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by notJim 5y ago
> We now live in a world, where our personal computers come with "AI" that detects illegal use of those computers and automatically turns us in to the authorities. Wait a second, but only if you're uploading photos to iClo
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by notJim 5y ago
Wait if this is really true, why are people freaking out? Wasn't Apple already scanning photos uploaded to iCloud? And now it just happens on-device?
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by notJim 5y ago
> Presumably it's a slow boil: they'll make it run on all photos in a year or so, once the press from this one has blown over. What is the basis for this assumption?
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by notJim 5y ago
Providing an alternative interface is exactly why it sounds like cheating.
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by notJim 5y ago
Is there actually a song like that?
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by notJim 5y ago
That doesn't sound like how it would be used though. If I can run your app all the time, and get an edge, why wouldn't I?
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by notJim 5y ago
> Why are list(Table.objects.filter(id=?)) and Table.objects.filter(id=?).update(thing=?) better? I'm not familiar with SQLAlchemy, but with other ORMs, this isn't how you'd write this. It would be more like Widgets.findOn
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by notJim 5y ago
I think I feel the opposite to you. I want the ORM to handle the trivial stuff like SELECT * FROM table WHERE id=? and UPDATE table SET thing=? WHERE id=?. That's the lion's share of what I'm doing in an app, and it's po
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by notJim 5y ago
How would you measure this? How do you differentiate "zealous planning" from "normal [?] planning?" This just feels like confirmation bias to me.
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by notJim 5y ago
For the SO question, why do you need to represent that in the ORM? It seems like you've got the SQL, and most ORMs have an escape hatch to just run SQL. Does Django not?
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by notJim 5y ago
> However if you'd like to view your relational data gasp relationally, then the ORM is a giant anchor around your neck. How so? I've never found this to be the case.
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by notJim 5y ago
> [the climate/city layout] makes a car a priority for most people, and cities (including Tempe and neighboring Mesa) design around that This gets the cause and effect totally backwards. Phoenix and the surrounding cities are all de
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by notJim 5y ago
I’m skeptical that all planning is necessarily doomed to fail. Towns already do a considerable amount of planning via their zoning rules, and subdivisions are planned as well. The example here just seems like a subdivision, but planned for
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by notJim 5y ago
Not if the new residents can afford much higher prices than the locals. They’ll bid the available housing up to a point that locals can no longer afford it and some become homeless. This has happened in many places in the US.
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by notJim 5y ago
It's already happening. Not everywhere all at once, but it's happening. The idea that no American has ever experienced anything other than suburban housing is ludicrous.
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by notJim 5y ago
> don’t want to have massive crowds move into their towns. Unless you're proposing a China-style system of internal passport controls, there's no way to prevent this. NIMBYs are fighting the tides on this. People move where the
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by notJim 5y ago
The point is about housing affordability, which drives homelessness. There's not some mystical force at play here, housing becomes too expensive, so some people can't afford it. The types of by-choice homeless people you're r
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by notJim 5y ago
They’re just moving to places that aren’t expensive yet.
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by notJim 5y ago
If these inbound states don’t manage their growth well, they will have the exact same problems California does: unaffordable housing, and homelessness. There have been many articles the last year about well-heeled migrants driving housing s
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by notJim 5y ago
One of the failed referenda in Washington included this feature. It lost 60-40.
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by notJim 5y ago
That's great news, looks like my info was out of date.
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by notJim 5y ago
> Economists have been saying this for years Maybe with this track record, they should reconsider their ideas? https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/why-has-climate-economics-...
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by notJim 5y ago
Carbon taxes are political suicide in the US. In fact, we know that oil companies push for them exactly because they know how unpopular they are. In Washington state, one of the more progressive states, they've failed over and over aga
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by notJim 5y ago
Between this, and their track record with rail transport, it seems like the French are really good at building stuff. We should learn whatever we can.
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by notJim 5y ago
I don't think NIMBYs are the only problem. Nuclear is just too expensive to build and maintain, especially with dirt-cheap renewables and storage coming down too. I have some hope that SMRs or something will end up working out, but lik
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by notJim 5y ago
> The only way out of this madness is to get the sensible representatives in Congress to move forward with an antitrust case What are you looking for out of this anti-trust case? Apple is not a monopoly. There are numerous privacy-focuse
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by notJim 5y ago
How does a professor have $10,000 sitting around for a bet like this?? I am a nicely-paid tech worker, and $10,000 wouldn't ruin me, but it would be a major setback for that year.
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by notJim 5y ago
If you want to play this fairness game, I don't think it comes out in the US's favor. The US alone has emitted 25% of the cumulative emissions up till this point, far beyond its share of population. Why is it China's job to s
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by notJim 5y ago
Absolutely not, it’s minor. For me it’s not really a financial decision, it’s about driving a very nice and practical ev with much lower lifetime emissions than a gas car. Also most of my driving is local.
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by notJim 5y ago
> By contrast I would drive my Tesla without hesitation to anywhere in the continental US. You gotta get off the interstate and away from major cities more! Plenty of places worth visiting that are far away from a supercharger.

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