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by dvt 10mo ago
Extremely unlikely, as there are a lot of theological dealbreakers: the Catholic veneration of Mary & the saints, Protestant sola scriptura & sola fide , Catholic papal infallibility, among many others.
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by dvt 10mo ago
This is a very "Econ 101" way of looking at the problem. If you've ever been to Paris, Amsterdam, Lisbon, London, Barcelona, you quickly realize you can't "build more," as the desirable city locations are satur
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by dvt 10mo ago
Thanks for the heads up, I think my WP got hacked somehow. Will take it offline and investigate.
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by dvt 10mo ago
This is not just a problem in Spain. Affordable housing is a problem in almost every Western metro, both in the US and in Europe. The problem is caused by the financialization of real estate. I know it's always been a bit of a financia
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by dvt 10mo ago
> It's so strange to hear you and GP talking as if no one has ever learned a foreign language without moving to another country. I speak three languages fluently (two prior to moving to said country; English, for example, is not my
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by dvt 10mo ago
I'm always a bit weary of theoretical stuff like this. The best way to learn a new language is to move there (preferably somewhere where people don't speak or don't want to speak your native language). I know people that didn
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by dvt 10mo ago
I've had this (often drunken) conversation many times, I think mortality is fundamentally ingrained in not just the human condition, but the fabric of our universe. Without the finality of death, life seems to lose its meaning. Not onl
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by dvt 11mo ago
Location: Los Angeles Remote: Yes Relocation: Case-by-case I'm a CTO, expert engineer, and data professional interested in team-building, consulting and architecting data pipelines. At Edmunds.com, I worked on a fairly successful ad-te
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by dvt 11mo ago
HN is becoming so partisan, it's starting to get on my nerves. The bill text is here[1]. It's extremely benign and the article linked, in fact, argues against it's own straw-man, found in another cited article[2]: > Yet, a
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by dvt 11mo ago
As always, these kinds of things are good for "simple" stuff (e.g. stuff you don't really need AI for) but totally suck for "complicated" or "weird" things. For example, I curiously ran it on one of my OSS
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by dvt 11mo ago
If you're a trader, isn't the whole idea maximizing your earnings yield? My point was that gp called these people stupid, but the numbers show they're smart.
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by dvt 11mo ago
> China is the only country that is not controlled by ideology and is increasing its electricity capacity in a scientific way. Have recently noticed a lot of pro-CCP propaganda on social media (especially Instagram and TikTok), but stran
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by dvt 11mo ago
> Requiring technical evidence such as screencasts showing reproducibility, integration or unit tests demonstrating the fault, or complete reproduction steps with logs and source code makes it much harder to submit slop. If this isn&#x27
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by dvt 11mo ago
The fact that we have lambdas/serverless functions and people are still over-engineering k8s clusters for their "startup project" is genuinely hilarious. You can literally validate your idea with some janky Python code and
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by dvt 11mo ago
> Just stop gaslighting me. I heard this years ago from someone, but there's material impact to a company's bottom line if those pages get updated, so that's why someone fairly senior has to usually "approve" it.
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by dvt 11mo ago
Google has been harvesting for a quarter of a century, imo that cat has been out of the bag for quite a while now.
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by dvt 11mo ago
This will be litigated and I have a feeling OpenAI/Anthropic/Claude/MistralAI will win, since we've been down similar roads before[1]. With that said, AI slop will never be a replacement for human creativity, and while A
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by dvt 11mo ago
I just looked it up because I was interested in their etymologies, but it seems that the words actually have the same (Old English/Germanic) root: essentially a portmanteau of "many" + "fold."
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by dvt 11mo ago
Very true. I rarely find myself "Googling" anymore. I'd rather just ask ChatGPT. Even if the enshittification (ads, etc.) will happen down the line, at least we'll have an absolutely awesome product (like Google was to
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by dvt 11mo ago
Location: Los Angeles Remote: Yes Relocation: Case-by-case I'm an early-stage CTO, expert engineer, and data professional interested in team-building, consulting and architecting data pipelines or API-heavy backends. At Edmunds.com, I
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by dvt 1y ago
First of all, great write-up! Had a blast reading it :) I think there's a difference between a language giving you a footgun and a library giving you a footgun. Libraries, by definition, are supposed to be as user-friendly as possible.
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by dvt 1y ago
> &mut future1 is dropped, but this is just a reference and so has no effect. Importantly, the future itself (future1) is not dropped. There's a lot of talk about Rust's await implementation, but I don't really think t
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by dvt 1y ago
> Pricing model for a terminal. What a time to be alive. As soon as they raised like 50M+ (why you'd ever need 50 million dollars to build a terminal—which have been essentially "solved" since the 1970s—is a pretty good
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by dvt 1y ago
> Never mind, we already crossed that line: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gzq2p0yk4o This was a very proportional response to Putin[1] the other day, so it's still technically game theory. [1] https
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by dvt 1y ago
This isn't exactly true, as tokens live in the embedding space, which is n-dimensional, like 256 or 512 or whatever (so you might see one word, but it's actually an array of a bunch of numbers). With that said, I think it's p
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by dvt 1y ago
It's actually kind of funny how React devs quite literally don't know how HTML or JavaScript actually works (let alone HTTP or TCP/IP). React is an absolute trash-heap of abstraction that just reinforces its dominance because
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by dvt 1y ago
> “Is that the… Y combinator?” Dana asks. > “Can’t recurse without it.” Fun fact: there are an infinite number of fixed-point combinators (and therefore infinite ways you can recurse without the Y combinator).
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by dvt 1y ago
> "You're the best mum in the world" isnt misinformation To use the original article's language, the sentence "you're the best mum in the world" and "you're an exemplary mother because you tak
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by dvt 1y ago
> For example, President Donald Trump incorrectly claimed in August 2025 that crime in Washington D.C. was at an all-time high, generating countless fact-checks of his premise and think pieces about his dissociation from reality. This is
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by dvt 1y ago
This is really cool, I wish they explained what the rules were; for example, the "Amazing Dragons" seems to self-organize very neatly, but I'm not really sure why it has that behavior.

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