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by gwd 8mo ago
It's meant to be using "modern" jargon, set in the time of the story, that hasn't actually been invented yet. It also refers to a bunch of Classical mythology / works that I'm not familiar with. And also a bu
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by gwd 9mo ago
Is coding like piloting, where pilots need a certain number of hours of "flight time" to gain skills, and then a certain number of additional hours each year to maintain their skills? Do developers need to schedule in a certain n
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by gwd 9mo ago
For me, in just the golang server instance and the core functional package, `cloc` reports over 40k lines of code, not counting other supporting packages. I spent the last week having Claude rip out the external auth system and replace it
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by gwd 9mo ago
> It's shocking that Apple hasn't done this trick yet when everyone else started doing it years ago. Is it a coincidence that they started exploring this once they've been forbidden from collecting the "Apple Tax&quot
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by gwd 9mo ago
Is this a generational thing? All my groups of this type are on WhatsApp (unfortunately).
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by gwd 9mo ago
ebible.org has a number of Bible translations available in various formats. NET and WEB are probably the best modern translations.
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by gwd 9mo ago
Nice! Might be nice to have a bit more of a visual indication that you'll get the Wordle-style "match"; also, for things like the Minor Prophets where there are quite a few and people aren't super familiar with them, mi
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by gwd 9mo ago
It's not clear to me what the target audience of this article is. It seems to assume everyone knows what greylisting and greytrapping are; but surely the people who know what those terms mean without explanation are already convinced?
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by gwd 10mo ago
Not trying to be pedantic. When I hear "leave it to the compiler", I normally think, "let the compiler optimize it, rather than optimizing it yourself". The compiler is doing the initialization either way, but in one c
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by gwd 10mo ago
I think the point is that sometimes variables are defined by the language spec as initialized to zero, and sometimes they aren't. Perhaps what you mean is, "Nothing is to be gained by relying on the language spec to initialize
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by gwd 10mo ago
Lots of courts think differently. In particular, Visio already tried to move the case from a state court to a federal court, on the grounds that this is only about copyright (over which apparently only federal courts have jurisdiction). T
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by gwd 10mo ago
> Bad comparison, but I understand your point. I'm not sure why you think so; it seems pretty close to me. Chrome and Firefox are exact competitors; both require a large amount of development investment. Neither one are being char
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by gwd 10mo ago
Non-profit doesn't mean non-revenue. They don't have to pay their investors, but they certainly need to pay their developers.
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by gwd 10mo ago
That's like saying, "Nobody wants Adwords; people want Chrome." True but besides the point. Salaries have to be paid somehow. Some options I can think of for paying salaries: - Go the Wikipedia route, stay entirely free, an
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by gwd 10mo ago
As a solo bootstrapped founder, I take my sabbath sundown on Saturday to sundown on Sunday. Sunday evening therefore is generally the start of my work week.
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by gwd 10mo ago
So it might be a hack to get it to take another way -- rather than invent some way of marking a road section as being closed, mark it as being 1000 miles long?
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by gwd 10mo ago
"Having lovers and friends is all good and fine, but I don't like yours, and you don't like mine" -- Eric Clapton
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by gwd 10mo ago
You mean, there's a 1-1 correlation between the amount of pointless admin a doctor has to do and the number of patients he sees (and thus the revenue of the clinic). It should be visible on the spreadsheet. Whereas, there's not
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by gwd 10mo ago
Thanks -- that's not at all clear in this post (nor is it clear from the link text that its target would include a more complete description of his position). I've updated my comment in response to this. Basically: It seems his
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by gwd 10mo ago
> Are you saying that LLMs _do_ have a model of the human mind in their weights? On topics with "complicated disagreements", an important way of moving forward is to find small things where we can move forward. There are a larg
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by gwd 10mo ago
I think I'd define "classical" AI as any system where, rather that putting in an explicit algorithm, you give the computer a goal and have it "figure out" how to achieve that goal. By that definition, SQL query plan
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by gwd 10mo ago
> ChatGPT is not "intelligence", so please don't call it "AI". I define "intelligence" as being capable of knowing or understanding, at least within some domain. Great -- another "submarines can&#
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by gwd 10mo ago
First of all, it's not unlikely that the dentist is the owner. And in any case, when you have a small system of less than 150 people, it's easy enough for a handful of people to see what's actually going on. Once you get to
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by gwd 10mo ago
SFC is trying out a new legal theory [1] that they hope will make GPL enforcement easier: rather than copyright holders suing for copyright license violation , having consumers sue based on contract law . It's been well-establish
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by gwd 10mo ago
SFC's announcement: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/dec/04/tentative-vizio-r... Apparently the actual case was to be argued in a session starting at 10am pacific, with their case as number 11. J
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by gwd 10mo ago
Not according to this post: > Go generics combines concepts from "monomorphisation" (stenciling) and "boxing" (dynamic dispatch) and is implemented using GCshape stenciling and dictionaries. This allows Go to have fas
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by gwd 10mo ago
Not this time; but the rewrite was certainly implicated in the previous one. They actually had two versions deployed; in response to unexpected configuration file size, the old version degraded gracefully, while the new version failed cata
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by gwd 10mo ago
But it might have something to do with the "rewrite" part: > The idea that new code is better than old is patently absurd. Old code has been used. It has been tested. Lots of bugs have been found, and they’ve been fixed. There’
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by gwd 10mo ago
Unlike the previous outage, my server seems fine, and I can use Cloudflare's tunnel to ssh to the host as well.
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by gwd 10mo ago
What would have been impressive is if the favored industries, or individual companies, experienced a major drop during the target testing window, and the LLMs managed to pull out of those industries before they dropped.

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