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by muglug 1y ago
> They could reverse 90% of their brand damage Their stock is 50% higher than it was a year ago. Not quite sure this is doing them damage.
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by muglug 1y ago
> I've also found that high IQ correlates -- at least in my sample -- with authoritarian political beliefs I think that’s just a side effect of being told “you’re very smart” a lot as a kid. You think that you can understand facts a
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Our sister died because of our mum's cancer conspiracy theories, say brothers(bbc.com)
56 points by muglug 1y ago|54 comments
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by muglug 1y ago
Yeah, Iran contains a lot of people who want to stir shit up with their neighbours. But Iran also contains reformers, and the deal was a bet that if you do good diplomacy you can reduce the power and influence of the shit-stirrers.
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by muglug 1y ago
Ehh I don't buy that the market was ready 10 years earlier (in 2006) for open-source LSP implementations. You gotta have someone write those language servers for free, and the language servers have to be performant. In 2006 that meant
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by muglug 1y ago
You don’t need AI to complain about FedRAMP
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by muglug 1y ago
Not a counter — antirez is posting positive things too. Charlie Marsh seems to have much better luck writing Rust with Claude than I have. Claude has been great for TypeScript changes and build scripts but lousy when it comes to stuff like
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by muglug 1y ago
Really depends what you believe. If you believe that agents will replace software developers like me in the near term, then you’d think I have a horse in this race. But I don’t believe that. My company pays for Cursor and so do I, and I’m u
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by muglug 1y ago
Absolutely — but I also think there’s a strong resistance to managers saying “AI is good, really”. The experience of long-term software engineers (e.g. antirez) who don’t have a horse in the AI race tends to line up much better with my own.
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by muglug 1y ago
I agree they’re better but author should add add “Disclaimer: I’m the CEO of a company that sells agents as a service” at the top of and article promoting said agents.
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by muglug 1y ago
> at frequencies up to 25 kilohertz How high could this technique go?
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by muglug 1y ago
Lyft seems to have suffered more (proportionately) from Waymo than Uber in SF. I bet that’s a reflection of a large “anyone-but-Uber” contingent stemming from the Travis Kalanick days.
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by muglug 1y ago
Using better punctuation is not exactly rocket science — it’s just a matter of using memorising keyboard shortcuts, which is something the HN crowd is pretty good at.
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by muglug 1y ago
It's a great post! What happened to the dot of the italic "j" in the first video?
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by muglug 1y ago
I’ve heard a joke that under Steve Jobs, the number of big initiatives at Apple was limited to the number of execs Steve could shout at in a given day. I see a similar thing at work — the number of projects a developer can get through isn’t
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by muglug 1y ago
Nice quick read, but this isn't a proper oral history of Flash. I've chatted with a colleague who used to work at Macromedia, and she has some great stories. Also any history of Flash which doesn't mention shockwave.com (or P
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by muglug 1y ago
I’ve built a few typecheckers (in different languages) that hew closer to Pyrefly’s behaviour than Ty’s behaviour. If you have a large codebase that you want to be typesafe, Pyrefly’s approach means writing far fewer type annotations overal
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by muglug 1y ago
> Copilot excels at low-to-medium complexity tasks Oh cool! > in well-tested codebases Oh ok never mind
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by muglug 1y ago
"pretty" was doing too much work, but there's the twin cost of reading and parsing the file, which usually needs to be done twice (once for static reflection, and once for analysis). The reading and parsing eats up about 16%
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by muglug 1y ago
Where do those speed ups come from? 10x seems extraordinary for a task that’s pretty IO-bound. Was Pyre ineffectively parallelised or something?
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by muglug 1y ago
At Slack we have an internal Rust-based Hack typechecker that’s about 20% faster than the OCaml one (we use both) Did you see better speedups over Pyre? Aka did I leave stuff on the table…
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by muglug 1y ago
Really cool results! That this research comes out of universities, and not large AI labs, makes me think those labs believe that larger models are still the way to go.
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Improved fingerprint search algo helps crack a 48-Year-old murder case(nytimes.com)
1 points by muglug 1y ago|2 comments
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by muglug 1y ago
Everyone's heading to Wikipedia to find out more: https://grafana.wikimedia.org/d/O_OXJyTVk/home-w-wiki-status...
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by muglug 1y ago
This whole schtick is “talk about how you’re building the future but your business model is selling ads to digitally-addled teens and baby-boomers”
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Pyrefly - A faster Python type checker written in Rust(pyrefly.org)
142 points by muglug 1y ago|75 comments
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by muglug 1y ago
Yeah — a real-world equivalent is allowing a Disney World costumed cast member to explore their character’s fictional rape fantasies with teenagers, but only if those teens ask specific pointed questions.
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by muglug 1y ago
NYT journalists are in a different class from random Bluesky users — if they spread unfounded conspiracy theories on their corporate-approved account, they can be fired from their jobs. Put another way, a Bluesky post saying "BREAKIN
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by muglug 1y ago
Can confirm that this works, and can also confirm that people who post glaring HDR images to Slack are frequently peer-pressured to remove them shortly thereafter by everyone in the channel.
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by muglug 2y ago
On paper the ones who died as heavy drinkers fare slightly better brain-wise, but they die earlier (according to the study). Quitting heavy drinking may mean you live longer, but with an impaired brain.

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