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by leoh 2y ago
Google has been really lost here over the last several years. When lambda and bard were already killer at producing reasonable code and OpenAI had scarcely released anything, there was an explicit embargo against using them internally. When
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by leoh 2y ago
> Do you find it concerning that no presidential candidate can even pass the primary without first kissing the ring of AIPAC? That Zionist lobby openly attacks insufficiently pro-Zionist candidates and then openly brags when they lose el
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by leoh 2y ago
What the actual fuck
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by leoh 2y ago
Although I love LISP and it will always have a special place in my heart, there is power in the assistance the compiler for languages with powerful type systems like Rust. Writing in LISP can benefit from, I believe, a kind of psychological
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by leoh 2y ago
Philip Glass supported himself as a plumber >“I had gone to install a dishwasher in a loft in SoHo,” he says. “While working, I suddenly heard a noise and looked up to find Robert Hughes, the art critic of Time magazine, staring at me in
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by leoh 2y ago
flox is the best thing I know of for articulating binary dependencies (language runtimes, etc.), which is probably the sweet spot for nix anyways at the moment (i.e. as opposed to trying to build everything "With the One [Tool] to [Rep
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by leoh 2y ago
I am not writing typescript -- heaven forbid -- so I can manage cargo, so I can write Rust. Dropping the snark, though -- most times I have seen folks attempt to fold other build systems into some polyglot common one, it seems to create a l
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by leoh 2y ago
Right, exactly. They very well could be.
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by leoh 2y ago
One could endeavor to design a blinded study by putting patients under general anesthesia. Double-blind studies are not always possible (anesthetics are a perfect example) and the clinical evidence for the benefits of MDMA are formidable. I
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by leoh 2y ago
>The FDA noted that it asked the company to collect reports associated with abuse, but researchers failed to capture effects such as “euphoria” or “elated mood,” information that could gauge the risk of abuse. God-forbid someone simultan
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by leoh 2y ago
Waymo in SF is super expensive. Like, $1/min+. Is Phoenix more financially accessible? I’d love to ditch my car for Waymo but I’d easily drop $40+/day which is a lot more than, say, a $300/month lease.
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by leoh 2y ago
Did anyone briefly accidentally misread Sam Altman as SBF?
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by leoh 2y ago
Does it work for pasta?
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by leoh 2y ago
> As a pragmatic programmer, one of the rules is Know thy tools. Dunno what you’re trying to say with respect to the broader conversation (though I don’t take issue with any of your points, really). When I say IntelliJ “just works” I hop
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by leoh 2y ago
Okay, fine, I don’t disagree. Your complaints are warranted. VSCode is better, Xcode (imo) is worse. >What killer configuration management feature do JetBrains' products offer that outweighs the aforementioned flaws? I don’t know yo
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by leoh 2y ago
This. But also just pay for your tools if you can. It’s the kind/empathetic thing to do, honors the hard work of others, and helps elevate the craft.
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by leoh 2y ago
I’m baffled by this. Many folks spend thousands on hardware. JetBrains makes such exceptional tools, I don’t understand how a few hundred bucks for the complete product pack is unreasonable (with understandable exceptions for folks with lim
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by leoh 2y ago
/etc/hosts
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by leoh 2y ago
It’s all fucked ime even with nixos from the pov of “just working.” Yes, it’s fun and cool and impressive if you get things all setup and dialed in. But if you care about just dropping in and not spending tons of time configuring your tools
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by leoh 2y ago
Folks shilling for the nvim cult completely baffle me. YES it’s cool and impressive, but it also means essentially spending hours and hours of time managing your configuration if you want anything remotely close ime to RustRover or any othe
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by leoh 2y ago
> it’s alright Are you kidding me? Even with nixos, the loe for nvim if you want to get anywhere near parity with RustRover or any other Jetbrains product ime is formidable if not impossible. Unless I can do stuff like automatically gene
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by leoh 2y ago
I, for one, enjoy using talcum powder in my scones
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by leoh 2y ago
Man, what a beautiful era of Google that was…
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by leoh 2y ago
Yes but you could do something equivalent with a binary you download or some remote repository like a brew keg too. At the end of the day you need to decide whether you trust who you’re downloading from or not and ‘curl … | sh’ isn’t practi
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by leoh 2y ago
The fact is — everyone should be paid more; we need a society where wealth is merely captured by but a relative few individuals. In a sense, however, the way Googlers are paid is not quite right; Google itself is a microcosm for income disp
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by leoh 2y ago
Ok, which means you need to stay logged in iiuc, which is a huge thing Google also wants
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by leoh 2y ago
Yes, consider an existing LLM being given “shitpost-y” messages and asking it if there is anything interesting in there. It could probably summarize it well and that could then be used for training another LLM. etc etc
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by leoh 2y ago
rcst 3467/tcp RCST rcst 3467/udp RCST # Kit Sturgeon <Kit@remotecontrolsextoys.com>
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by leoh 2y ago
Bravo! Thank you for sharing -- glad to learn about raylib and the overpass API.
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by leoh 2y ago
Not really, I think that’s it actually.

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