morelisp

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811.
by morelisp 4y ago
The 29 eur price is only currently offered a month at a time, extended a month at a time, and the ticket is only offered a year at a time. Technically you are on the hook for a 63 eur contract on sale for 29 eur for a limited time. (It is a
812.
by morelisp 4y ago
It is "subscription-only" with a monthly cancellation, meaning the purchase options in practice limit it to long-term residents since you need to order by mail to a residence. It is cheaper than the existing discounted options for
813.
by morelisp 4y ago
It's nearly half of what a monthly ticket for just Berlin's public transit costs.
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by morelisp 4y ago
I'm equal parts gobsmacked that funroll-loops is still around, and that it's thanks to Shlomi Fish who is still writing his creepy-ass fanfic.
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by morelisp 4y ago
> It wasn't about, for example, dpkg vs rpm No, it totally was. APT vs. nothing was a big deal, but RPM per se had a lot of mistakes. Debian also had massively better standard tooling around conffiles, diversions, alternatives, etc.
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by morelisp 4y ago
> gold-plated In 2003? Boies was probably best known for losing one of the most watched court cases in American history. He's a great choice... if you want an savvy operator with a weak moral compass to pump your stock. Not so much
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by morelisp 4y ago
Even if he's getting fed nothing but lies by someone else about how IBM really did steal their source code and winning this is in the bag and will totally turn the company around, and somehow has no ability to discern the truth himself
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by morelisp 4y ago
The last time I reached for Hacker's Delight for "productive" use it was specifically for this chapter (I was aware of space-filling curves from some years in the games industry but had never implemented one), and I remember
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by morelisp 4y ago
My point isn’t that McBride was doing something financially irresponsible, my point is that he’s obviously lying .
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by morelisp 4y ago
IDK, if I was put in charge of a company losing money like crazy and was genuinely trying to turn it around, my first thought would not be "oh, let's hire David Boies".
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by morelisp 4y ago
You've missed the point: How do you tie sending email to the transactional semantics? Your email server and your SQL server (or whatever) make just as much of a distributed system as Kafka and the email server without some other store
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by morelisp 4y ago
What transactional data store capable of sending email do you recommend?
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by morelisp 4y ago
Exactly - the user could die after opening the email but before reading the number!
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by morelisp 4y ago
Disaster recovery is just one of many things that is much simpler in non-distributed systems. You seem to be confusing a system that produces bad results 1% of the time with a system that's down 1% of the time. If you can only write
825.
by morelisp 4y ago
> Is there anything else that escapes me? “The market can stay irrational longer than you can put off buying a car.”
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by morelisp 4y ago
In my experience the customers, and even the POs, are the easy ones to convince. “We get 99% of the uptime for 30% of the price? Great!” It’s the resume-driven mid dev in the next office you’ve got to watch out for.
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by morelisp 4y ago
Even DRM-free books I’ll often buy then torrent, since the download user flow is so awful on most major bookstores. For a while you could buy nominally DRM free books at Kobo but not download them except via device - maybe still the case, I
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by morelisp 4y ago
> You ain’t (hopefully) loading your whole database into memory I've basically built my career for the past decade by pointing out "yes, we can load our whole working set into memory" for the vast majority of problems. Thi
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by morelisp 4y ago
Accidentally super-linear algorithms happen a lot more when you hide stuff behind three layers of interfaces rather than seeing "oh, this uses a list instead of a set".
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by morelisp 4y ago
I realize you might not have seen it if you filter out the stupidest people, but the stupidest people still have some of the loudest megaphones. https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/16092556469934571...
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by morelisp 4y ago
Some classes of people view anything that improves pedestrian and cyclist life and public transit to be fundamentally limiting access to cars.
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by morelisp 4y ago
> People object to the part where they won't be allowed to travel without a permit. If you stop and reflect for a few seconds you likely are already aware of this, but you already cannot drive a car anywhere in the city without a
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by morelisp 4y ago
It is an ordinary and hitherto uncontroversial task of city planners to close roads and redirect traffic on varying schedules.
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by morelisp 4y ago
Sure, until eventually you'll fuck it up and get worse results.
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by morelisp 4y ago
> I want ChatGPT as a tool available to me, but I don't want any service provider I interact with to use it because I know they'll fuck it up eventually and I'll get worse service. This is just straightforward selfishness
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by morelisp 4y ago
I share your reflection on the current state and foreseeable future effectiveness of AI, but > People will learn the hard way there is no market for machines that get the wrong answers. I fear this is wildly untrue. To take your example:
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by morelisp 4y ago
> I mean we could be far overfeeding our data models too. As far as I know evidence we have suggests the opposite, improvements are still mostly coming from more parameters and more data. > data models don't take years in real ti
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by morelisp 4y ago
1) unexec does not work -- the Titan version of unix is different and I have not fixed unexec. The more things change...
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by morelisp 4y ago
A child needs about 100KB of "text" a day to learn a language. If anything the data requirements of LLMs are proof positive they can't bear any relation to the human language faculty.
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by morelisp 4y ago
As a connoisseur of the Chomsky-Foucault debate summarized as one intellectual giant completely missing the other's point, it's quite funny to see Chomsky in the opposite role here. The more operationalist you are, the more depres

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