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by js8 2y ago
But backups are easier to manage with HDDs because you have less media to shuffle around. So for M-disc to be competitive, it would have to be several times cheaper per TB than HDDs, but in reality the M-discs are almost 10x more expensive.
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by js8 2y ago
I just buy internal high-capacity (at least 10 TB) HDDs and use an USB SATA controller. I use Borg backup for archival, at least 2 copies on 2 HDDs. It seems more reliable than DVDs.
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by js8 2y ago
Not just at the top, you have to go higher than that. It starts with the idea that the market success always leads to excellency.
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by js8 2y ago
> What benefit does excellence derive for the excellent then, other than feel-good bubbly feelings? Ultimately anything can only give you feelings. I don't understand what else would you expect from (pursuing) being excellent (just
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by js8 2y ago
Sorry to disappoint, but.. I don't want to hire you. I am a socialist, I find labor markets morally objectionable. The above is one reason, putting pursuit of profit above human excellence leads to mediocrity.
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by js8 2y ago
I call it (doing the bare minimum required) "organizational laziness" and I hate it. It might be rational, but it leads to mediocrity.
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by js8 2y ago
Because we prefer to attribute big deeds (both positive and negative) to a single person rather than a collective. CEOs (and other "leaders") are good at spinning their good deeds as their achievements, while attributing their bad
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by js8 2y ago
You have a nice theory there, would be a shame if something happened to it. I played this older computer civilization-like space game. In it, there was an hyperaggressive race that always went to war with everybody. They always died out fir
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by js8 2y ago
This could be an explanation: https://diem25.org/time-blow-electricity-markets/
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by js8 2y ago
I don't follow your argument in the last paragraph. What has the fact that children get addicted to social networks to do with the encrypted, peer-to-peer communication? It seems to me like they are two different things. While I agree
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by js8 2y ago
> My personal pain is Tableau trying to move uo the stack into data orchestration and compute. Code is completely inaccessible. Not really a Tableau user, but I bet they are doing it to increase vendor lock-in. Which has always been an i
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by js8 2y ago
It's fascinating that somebody sees these things as "original". I used to maintain a 40-year old ETL codebase in SAS. IMHO the original low code movement was the 4GL movement from the 70s (and, according to Wikipedia, rapid a
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by js8 2y ago
In my experience, I only really learned how to write small functions after Haskell. The discipline it forces on you is a good training.
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by js8 2y ago
Are you saying they Maybe learned Haskell?
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by js8 2y ago
I have an idea, we could call it FORTRAN, as in "formula translator", get it? Seriously though, creating DSLs is the essence of (understandable) programming. You create abstractions away from machine code towards your problem doma
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by js8 2y ago
For example, on z/OS, the whole disk storage subsystem (SMS, but there is more) is separate from the MVS (kernel). Security is also externalized in RACF server (in fact there are alternate products from non-IBM vendors). You can run mu
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by js8 2y ago
Ah, sorry for the inaccuracies. I mean MVS as a predecessor of z/OS, of course. What I mean by functional core/imperative shell is similar to what you mean by (the "kernel" is the "imperative shell" and the &qu
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by js8 2y ago
Actually, z/OS (descendant of System/370) is more microkernel than Linux is. But the problem with microkernels is similar to the problem with microservices - you have to make the executive decisions somewhere, and that unfortunate
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by js8 2y ago
There's a reason why hobbits use round doors. ;-)
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by js8 2y ago
I think the fundamental problem is that in SW engineering discipline, we judge skill according to knowledge of tools (like programming languages) instead of knowledge of the application domain. There are interesting historical reasons for t
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by js8 2y ago
Is there a tool that could convert OSM map into a perspective view from a given location? And show what peaks and notable buildings are visible?
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by js8 2y ago
No more than 2880000. Although the brain is asynchronous and there are gaps. Dan Dennett was showing various experiments demonstrating that continuous time is an illusion (of our consciousness).
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by js8 2y ago
Nice that at least, the authors are trying to define a practical test for sentience, and do not remain in the subjective realm. There are 2 problems though: 1. If an actor says "I am hungry" during a theater play, he is not report
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by js8 2y ago
> Seems like the only way to win is not to play. No, the only way to win is to organize. The "not to play" is intended for a special case of a war - obviously, you cannot organize with dead people.
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by js8 2y ago
I downvoted you; whether Gosling is relevant or not doesn't address the core argument that Java is hard to use without IDE.
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by js8 2y ago
> Their thought happens at inference time and only at inference time. That is not quite true. They also think during training time (which also involves inference). So it's quite possible LLMs become conscious during training, and th
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by js8 2y ago
I was just joking, I know what it means (to the extent one can truly understand a buzzword).
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by js8 2y ago
Exactly. When I started my job 20 years ago, our company was waterfall, and my then boss (in his 50s) told me - never rely on QA, it's your responsibility as a developer to make sure the code (and product) works. I think he was right.
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by js8 2y ago
> The rest seems like a long walk around non-cooperative game theory in different terms. Maybe I read it wrong, but I understand the main point of the essay is to emphasize social/cultural evolution and de-emphasize biological evolu
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by js8 2y ago
As a leftist, I really liked the essay and the theory. I think understanding that our morality is roooted in our social relations can be empowering, because we control those. But I hate the title of the book "It's OK to be cynical

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