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by klabb3 3y ago
Agreed. This is like building a little den out of nearby objects, which seems to be at sub-mammal levels? Even birds that didn’t get the best grades do this. They picked an extremely mediocre example by octopus standards. Play is more inter
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by klabb3 3y ago
> The issue is that the Schoor algorithm requires that the error rate of the qubit operations scale exponentially with the number of qubits. So… traditional silicon computing scales exponentially in time, but QC computes in constant time
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by klabb3 3y ago
> but I don't think "oh no, HTTPS handshakes are 20% slower!" is something we should actually worry about. Why not? TLS handshakes are real. That said, we have pretty restrictive TCP windows from 20+y ago that might need a
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by klabb3 3y ago
Hasn’t the path to quantum computing with that many qubits always been full of unknown unknowns? I’m happy that researchers are preparing but it seems like defending against a threat of unknown shape that doesn’t exist is kind of futile. Fi
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by klabb3 3y ago
Go has both. The CGO-bindings are preferable, generally. It’s very mature, fast and works great. https://github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3
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by klabb3 3y ago
Overall, agreed. Some nuance: > […] but not an actually useful park beyond sitting with a book or a smoke perhaps Yes, and grass to play improvised football or things like it. > chock full of amenities europeans would be lucky to have
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by klabb3 3y ago
Yes, but merely a reflection and reminder of a dystopian reality that already permeated society long ago. It’s obvious that if they are allowed they would. The faster people drop the illusion that corporations[1] have emotions and “care” an
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by klabb3 3y ago
Aren’t all the Yelps, Glassdoors and Trustpilots of the world all accepting money from companies to take down bad reviews and/or promote good-looking content? To the point of that being the main business model? I remember there used to
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by klabb3 3y ago
Isn’t it illegal in the US for an employer to share your compensation data with third parties? Or do they skirt the rules by “anonymizing” it? > we live in a culture of "we shouldn't talk about compensation." Yeah especial
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by klabb3 3y ago
Someone should build a tool that augments any text with current year tech buzzwords for optimal investor appeal. I wonder what tech could be used for that… wait
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by klabb3 3y ago
> And what's left is mostly a user class that maximizes the monetary value that can be harvested. Yes, probably, but the user based changed dramatically before this. Since 2019 MAU more than doubled. I deleted my 11y old account aft
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by klabb3 3y ago
Underrated observation. Discord has stayed in the shadows to the wider audience but in terms of quality content and community building, from my POV it’s already surpassed Reddit’s peak. I don’t like that it’s yet another proprietary platfor
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by klabb3 3y ago
That’s very interesting context and doesn’t look too good on the “Redis governing board” indeed.
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by klabb3 3y ago
I’m obviously talking about corporate FOSS contributions overall, not any individual contributor. There’s also a difference being on FAANG payroll vs maintaining without financial stability, which is the reality for most FOSS maintainers.
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by klabb3 3y ago
I think most people are aware of the occasional contributions from the behemoths. Sometimes, entire projects. But charity is not a sustainable business model. When you provide a service offering the marginal returns go to the provider. In t
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by klabb3 3y ago
> Revenue through hosting continues to be the big driver for all of these projects, which is what is motivating the license changes. Yeah, isn’t this just massive cloud providers eating the lunch of Redis etc? I don’t know enough about t
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by klabb3 3y ago
“The purpose of a system is what it does.”
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by klabb3 3y ago
> gpt-3.5-turbo-0125 can output more for about $4233.60 than a human record holding stenographer can type in a working lifetime. “This is the same picture” 1. Build your entire professional ethos on automating things 2. Claim that automa
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by klabb3 3y ago
Bingo. It’s the “platform-corporation” playbook only at 10x the speed. “Tired of drowning in the totally unpreventable noise of spammers? Well, have you tried our Boost product?”
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by klabb3 3y ago
> you probably meant “25% of a lot is still a lot” Yeah exactly. This was afaik a fairy small sized application (where the majority was probably framework code) which went from 20s to 5s for incremental compilation on a very beefy deskto
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by klabb3 3y ago
> In most cases, Rust's very strong type system means you spend a lot less time actually running your program. > There are definitely exceptions though. I mean.. I know what you mean but this is kinda what I meant with cope. Putt
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by klabb3 3y ago
Same, but what’s worse is that people never put in the caption that it’s AI nor what tool is used. Transparency goes a long way.
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by klabb3 3y ago
Is it an unpopular opinion to say 75% of “a lot” is still “a lot”, plus now you have to keep track of the knobs and constantly monitor for and be conscious about not wrecking build times as you’re maintaining and developing. I’ve found in 1
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by klabb3 3y ago
I think most of it is good advice focusing on creativity, independence, crafting and tinkering – which traditional schooling is bad at. What’s toxic is the extreme rush of it all. You don't need to be successful business owner at 22. I
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by klabb3 3y ago
I think he’s saying that at the time when you’re making the prediction you can’t know. If you're gonna learn som core technology that you can use 7 years later (where he suggests programming) then this makes sense. I think there’s a
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by klabb3 3y ago
> From my perspective, it is just as likely that overinvesting in cybersecurity is problematic. Nobody is more secure for buying more products Yes, but isn’t this because security cannot generally be packaged into a product? Just like ho
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by klabb3 3y ago
I’m not surprised. This is a “hot take-centric” platform issue, and a laziness in trying to understand him too. Or.. two people on the street yelling at each other but not listening.
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by klabb3 3y ago
English speaker detected! Half kidding, but in my language that would be difficult. ÅÄÖ
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by klabb3 3y ago
> it's the order of magnitude of performance that matters Finally a sound voice in this merry go round of one-upping. Totally agree. The funny thing is, if people paid half as much attention to optimizing the bloat crap they build,
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by klabb3 3y ago
Tangential, but it feels like most game AI fails to model the “mind” of the agent: what do they know? How do they learn things? It always feels like they have at most a subset of hard-fact world knowledge, but never their own (mis)conceptio

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