jppittma

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by jppittma 2y ago
A is a vowel
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by jppittma 3y ago
As far as I can tell, Rust _does_ support dynamic linking. You can both compile rust code to .so and link against existing shared objects. What are you talking about? >The compiler supports various methods to link crates together both st
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by jppittma 3y ago
I don't see it as a flag that optionally takes an argument, but rather a flag that makes an optional argument mandatory.
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by jppittma 3y ago
If you come up with a model that works like that, then I think that would be worth discussing after you collect your Turing award.
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by jppittma 3y ago
That makes sense to me. If you use GPL code to train your model, then everything that model produces is a derivative work of that GPL code.
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by jppittma 3y ago
They will encourage animal cruelty if the alternative is veganism.
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by jppittma 3y ago
Working at google is like this, where no matter how much you try to do the right thing you're always under attack.
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by jppittma 3y ago
See, policy like this I wish we had in the U.S., where the government controls industry, not the other way around.
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by jppittma 3y ago
FaaS is an abstraction over a (several) managed k8s clusters. Like most abstractions, you're trading convenience for power/flexibility.
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by jppittma 3y ago
I guarantee you that for most flaws you find in the product, somebody knew about it and cared about it, but fixing it didn't make the chopping block for the release.
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by jppittma 3y ago
Oh, is this like a paid version of pandoc?
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by jppittma 3y ago
> Yes, that's why you need to organize. That stops the race to the bottom. This is exactly why strike breakers are looked down upon and why companies used to bring in 'scabs' to break strikes. To push that race to the bott
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by jppittma 3y ago
No, they're replacing compiler engineers with data scientists.
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by jppittma 3y ago
If only they didn’t chose 1 based array indexing, like matlab. Having worked with matlab and for that reason I can’t seem to take them seriously.
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by jppittma 3y ago
Hiring committee at google knows none of your demographic information. They never see your face, and make their hiring decision based on the written feedback from interviews. Diversity in this case meant bringing more diverse candidates int
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by jppittma 3y ago
Bazel has this functionality. https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_docker#rust_image
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by jppittma 3y ago
My only hope is that when our republic finally does follow in the footsteps of Rome and become an empire that we at least have a decent administration.
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by jppittma 3y ago
My impression is that it's not people paying for Youtube Premium who are complaining about Google targeting people with ad blockers. I suppose Netflix used to offer only paid, ad free video streaming, so it isn't really out of the
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by jppittma 3y ago
What is the basis for assuming that something like this was created in bad faith?
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by jppittma 3y ago
Do you really believe that the ability for people to play YouTube without ads benefits the user? I mean, it sounds great on some level. Perhaps browsers should just ship with ad blocking by default. Everybody the world over can use the inte
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by jppittma 3y ago
Hey, look, it's the bad faith optics war again.
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by jppittma 3y ago
Who cares about posix? It's not the 2000's anymore. Solaris is dead. HP-UX is dead. Were you worried that someday you might have to port your shell script to AIX? GNU and Linux won. The only BSD environment is macOS, and if you pu
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by jppittma 3y ago
Logging/Observability, and distribution of responsibility among teams. The question is then, "did my component behave correctly for the input parameters." Observability and logging gives you the parameters and the behavior, t
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by jppittma 3y ago
What is the feeling of sunshine on your face? What is love? I think intelligence, as a prerequisite requires consciousness. It's the capability for the "aha!" moment where for a brief moment all if quiet, and the student and
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by jppittma 3y ago
My blind speculation would be that this property is likely to disappear as more and more text is written by non-thinking agents. Most text on the internet prior to 2022 was written by an agent capable of thinking. That may not be true going
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by jppittma 3y ago
It's because up until a few years ago, everything that was capable of communicating at that level was a (non Artificial)GI. It's a bit ..surreal? to see text and speech without intelligence and understanding behind it.
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by jppittma 3y ago
Then they'll be outcompeted by the free market. We'll soon see how efficient big business is compared to government.
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by jppittma 3y ago
People don't click on or look at anything past the top 5 results anymore. They just refine the query.
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by jppittma 3y ago
So, in any tragedy of the commons are we just going to accept that the only solutions are going to be to change the concrete circumstances that make it a one? If not climate change, then there'll be other instances like this where what
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by jppittma 3y ago
I really like that service. I can't wait to see how they enshittify this one.

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