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by octopoc 1y ago
Allow me to refer you to Chesterton's Fence: > There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up t
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by octopoc 2y ago
Isn't an agent just a system prompt + specific tools? Why not just switch out the system prompt and tools in the same context?
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by octopoc 2y ago
> No excuses for rockets that don't work in this day and age. Please point out the rocket that has a perfect record. Saturn V had failures too FYI. Besides, cost and global politics are at play as well. Musk and Putin are indeed the
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by octopoc 2y ago
Yeah I'm in the same boat. I have a MacBook Pro 2009 that still works fine. That is 16 years old! I use it for web browsing occasionally, although I do have to update the certs manually. Only downsides are it has only 2GB of RAM and ab
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by octopoc 2y ago
A big reason why we should support biodiversity is that once an animal is extinct, it's practically impossible to bring it back. With small effort now we can avoid great effort later. And any ecosystem is so unbelievably complex that w
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by octopoc 2y ago
That’s not the goal though. The goal is to play games on Linux. If Valve’s goal was to end up with a Linux-specific graphics api for most games that run on Linux then they provably would have tried to do so.
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by octopoc 2y ago
It’s the hidden cost of global trade. Hopefully reducing foreign trade can forestall further extinctions.
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by octopoc 2y ago
It would be disingenuous if it weren’t for the fact that tens of thousands of innocent bystanders that Israel deemed subhuman are dead. That bloody smoking gun seems to be escaping you both. Even if you don’t think Israel’s neighbors deserv
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by octopoc 2y ago
When there’s hostage situation, nations normally don’t skip straight to genocide. There should be an escalatory response. Genocide is way, way out there and most people wouldn’t advocate genocide even if it was their own family who was capt
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by octopoc 2y ago
“Look what you made me do” is what you’re saying, but Israel could stop attacking Gaza today and not suffer a single material attack from Gaza for a long time. Way, way more Palestinians have died since October than Jews. Israel has no need
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by octopoc 2y ago
Dude. Israel is committing genocide . Your persecution complex is making you blind. Put yourself in your neighbor’s shoes, please. Do this not just to be a descent human being—do this for the sake of your own survival. What will happen whe
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by octopoc 2y ago
Ugh I hate that as well! But unfortunately they have bought our politicians. I’m hoping that after Trump both sides can bow up popular pressure to stop supporting them. In younger generations in both the left and right there is less star st
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by octopoc 2y ago
America shouldn’t have been spending money on that in the first place. Our role in this world should be to put ourselves first, just like every country is already putting themselves first.
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An Open Source Tax Credit(americanprogress.org)
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by octopoc 2y ago
Do you think it would have been a better deal if America was still reliant on Putin for access to space?
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by octopoc 2y ago
I think we agree but let me just as some nuance to what you’re saying. The Jews didn’t invent their beliefs out of whole cloth—this is true whether it’s Judaism or communism (Karl Marx, Lenin, and most Russian communists were Jewish though
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by octopoc 2y ago
I think the context you’re deliberately omitting is that we’re talking about the US, not Vietnam, Spain, Mexico, or Russia. If you moved to one of those countries, you’re saying you would demand official government programs be in English? T
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by octopoc 2y ago
Everything they do has approximately zero value add to the community compared with the value add of having a legitimate alternative browser. It’s like saying, yeah I solved cancer, but my vision is so much bigger than that! I also invented
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by octopoc 2y ago
Why do they need to diversify? In case they need to pull the plug on Firefox? There is simply no way they could offer anything else as useful as Firefox. They have enough money that they could throw it all in the S&P 500 and maintain Fi
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by octopoc 2y ago
It would be nice if government letters were written only in English. I.e. getting an 8-page letter with only one page in English is annoying for the people. I pay for that with my taxes and would wholeheartedly support a bill to stop doing
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by octopoc 2y ago
Interesting! I agree that India’s colonial history is unique in that it wasn’t settled by Europeans like North America. But Judaism isn’t a western religion, it’s a Middle Eastern religion with strong ethnic ties. Hence it hasn’t evolved an
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by octopoc 2y ago
I can second this—the JetBrains merge conflicts ui is the best I’ve ever seen. For some reason there are a lot of subpar uis though. E.g. not showing three versions, only showing THEIRS and not the remote branch name, etc.
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by octopoc 2y ago
He’s a controversial leader, sure. I get the impression people work under him because he gives them opportunities to work on cool stuff, not because he’s a kind, compassionate boss. But what I’m getting at is that he’s successful. Unless yo
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by octopoc 2y ago
Musk’s skill seems to be building and fostering a successful team, and picking up engineering-related skills quickly. Those skills arguably transfer to what DOGE’s goals are better than being a really great mechanical engineer or being a re
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by octopoc 2y ago
It depends on the application. And gp was talking about stability and ease of use, not speed.
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by octopoc 2y ago
Blazor is stable and extremely easy to use. It’s just a little slow to load, although there are ways to mitigate that.
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by octopoc 2y ago
In WWII neither side used poison gas. It doesn’t have to be this way.
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Ask HN: Any downsides to using personal licenses at work?
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by octopoc 2y ago
I wonder if there’s a market for “work swapping” where founders of two separate companies will trade work without trading equity.
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by octopoc 2y ago
Some domains have so many different parties doing different things, you just have to test in production. Rockets are probably one of them.

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