mo ago
People also absolutely lose their shit when someone does something like build a bike lane, or proposes letting the market allocate automobile storage for housing and businesses, rather than having a local jurisdiction invent some numbers.
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by davidw 11mo ago
"narco-trafficking boats" There's no public evidence of that though. No trial. It's the same as if we sent the navy to board those boats, put a gun to people's heads and execute them in cold blood.
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by davidw 1y ago
Looking at the weekly ads is probably the easiest way. Not a part of the API I've looked at.
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by davidw 1y ago
The culture of Whoville having too many presents and joy this holiday season.
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by davidw 1y ago
Albertsons (and also Safeway) has a kind of hidden API that I use to pull all my grocery purchases into a Postgres DB in order to see what's what. https://bsky.app/profile/davidwelton.bsky.social/post/3m3
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by davidw 1y ago
They want to 'succeed' in Idaho in any case, not Montana, which does not share a border with Oregon. I'm also curious about the 'massive insurrection'. Is that like the guy in the frog costume?
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by davidw 1y ago
I wouldn't be so pessimistic. Here in Oregon we're working pretty hard at doing that, for instance. I'm definitely ok with 'virtue signalling' though. It's a lot better than vice signalling.
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by davidw 1y ago
It's not ironic, it's saying "the rules are for you, not for me, fuck you".
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by davidw 1y ago
I took that train many years ago. At least back then it was faster to get off the train in Calabria, hop on whatever local ferry was next, and then grab another train in Sicily, depending on your destination. In my case it was Catania to vi
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by davidw 1y ago
My guess is that they have specialized breeds and how they're raised and fed and such, so that dairy cattle wouldn't make for good beef and vice versa. They probably do use them somehow, but maybe for dog food or some similar use.
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by davidw 1y ago
Looks very nice! Erlang's concurrency isn't 'cooperative' though - it has a scheduler, so even a runaway process won't bog down the whole system.
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by davidw 1y ago
This is why people keep bringing up a carbon tax. It does a lot of the work to internalize all those externalities so individuals or groups don't have to try and figure all this stuff out.
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by davidw 1y ago
It has. But the breadth and depth of how they're being used by this one in particular is really far, far worse than other recent ones of both parties.
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Can “second life” EV batteries work as grid-scale energy storage?(volts.wtf)
196 points by davidw 1y ago|288 comments
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by davidw 1y ago
I think the author makes a decent point with regards to 'problem solving' and better tools and how LLM's somehow feel different. Fortran is a better tool, but you can still reproducibly trace things back to assembly code thro
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by davidw 1y ago
No reference in those articles to the open firmware song? Pity... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8Wyvb9GotM
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by davidw 1y ago
The current iteration of Silicon Valley is just sad to see. I remember the sort of techno-libertarianism from the 90ies, and... while I didn't always agree, it seemed at least kind of idealistic. Also unrealistic, but it didn't se
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by davidw 1y ago
A market place of ideas also means having people sharing their best ideas in good faith, not poop-bombing AI videos.
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by davidw 1y ago
Seems a bit like Tcl, which lets you create your own control structures like that.
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by davidw 1y ago
This is one of the better comment threads I've read here in a while. Thank you!
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by davidw 1y ago
Are we headed back to the bad old days of very proprietary systems, where megacorps dictate everything?
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by davidw 1y ago
It's certainly not like it was perfect here in the past or that the mythology reflected reality, but it felt like there was a fairly long arc of 'getting better in fits and starts' The cold war was over and we stopped support
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by davidw 1y ago
That sounds like "managing your expectations", as in the US is not supposed to be like China, but is becoming more like it. There's still a ways to fall though.
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by davidw 1y ago
Uh, in the US I can (still) criticize and mock the people running things. That's pretty important to me.
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by davidw 1y ago
What's kind of depressing about this moment in general is that there isn't really a 'shining beacon on the hill'. If you don't like autocracy, China is way worse than the US. Europe is good in a lot of ways, but kin
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by davidw 1y ago
But heaven help us if we spend a tiny fraction of the money we spend on automobiles on bicycle infrastructure.
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by davidw 1y ago
Given the CEO's responsibility for starving children to death through his political activities, there's an argument for not having any dependency at all on Twitter. https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-usaid-tha
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by davidw 1y ago
A Tcl article and an Erlang article - good morning! I miss working with Erlang especially, but it's also certainly kind of a niche thing. Other languages are faster and have more effort being put into them.

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