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by lmm 3mo ago
> unchangeable law WTF do you mean by this? Even constitutions can be amended, and if an odious law cannot be changed through politics then that only means it will be changed by other means.
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by lmm 3mo ago
> Compare it to natural languages. Assuming any such comparison is valid is purely speculative. There are significant differences. > anyone who reaches fluency in a foreign language just "magically" stops hating it. Not true
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by lmm 3mo ago
> The cost of restructuring has also gone down. > The cost of shoring up behavior with tests ahead of a restructure has gone down because of AI. Disagree. The growth in brittle AI-generated tests means restructuring is more costly t
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by lmm 3mo ago
HN moderation policy is to replace informative submitter-chosen titles with the title of the linked article in most cases.
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by lmm 3mo ago
They said they were selling it, all over their site. The button said "buy". They can put whatever crap they like in a section that they know nobody ever reads, that doesn't negate what they said in large print up front and no
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by lmm 3mo ago
> It was an objective public health measure, because it is well-known from actual examples that opening such option would lead people to try to get infected instead of being vaccinated, breeding even more variants and hospital saturation
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by lmm 3mo ago
There are some things that are hidden, but they're the exception not the rule; but by default most things need to be global. You need to know how much capital the whole bank has at risk if <XYZ company> were to go bankrupt, or in
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by lmm 3mo ago
> I'm not opposed to anything, I don't know where that conclusion comes from. I'm just trying to explain why people hate s-expressions. You seemed to be implicitly claiming that there was no point presenting the ideas with
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by lmm 3mo ago
> 1) mRNA technology was not experimental Perhaps, but the specific vaccines were. > 2) I don't know about you but I got my shot in the shoulder, not the back door As I'm sure you understood, I was talking about coercion by
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by lmm 3mo ago
> Secondly, "AI ... can .... safely modify my infrastructure", OP is either being a troll or haven't seem how the whole IT world is upside down because of those very same statements. That's exactly why you want your i
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by lmm 3mo ago
> All their antivax outrage was because they didn't think they personally were going to die from COVID, and didn't want to help save anyone else's life. Suppose you're right. They're still entitled to their views
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by lmm 3mo ago
> temporal seems to be a virtual machine like the evm, it handles computation. It stores the app's work-in-progress state as well (probably as a blob full of serialised internal datastructures, at least in some cases): > You writ
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by lmm 3mo ago
Morgan Stanley's version is open-source at https://github.com/morganstanley/optimus-cirrus , although I don't know how practical it is to actually run yourself. (They don't go quite as far as having the
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by lmm 3mo ago
That's only half the answer. These large investment banks' value-add is partly that they can integrate everything they know into these closed-world environments (kind of like a Smalltalk image), which is something that simply isn&
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by lmm 3mo ago
It sounds pretty similar actually. Barbara fills the same role that Temporal is doing at Mercury.
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by lmm 3mo ago
> It's not about survivorship bias, it's about notation. It's like "hating Leibniz's dy/dx because Newton's dot notation already exists" and I'm arguing that people don't just "hate
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by lmm 3mo ago
Many times I've thought "what kind of idiot would try to use our app on a phone?" only to find one of our execs was doing exactly that, but YMMV I guess.
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by lmm 3mo ago
> In all my time I have never come across a single Lisper, neither in person nor online, and I know far more than a few dozens, who once grokked the REPL-driven workflow and the structural editing idioms only to later, for whatever reaso
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by lmm 3mo ago
The irony is that coding agents are, if anything, more affected by technical debt than human maintainers (who at least occasionally have the taste to rise above the level of the current codebase they're working in). The impact on pro
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by lmm 3mo ago
> Not sure if this is better or worse than the UK's Network Rail story, but at the end of the day the only thing that will solve this is if they re-nationalize the tracks & infrastructure. What kind of an idiot thought including
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by lmm 3mo ago
The EU has less democratic accountability than I would like, but it is there. National governments have been brought down over their poor choices at the EU level. Even if you think Visa/MC made the right decisions in these cases, the f
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by lmm 3mo ago
> why EU doesn’t try and develop a homegrown card provider? It would provide exactly what MC/Visa does They have. A combination of petty squabbling and the lack of any real value proposition has always killed it. To have any chance
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by lmm 3mo ago
The OS-component-oriented approach was defensible in the days of desktop only (though personally I think it was a mistake even then), but it's not sustainable now. People want your app on their PC to look and behave like your app on th
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by lmm 3mo ago
> you will not get rid of rent control by getting mad about it. Renters literally do not care; they need housing security first and foremost. They will not vote for their own evictions just for the promise of lower rent many years in the
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by lmm 3mo ago
> Maybe more effort should be put into thinking of ways to incentivize housing construction A properly functioning housing market is a way to incentivise housing construction. > Also, as a rent-controlled renter, I'd love more
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by lmm 3mo ago
> not getting to live on my street is not "just as horrible" as getting kicked to the curb with pets and/or dependents and losing your entire lifestyle and community without warning or recourse. Come off it, no-one's
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by lmm 3mo ago
Japan has done this for concert tickets for years. It works great.
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by lmm 3mo ago
> The alternative is that half my street gets ousted whenever a tech boom happens. What a horrible way to live. Or maybe if the pain was more evenly distributed you'd vote to legalise more housing. Not being able to live in a street
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by lmm 3mo ago
> replacing sensing and processing with reading. The death of aptitude, prowess, and the human experience. Replacing something all animals do with something uniquely human, perhaps the most important thing that sets us apart, is the deat
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by lmm 3mo ago
> I’ve already conceded in sibling comments that saying “romaji” to mean “Hepburn romaji” specifically is technically imprecise. Note I still do explicitly mention other romanization systems, want to stay consistent within the article, a

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