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by papaver-somnamb 3mo ago
Bravo! If only Clojure(Script) did this. There is a real need to reduce the size of compiled JS delivered to the browser and eliminate legacy dependency on goog.
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by papaver-somnamb 3mo ago
After reading their newspaper (their label, not mine) for years, I've come away with three revelations: A) More than gaining insight and staying abreast of events, what I was really purchasing was the /feeling/ of being in-th
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by papaver-somnamb 4mo ago
I feel this is closer, but still not equitable. More people owning less, but what about the vision that holds the ship together and leads the org to the goal? In the case of SpaceX, it's Elon and to a lesser extent Gwynn by way of osmo
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by papaver-somnamb 4mo ago
Billionaires are characterized as such due to their net wealth. They don't actually have that amount in cash silently rotting in bank accounts. What wealthy people, and people more generally, do have is ownership of assets and debt
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by papaver-somnamb 5mo ago
10GbE adoption feels different from the successful string of standard speeds that came prior, since the market congealed around one standards family per Ethernet speed circa say 100Base-TX. We've heard stories as horrific as RJ45 assem
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by papaver-somnamb 7mo ago
I recall someone (name escapes me at the moment) defining WW3 as ignition in 5 flashpoints between belligerent groupings: - Eastern Africa esp. Sudan, which we all nearly universally ignore - Israel Iran - Russia and a neighbor which we kno
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by papaver-somnamb 1y ago
Tony Seba around 10 years ago predicted (among many other things) that ~2024 the cost of generating a unit of electricity onsite with PV will cost less than merely delivering the same unit of electricity over transmission infrastructure, no
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by papaver-somnamb 1y ago
Oh looky looky some of my fondly-remembered UIs: Platinum circa Macintosh OS 8. MacOS X lickables refined circa 10.3, 10.4. I also fondly recall OpenLook on SunOS/Slowlaris and NeXTStep/OpenStep UIs and peak Microsoft Windows righ
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by papaver-somnamb 1y ago
Perhaps narrow your role and allow someone else to be responsible & accountable for driving the business side of things? Take an honest assessment of how you can meaningfully contribute and concentrate on that, and pass the reins over t
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by papaver-somnamb 1y ago
There was an interesting debate where Chomsky took a position on intelligence being rooted in symbolic reasoning and Asimov asserted a statistical foundation (ah, that was not intentional ;). LLM designs to date are purely statistical model
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by papaver-somnamb 2y ago
At risk of high-jacking this thread, some Merchants of Record (i.e. Paddle) require biometric authentication of company majority owners, which I find too invasive. Are there any Merchants of Record that don't? Sure, they handle taxatio
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by papaver-somnamb 2y ago
Yes cultural fitness reasons. Everything off the top of my head (drawing from experience) are exactly that. Two quick examples: Conflicts of character between them and their uppers along the report line. Being tossed aside for failure due t
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by papaver-somnamb 2y ago
On the point of Japanese companies shedding staff .. There is a friendly, win-win way to move skilled staff out of your company, but my impression is it's not widely known nor often occur. When a company finds that a particular staff m
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by papaver-somnamb 2y ago
The primary intended use case of this in contrast to say Extensible Data Notation (EDN) seems to be for faster machine processing. The necessitating of prefixing datums with their lengths (Pascal string style) alone is the clue. So an advan
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by papaver-somnamb 2y ago
For a quintessential CP/M experience, run it on an S-100 -based system [0] with either an Intel 8080 or Zilog Z80 CPU and some expansion cards that complete the system. Probably at least light I/O (incl. keyboard), disk storage, a
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by papaver-somnamb 2y ago
That stippled background, and particularly with the X mouse cursor, brings back memories of long waits for X to start. New software updates were always exciting because they promised newer, more interesting graphics that showcased the capab
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by papaver-somnamb 2y ago
> figuring out if people I just met were (1) right for the role, (2) work well with me, (3) I work well with them. I recommend figuring out if: (1) they are good at doing what they'll be responsible for, (2) they enjoy doing it, and
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by papaver-somnamb 2y ago
The judge said "it appears this case ends with me here in Saipan.” As this is in the context of the US case, I read that as precluding any further legal action from the USA. Also that as a condition of his plea bargain is indefinitely
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Julian Assange walks free with conclusion of court case in Saipan(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by papaver-somnamb 2y ago|1 comments
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by papaver-somnamb 2y ago
Not directly on topic, but: Didn't use to be so interested in (or, allow my attention to be diverted to?) early human history and anthropology, until on recommendation I watched a movie "Man from Earth" [0]. Talk about baking
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by papaver-somnamb 3y ago
> It just took 25 years to finally happen. This is the Systems Thinking concept of systems delay, the time lapse between cause and effect, of an action and its downstream effects. Someone applying this cognitive skill, when informed of m
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by papaver-somnamb 3y ago
Once upon a time, I went on a spontaneous solo trek along a trail I stumbled upon, after crossing a large, modern bridge on foot. Lan Tau maybe. It was beautiful. The hills were remarkably fragrant, and I wondered if that's a contribut
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by papaver-somnamb 3y ago
This is where we learned that! Ceph does it, because separate components are responsible for each of underlying storage, S3 API, and FS API. We tripped on the Seaweed FS and the Garage FS indicia, where "FS" in these contexts typi
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by papaver-somnamb 3y ago
JuiceFS isn't standalone, it requires separate backing storage for each of data [0] and metadata. So for example, JuiceFS would target SeaweedFS or GarageFS as its data store. JuiceFS can also target the local file system, but .. SDS u
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by papaver-somnamb 3y ago
Tried and rejected SeaweedFS due to Postgres failing to even initialize itself on a POSIX FS volume mounted over SeaweedFS' CSI driver. And that's too bad, because SeaweedFS was otherwise working well! What we need and haven'
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by papaver-somnamb 3y ago
Progress that is highly welcome, to be sure. But what about Trust? In a world of continuous data breaches, exfiltrations, malicious Three-Letter Agencies, incompetent and decades-behind-the-curve legislators, trust is a paramount factor. Tr
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by papaver-somnamb 3y ago
And not a single :require or outside library. Also, this pinball demo CLJS code seems to be being compiled directly within the browser. Want! Let's go further. Imagine, a Clojure that directly produces WASM, without JS, without Google
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by papaver-somnamb 3y ago
Thanks neonsunset -- so there is this relativistic argument to be made in favor of Rust. Previously, I'd been involved in writing up samples of a CLI tool in each of Golang, Ruby, Haskell, C++, Python, Java, Clojure. From there we woul
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by papaver-somnamb 3y ago
Thanks hobofan, this is the kind of insight I am looking for. Your input hit the spot!
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by papaver-somnamb 3y ago
| I click on their profile to check how old their account is. Invariably it's 2016 or later. Which means they never saw the cycles of Ruby, JS and Go promotion. Provided that was the account they've been using since they started o

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