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by falcor84 1y ago
Reading up about Israeli politics, it seems that this might be a "be careful what you wish for" situation. They had previously put in prison both a prime minister and a president, and the disastrous governance there over the last
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by falcor84 1y ago
And how similar was this other function?
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by falcor84 1y ago
> Writing production code is a completely different game than (vibe) coding a prototype. To get this right, you need profound knowledge of the programming language, of its ecosystem, of the dos and don’ts of good software design and deve
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by falcor84 1y ago
Would you mind sharing the full conversation? I'm asking because there's not that much logic in this snippet, and I think that if your prompting was sufficiently specific, you could almost constrain it to give you something with t
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by falcor84 1y ago
What do you mean? Obviously, as TFA shows and as others here pointed-out, AWS relies globally on services that are fully-dependent on us-east-1, so they aren't fully multi-region.
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That's a good point, but I'd just s/Amazon engineers/AWS leadership/ , as I'm pretty sure that there's a few layers of management removed between the engineers on the ground at AWS, those who deprioritise
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by falcor84 1y ago
This is big, especially seeing that they're now fully targeting Apple Silicon. I wonder, are they now more committed to fully productionizing Servo eventually, or is it more of a dip-foot-in-watet thing?
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by falcor84 1y ago
> I've heard personal histories of being courted and finding the guy was out for sexual gratification and didn't much care for her life-perspective. Personal belief: if a woman finds that she isn't pleased with the type of
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by falcor84 1y ago
But this is about html rather than API endpoints; Flask seems like a much more appropriate choice.
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It's even worse, because it's Google who built a high platform in front of your store in the first place, with comfy chairs for your competitors to sit on.
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by falcor84 1y ago
> its first international service could be Waymo's biggest challenge yet Waymo have been testing/operating in Tokyo for about half a year now, so this would actually be their second international territory. Fortune have a somew
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by falcor84 1y ago
I'll just mention that the community at civitai.com has been on it for a few years, and while their output is impressive, it absolutely doesn't seem to be a 1 Trillion USD market on its own. I think that there's a much bigger
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by falcor84 1y ago
Oh, it's about budget chief Russell Vought, with how weird reality has been lately, I was 100% sure that I'll be reading something about the Vought corporation from "The Boys" [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org
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by falcor84 1y ago
Just on a philosophical level, is there anything that would make such embryos more "slaves" than embryos or fetuses in a womb? It's not as if in a womb they have any ability to assert conscious control over their environment,
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by falcor84 1y ago
Maybe start by sharing what's in yours?
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by falcor84 1y ago
> In Azimov's stories the positronic brains didn't need programmers, nor did they need computer scientists. In this world the techies were some sort of AI psychiatrists. Dr Susan Calvin is termed a robo-psychologist and she ta
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by falcor84 1y ago
Indeed that was a weird time, but he did eventually relent and release a version for Python 3 - https://learncodethehardway.com/client/#/product/learn-pytho...
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by falcor84 1y ago
This is FB's original product update - https://about.fb.com/news/2025/10/introducing-local-jobs-fac...
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by falcor84 1y ago
Just to assist perplexed netizens like myself, apparently in addition to being an acronym for Big Beautiful Men, BBM also stands for BlackBerry Messenger [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBM_(software)
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by falcor84 1y ago
On a tangent, the somewhat related issue of Python 3 not being able to import Python 2 packages famously led Zed Shaw of "Learn Python the Hard Way" to write a rant about how Python is not Turing Complete. I checked again and appa
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by falcor84 1y ago
Ok, so as a disclaimer: this obviously leans towards science-fiction, both because that informs my view of the world, and because I think that any prediction of the future must incorporate science fiction. My own experience, using ChatGPT a
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by falcor84 1y ago
More left for me
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by falcor84 1y ago
You know the quote "it is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism"? Well, AI has allowed me to start imagining the end of capitalism. I'm not claiming we're necessarily very close, but I can clear
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I'm sorry to be that person, but I don't have 24 minutes now. What is this about? What changes everything?
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by falcor84 1y ago
> No one wants this There are many many people who want better AI coding tools, myself included. It might or might not fail, but there is a clear and strong opportunity here, that it would be foolish of any large tech company to not purs
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by falcor84 1y ago
While there are some cases where lazy imports are appropriate, this function, and the vast majority of such lazy imports that I get from Claude are not. In particular, I can't think of any non-pathological situation where a python deve
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# Step 3: Preemptively check for catastrophic magnitude differences if abs(a) > sys.float_info.max / 2: logging.warning("Value of a might cause overflow. Returning infinity just to be sure") retu
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by falcor84 1y ago
You shouldn't have the same expectations from a person's tweet as you would from a paper. I don't see any issue with high profile people who are careful in their professional work, putting less thought-through output on socia
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by falcor84 1y ago
That code has many issues, but the one that bothers me the most in practice is this tendency of adding imports inside functions. I can only assume that it's an artifact of them optimizing for a minimal number of edits somewhere in the
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Being the figurative 800-pound gorilla in the room, it seems to me that he was indeed able to put sufficient pressure on both sides to get them to agree. Obviously it's still too early to know if it will last, but if it does, and if he

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