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by jen20 5mo ago
… what a ludicrous take. If FreeBSD was a desktop OS this might be reasonable, but it’s simply not. This is akin to complaining that the executive director of the Linux Foundation (I assume) does not run Kubernetes on their toaster oven.
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by jen20 5mo ago
The CEO of Ford has been driving a Chinese EV for some time now. Knowing what the competition are doing is pretty critical.
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by jen20 5mo ago
The idea that Erlang is experimental is pretty amusing- it’s one of the most stable platforms there is.
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by jen20 5mo ago
Look into a "Recording" model Les Paul (or the newer "Iridium" model if you don't care about the low-impedance electronics) - they have exactly that. The main complaint is usually the weight though - of the two I ha
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by jen20 5mo ago
The reason the headstocks are different is because Fender _won_ cases about that in the past.
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by jen20 5mo ago
> can be great but they also can be terrible due to non existent QC and electronics and hardware being the cheapest available because every cent matters. This also perfectly describes the CBS era of Fender (late 1960s to 1970s). There&#x
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by jen20 5mo ago
The "log" (generally dated to 1941) is the railroad sleeper ("tie" for Americans?) with wings made in the Epiphone factory in Manhattan attached to the side, and is in the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville. This is
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by jen20 5mo ago
> they're getting squeezed from the low end, sub-$1K part of the market coming from China and Indonesia. This was true in the 80s with Japanese competition as well (the last time Fender tried putting the body shapes back in the box)
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by jen20 5mo ago
> in court, which is the appropriate venue to decide who is right or wrong in a transaction. Hard disagree on this - it makes the asymmetry between individual consumer and powerful company too substantial. At least with the status quo, t
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by jen20 5mo ago
That makes it a bad design, since every person you interact with has the potential to be a scumbag and not deliver on what you paid for. "Get a lawyer and sue them" or "Rely on your local consumer advocacy agency" cannot
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by jen20 5mo ago
Indeed it used to be the norm since basically everyone worth hiring was a contractor prior to the IR35 debacle.
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by jen20 5mo ago
The biggest reason to pass on Go right now (if your software can tolerate a runtime) is the lack of algebraic data types when doing interesting domain modeling. It makes such a huge difference it’s worth tolerating the pain points of Rust (
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by jen20 5mo ago
> Did you live in the UK in the 1980s? Yes. > One specific model of ZX Spectrum I do not believe this to be the case, that number appears to include the 128K and the Amstrad variants also.
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by jen20 5mo ago
I read the suggestion as being that the world’s poor aren’t paying for AI tokens (or subscriptions) to generate software from prompts, and that sharing the _output_ is more beneficial to people. The reduction in energy waste is secondary, a
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by jen20 5mo ago
Around 5 million ZX Spectrums were sold between 1982 and 1992. If all were sold in the UK (they weren’t), that would put the penetration around 25% based on the number of households in 1990.
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by jen20 5mo ago
True now, but there was a time when async/await was _not_ part of Rust, and a runtime was.
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by jen20 5mo ago
While true, this isn’t what I’m talking about: Rust had _built in_ green threads at one point, the same as Go [1]. [1]: https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/0230-remove-runtime.html
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by jen20 5mo ago
People conflate “high chance of X” with “X will happen” all the time. See elections, for example.
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by jen20 5mo ago
> why Rust and Python put so much effort into adding event loops after the fact. Perhaps Python, but Rust went the other way - it had all that stuff built and it was removed.
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by jen20 5mo ago
Why? Smoking was always pitched as a social activity.
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by jen20 5mo ago
The pain in the ass around deliverability to gmail is the reason I don't run my own anymore.
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by jen20 5mo ago
There isn't one? Either with the change or with the ensuing forks, in principle.
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by jen20 5mo ago
> Thats a really big deal, how did they legally managed to do the license change? I was under the impression that only works if the original owner is the doing most work Almost all of these license changes just change the terms under whi
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by jen20 5mo ago
`brew install llmfit`
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by jen20 5mo ago
If all of your experience of these things dates back ten to twenty years, I’d encourage you to look at the actual current requirements now, which are what matters to people trying to do things now.
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by jen20 5mo ago
How did you rent an apartment without ID? Every time I’ve done that they wanted an SSN, a credit check, and the pledge that your first born would be named after whatever dipshit was in the office that day. You absolutely cannot get a bank a
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by jen20 5mo ago
Writing code is a part (sometimes a big part, sometimes not) of delivering software to production. The overall system throughput is the interesting thing to look at.
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by jen20 5mo ago
Worse: it's typically work in progress.
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by jen20 5mo ago
It does, but then it's buried in your photos instead of on the home screen.
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by jen20 6mo ago
> Not that many of us have workflows where trusting an LLM provider is a problem but sending the data to EC2 is not. I'd imagine plenty of people have a problem with trusting fly-by-night inference providers or model owners with opt

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