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by mplewis 2y ago
Writing SQL is a miserable slog because it isn’t composable. I’ll take an ORM over raw SQL any day.
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by mplewis 2y ago
How do you know that a social media algorithm does not contain editorial decisions specifically added by humans?
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by mplewis 2y ago
Comments that I leave for myself help remind future-me why I did something that otherwise looks confusing.
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by mplewis 2y ago
20,500 Americans died of hunger in 2022.
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by mplewis 2y ago
They are dying of hunger because of corporate greed. Africa has many of the world’s most resource-rich areas, but they don’t realize the profits: Western corporations that extract the resources using local slave labor do.
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by mplewis 2y ago
What would you use to solve these problems?
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by mplewis 2y ago
Matrix has severe UX issues which drastically limit the community willing to use it on a regular basis.
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by mplewis 2y ago
I’m not going to trust a project like this – made by and for one company – with production workloads.
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by mplewis 2y ago
You seem to be misunderstanding. The components that add complexity in this case do not come from running a k8s cluster. They come from the Reclaim the Stack software.
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by mplewis 2y ago
Why not?
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by mplewis 2y ago
If passwordless sign in is good enough for Booking.com, it’s certainly good enough for any app that I ship.
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by mplewis 2y ago
No. That’s a whole different sentence.
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by mplewis 2y ago
Because it doesn’t do anything on its own.
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by mplewis 2y ago
Counterpoint: what has IEEE done for me lately?
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by mplewis 2y ago
Yeah, I love living in a society where money is diverted from public infrastructure like railroads into fake vacuum-tube con jobs and tunnels that hold more cars. I love living next to unreliable cars that drive into traffic and catch on fi
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by mplewis 2y ago
And you believe him? The guy who took out loans to finance the purchase of the company, which drain the company of $1.5 billion a year? I’ve got some oceanside property to sell you.
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by mplewis 2y ago
Twitter isn’t a network where anyone can air their views. Elon regularly takes punitive action to mark links that criticize him as containing malware, has accounts banned that post evidence of his misdeeds, etc. We have a network where you
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by mplewis 2y ago
Yeah, ok. Now count the number of Rs in this word.
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by mplewis 2y ago
What you’re asking for doesn’t make sense.
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by mplewis 2y ago
It’s not like the circumstances of the experiment are significant to the subjects. You’re a college student getting paid $20 to answer questions for an hour. Your response has no bearing on your pay. Who cares what you say?
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by mplewis 2y ago
Nah man. This isn’t solving anything. This is praying to a machine god but it’s an autocomplete under the hood.
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by mplewis 2y ago
Every LLM conversation is guaranteed to contain some level of hallucination. You will never get the percentage down to zero.
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by mplewis 2y ago
Yes. Get your weirdo cameras away from me.
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by mplewis 2y ago
Cool marketing, but when will Basecamp actually become better than the competitors in the space? It hasn’t been relevant for years.
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by mplewis 2y ago
Don’t wear one of these near me. I don’t want you recording our everyday conversations as a matter of habit. Ask permission first.
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by mplewis 2y ago
Agreed. Remember when hacking was about meddling with systems of global finance rather than engaging with them earnestly? This guy doesn’t.
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by mplewis 2y ago
Totally. MIT admissions now reflect the merit of being born into a family that had the resources to put you into high-quality schooling, sign you up for extracurriculars, and help you study for admissions tests and write the essays. That’s
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by mplewis 2y ago
In Go, a runtime panic indicates a programmer error. This means you should not have written that line of code. The solution is to fix the line of code.
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by mplewis 2y ago
Your self-driving car is so unreliable you have to manually disable it 10% of the time to stay safe?
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by mplewis 2y ago
Don’t you get, like, two weeks out of the end of a tube of toothpaste? That’s plenty of time to put it on your shopping list.

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