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by imperio59 9mo ago
I've been thinking about this and using Rust for my next backend. I think we still lack a true "all in one" web "batteries included" framework like Django or RoR for Rust. Maybe someone should use AI to write the co
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by imperio59 9mo ago
Sugar free coke is not as bad as sugar-ful Coke but it's still bad. Many of the cheap sweeteners have been linked to cancer. They still fuck with the brain and hormones and make you want salty foods and/or more sweet tasting thing
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by imperio59 9mo ago
From the author: > at some point we started benchmarking on wikipedia-scale datasets. > that’s when things started feeling… slow. So they're talking about this becoming an issue when chunking TBs of data (I assume), not your 1kb
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by imperio59 9mo ago
The sad thing is it doesn't have to be this way. I worked on an internal tools team for a few years and we empowered engineers to fix user issues and do user support on internal support groups directly. We also had PMs who helped drive
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by imperio59 10mo ago
So are photos that are edited via Photoshop not art? Are they not art if they were taken on a digital camera? What about electronic music? You could argue all these things are not art because they used technology, just like AI music or imag
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by imperio59 10mo ago
GraphQL was created to solve many different problems, not just overfetching. These problemes at the time generally were: 1) Overfetching (yes) from the client from monolithic REST APIs, where you get the full response payload or nothing, ev
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by imperio59 10mo ago
Please please please, if you have young kids learning to read or who will need to soon, educate yourself by listening to the "Sold a Story" podcast from NPR (it's on Spotify and other places). There is so much bullshit out th
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by imperio59 1y ago
I used OVH years ago when "the cloud" wasn't a thing. Always super reliable. Always super pro. You love to see good competition in this type of market.
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by imperio59 1y ago
Oh great another device that has access to way too much. I skipped the "smart speaker" that listens to all your conversations phase, I will skip this one too, thank you very much.
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by imperio59 2y ago
You assume there is a symmetrical relationship between the US and other nations here. There is not, hasn't been since WW2.
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by imperio59 2y ago
Let's remember it was recently proven that there is little to no evidence that serotonin levels are linked to depression: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01661-0 It's pretty much likely to be the s
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by imperio59 2y ago
That's because the sample size is probably small and for niche prompts or topics. It's very hard to evaluate whether a model is better than another, especially doing it in a scientifically sound way is time consuming and hard. Thi
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by imperio59 2y ago
Morals is the code of conduct which a certain group adheres to in principle, without those rules having the force of law. Ethics is about your own conduct or the conduct of a group and whether that conduct leads to survival or improvement f
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by imperio59 3y ago
Define "things you don't need" ? That's a very subjective qualification. Even things which may only bring joy to the end consumer but very little objective value otherwise still have the effect of raising the spirits of
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by imperio59 3y ago
Our tax dollars hard at work on the important issues.
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by imperio59 3y ago
Why MySQL and not PostgreSQL or Redis on the roadmap for sources?
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by imperio59 3y ago
I don't get the last point. What does being white or well off have to do with the ability to write books people wanna read? Or is this just casual racism disguised as an attempt to virtue signal?
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by imperio59 3y ago
Except that whole chemical imbalance theory was thoroughly debunked earlier this year as not being the cause of depression, just a marketing gimmick used to sell more anti depressants by pharma companies... "The serotonin theory of dep
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by imperio59 3y ago
Ah yes, the "it's not bigotry because it's taught at Harvard" garbage. No thanks.
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by imperio59 3y ago
To fix representation of minorities in fields where they are currently under represented, we need to start by fixing our school system. You cannot fix discrimination of one kind by applying discrimination of another kind. The role of the su
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by imperio59 3y ago
Harvard and UNC are well intentioned but they are trying to fix inequities which start much earlier. They sit at the end of 12 years of schooling for applicants, where the quality of that schooling and the level of funding for extra curricu
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by imperio59 3y ago
This makes no sense. Democracy is not going to die because people spread false information. Newspapers have had the monopoly on spreading whatever information they deemed correct (whether it turned out to be or not) for decades and have now
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by imperio59 4y ago
Dr. McCullough has been recommending people use diluted povodone iodide solution for a couple years already. I've done this anytime I felt cold symptoms coming on and they usually disappear within a few hours. It's pretty much com
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by imperio59 4y ago
I was commenting to my wife on the topic of teams/orgs prominently one race who generally don't promote or support "outsiders" to their predominant race well. For example: _AI teams primarily Chinese, where everyone spea
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by imperio59 4y ago
I think what this means is that we are likely to see a next generation of software engineers that heavily lean on AI to "learn" programming and we will have to re-train them to some degree when they get into the workforce to be ab
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by imperio59 4y ago
Most works that touch upon core issues like Gattaca does tend to be relevant many years later. This is why we still read greek philosophers, works from the Renaissance, works from the time of the American Revolution (The Federalist Papers,
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Psychiatrists do not know what they are treating (2022)(reason.com)
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The country band with 10M TikTok follows no one's heard of in the music industry(youtube.com)
13 points by imperio59 4y ago|0 comments
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by imperio59 4y ago
The number of shills and bots for big pharma on this thread are saddening. If you want to see the real horrors of these drugs check out https://ssristories.org/ ...
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by imperio59 4y ago
Why not adopt? I have several friends who were adopted by slightly older couples and it was the greatest thing that happened to their life. They see their supportive parents as their "real" parents and are really grateful they wer

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