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by mr_toad 1y ago
Authoritarian governments wield their economy as a tool for political power, which affects everyone living there.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
That’s not the title of the article (granted, it doesn’t have one), and the author calls the analogy “questionable”.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Saving $75 a month at what cost in labour?
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> I've worked in shops that optimized for getting work done, and I've worked for shops that optimized for tracking how much work is getting done, and the former outdelivers the latter every single time. In the past I’ve attribu
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by mr_toad 1y ago
We have different definitions of simple.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Amusing that Emacs that came out of the MIT AI lab, and heavily uses Lisp, a language that used to be en vogue for AI research.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
The cost of the plumbing would probably exceed the cost of the fridge.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Anti-science sentiment isn’t exclusively a conservative thing, there are definitely anti-science liberals as well.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> CPUs run at 60-70C When properly cooled. If cooling is insufficient they can easily get much hotter.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
SPMD was definitely a thing before MapReduce.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Once again IT comes full circle.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
I agree that the code that dreamweaver generated was truely awful. But compilers and interpreters also generate code, and these days they are very good at it. Technically the browser’s rendering engine is a code generator as well, so if y
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> AI is not a black-box Any worthwhile AI is non-linear, and it’s output is not able to be predicted (if it was, we’d just use the predictor).
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by mr_toad 1y ago
A big part of the reason that people develop solutions in Excel is that they don’t have to ask anyone’s permission. No business case, no scope, no plan, and most importantly no budget. Unless a business allows any old employee to spin up c
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Unless he gets into power he’s just a symptom.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
The most insane thing about western society is the tendency of a lot of the populace to abrogate all responsibility to the government.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
The new ban is easily bypassed even without a VPN. The government is trying to block cracks in a dam with their fingers. Assuming they even care about results rather than performative posturing.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes,"
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Version 1 took about ten years before it became de rigueur. Version 2 is hot off the press.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
I’m getting a black page. Not sure if it’s an ironic meta commentary, or just my ad blocker.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Not all vector databases are lossy. And even if a lossy index is used it’s totally possible to identify the original source of the information.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> In reality, without market segmentation a singular price for everyone would fall much closer to the enterprise price than the non-enterprise price. That totally depends on the relative elasticity of supply and demand. It’s not very int
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by mr_toad 1y ago
It’s probably be more efficient to convert the video to multiple frames in batches, and then buffer them. Spawning processes is pretty resource intensive.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
I’d just use the browsers XML parser and javascript for the transformation. Which is what I assume a putative XSLT javascript library would do. And if you’re leaning towards a declarative framework, use React.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> Does it include unanimous support from browser projects They could continue supporting XSLT if they wanted.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> Secondly, why is Firefox/Gecko given full weight for their vote when their marketshare is dwindling into irrelevancy? Ironic, considering the market share of XSLT.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> 0.1% of a billion people Probably more like 0.0001% these days. I doubt 0.1% of websites ever used it.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Own is not really the right word for an open source project. In practice it is controlled by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
WhatWG has a fairly well documented process for feature requests. Issues are not usually decided in closed meetings. But there’s a difference between constructive discussion and the stubborn shameless entitlement that some members of th
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by mr_toad 1y ago
There are some very large single celled organisms that aren’t eggs. E.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valonia_ventricosa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foraminifera Even some bacteria can grow t

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