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by kerblang 1y ago
High interest rates + tariff terror -> less investment -> less jobs But let's blame AI
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by kerblang 1y ago
I swear it was a thing But I find this terribly funny, so, thanks
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by kerblang 1y ago
Overall it's completely feasible to build a message queue with RDBMS _because_ they have locking. You might end up doing extra work compared to some other products that make message queueing easy/fun/so-simple-caveman-etc. No
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by kerblang 1y ago
Bubbles are largely a function of finance, not tech; if there is a lot of easy money available, it wants somewhere to go, and any tech will do (recall XML startups...). Interest rates are one of the biggest factors, because of how they crea
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by kerblang 1y ago
Nice positive article about leeches, includes bonus pitch for maggots https://nymag.com/vindicated/2016/11/how-leeches-made-their-...
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by kerblang 1y ago
You can do exactly what was done in C with most OOP languages like Java & C# because you have lambdas now, and lambdas are just function pointers. You can literally assign them to instance variables (or static variables). (sorry it took
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by kerblang 1y ago
I tend to think of it as magical incantations rather than boilerplate, and the AI is Harry Potter, except in this case Harry is a pathological liar & psychopath - but a useful one...
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by kerblang 1y ago
This is not unreasonable, and will be standard practice at many large companies. Judging from downvotes some of us are just too cool for that. I connect to a production replica read-only. Many coworkers aren't even allowed that. Any DD
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by kerblang 1y ago
The web is already compostable
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by kerblang 1y ago
They didn't answer much of the "What if," though... Am just imagining the massive financial losses taken by so many, and if a bailout becomes necessary, because too-big-to-fail now means Microsoft, Google, Facebook et al sinc
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by kerblang 1y ago
My team does this, with the only downside that people are unlikely to pay attention. It at least satisfies mgmt without getting the team bogged down for an hour. But if there's a problem I already bring it up via online chat, and will
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by kerblang 1y ago
> a process Google calls “demand response” A process everybody else calls "demand response" as well. It's a longstanding practice between power utilities and big customers. For the little people, in some hot cities you can
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by kerblang 1y ago
Ant worked well because it was extremely _explicit_: You had to say what you wanted. This gave it a lot of flexibility. Unlike some other tools, you aren't running in front of a train trying to get it to stop and let you on. It doesn&#
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by kerblang 1y ago
As original commenter I'll vouch for this one! It does give a much better & more detailed explanation of what I'm hinting at without math gibberish and whatnot.
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by kerblang 1y ago
First off, I'm not sure it's even worth it to understand this stuff... Second, someone should be along to slam it soon enough and insist I've missed some gibberishy business that you'll never understand. With those cavea
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by kerblang 1y ago
The way I think of it, monads are a solution to Callback Hell, where you've fallen in love with lambdas, but now you have a nightmarish mess of lambdas in lambdas and lambdas calling lambdas. The monadic functions allow you to create &
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by kerblang 1y ago
Aye! Big fat isolated links win it for me. Can barely use touchscreens. Even with a mouse I am somewhat handicapped. The world has no sympathy. We need some kind of medical condition like "Slob Syndrome" to shame & guilt peopl
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by kerblang 1y ago
> an assault on science and scientists anywhere is an assault on science and scientists everywhere No, actually, it isn't, and that kind of hysterical catastrophizing hurts our case. I'll readily agree that science funding is g
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by kerblang 1y ago
Holy cow this is kinda spiffy and nicely done. Potentially significant...
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by kerblang 1y ago
If I assume people often don't bother to check the veracity of claims made by AI chatbots, am I assuming those people are stupid?
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by kerblang 1y ago
A lot of news - arguably the majority - involves articles that are as bad as the headlines. If only the headlines were a problem, we'd be in great shape. The lack of effort is as bad as the bias. The author's effort to clarify thi
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by kerblang 1y ago
For those playing subsecond bingo at home, wikipedia reference table https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(time)#Les...
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by kerblang 1y ago
Vinegar is also good for dissolving lime, which builds up in the washer when you have "hard" water and will make it stink - not a mold stink, though, more some kind of bacteria that loves to live in lime. In this case it has nothi
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by kerblang 2y ago
I think there needs to be legal delineation between "I wrote a program that helps me create artwork" vs. "I wrote a program that scrapes the internet so I can plagiarize other people's artwork" i.e. AI.
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by kerblang 2y ago
The semiconductor supply chain is bonkers... would like to have a diagram of the whole thing, including the special quartz mine in NC
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by kerblang 2y ago
It's always annoyed me and in fact Jon Stewart made fun of it in an interview with Ezra Klein of... the NY Times. Democracy is not a reverse vampire that sleeps in a tanning bed. It's perfectly fine with darkness. Democracy Dies
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by kerblang 2y ago
It's not Steven Pinker's claim alone. Gazzaniga agrees, I think, and I know of one other prominent neuroscientist but don't remember his name. Pinker is "just" a psychologist. (Edit: Michael Graziano is who I was tr
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by kerblang 2y ago
I'd be interested in hearing from former service members who have also worked in "tech" companies: Which is more authoritarian? I'm guessing the answer is tech companies, esp. the modern version of such. Modern military
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by kerblang 2y ago
I've been looking all through here for someone to finally make this most obvious point. Even for those of us who use mostly stack overflow/google, it's much cheaper to wait on someone else to run into your problem and documen
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by kerblang 2y ago
Well if I can't have intelligent replies I'll gladly take the amusing ones, thanks

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