kiitos

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by kiitos 1y ago
is this not just `tldr`? https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr
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by kiitos 1y ago
it does not
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by kiitos 1y ago
almost the entire purpose of anything like protocol buffers is to provide a safe mechanism for backwards-compatible forward changes -- "no one uses that stuff"?? what a weird and broken take
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by kiitos 1y ago
you're using trump coin as an exemplar? the obviously unconstitutional grift that perfectly demonstrates all of my points about the importance of regulations? crypto won?? get out of your bubble, my dude, you're high on your own s
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by kiitos 1y ago
it's in demand by malicious actors, is the point we used to have markets that worked exactly like what you're describing, it immediately led to disastrous consequences for the broad base of society, and when we figured that proble
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by kiitos 1y ago
no, from the lessons that we have collectively learned, from the hundreds of years of history that we've collectively experienced, that have resulted in the banking infrastructure that we have today. it's flawed and it can be impr
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by kiitos 1y ago
> No, I am claiming that I couldn't spin up a bank or a stock market on my laptop, that is compatible with all the other stock markets, by forking a git repo. yeah, and that's kind of very much by design -- regulations that pre
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by kiitos 1y ago
yeah, I guess a slow and shitty distributed database where there's no way to recover a lost or forgotten password (private key)
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by kiitos 1y ago
you get enough voting power and you can fork any blockchain to whatever state you want, no different than an admin doing an upsert
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by kiitos 1y ago
this is such a bizarre position, what you're describing has been not only possible but actually implemented in real-world systems for decades before even the idea of a blockchain was thought up blockchains solve a self-invented problem
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by kiitos 1y ago
it turns out that legal regulations are Actually Good and Really Important
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by kiitos 1y ago
i don't know why this fence is here or who named it chesterton but i'm DAMN sure it needs to go!!
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by kiitos 1y ago
wash trades go in, wash trades go out, you can't explain that!
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by kiitos 1y ago
why would you post this customer support request to hacker news??
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by kiitos 1y ago
"big o" usually refers to algorithmic complexity, which is something entirely orthogonal to all of the dimensions you mentioned obviously all of this stuff matters in the end but big-o comes before all of those other things
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by kiitos 1y ago
i replied to the following statement > the corporations who disallow agpl only do so because they want to comply in a way that is against the spirit of open source in isolation "the spirit of open source" is not anything that c
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by kiitos 1y ago
> I was specifically inspired by a performance bug due to a typo. This mistake is the “value param” vs “reference param” where your function copies a value instead of passing it by reference because an ampersand (&) was missing ... T
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by kiitos 1y ago
i mean in the most abstract sense then yes? but this isn't how rust works in practice. if i try to print(filename) and the program won't compile because filename is `esoteric_string_type&' a` and print expects `abstract t
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by kiitos 1y ago
the difference between an arbitrary LLM and a human engineer is completely described by the salary you would pay to the human engineer? in all other dimensions they are indistinguishable? nice, super cool
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by kiitos 1y ago
revisit your instructions.md and/or user preferences, this is very likely the root cause
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by kiitos 1y ago
you will meet assholes in your life, but if everyone you meet is an asshole, you're the asshole think on this
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by kiitos 1y ago
twitter lost critical mass and network effects years ago
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by kiitos 1y ago
are you stuck in 2021? hang on let me give you a hand, join us here in the present! things are different now, friend!
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by kiitos 1y ago
you're arguing with the messenger. whether or not you buy anything is completely immaterial, what matters is the actual position of legal depts in corporations. said another way this is not a normative discussion (folks SHOULD be doing
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by kiitos 1y ago
there is no real-world deployment where both (a) db+app are colocated on the same machine, and (b) performance benchmarking is relevant. these are mutually exclusive properties. (sqlite != db)
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by kiitos 1y ago
> the corporations who disallow agpl only do so because they want to comply in a way that is against the spirit of open source believe it or not this is not actually true! the corporations who disallow agpl do so because their lawyers (c
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by kiitos 1y ago
you're simply not understanding the behavior of the code you've written it's fine, we all went thru these gauntlets, but, if you're interested in learning more, take all of this feedback in good faith, and compare/c
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by kiitos 1y ago
it's not about optimization, it's about soundness, and the numbers aren't sound
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by kiitos 1y ago
i mean the details are far beyond what can be effectively communicated in a HN comment but if your loadgen tool is doing anything like sleep(1000ms) it is definitely not making any kind of sound request-per-second load against its target an
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by kiitos 1y ago
database on the same machine as the application server, RPS limits enforced via var issuedRequests = i + 1; if (issuedRequests % REQUESTS_PER_SECOND == 0 && issuedRequests < REQUESTS) { S

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