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by gwerbin 4mo ago
You're doing the same thing you're accusing the other person of. The PLO was not an inevitable force of nature, it was an organization that consisted of human beings, making conscious decisions. The British took Palestine from the
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by gwerbin 4mo ago
How is that relevant? I never mentioned any political party. But now that you mention it, look up the Southern Strategy, a lot of this stuff dates all the way back to Goldwater.
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by gwerbin 4mo ago
Are there cases when VC investors actually went after founders for fraud or embezzlement or misrepresenting the business or something like that?
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by gwerbin 4mo ago
I genuinely wasn't sure what GP meant. Maybe I have a wrong read on the situation between Iran and Israel. But my impression is that Israel is more concerned with Iran as a general threat, moreso than they are concerned that Iran will
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by gwerbin 4mo ago
I personally repost it everywhere because it is an hypothesis that I believe has strong weight of evidence behind it, and I think it's important to repeat. Your personal preferences and beliefs have little to do with conservatism at l
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by gwerbin 4mo ago
> over Palestinian territory This could mean anything from a couple of ghettos to all of the modern state of Israel depending on what you think Palestinian territory is or should be. If you take the approach that all of it is Palestinian
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by gwerbin 4mo ago
There's plenty of room for debate about the legitimacy of Zionism, and about what (and when) a "return to Zion" should be. Such debate has been carried out vigorously for 200 years. But it has to start from agreement on basic
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by gwerbin 4mo ago
It's not about money as such, it's about political control and suppressing dissent. All of that is a means to an end for a small number of rich people becoming even richer, yes, but it's part of the bigger picture rather than
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by gwerbin 4mo ago
Yes, so what this does is centralized that selective enforcement directly under politicized control, so that it can be weaponized against political enemies.
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by gwerbin 4mo ago
It's not about feeling bad for Disney. Disney is tremendously powerful, so if the federal government can coerce them to do whatever the federal government wants, that has massive widespread effects for everyone. It creates an environme
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by gwerbin 4mo ago
It's dramatic for sure, but at the time it was genuinely alarming to think through the implications of a machine being able to generate plausibly human-authored text. I think many of the alarming implications have in fact come to pass,
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by gwerbin 4mo ago
The entire movement of conservatism in America is a propaganda operation oriented around manufacturing consent for a return to the Gilded Age. It is entirely bankrupt of morals and has been from the beginning. If you personally are a conser
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by gwerbin 4mo ago
What does that have to do with anything I just said
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by gwerbin 4mo ago
If you have to wonder, you don't need to wonder. So now not only can "antifa"-related speech qualify you as a terrorist ( https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/coun... ), now yo
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by gwerbin 4mo ago
It's all rolling release, but Homebrew maintainers have to bump the version, not the software author (unless they put in a PR to Homebrew core or publish their own Tap). What does Arch do here?
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by gwerbin 4mo ago
Was writing code ever the bottleneck for anyone other than raw juniors and non-programmers?
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by gwerbin 4mo ago
Is it possible that Anthropic is fully aware of this, and will either negotiate special contracts with these clients on a case by case basis, or has determined that they don't make enough money by supporting them that they should care
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by gwerbin 4mo ago
Sorta? Maybe I'm weird. I tend to use Parquet files inside my project instead of reading directly from and writing directly to our data warehouse. That lets me cut out a lot of overhead spent on just waiting for data to flow over the
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by gwerbin 4mo ago
I think the point is that those are the clients you don't want, so you encourage them to select themselves out of working with you. The fact that it might be bad for their own business is not relevant to you as a consultant.
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by gwerbin 4mo ago
It's not about turning out the necessary lines of code. It's about doing the critical thinking, validating of assumptions, etc. which was not done the first time around. Yes, AI can assist with the brute force of broad scale facto
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by gwerbin 4mo ago
I actually agree with you, although I don't agree with the "open your mind or be left behind" sentiment. I left it implicit in my example, but in my actual experience they actually can't put it in production as it is bec
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by gwerbin 4mo ago
It's the same problem we've had all along though, right? Maybe it's magnified now but the essence of the confusion is the same.
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by gwerbin 4mo ago
I have seen this already. Vibecoded top to bottom. The downside is that the business people don't understand why you can't just put their app in production as is. And then there's a lot of pressure to make it happen quickly &
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by gwerbin 4mo ago
Are you talking about science, or politics? I don't think any of this applies to diabetes research.
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by gwerbin 4mo ago
There is still no good "data diff" tool that I can run on, say, a big pile of CSV or Parquet. Something with DVC integration would be especially welcome.
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by gwerbin 4mo ago
The artifacts themselves have more structure, but diffing is hard because of size: what exactly do you show in the different? Row-level? Summary statistics? How do you keep it from getting slow on bigger datasets? Then there are plots saved
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by gwerbin 4mo ago
It said you can't do it with a regular function, not that you couldn't do it any other way.
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by gwerbin 4mo ago
It's interesting seeing this discussion in Rust because it's the same discussion that's been happening around macros in Scheme for decades. It's one of those things where there probably is no universal correct answer, so
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by gwerbin 4mo ago
Oopsie I guess a few big industry giants need to step in to fulfill the demand. It's not technically an illegal monopoly if all the small players just so happen to go out of business!
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by gwerbin 4mo ago
I appreciate that the author concluded you should use 255, because this approach here (making sure the minimum and maximum of the range actually map to 0 and 1) makes so much sense I never considered you could or ever would want to do it an

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