marginalia_nu

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by marginalia_nu 8d ago
When designing a standard like this you need to apply systems thinking. The poor data quality is a problem for anyone who wants to use the tags, which has seen everyone almost universally reaching for other solutions. Search engines have p
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by marginalia_nu 9d ago
Meta keyword tags have always sucked even without malice. Because they're invisible, authors frequently forget to update them, copying <head> boilerplate between documents.
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by marginalia_nu 11d ago
I don't think I've encountered an external library that returned partially constructed objects returned nulls (at least not without a @Nullable). There are probably cases of this existing, but those types of libraries don't
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by marginalia_nu 11d ago
Why don't you have any coding standards? If you're working with agents in particular, catching and enforcing this stuff should be easier than ever.
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by marginalia_nu 11d ago
Have you tried not returning null or constructing incomplete objects?
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by marginalia_nu 11d ago
News at 11. Language that runs on the explicit design philosophy of letting other languages experiment first and then incorporating their lessons learned once the dust has settled is late to implement a feature.
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by marginalia_nu 11d ago
Not at all a bad choice. It's stable to the point of boring, and there's no shortage of people who know the language and can work with it, it's got best in class tooling, decades worth of libraries almost all very mature. Mo
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by marginalia_nu 11d ago
So what I'm saying by saying that he fell out a window is that Putin and/or the FSB arranged his death. It's not a statement of the means of his death, but who arranged it.
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by marginalia_nu 12d ago
I was alluding to how people who fall out of favor with Putin have a tendency to have mysterious fatal accidents, more than 10 of them falling out of windows.
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by marginalia_nu 12d ago
Prigozhin falling out of a window was a not insignificant setback for their digital warfare capabilities.
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by marginalia_nu 13d ago
Embedding the image would have ruined the comedic timing and made it less funny. Comedy is mostly about subverting expectations. If your eyes are drawn to the punchline before you read the set up it doesn't work.
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by marginalia_nu 13d ago
> The current valuations are only inflated until they're not You could say that about any historically inflated valuation all the way back to the tulip mania. Either the expected profit materializes or it doesn't. > We&#x27
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by marginalia_nu 13d ago
I asked Astra to explain this and it thought for a really long time and then came back with this: https://www.marginalia.nu/junk/financing.png
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by marginalia_nu 13d ago
Inflated valuations, mostly.
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by marginalia_nu 13d ago
Yes[1]. Most people within the CAN-SPAM jurisdiction have their shit together well enough not get fined, but this does not seem to include many of the new wave of agentic spammers. Could be they're out of jurisdiction, or that they s
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by marginalia_nu 13d ago
Big pivotal moment is probably the DMCA and the DRM it's enabled, it's really eroded the concept of ownership in both software and hardware (via firmware), to the point where we've completely lost all control over the devices
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by marginalia_nu 13d ago
Regardless who is suing the cost falls on the spammer. General consensus among these agent bros seem to be that these laws don't concern them, when what they are doing is exactly the sort of things these laws are targeting. Wheels of
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by marginalia_nu 13d ago
Given CAN-SPAM fines are like $50k per violation , it feels like someone's about to find out.
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by marginalia_nu 14d ago
Yeah I think almost anyone will agree that these matrix formulations are more confusing than helpful. The subject itself isn't really that complicated, but the jargon and notation makes it a lot less approachable than it is. Unwrappi
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by marginalia_nu 14d ago
Most larger businesses are kinda resistant to building stuff in house since it means that stuff has to be owned and maintained for as long as its needed (possibly decades) and you can't just rely on a SLA and the legal team to ensure t
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by marginalia_nu 14d ago
Swap actually helps with performance for the most part. Here's a good summary of what it actually does. https://chrisdown.name/2018/01/02/in-defence-of-swap.html TL;DR that swap shouldn't be seen a
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by marginalia_nu 15d ago
To be fair the pitch has frequently been that Devin/Claude/Astra/whatever is some sort of superhuman bottled John Carmack that will single-handedly replace entire teams of developers.
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by marginalia_nu 15d ago
Congrats on your promotion to full time jira management!
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by marginalia_nu 15d ago
Excess power is unevenly distributed both geographically and temporally. In the SE1 region, which is the least populated and probably best candidate for a data center, there was a 400% price drop between February and March this year, then u
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by marginalia_nu 15d ago
At least Sweden is struggling a lot with scaling its power production, to the point where it's a problem for existing and new industries and causing some rather extreme price volatility. A lot of the green energy is from hydro dams and
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by marginalia_nu 16d ago
Anthropic is eyeing an IPO. Of course they're spinning a narrative where their product will reshape the entire economy. They have a vested interest in doing so in the most literal sense of the meaning.
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by marginalia_nu 19d ago
We're never going to get to the point where everyone has a robot manservant making them breakfast in bed. That may well be a product, but you don't need billions of those, but thousands. The pitch for the billions of humanoid rob
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by marginalia_nu 19d ago
Why would the robots be walking around so much? Can't you just have one robot on one floor and another robot on another floor and let them share information between them? Humans need to go places to see and hear things, and to commun
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by marginalia_nu 19d ago
Wouldn't it be an even bigger economic incentive to not have to go through this inefficient humanoid interface? Anyway, even with the constraint of being able to operate human interfaces, a robot can look many different ways. Like m
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by marginalia_nu 19d ago
What would even be the point of mass producing humanoid robots? It's not a particularly practical shape for a robot. We have the shape we do because it's a local minimum that accommodates our biological needs (eating, digestion,

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