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by munk-a 1y ago
I think there's a massive shift in what the letter of the law needs to be to match the intent. The letter hasn't changed and this is all still quite legal - but there is a significant different between what webscraping was doing
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by munk-a 1y ago
I think it makes a lot of sense to build out if the construction and remediation costs are born by a persistent entity that can amortize all those expenses appropriately. It makes almost no sense to build out if your entire energy market i
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by munk-a 1y ago
I agree and would also add that food security is also a massive factor. With a high food insecurity clamping down on illegal expansion of farmland is politically toxic - but as land use efficiency rises and cities grow conservationalism be
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by munk-a 1y ago
The US was positioned to leverage technological and economic advantages to embrace and profit massively off of next gen energy infrastructure. It is a tragedy of our era that anti-conservationalism was able to gain such a strong foothold i
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by munk-a 1y ago
Of course not - but it is quite fair to examine articles like this with a critical eye given all the greenwashing that takes place.
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by munk-a 1y ago
And nuclear power - they have a large carbon deficit to make up so you shouldn't think of them as a green economy by any measure but... I think their strongest advantage is that there is a strong environmental pressure within the count
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by munk-a 1y ago
This would be a (small, granted) red flag for me about a company. As a data architect I work really hard to make sure our model is legible and obvious - the way which the model is adopted to our problem area is certainly a difficult proble
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by munk-a 1y ago
I think it's important to reinforce that SQL isn't an COBOL like attempt at building a querying language out of natural expressions (which you could see if you squint really hard). Instead SQL is a refinement of various querying
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by munk-a 1y ago
No, I'm well aware of and disapprove of a number of them - this is still worse.
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by munk-a 1y ago
It protected one individual - there have been a rash of politically motivated moves by the justice department that have targeted plenty of others. I can understand the pardon but the fact that so many other people were left out to dry just
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by munk-a 1y ago
Trump is miles ahead of other administrations in abusing it but as far back as my political awareness reaches (the Clinton admin) there have been clear awful examples like Marc Rich[1]. I certainly have a political lean but there are some
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by munk-a 1y ago
I think a congressional pardon power to allow national leniency on previously accepted sentences that are now viewed as unjust might be worth holding onto. It being such a casual presidential power has made it ripe for corruption for a lon
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by munk-a 1y ago
I set up my own over home assistant on an rPi - but same idea.
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by munk-a 1y ago
My voice activated egg timer is amazing. There are millions of useful small tools that can be built to assist us in a day-to-day manner... I remain skeptical that anyone will come up with a miracle tool that can wholesale replace large sec
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by munk-a 1y ago
We learned not to publish as much information about contracts and to have huge networks of third party data sharing so that any actually concerning ones get buried in noise.
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by munk-a 1y ago
I've lead a change like that - the very core of our data model was compromised from the early days of our company and we knew it... and knew it... and four years into working there I started a serious effort that ended up taking about
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by munk-a 1y ago
Someone may correct me but - in three levels of conciseness... A monad is a function that can be combined with other functions. It's a closure (or functor to the cool kids) that can be bound and arranged into a more complex composite c
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by munk-a 1y ago
Like a lot of enterprise software companies - their customers aren't their end users so a lot of their incentives aren't actually aligned to produce a good UX.
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by munk-a 1y ago
> catching every exception and wrapping Our company introduced Q into our review process and it is insane how aggressive Q is about introducing completely inane try catch blocks - often swallowing exceptions in a manner that prevents the
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by munk-a 1y ago
As someone who works enthusiastically on new ground breaking technology... a dumb idea is a dumb idea - and when we pour this many resources into a dumb idea it prevents us from funding good ideas. This tunnel has been used as a continued e
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by munk-a 1y ago
I'm very happy to see the article covering the high labor costs of reviewing code. This may just be my neurodivergent self but I find code in the specific style I write to be much easier to quickly verify since there are habits and cu
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by munk-a 1y ago
In the modern corporate world that leadership has entirely insulated itself from customer feedback - if it was plausible to voice your opinion through more appropriate channels I'd advocate for that but many companies have purposefully
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by munk-a 1y ago
Ideally you're correct - but it does have the very large side effect of making real estate fraud much more lucrative. This isn't to say that the potential of people breaking a law means we shouldn't have the law at all - but
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by munk-a 1y ago
I think that's a fair point and sort of speaks to one of the indicators that say this possible bubble may be different than the dotcom bubble. I think that end-user revenue for AI is a pipe-dream - but the companies interested in comp
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by munk-a 1y ago
Sure - but nothing driving up revenue value is actually being created[1]. What's missing in that system is a way that money is entering the system. These deals are (in my cynical opinion at least) being inked to create the appearance
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by munk-a 1y ago
I have yet to see a chat agent deployed that is more popular than tailored browsing methods. The most charitable way to explain this is that the tailored browsing methods already in place are the results of years of careful design and batt
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by munk-a 1y ago
Cisco, Level3 and WorldCom all saw astronomical valuation spikes during the dotcom bubble and all three saw their stock prices and actual business prospects collapse in the aftermath of it. Perhaps the most famous implosion of all was AOL w
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by munk-a 1y ago
Doesn't that line of reasoning leave you in danger of being largely ignorant? There's a wonderful quote from Twain "History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes" there are two critical things I'd highligh
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by munk-a 1y ago
It is justifiable to stop a shipment of baby formula if that baby formula is known to be unsafe and carry bacteria that will kill infants. I think in this particular case it's quite safe to say that those blocking the shipments aren&#x
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by munk-a 1y ago
Oh my apologies - the internet and my habit to take things literally got the best of me.

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