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by kerblang 6mo ago
This is not a writeup of "Ada is better than everything else". The author is explaining how Ada achieved safety/reliability goals that your favorite language independently evolved much later on. That is why they kept bringing
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by kerblang 6mo ago
How about "Working with AI just feels like having a team of junior employees who are completely unscrupulous, sychophantic and sometimes profoundly stupid psychopathic liars"?
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Caveman – why use many token when few do trick(github.com)
2 points by kerblang 6mo ago|0 comments
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by kerblang 6mo ago
oh. sorry, had a decent excuse for its horribility, now i have less of one.
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by kerblang 6mo ago
Am a middle-aged man, don't have kids, don't see it as a trifling problem, and I don't agree with the libertarian free-speech-at-all-costs angle. Instead I think a) kids shouldn't be on the internet and b) the public sch
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by kerblang 6mo ago
Am amused that someone feels compelled to justify writing a db in C#. Such conscientiousness! I'm not sure authors of Cassandra, ElasticSearch, MongoDB (and more...?) ever had the slightest twinge of uncertainty about whether a managed
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by kerblang 6mo ago
I really like the idea of implementing the std lib separate from the language. I think that would be a huge blessing for Java, Go and others, ideally allowing faster iteration on most things given that we usually don't need a reinventi
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by kerblang 6mo ago
Try replacing the battery. Seems accessible enough at first, but ingenious engineering has made batteries the modern rubik's cube of auto maintenance.
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by kerblang 6mo ago
> This meant I could start the computer, log in, potentially start and use several applications and only then turn on the screen. I mean... well... responsiveness matters to me too, and I am impressed by such inspired productivity, but
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by kerblang 6mo ago
They are trumpist, because Trump is highly narcissistic and disgusted by _weakness_ in others. They are elitist Nietzschean social darwinists at heart and believe IQ should determine social status. The populism stuff doesn't mean &quot
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MiniStack (replacement for LocalStack)(ministack.org)
317 points by kerblang 6mo ago|67 comments
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by kerblang 6mo ago
The most consistent answer I see here, in the article, and in people I've talked to is: Taking responsibility. It becomes a moral question. I think if you want to be seen as an adult - as many kids desperately hope to do - responsibi
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by kerblang 6mo ago
> It means, I passed the text. Ha. Well I guess you did, _this time_. Can we not just ask an AI to correct our spelling mistakes and leave the rest alone?
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by kerblang 6mo ago
The patient (the article's author) is a covered entity. Patient data does not pass thru email, period. Even if the patient wants to send email and says, "Just blame me, I don't care!" The answer is a flat no, and nobody
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by kerblang 7mo ago
I'm not gonna say "incorrect" like the absolutists. It's an interesting hypothesis, at least. But I will insist that executives are more driven by FOMO than a teenager.
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by kerblang 7mo ago
Under HIPAA requirements emailing personal medical info is a massive no-no. Admittedly, this is for the patient's protection, and of course being blind is not much of a secret... but it's completely understandable that email would
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by kerblang 7mo ago
Many Americans turn on subtitles when watching tv/movies Gone are the days when American actors flaunted those crisply enunciated albeit preposterous "continental" accents
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by kerblang 7mo ago
The soviet empire collapsed, even in the same lifetimes of many who saw its rise. Lasted longer than the Nazi empire, I'll admit, but both were weak
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French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?(jakubmarian.com)
131 points by kerblang 7mo ago|157 comments
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by kerblang 7mo ago
Contrary to popular opinion, the "verbosity void" of the article is not a hopeless expanse without any useful information at all; it just has a much lower density than average. nyuk nyuk Anyhow it barely touched on dark matter...
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by kerblang 7mo ago
> what is widely regarded as the album that invented punk This sort of thing becomes endless debate, but I'm still gonna say The Stooges were way ahead of them (yeah, noticed Iggy in one of the article's pictures).
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by kerblang 7mo ago
And still not applied physics
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by kerblang 7mo ago
The low accuracy of human guesstimation is why we use deterministic tools, not so-called tools that imitate our ability (or worse). Tools are not replacements for people! Tools are enhancements. AI is an attempt to replace people with somet
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by kerblang 7mo ago
Engineering is two things: 1. Applied physics - Software is immediately disqualified. Symbols have no physics. 2. Ethics - Lives and livelihoods depend on you getting it right. Software people want to be disqualified because that stuff is s
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by kerblang 7mo ago
Those were deterministic rather than stochastic
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by kerblang 7mo ago
Earlier today on the radio I heard Houston TX was 20 GW at peak load. Texas is [d]oing its best to build as many datacenters & power plants as possible. They were describing it as "Texas will have more datacenters than anyplace els
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by kerblang 7mo ago
There is nothing wrong with Integer.parseInt(). It blows up if you give it invalid input. That's standard idiomatic behavior. It might be helpful to have Integer.validateInt(String), but currently it's up to author to do that them
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by kerblang 7mo ago
I'm always going to say that if you have third-party integrations where you call out to other organizations' services, that will be the thing that breaks down the most. You have to armor the heck out of it and plan for contingenci
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by kerblang 7mo ago
In my experience, while monorepo makes shared libraries between services easier, that inevitably turns into "Hey, why not just put a copy of my application inside yours?"
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by kerblang 7mo ago
> Java's language design over-uses exceptions for error handling No, library authors' design over-uses exceptions. Also refer to people using exceptions to generate 404 http responses in web systems - hey, there's an eas

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