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by nlitened 6d ago
> I would expect a majority of nouns to be according to the animate / inanimate split Well, as I understand, the actual animate/inanimate split was there at least 10 000 years ago (or more)! And the language has gradually chang
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by nlitened 6d ago
For example, if I am talking about a window and a door, and a window is masculine and a door is feminine, I can use the pronoun "it" in either masculine or feminine form to clearly refer to one or the other. Or I could use a verb
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by nlitened 6d ago
> I am really confused as to how it ever developed Upon digging, I actually found it fascinating. As I understand how it happened for Proto-Indo-European languages (with a bit of healthy speculation because for the earlier parts there&#x
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by nlitened 6d ago
You probably mean word genders? So you probably say it's sometimes difficult to derive the gender of a noun, hence the correct article
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by nlitened 8d ago
As I understand, the son is there not to lead the company (Greg Abel is the CEO), but to oversee their family's share in the enterprise.
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by nlitened 27d ago
So Orbs are like Grok Bots, I guess? Now every company has to copy this feature, and name it differently
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by nlitened 27d ago
But if you don’t, you don’t use Python anyway
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by nlitened 1mo ago
I think Pareto principle applies here: most discussions will be shallow, only occasionally diving deep — and Twitter acknowledges that reality, and builds around it.
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by nlitened 1mo ago
Network effect. Most people worth discussing with are already there, so more people join the discussion there, and so on.
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by nlitened 1mo ago
None of the existing ones really made Linux on Desktop "happen", so their numerous and lengthy existence is kind of a counterpoint. The existing ones didn't work, other approaches may need to be tried — at least I commend tha
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by nlitened 1mo ago
> I'm not even going to criticize DHH for getting that money, good for him He's not getting that money, he literally donated 10% of that money himself
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by nlitened 1mo ago
Well, don't use it
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by nlitened 1mo ago
What alternative plan are you implementing?
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by nlitened 1mo ago
I agree overall, however: > A lot of the less popular alternatives (just going with Prometheus, Victoriametrics, etc) are de-facto competing smaller standards By all metrics (hah), Prometheus is the more popular solution and is the de-fa
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by nlitened 1mo ago
I didn’t like what the market was offering, and I didn’t like depending on other people not firing me, so I made one for myself where I can work on what I like the way I like (started a small software business). You can, too. It’s the simpl
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by nlitened 1mo ago
> It feels like my career went from upwards to a horizontal line. I have far less energy for work, for learning, and for the things I'm interested in. It's incredibly demoralising How do you separate how much having kids affect
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by nlitened 1mo ago
Man, re-read this comment in 10 years
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by nlitened 2mo ago
> If you would just distribute it equally to all relevant citizens Ironically, this approach would give power to an entity that decides who is relevant and who becomes a citizen, which is the government.
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by nlitened 2mo ago
What are some examples of uncontroversial figures who would be willing to offer funding, in your opinion?
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by nlitened 2mo ago
Well if it's moral for gatekeepers of talent to hoard immense intellectual rights to be protected by the violence of the state, then I'm immoral in that sense. Information wants to be free
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by nlitened 2mo ago
> The least these companies can do is to publish everything they own Well, being able to talk to superintelligent all-knowing savant 24/7 on your phone for $20 a month is also something
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by nlitened 2mo ago
The author blames capitalism and religion while greatly indulging in his pride, I think. It is so much beneath him to ask for help from others, he’d rather change the world so that he doesn’t have to ask — instead of expressing some humilit
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by nlitened 2mo ago
I think you described not monolith vs microservices, but single person working on a project and making decisions vs multiple. “Everyone’s responsibility is no-one’s responsibility” works the same way if multiple people work on the same micr
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by nlitened 2mo ago
There's a nice Java library called Clojure with a lightweight syntax if you need to work with data structures and concurrency in Java a lot: (println (json/generate-string {:providers ["SUN" "SunRsaSign"
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by nlitened 2mo ago
I have a very simple and easy solution: allow any person with any medical education from any country around the world to practice medicine in their field of study, and relieve them from any medical malpractice responsibility (apart from cri
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by nlitened 3mo ago
Design (output of designers) and copy (output of copywriters) are subject to the same copyright law as code (output of programmers). Programmers are not the only people whose intellectual property is protected.
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by nlitened 3mo ago
That’s kinda my point. We don’t have usage caps not because they are technically hard or impossible to implement (they’re not). It’s because the leadership thinks (likely correctly) that implementing them would just hurt company’s bottom li
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by nlitened 3mo ago
I am very sure what you’re saying is not true. It’s a viable-looking technical excuse, but you can easily understand that it’s false. Let’s make a thought experiment. CEO of Cloudflare introduces hard billing caps at a _business_ (not techn
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by nlitened 3mo ago
About three weeks ago I was seduced by people singing praise to OpenClaw, and also by the fact that OpenClaw team burns millions of dollars of tokens per month on developing it — surely it must be good. It turned out to be probably the crap
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by nlitened 3mo ago
They don't force anybody though. People who think that the renting is too expensive and is not worth paying, are free to either 1) move to a place that has cheaper rent, or 2) build a new house from scratch since it's cheaper than

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