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by halfcat 3y ago
The app maker can screw the plug-in author at any moment. For general cloud, avoiding screwing might mean multi cloud. But for LLM, there’s only one option at the highest level of quality for now. People tend to over focus on resilience (mi
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by halfcat 3y ago
The challenge is overcoming evolutionary hardwired survival instincts. It’s easy to want “a better world” when you’re in good conditions. When you’re in a war zone, you’ll lie, cheat, steal, pollute, backstab, and whatever else it takes, to
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by halfcat 3y ago
Sebastian Junger, in his book Tribe, made the point that freedom means freedom from oppression, not freedom from obligation. The big city and the log cabin both come with their own set of obligations, whether it be to yourself, or your comm
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by halfcat 3y ago
> unlikely to make a meaningful difference at distances measured less than how far light travels in that time PBS Space Time did an episode that posed the question as a delayed choice quantum eraser experiment where the “long” leg is far
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by halfcat 3y ago
> what in quantum mechanics is considered “canon” vs purely hypothetical ideas Yes. And no.
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by halfcat 3y ago
The theory of what’s possible seems less important here than the practical reality of what the lowest common denominator is capable of, and what they will choose out of convenience. The average person, or even the average developer, isn’t g
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by halfcat 3y ago
I’ve noticed this about myself as I’ve aged, starting at one extreme, overcompensating reaction to the other extreme, and finally settling somewhere in the middle that I’m content with. Beliefs about religion, politics, family, privacy, hob
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by halfcat 3y ago
Seems like a child that believes “god is always watching” might have the same effect?
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by halfcat 3y ago
Smart people on both sides seem to be making wildly different predictions. People like Bradley Schurman and Peter Zeihan lay it out in pretty simple terms to show China is essentially doomed (demographic collapse, etc). Ray Dalio lays it ou
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by halfcat 3y ago
Always liked Pentatonix rendition on Sesame Street https://youtu.be/0b-v-wMR69k
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by halfcat 3y ago
Thank you for the python-inline-source library. Are you still working on Tetra?
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by halfcat 3y ago
I’ve used Veeam’s free community edition [1] to backup personal computers. I’ve only used it on Windows, but they have agents for Linux, and Mac. [1] https://www.veeam.com/agent-for-windows-community-edition.ht...
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by halfcat 3y ago
> I sync my TOTP between devices using an encrypted backup, even if someone got that file they could not use the codes. What do you use to accomplish this?
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by halfcat 3y ago
No. Because it’s irrelevant how relevant it is. That’s the entire point. It could be a stalled car, or a fallen tree. People get overly concerned with blame attribution, and future prevention, when there is often no fault to begin with. It’
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by halfcat 3y ago
Yes. Financial articles do the same with “as”. “Tech stocks down as trade talks stall with China” They’re rarely related. Two things happened, and they put “as” between them.
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by halfcat 3y ago
What if a brand new, human-driven taxi breaks down, blocking the ambulance? Is the taxi company on the hook?
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by halfcat 3y ago
A reference to Marie Antoinette in the French Revolution https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake
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by halfcat 3y ago
I interpreted the statement as, “dead end tech, which happens to use node/js”.
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by halfcat 3y ago
HTMX can swap multiple DOM elements from a single HTTP response https://htmx.org/extensions/multi-swap/
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by halfcat 3y ago
Do you build each interface with different tools (e.g. Swift, Java, and React), or one of the unifying tools (Flutter, React Native, etc)?
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by halfcat 3y ago
The distinction that data has no meaning without code is unconvincing. The code has no meaning without a compiler or interpreter. The compiler and interpreter have no meaning without a CPU. If I store x86 CPU instructions in a Postgres data
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by halfcat 3y ago
> Someone, anyone, tell me which hypervisor doesn't enforce a memory limit on VMs? They don’t mean the memory usage is allowed to grow indefinitely. They mean, if your laptop has 32 GB RAM, and if your OS and apps consume 20 GB, it’
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by halfcat 3y ago
Is the value here primarily in low latency updates? i.e. the fraud detection scenario My main pain points with ETLs are with systems that don’t provide good CDC metrics to begin with, which are not Postgres/etc, which are usually a bol
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by halfcat 3y ago
For sure. Nearly all retail traders lose. But it’s primarily a result of unrealistic expectations and low barrier to entry. If there were YouTube ads for weekend boot camps to become a doctor in 3 days and start making 6-figures next week,
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by halfcat 3y ago
The sentence I agree with most: > In as technical a field as trading, sheer willpower is often what gets things done in the end. Institutional and retail trading are as different as Microsoft and a solo startup side project. Some princip
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by halfcat 3y ago
A planetary scale strategy is only viable if it first outcompetes the alternatives, and then produces the “right behavior” as a side effect. A few buy a Tesla to save the environment. The majority buy a Tesla because it has “self driving”,
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by halfcat 3y ago
On the flip side, also consider low barrier to entry as drastically inflating the denominator. The cost to start an “AI company” is virtually zero. The reason “99% of day traders fail” isn’t because day trading is harder than being a doctor
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by halfcat 3y ago
Years ago, companies could get discounts if they were a “certified gold partner” or whatever. To be a partner, the company would need a certain number of certifications among their employees, so there was tangible value to companies who eit
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by halfcat 3y ago
> I've just made a first project in fastAPI, and it was trivially simple… My experience has been, as Seth Godin says, “the long-cut is the most direct route to get to where you seek to go” Every time I started with Django, I hated t
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by halfcat 3y ago
Say we developed that tech, and travelled to another star system. A technical or psychological malfunction occurs in a novel environment. What about this scenario seems silly?

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