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by moomin 3y ago
I mean, exactly, that’s why this is a bad idea. Adding a column is simple, having your DB be your API is madness. The more magic you add, the worse it gets.
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by moomin 3y ago
The way I see it, Twitter was one of the last sites standing in the content curation game. Reddit’s great, but balkanised. HN itself is pretty good and broader but Twitter was the best product I used for kicking up stuff from around the web
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by moomin 3y ago
I have, in fact, read the article, and they are _vastly underestimating_ the importance of those downsides. For instance, I once dealt with an issue that involved adding a column to a table, which they think shouldn't be too bad, that
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by moomin 3y ago
I have spent my entire, long, career, fighting against someone who thought this was a good idea, unpicking systems where they implemented it or bypassing systems where this was implemented. It's a many-headed hydra that keeps recurring
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by moomin 3y ago
Seems a good time to drag up this ad that demonstrated how much space cars take up again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYn8aQIpNH4
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by moomin 3y ago
It hasn't seen a security update since 2020, though, so it's not for everyone.
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by moomin 3y ago
I’d claim this highlights just quite how established quantum supremacy is. Specifically, they just did the work using quantum computers because they were the best tool for the job. We’ve moved on from the question of “are they good for anyt
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by moomin 3y ago
I have no information on this case. My impression, however, is that things like this happen all the time, they just rarely get to court. I know people who’ve experienced pregnancy discrimination, but the kinds of firm I work for have enough
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by moomin 3y ago
It’s interesting to note that by this point “Quantum Supremacy” is well and truly established and is being used for something that’s actually useful. What we still lack, however, is any demonstrated supremacy outside the realm of “model qua
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by moomin 3y ago
Yeah, but it’s horses for courses. The C version can be deployed in far more places and can be far faster than the Go equivalent. Which is “better” is a contextual judgement call. There’s plenty of weird architectures out there that run C a
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by moomin 3y ago
I mean, yes, go has proper flag parsing as part of the standard library and C doesn’t. Yes that’s going to make a line count difference but it’s also why code golf arguments are pointless.
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by moomin 3y ago
Not massively. I mean, an array is a data structure and looping through it is an algorithm, but that’s a bit basic even for a 101 DSA course.
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by moomin 3y ago
Yeah, the self-assessment website isn’t exactly slick, but it’s easy to use, fills in most of the fields for you and gets the results correct. It’s not like I’m not aware of bad software by government but the taxes ain’t it. Possibly becaus
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by moomin 3y ago
Honestly, though, that’s like crediting William Burroughs with Blade Runner.
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by moomin 3y ago
I love it when someone says they’re going to cut costs by “Encouraging Innovation”. Almost as much as “Reducing Fraud”. Political types love these announcements they’re going to get something for nothing.
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by moomin 3y ago
The difficulty you are experiencing here is that this is so effective people don’t even get started. There used to be non-Apple devices that could sync with iTunes. Apple sued them into the ground.
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by moomin 3y ago
I think hard sciences are amenable to more precision, but it’s fine to be imprecise as long as you’re cognisant of the level of precision you’re using. The problem with the studies being criticised is their conclusions aren’t supported by t
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by moomin 3y ago
Inevitably we have to ask: and how many lines of C in library functions?
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by moomin 3y ago
For those of us who only read the headline: this is debunking claims by economists and pointing out they’re building their theories on sand.
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by moomin 3y ago
Yeah, I don’t, sadly. All I have is a bunch of memories from 40 years ago from when someone drew out a family tree and I’ve no particular inclination to put in the hard yards to reconstruct it far back.
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by moomin 3y ago
Ironically, apparently my no-name family has one (I don’t know the details, or rather, I forgot and the family historian is long-since dead). But even VCs are much easier to achieve at a commissioned rank.
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by moomin 3y ago
Could a mod fix the spelling, please?
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by moomin 3y ago
Yeah, anything you assert has to be proved at runtime. Liquid Haskell just a) checks your assertions are consistent with the type returned and b) avoids you having to check again. You could theoretically remove all the unnecessary checks by
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by moomin 3y ago
For those to whom this isn’t obvious, Dulwich College is a private high school in London. The events described probably happened when they author was 14. Also, apropos of nothing, the school that gave us Nigel Farage. Top-flight chess does
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by moomin 3y ago
I feel like someone smart reading this will interpret it as less of a complaint and more as a free business plan.
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by moomin 3y ago
Honestly, a lot of this isn't LLM stuff. It's "people being paid pittance".
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by moomin 3y ago
But Reader _wasn't_ easily replaced by local software. They centralised social usage of RSS, then killed it. Yes, you can still run an RSS reader, but RSS and blogs as a a model of social networking? Never came back.
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by moomin 3y ago
You see, this is the problem, you think the solution to the rule of law not going your way is to… rip up the rule of law. I don’t think your problem is with Democrats, or social media companies, really, it’s with objective reality. And I di
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by moomin 3y ago
I mean, if you think that 90% of Republicans are traitors to US democracy, you've just made a great case for deplatforming them, irrespective of how many there are, but I think you were arguing against that?
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by moomin 3y ago
You need to decide if these are private companies or public utilities. If they’re public utilities, the government should provide them. Restricting company’s freedom to choose a business model is not the answer. You might not like it, but t

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