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by gwbas1c 1y ago
Before making criticisms that Garbage Collection "defeats the point" of Rust, it's important to consider that Rust has many other strengths: - Rust has no overhead from a "framework" - Rust programs start up quickly
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
Honestly, gaming consoles are so much cheaper and "no hassle." I never games on my Mac.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
No. I'm paraphrasing a comment from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Liberalism_Failed . (A very important book no matter what part of the political spectrum you are on; even if you disagree with the author's
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
Because you can see a lot of the moving parts and get involved in the actual reproduction of the sound by playing with the stylus, touching the record, slowing it down, speeding it up... Anyway, used vinyl is a lot more fun, and cheaper.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
(From the article that Slashdot links to) > Key to making that shift has been the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, which has ordered less electricity from the Utah plant while simultaneously building a natural gas and hydrogen
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
I recommend updating the link to the primary source: https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2025-10-08/ess...
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
It's clear that the tool is highly useful to the people who use it. That being said, I feel like I'm dumped into the playground without understanding what I am playing with. A few short paragraphs, examples, screenshots, explanati
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
It was smoke and mirrors, spiced with everyone letting their imagination run away. I downloaded the open-source version of the server to see if I could build a product around it, but it came with a serious limitation: The open-source serve
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> As in I'm obligated to throw the damn ball. As opposed to my Newfoundland that will tease me with the ball and then I'm obligated to chase her until she wears out, I catch her, or I bribe her with a treat.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
An easy way to do this without needing to build a thing is to get into vinyl. One of the nice things about vinyl is that historians will have an easier time figuring out what's on it than many of our digital formats.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> I think we're unintentionally teaching our children to consume music passively. My goal with this project was to teach them to discover it actively, to own it, to care about it at the album level. I think it kinda worked! Some peo
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
Depends on the TV. I prefer it off, but on my fancy OLED TV, there is too much "judder" without it on.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
Well, Google did self-appoint itself the "internet police," and the general job of the police is to deal with screwballs. So you can't take one part of the responsibility and abdicate the other part!
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> To be fair, many or even most sites on the Google Safe Browsing blacklist are probably unworthy. But I’m pretty sure this was not the first false positive. The bigger issue is that the internet needs governance . And, in the absence o
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
To quote https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45537828 > This is likely another layer of security that they didn't break through: > To prevent chat apps from consuming lots of bandwidth typically your connection
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
I can't recommend enough that you read "How Countries Go Broke" by Ray Dalio. There's even a free PDF: https://economicprinciples.org/downloads/How-Countries-Go-Br... Dalio explains the currency cyc
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
Back when I was starting to program, when I was about 13 or 14, one of my mentors said: "A computer is only as smart as its programmer." Perhaps this means whoever is operating the LLM has to work with it to remove unneeded abstra
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> I think you have to fundamentally target aspects of the ecosystem, like changing the course of a river by moving a few rocks. We need (Cough) Regulations (Cough)
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
The problem is one of incentives: In the software industry, we frequently prioritize building new features over everything else. Because software is (generally) unregulated, customers have little recourse when that new feature malfunctions.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
So it creates a function called "home", and that is what you pass to get? Makes sense, thanks!
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
Doctors have extensive contracts with insurance companies, and often have employees dedicated to billing. I wouldn't make assumptions here, other than "downcoding" is probably just subtle enough to not be worth it to fight.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
This doesn't surprise me: The "fee for service" system encourages doctors to perform as many services as they can so they can bill for more. I've certainly had my fair share of tests and procedures where I wonder if the
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
I don't understand the example. Does it even compile? It's been a long time since I've used C, so maybe it's using some syntax that I'm unaware of? IE: What defines "home" that is referenced as an argument
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> why do we need all these unit tests in the first place? The same reason we've always needed them: 1: They prevent regressions. (IE, bugs in features that were shipped and already working.) 2: They are very easy to run at the push
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
You might want to look at "Why Liberalism Failed", specifically the chapter "The New Aristocracy." The section "Classical Liberalism: Roots of the New Aristocracy", summarizes the fundamental philosophy behind
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
I never said that. Restaurants, bakeries, hair and nail salons are not startups and do not do product development. Their market is known before the business is opened. Running one of those businesses is extremely different than a tech sta
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
This one quote summarizes the whole point of the article: > Rather, the sheer difficulty of shedding staff en masse—a reality of corporate life—steers Europe’s biggest companies away from making risky bets in innovative fields. And then
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> You’re also ignoring the argument of the article. No I'm not. I've spent most of my career in the 4/ths of startups that aren't wildly successful. I've also walked away from situations where I wouldn't get
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> at the expense of the majority I disagree First, the vast majority of tech work is not in risky startups. Second, the risk is known. That is why high salaries are negotiated going into startups. Third, most comprehension is not in eq
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How Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle(economicprinciples.org)
2 points by gwbas1c 1y ago|1 comments

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