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by lamontcg 9mo ago
Also, compared to the scale of harm that Google does and the risk of it de facto controlling the web with the chromium engine, all the things that Mozilla does to piss people off should be small potatoes.
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by lamontcg 9mo ago
And when the cost of training LLMs starts to come down to under $1B/yr, Apple can jump on board, having saved >$100B in not trying to chase after everyone else to try to get there first.
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by lamontcg 9mo ago
Economic models are complex and far from perfect, and we're still waiting for Hari Seldon's psychohistory models to be created to tie together macroeconomics and macropsychology.
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by lamontcg 9mo ago
I have bad things to say about him. But they're firmly on pause. What Trump wants for the Federal Reserve is far worse. And anyone who is a hard-currency quantity-theory-of-money conservative, should also be appalled by it. Trump is
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by lamontcg 9mo ago
Trade protectionism in the USA will keep it going here. We're going to look so backwards and "soviet" after a while.
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by lamontcg 9mo ago
I've got another kos-PEG implementation here as well, along with a really extensive bibliography: https://github.com/lamont-granquist/KSP-KOS-PEG/blob/main/li...
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by lamontcg 9mo ago
You're more likely to get scolded here for accusing that person of being a shill/troll than to see them get removed for acting exactly like one. That kind of neutral bias is selectively employed to protect right wing takes from ge
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by lamontcg 9mo ago
> She was being commanded to step out of the vehicle She was given conflicting order by different officers. One order to drive on, one order to step out of her vehicle. Which is standard cop practice to just yell conflicting orders out
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by lamontcg 9mo ago
> then attempted to murder a police officer with her car. This is just false information. He was off to the left of her hood, and her wheels were hard to the right. He wasn't in front of her vehicle, she wasn't driving toward
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by lamontcg 9mo ago
Yeah, chef-client got a lot faster, particularly on Windows, just by liberally using `require_relative` whenever possible and sprinkling `require "Foo" unless defined?(FOO)` all over the codebase.
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by lamontcg 9mo ago
> Also /bin vs /sbin believe is that the latter is meant for statically linked binaries such that if your system is corrupted these at least will keep working. I think that became the rationale for /[s]bin vs. /usr&#x
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by lamontcg 9mo ago
Bloom Energy is a growing company which is just shifting towards profitability and positive free cash flow and earnings. Those stocks are expected to have silly P/E ratios. They haven't had 2 years of declining sales.
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by lamontcg 9mo ago
The biggest thing that gems could do to make rubygems faster is to have a registry/database of files for each gem, so that rubygems didn't have to scan the filesystem on every `require` looking for which gem had which file in it.
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by lamontcg 9mo ago
The more I write code in other languages where I think hard about ownership ("does this method ultimately grab the object and throw a ref onto some long-lived data structure somewhere? Then it owns it, so I better clone it") the m
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by lamontcg 10mo ago
I read that as a sloppy way to say that the right lane allows turning, rather than requires turning. Otherwise, it makes literally no sense, as you say. Most people don't post utterly logically inconsistent ideas. Usually, they just s
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by lamontcg 10mo ago
It is the same energy as the "you criticize society, yet you participate in society" meme. Catching someone out on their "hypocrisy" when they hit a limit of what they'll tolerate is really a low-effort "gotch
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by lamontcg 10mo ago
Or it is just the result of firing people who were competent and giving insufficient training to people who had never done this before.
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by lamontcg 10mo ago
So if you don't have a garbage collector, and you don't have manual memory management, and you don't have lifetimes... What do you have?
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by lamontcg 10mo ago
Read it again. They didn't say the middle lane was a turn lane.
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by lamontcg 10mo ago
If the right lane goes straight, you can't turn right from any other lane.
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by lamontcg 10mo ago
> Since COVID ... I was noticing driving getting worse before COVID. It is the plague of narcissism and individualism out there (which doesn't just affect "boomers" but also every millennial and zoomer that dreams of doing
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by lamontcg 10mo ago
Yeah, the problem is that the tariffs are letting our carmakers just become unproductive, uncompetitive leeches on the American consumer. They're getting lapped by China/BYD. Once BYD bulldozes the rest of the world, our domestic
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by lamontcg 10mo ago
> Unless you’re the only deli in town. pretty much. back in the before times, we broke up AT&T, but we don't do that anymore.
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by lamontcg 10mo ago
Because "pavement princess" massive trucks driving around cities become much more common recently. Which has resulted in trucks become more useless as actual trucks, since they've evolved into SUVs with a tiny bed you can&#x2
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by lamontcg 10mo ago
It is risk aversion in low level managers, and profit margins in high level managers, and since they're the market leader in the US and smartphones are pretty mature there's little risk of anyone jumping ship (go to android, start
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by lamontcg 10mo ago
or rubygems
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by lamontcg 10mo ago
> I always found the Perl "community" to be really off-putting with all the monk and wizard nonsense. Rubyists vs. Pythonistas isn't any better. Programming languages as counter-cultural lifestyle choices is pretty "c
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by lamontcg 10mo ago
A 2025 GMC Sierra 2500 is a way bigger vehicle than a 1995 Ford Bronco. 7,417 lbs vs. 4,616 lbs. and hood height of 6.6 feet vs. about 3.7 feet. And the "light trucks" category has risen to 65% of the market from 36% of the mark
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by lamontcg 10mo ago
Yeah, I don't think the "release valve" is the correct metaphor. This is more like a crack around a door frame that you can get a lever into in order to eventually pry it open.
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by lamontcg 10mo ago
> that enables a computer to pretty effectively understand natural language I'd argue that it pretty effectively mimics natural language. I don't think it really understands anything, it is just the best madlibs generator that

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