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by gwerbin 6mo ago
They can do it, it's just not "by default", they need to be prompted to do it. So at least the danger is manageable if you know what you're doing and how to prompt around it.
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by gwerbin 6mo ago
PyPy handled this by implementing PyPy in a restricted minimal subset of Python that they called RPython, and that seemed to work out well for them.
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by gwerbin 6mo ago
"Incomplete specs" is the way of the world. Even highly engineered projects like buildings have "incomplete specs" because the world is unpredictable and you simply cannot anticipate everything that might come up.
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by gwerbin 6mo ago
It also didn't hurt that the economic equivalent of Newtonian physics (that is, if you make a lot of simplifying assumptions that all seem reasonable on their own) points to essentially laissez-faire free market capitalism as welfare-
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by gwerbin 6mo ago
Yeah I personally found this to be a big part of the tactical and strategic challenge. It reminded me a lot of Pokemon where you have a similar challenge, of slotting "exposure to fighting" into a limited action and HP budget. Edi
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
It's a rhetorical device that dates back to the ancient Greeks (meiosis). It's absolutely a lot more writing to enumerate the ways in which Elon Musk is problematic.
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
Also it's not like dplyr is anything close to a "port" of SQL. You could in theory collect dplyr verbs and compile them to SQL, sure. That's what ORMs typically do, and what the Spark API does (and its descendants such a
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
> There's no reason to invent a completely new API for them Yes there is: SQL is one of many possible ways to interact with tabular data, why should it be the only one? R data frames literally pioneered an alternative API. Dplyr is
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
data.table "simplicity" is actually a huge set of features, they just have a clever and compact way to express those features in code. At the same time, there is effectively no standard-eval programmatic interface for it, which ma
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
> The pandas API is awful I hate to be the "you're holding it wrong" guy but 90% of "Pandas bad!" posts I find are either outright misinformed or mischaracterizing one person's particular opinion as some kin
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
That is a very very very charitable interpretation of what he's saying.
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
Taking issue with this use of "problematic" says a lot about the speaker too.
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
And laundering responsibility. If the government uses a contractor to identify deportation candidates using this data, and they get it wrong, the government can at least try to shrug it off and blame the contractor, whose job is in part to
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
Yes and no. If you block Linkedin SDK scripts on 3rd party sites, it's likely that Linkedin specifically doesn't actually have a good profile on you. Realistically you're probably exposed and identified. But if you're me
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
Imagine if someone was following you around with a clipboard writing down everything you do, then rifling through your bookshelf to make note of certain books on the bookshelf, and then using that to target ads at you. You'd say that&#
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
There's more of it at least. The problem is not that it's finite, the problem is that by the time prices rise enough to discourage people from using it frivolously, you might already be dangerously low on it.
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
Don't count on it. There's a lot of money in killing other businesses, or even just keeping prices high. Even if the high prices are an accident, there is always someone looking to take advantage of any situation for profit.
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
It's one thing if they have a shadow profile on you (and dozens of companies almost certainly do), but it's another thing if you give them meaningful info about you to enrich that profile with. They can figure out roughly what b
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
Almost certainly they are using that for audience segmentation and ad targeting. Clever and disgusting. This isn't the invention of some evil moustache-twirling executive, this was the invention of an employee or group of employees who
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
Sorry if this is a stupid question but shouldn't you try to clarify which product specifically they have in mind before you spend money on something that might not be the right thing?
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
The nice thing about being a Github shop but not really a Microsoft shop is the range of Copilot" might refer to narrows quite a bit. "Github Copilot" is a relatively coherent collection of products, and never have to be both
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
I have long suspected that Microsoft product branding and naming has more to do with their intended sales and contract structure than actually being informative with respect to what the product does.
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
And yet none of these tools have sensible or working permission configs. Apart from prompt-and-pray or requiring explicit permission for every file operation and shell commands, the only genuine way to stop them from running destructive ope
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
This is the most Microsoft thing ever. And shows up even when you are trying to use one specific Copilot. I want to try Copilot CLI, but it only seems half documented. A lot of things point back to Copilot in VS Code (or Jetbrains and Eclip
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
I like to call this "capitalist feudalism", and it appears to be the overt agenda of big business and their allies/agents in governments around the world, notably but not exclusively in the USA.
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
I'm not saying that the longshoremen deserve Rolexes. I'm saying that if you had to choose between a handful of longshoremen with Rolexes and a Captain Planet villain with a Rolex and private jet and a bunch of new fossil fuel pro
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
Other than the unauthorized category (see e.g. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/08/21/key-findi... for estimates), it's pretty hard to get established legally in the USA too, and the cri
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
As much as I agree the longshoremen situation is "unappealing" from a policy perspective, it's not really a valid equivalence to compare a trade union trying to protect itself from being automated out of existence with a mult
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
It's an LLM-powered evolutionary algorithm.
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
That's the thing, they're not "like commits", they are the actual original commits. It's a history of where the HEAD ref used to be. Eventually those commits will be pruned out of the tree if/when the reflog ex

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