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by foolswisdom 5mo ago
Not just instinct, I'd need to be able to justify the choice against any potential downside of not choosing the default option.
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by foolswisdom 5mo ago
Marketing people like the features they're getting, and Google and Meta are dominant, so big that they're the default, in the same way that we talk about github being the default option, and "no one ever got fired for choosin
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by foolswisdom 5mo ago
Depends on exactly how the project is managed. Older python tooling (`pip` module) doesn't have a native mechanism to differentiate between the spec (direct dependencies) and freeze (all dependencies, including transitive).
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by foolswisdom 5mo ago
Given it was older code, were you not able to use an older version of pysimplegui that was freely available?
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by foolswisdom 5mo ago
In other words, the set of github core services has expanded because you don't use third party tooling for some of those services anymore.
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by foolswisdom 5mo ago
The important part was the following paragraph(s) that explained why this coupling is a compelling problem. It's not the same as just having a platform API.
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by foolswisdom 5mo ago
This reminds of the conversation the other day about the deleted production database at railway. "this person obviously didn't follow best practice of being hyper distrusting of LLM agents", and the response "yeah but ev
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by foolswisdom 5mo ago
Or not, because telling the agent is misbehaving may predispose it to misbehaving behavior, even though you point told it so to tell it to not behave that way. I remember this discussed when a similar issue went viral with someone buildin
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by foolswisdom 6mo ago
Because including it in a plan results in un-metered usage?
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A major US court case could help fix the ills of Citizens United(theguardian.com)
7 points by foolswisdom 6mo ago|0 comments
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by foolswisdom 6mo ago
Personally, as a developer, I interact with figma to use designs made by designers. So a portion of that userbase probably isn't going anywhere?
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Hospitals That Sue You for Getting Sick(healthcareuncovered.substack.com)
12 points by foolswisdom 6mo ago|0 comments
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by foolswisdom 6mo ago
There have been stories about people with heavy internet traffic (generally media streaming I think) being more or less shut down unless they upgrade their cloudflare plan (to enterprise I guess). Some were posted on HN in the past.
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by foolswisdom 6mo ago
The jury in this case is required to rule by preponderance of evidence (= more likely than not given the evidence). One of the economic experts calculated this number as being overcharged based on internal ticketmaster documentation. Cases
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by foolswisdom 6mo ago
I think cynicism is deserved just from observing Dario's remarks.
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by foolswisdom 7mo ago
I would really appreciate if rust analyzer was faster, actually. It feels even worse with the fact that you need to save the file before it updates the type checking (though I assume it's because it's too slow to feel smooth if yo
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by foolswisdom 8mo ago
It's not a single page.
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by foolswisdom 9mo ago
Probably the first time I'm saying this, but this site appears heavily AI written.
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by foolswisdom 10mo ago
You asked how a price cut translates to raising prices everywhere, and the parent comment answered. Though even without the further raising of prices for the competitors, the effect of many such agreements is that the competitors have a har
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by foolswisdom 10mo ago
Why is a council of seven better for the executive branch? > The way America was designed may have been pretty novel / innovative at the time but we've learned so much since then about how to build better democracies. Well, a l
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by foolswisdom 10mo ago
It's also possible that OP means short term savings kept for circumstances like these, and long term investments bear more cost (e.g. keeping money in a money market fund vs in stocks has different tax implications when you take the mo
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by foolswisdom 11mo ago
> It's clear from the report I linked that we cannot assume that high school graduates can do elementary school math. Well, I wouldn't necessarily assume that 100% of anyone with a degree has mastered what the degree is for. So
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by foolswisdom 11mo ago
It's probably a weighted average, as described earlier in the article.
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by foolswisdom 11mo ago
Part of the problem is that many of the issues are not really critical, no?
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by foolswisdom 11mo ago
The argument is that the need for abstraction doesn't mean we must reuse an existing concept. We should be able to talk about corporations as entities and talk about what laws or rights should apply, without needing to call them peopl
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by foolswisdom 1y ago
> Nike’s Project Amplify is the world’s first powered footwear system for running and walking, So this is straight up false?
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by foolswisdom 1y ago
The nature of a free market is that someone wins the competition, and the winner is then happy to figure out ways to prevent anyone from competing at all (this kind of action doesn't require a complete winner either, but I'm focus
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by foolswisdom 1y ago
Wait, this actually happens?
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by foolswisdom 1y ago
I actually came here expecting this to be a language model application of that recursive reasoning paper.
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by foolswisdom 1y ago
As noted by sibling comments, the arm of the Healthcare company that wons the doctor's office wants to collect as much as possible, while the insurance arms are anyway capped at how much they can make. Incentives (conflict of interest)

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