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by macintux 1y ago
Let’s not “both sides” his behavior. This president lies about everything , and actively causes harm by lying maliciously about people he would like his followers to target.
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by macintux 1y ago
It’ll be a lot longer before things recover. If they ever do. The damage is tremendous, and only getting started.
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by macintux 1y ago
Possible conclusion: most of the work that employees do has no direct impact on earnings.
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by macintux 1y ago
I’d be curious how many people in Texas have died from power loss compared with the rest of the country combined over the last few years.
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by macintux 1y ago
I assume that was the point. The parent commenter feels "WYSIWYG" by definition includes images.
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by macintux 1y ago
> Wouldn't it be OK if the initial focus was something else and then there was a change of focus? Retrofitting features into existing languages is rarely satisfying in my experience. Sure, Python now has functional constructs, but v
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by macintux 1y ago
Link to the excellent Jim Gray paper that Joe repeatedly cites: https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Classes/739/Fall2018/Papers... I gave an Erlang talk many years ago where I used the Tandem architecture a
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by macintux 1y ago
You reminded me that many years ago I gave some Microsoft sales folks grief for dropping Gopher from IIS, and then I wondered whether IIS still existed, and that led me to discover that iis.net was retired this summer. https://ww
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by macintux 1y ago
Apple had all the incentives in the world to provide a transition plan and leave Intel behind. Also lots, and lots of practice with platform migrations, and they were transitioning to a hardware platform they were already selling in the bil
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by macintux 1y ago
Yeah, the way we’re turning our backs on one of the most important medical miracles in recent years is horrifying. I hope COVID or something worse doesn’t cause too much carnage.
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by macintux 1y ago
An LLM would, surely, have to: * Know whether its answers are objectively beneficial or harmful * Know whether its answers are subjectively beneficial or harmful in the context of the current state of a person it cannot see, cannot hear,
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by macintux 1y ago
Evangelism takes at least two forms: - You're a sinner, a wrong-doer, and you must repent. - This world you have not yet experienced is wonderful. Let me tell you about it. Many, probably most, respond better to the second form.
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That is, effectively, what it was.
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> I just don't understand how the heck people would claim to be using Emacs for decades and still not knowing how to use the built-in profiler, edebug, apropos, macro expansion, advising system, indirect buffers, etc. The second hal
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by macintux 1y ago
I'm not the person you're replying to, and I have no idea what the data says about frozen roads, but it's certainly possible that two things are both true: - There are more accidents (per active vehicle) on frozen roads - The
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by macintux 1y ago
If nothing else, perhaps this persistent myth helps reduce the naming conflicts when someone wants to use Nova.
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by macintux 1y ago
More energy = more turbulence? Amazing that it's a point of contention.
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by macintux 1y ago
You might check out this store that opened recently in rural Indiana. https://tekshack.com/collections/educational
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by macintux 1y ago
I didn't say the phone was more trusted, I said it was more personal. Your phone almost certainly knows where you are at all times, for example. It may know whether you're walking or sitting. It knows who calls you, who you call,
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by macintux 1y ago
In fairness, as others have pointed out, the phone is much more personal than the home computer. Your phone is almost always with you, collecting much more intimate data than your PC can.
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We just had discussions several days ago about how LLMs can lead people into wildly conspiratorial mindsets, including apparently a major investor in OpenAI who seems to have had a breakdown. (Afraid I don't remember which discussion t
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by macintux 1y ago
Sounds like you have to join the server to see the logs, something that was not required for IRC archives.
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by macintux 1y ago
Maybe someday I’ll give it a shot, but it’s hard to undo the damage from a terrible first impression like that.
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by macintux 1y ago
I'm aware I'm being tracked all the time. That doesn't mean I have to encourage more of it. We all pick our own battles.
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I always want the choice to be mine. I was interested in learning Dart until the installer told me Google would be collecting telemetry. For a programming language. I’ve never looked at it again.
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by macintux 1y ago
Any line of thinking, taken to its extreme, is counter-productive at best, evil at worst. "Be thoughtful about where you spend your time and money" is not exactly a slippery slope we should be worried about.
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by macintux 1y ago
I've not paid much attention, but Gruber discusses it here: https://daringfireball.net/2024/11/regarding_and_well_agains... Anil Dash (quoted by Gruber above) has even stronger feelings. https://ww
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by macintux 1y ago
For what little it’s worth, Perl is very much not dead.
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by macintux 1y ago
Except there were open, archival solutions for IRC for projects to take advantage of. Are there any for Discord?
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by macintux 1y ago
Fascinating story, thanks. How many astronomers have had a play and an opera written about them? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Le_Gentil

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