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by davidw 3mo ago
"No shit?" jokes aside, it seems like a bad corporate strategy. Rather than owning up and doing what they can to protect their customers, they kept trying to hide, and now Taylor Farms is going to forever be associated in customer
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by davidw 3mo ago
What are the rules around pacers for this kind of thing? Are there separate records for with/without pacers?
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by davidw 3mo ago
Elixir/Erlang works very well in a semi-embedded environment where you need a higher level command and control component that behaves in a deterministic way and is pretty robust. I was involved, years ago, in using Erlang on these devi
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by davidw 3mo ago
When people have a lot of choices, that can create problems, because it's often the people with the least information trying to make that choice. For instance "I'm new to Lisp, I want to try one..." is a person without a
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by davidw 3mo ago
Ok I'm picturing one of those scenes from the original Star Trek where the computer melts down in a blaze of sparks when I sing to it.
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by davidw 3mo ago
Where is it getting more tokens in the same source file? Like if you kept minimizing what you're feeding it, what accounts for the difference?
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by davidw 3mo ago
What I'm curious about is how a young programmer in, say, Sicily or Finland or somewhere who is a student or doesn't have a lot of spare cash, is going to deal with a world where everything is predicated on access to expensive tok
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by davidw 3mo ago
That potentially consumes a lot more resources than the very negligible marginal wear and tear that using a work computer would cause.
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by davidw 3mo ago
Oh no, I died of dysentery.
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by davidw 3mo ago
And now we have a guy with dementia, which got kind of ignored by the media while they hyped up the other guy's decline. People did actual research on how much the 'old!' thing was very inconsistent in narrative and framing:
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by davidw 3mo ago
Framing someone who supports democracy vs someone who tried to overturn a free and fair election as a 'weaker' candidate is kind of the problem though. In any sane world, you'd support a literal corpse over a guy who does not
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by davidw 3mo ago
This explains the problem with it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_balance It's fine if you're talking about something where there are a broad spectrum of fairly reasonable policy positions. It's not
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by davidw 3mo ago
After subscribing for 15 years or so, I noped out after their "walker" cover. The world has enough "both sides" journalism, and I had thought them somewhat immune from that.
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Marc Andreessen Says One Job Is Mostly Safe from AI: Venture Capitalist(gizmodo.com)
21 points by davidw 3mo ago|21 comments
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by davidw 3mo ago
People are already sour on the economy. They are going to be in a whole mood if we get a real, serious recession.
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by davidw 3mo ago
That area still has some 'gold rush' mentality to it, where people want to get in, make their money and get out. That doesn't foster much of a long-term attitude that pays attention to local politics. Also some of the local p
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by davidw 3mo ago
There's a huge difference between 'pro market' and 'buddies with some big businesses' and this administration is making it very clear, at least to those who would see. https://blog.supplysideliberal.com&#
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by davidw 4mo ago
"We've been trying to contact you about your extended chariot warranty"
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by davidw 4mo ago
It's all about housing and the rampant NIMBYism that drove prices up in the 'desirable' places.
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by davidw 4mo ago
This sort of seems like a pattern in CS - someone creates something and then it blows up 20 or 30 years later when the world is ready for it.
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by davidw 4mo ago
Unsurprisingly, the blog they're quoting is just straight up white nationalist trash: "Cut off nonwhite immigration, meaning dropping it by at least 90%, similar to the Quotas Acts, with the top priorities being Mexico, India, and
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by davidw 4mo ago
They don't care about the long term - it's a smash and grab to get as much as they can while they can.
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by davidw 4mo ago
Organizations that are overall bad can have people who have done some good things, or at least technically impressive things.
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by davidw 4mo ago
And of those, how many does this help, and how much? Like does this mean I could look at a map application while my wife drives for a few minutes and be ok? Or does it help a lot of people be able to read for a long time?
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by davidw 4mo ago
It'd be interesting to gather some actual statistics. I can't look at a screen for more than a minute as a passenger without starting to feel a twinge in my gut.
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by davidw 4mo ago
Still though, perhaps the existence of low-margin, generic, cloud LLM's puts some downward pressure on the 'brand name' companies?
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by davidw 4mo ago
Aren't those widely regarded as 'not as good', because right now LLM's are a game of "who has the most resources wins"? And even those require very high end personal computers. The freedom pendulum looks like i
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by davidw 4mo ago
You only have as much freedom as you can buy from a handful of huge corporations.
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by davidw 4mo ago
They are also dragging their feet on 'single stair' reform, despite single stair being perfectly safe with adequate construction techniques https://www.pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/reports/2025&#
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by davidw 4mo ago
Good plan.

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