gchamonlive

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by gchamonlive 2mo ago
Have you seen the state of AAA gaming and blockbusters lately? Even music is being utterly destroyed by the streaming platforms and record labels greed, so yeah it might have been in the 80s up until the 2010s, but enshitification got the b
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by gchamonlive 2mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49257982
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by gchamonlive 2mo ago
It doesn't win wars, but it provides the necessary equipment for carnage and stalemates all over the globe. Remember war is just a pretext, the objective is always profit, so as long as a lost war is very profitable it's a success
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by gchamonlive 2mo ago
I understand now this is old gripe, and we are all to blame for this guilty pleasure I think :)
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by gchamonlive 2mo ago
In most areas (drug enforcement, basic education, healthcare, gun culture...) nobody should have been taking the US seriously maybe since Reagan. Finance, science and war were the only areas you could count on the US but now they went full
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by gchamonlive 2mo ago
I didn't see snark prior to being provoked, but this seems like a discussion with history beyond this scope so I think I'd better sit this out
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by gchamonlive 2mo ago
> Wouldn't be a authentic pjmlp comment unless... > and I hope "no harm meant" was implicit :) Ad hominen then an apology, mixed signals here or I'm missing something. Maybe sarcasm?
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by gchamonlive 2mo ago
Not sure why we sidetracked to crypto, it's not relevant for the discussion. They wouldn't be suitable for such global payment systems even if they were unified, given their volatility.
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by gchamonlive 2mo ago
> Most of the claims that get thrown around about how a particular language is good for LLM use seem to be wrong (e.g., the claim that Ruby, Clojure, and J, are particularly well suited to LLMs, which were mentioned in the evals linked a
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by gchamonlive 2mo ago
On the one side you are liable because you are accessing company data on your personal computer. On the other you are liable because the company is forcing you to use insecure devices to access company data because of compliance. I think we
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by gchamonlive 2mo ago
I don't need to have this plan to study the VC incentive structure that powers their market competition and is responsible for the market fracture. I might even be wrong in my assessment, but not because I lack this hypothetical plan y
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by gchamonlive 2mo ago
I disagree, they don't cooperate just because they operate immersed in competition. Take out competition for instance by state sponsored cooperation treaties and see the technical limitations dissolve by creating the right incentives.
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by gchamonlive 2mo ago
Unfortunately I think you are right, this is kinda Capitalist Realism but applied for imperialism: it's easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine that the US (or any regional power for that matter) to cooperate with their
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by gchamonlive 2mo ago
Hence the "would solve", but as you identified the US prefers to favor their internal ancient financial structures that aren't fit for current global needs. And it's not like it's doing so in order to prevent someon
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by gchamonlive 2mo ago
Hence "would solve" and not "solves"
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by gchamonlive 2mo ago
That's untrue because it assumes all systems are interchangeable just because they are centralized and global, but intention matters and how you operate them creates hidden incentives that can alter how these systems evolve over time.
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by gchamonlive 2mo ago
This (money transfer) is one thing Pix would solve trivially.
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by gchamonlive 2mo ago
That's because the hero's journey is an attempt to study the physiology of story telling, so it's not restricted to the typical written romance. Games just like books and movies are often trying to tell a story and it'll
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by gchamonlive 2mo ago
This is better, USB Type C Grade 123, or USB Type C-123, or just USB-C-123
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by gchamonlive 2mo ago
Not if your aim is to confuse your costumer
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because USB-C is a shorthand for USB Type C
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by gchamonlive 2mo ago
The terminology is something like TECH PHYSICAL-TYPE USB A/B/C So a USB-D would imply a different physical connection and end up confusing the consumer even more. If the cable supports 60w charging or only 25w, if it&#x2
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by gchamonlive 2mo ago
Two possible assumptions here are that systems are actually in control and that there isn't anyone looking, while we saw that if things get too heated the US govt can sweep in and shut things down. The reasons for it might be debatable
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by gchamonlive 2mo ago
Kary Mullis is known to have used a lot of it and discovered PCR while off psychedelics. There's also the famous Hoffman's bycicle day. The stereotype is just that, and might be a result of lack of mental stimulation rather than L
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by gchamonlive 2mo ago
If html in titles were an opt-in feature from the beginning none of this discussion would be happening
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by gchamonlive 2mo ago
Kind of the point
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by gchamonlive 2mo ago
Problem is that there is no KYC process before someone can adopt any orphaned package
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by gchamonlive 2mo ago
The readme looks to me concise and correct. Tested it and it works. Better than many human-written readmes I've seen around.
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by gchamonlive 2mo ago
I'm more and more convinced that for these types of problems most popular languages are just reimplementing or offloading to services like Kafka or Celery functions that are first class primitives in the BeamVM/Elixir
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by gchamonlive 2mo ago
Didn't say they are good quality, or the working environment is nice or anything, just that they have higher chances or living a long time. The reasons might not be any more or less commendable, but they are different than chasing the

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