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by gwd 2y ago
For instance: https://github.com/tursodatabase/libsql
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by gwd 2y ago
Thanks for that; this part in particular: > I do not therefore consider them true and conclusive; indeed, keeping always before my mind's eye a most solid doctrine that I once heard from a most eminent and learned person , and befo
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by gwd 2y ago
Reading Thumbelina to my four-year-old, and realizing that she was basically... trafficked? Kidnapped from a loving home by a mother toad to marry her ugly son; she escapes but then is homeless, eventually taken in by a kindly field mouse.
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by gwd 2y ago
> Galileo's ordeal with the inquisition was mostly due to him making fun of the pope (probably not a good idea). And at least one history I read on the subject questions whether Galileo was even intending to make fun of the Pope. M
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by gwd 2y ago
> What happened to ML? Well for one, five years ago, anyone doing machine learning was doing their own training -- you know, overseeing the actual learning part. Now, although there is learning involved in LLMs, you as the consumer ar
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by gwd 2y ago
About 10 years ago I threw my back out really hard; for about 24 hours I couldn't sit up. After a day or two I could get up but was walking with a cane for a few days. For the next month I had constant pain. Before I'd thrown o
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by gwd 2y ago
I've got a friend who claims to have sued dozens of companies in the equivalent in the UK; he called it "Small Claims Court", but perhaps it has a more specific technical name. Here's an example: https://www.
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by gwd 2y ago
You're using the word "entitled" in a very strange way. Entitled isn't a statement of practicalities or realpolitik; it's a statement of ideals. "Entitlement" as a concept doesn't make sense outside
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by gwd 2y ago
For other people following along -- the second link is a direct response to the video I posted by someone who seems to specifically work doing strength training with older people; definitely worth watching if you want an alternate view. The
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by gwd 2y ago
I think what may be confusing is that the author is using "search" here in the AI sense, not in the Google sense: that is, having an internal simulator of possible actions and possible reactions, like Stockfish's chess move s
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by gwd 2y ago
> Deadlift is more fun, hits the big muscles, and you can go even heavier. Since this is in the context of benefits for older people, Stuart McGill, a back expert who has helped lots of power-lifters recover from major injuries, recommen
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by gwd 2y ago
So we're comparing "property taxes", which are on the value of the empty land + any improvements, against "land value taxes", which are just on the value of the empty land. _naply asserted that one reason to favor L
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by gwd 2y ago
> They do it less than if it were not taxes. Do you have any evidence of that whatsoever? I've never heard anyone say, "Well, I would build an extension to my house, but that would raise my property taxes." > One examp
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by gwd 2y ago
> it was indirectly more profitable. Exactly: Child labor laws are more profitable for society ; child labor is more profitable for a small set of individuals . Lobbying by interest groups is often pushing away from the former and tow
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by gwd 2y ago
> If you would tax the combined value of the property then people would avoid to improve the land. But isn't it the case that currently, in most places (at least in the US), property taxes do tax the total value of the land? And
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by gwd 2y ago
One thing that doesn't seem to be explained in the article: Why do "we" (the policymakers) want to separate out the value of the land from the value of the improvements on it? Why not just use Harberger taxes (as described i
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by gwd 2y ago
> I've never seen SQLite used in a setup which multiple machines connect to the same database over a network. If you actually mean "database server", i.e., SQL is going over the wire, I don't see why you'd ever s
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by gwd 2y ago
> Here is a quick and dirty reference discussing how lazy kids of rich people blow it: The only evidence presented is assertions by companies selling wealth management services: > "The “third generation curse” indicates that 90%
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by gwd 2y ago
> The government is NOT a good steward of wealth. They allocate inefficiently (because no accountability) so we should minimize what we give them. Have you ever actually looked at how large companies allocate wealth, and how much actual
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by gwd 2y ago
This is actually addressed in the article: > In addition to seeding Claude with broad character traits, we also want people to have an accurate sense of what they are interacting with when they interact with Claude and, ideally, for Clau
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by gwd 2y ago
> “Generational wealth” is generally a myth. The second and third generations burn through any inheritance and sprint back to middle class rather quickly. Ref? That was definitely not my impression from listening to "Capital in the
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by gwd 2y ago
I mean, yeah, there are certainly plenty of business models that rely on people not understanding what it is that they're buying. If you want to make your living that way, I can believe it's not that hard. But that doesn't
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by gwd 2y ago
He's being prosecuted for both of those things, but both of those trials are on hold awaiting an appeal.
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by gwd 2y ago
> What am I missing? Well one thing is you can walk around the house and see what it's like yourself; and you can hire a professional surveyor to catch all the things you wouldn't catch. But you can't tell what the HOA is
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by gwd 2y ago
The thing is, you can always find a rationale for whatever answer you want. So the evidence here wouldn't be to look at one individual case and see an obviously bad argument. The evidence would be to ask, are there any cases wher
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by gwd 2y ago
For one thing, writing things in a microkernel are far more complex . In theory the isolation can mean lower impact of bugs and security issues; but in practice, the complexity means more bugs which are harder to debug. That's why y
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by gwd 2y ago
It sounded like it wasn't really the kind of business he wanted to be in. What do you do if you've poured two years of your life into something, and it's starting to be profitable, but you realize it's not really your t
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by gwd 2y ago
> I can advise until I am blue in the face but the reality is that at least 90% of all my clients want the quickest and cheapest option, resulting in me barely even scratching the surface of my technical abilities. I think part of the pr
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by gwd 2y ago
For reasons I won't get into, after the pandemic our local office ended up with desks for 75% or so of the employees. So if you wanted to come in, you reserved a desk, if you wanted to stay at home, that was fine. Then the diktat cam
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by gwd 2y ago
One way or another, the current workflow has to be: 1. Download the code (or update the copy you downloaded last time you had an issue) 2. Redirect `go build` to use the downloaded copy rather than the upstream copy (either by modifying go.

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