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by pbiggar 3y ago
The bluesky nazi bar one? How is that emotional?
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by pbiggar 3y ago
Of course we're biased. 20,000 people have been killed by indescrimimate bombing. I would hope that makes you biased too
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by pbiggar 3y ago
Which one are you thinking? It feels to me this was the first post I've written with real emotion.
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by pbiggar 3y ago
For me, Ukraine and Palestine are the same team: the oppressed fighting a powerful oppressor. Plus, I'm Irish - we're always on the side of the colonized. Though in this one, I live in the country oppressing (that being the US), a
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by pbiggar 3y ago
I think by "involved" you mean victims, right? I read that wrong the first time and thought you were making the opposite point. Completely agree that the framing is deliberate and bullshit. When you see what's actually happen
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by pbiggar 3y ago
I don't usually post this sort of "dear diary" thing either, but when there's a US ally doing a genocide, and we in the west have the opportunity to do something about it, I figured it was better to post. Not sure what I
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by pbiggar 3y ago
Great, seems we agree. So it should stop and we should speak up about it, right?
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by pbiggar 3y ago
To add to this: the two sides in the war are supposedly Israel and Hamas. Can we not agree that either side killing civilians is wrong?
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by pbiggar 3y ago
This is classic redirection tactics, exactly as Lee Fang exposed last week [1]. You talk about those wars, I'll support you. I'll talk about this one [1] https://www.leefang.com/p/inside-the-pro-israel-informa
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by pbiggar 3y ago
You don't need propaganda. Just look at the death counts: 18,600 in two months.
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by pbiggar 3y ago
I hope people will engage with this. I see so many founders and employees in tech who feel unable to speak up about what they see happening in Gaza.
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I Can't Sleep(blog.paulbiggar.com)
158 points by pbiggar 3y ago|77 comments
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by pbiggar 3y ago
We're trying to do a similar thing with darklang right now: providing a single binary with a built-in package manager. The idea being making it easy to write readable "bash" scripts (including writing them with AI), but with
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by pbiggar 3y ago
- "Do you support tech workers unionizing if they choose to?" - "Should Palestine should be free?" - "Do Black Lives Matter?"
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Q&A: The Extreme Ambitions of West Bank Settlers(newyorker.com)
3 points by pbiggar 3y ago|0 comments
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by pbiggar 3y ago
We do at Darklang, the repo is open if you want to take a look https://GitHub.com/darklang/darklang We deploy in Linux containers to cloud run, and we're about to start shipping a cross platform language binary, s
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AI Adoption for Software(circleci.com)
1 points by pbiggar 3y ago|0 comments
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by pbiggar 3y ago
Presumably they raised money, and will need to raise money again. That means that they have money (it's worthwhile to sue, assuming you can get damages). It also means it's a huge lever: they'll never be able to raise under a
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by pbiggar 3y ago
Yes. Darklang was originally in OCaml using js_of_ocaml, and we ported it to F# using Blazor ( https://github.com/darklang/dark/tree/main/backend/src/Wasm ). It works. We found that in dotnet 6,
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by pbiggar 3y ago
You absolutely must do this BEFORE any sort of revenue. It should be the first thing you do. You need a company to own things, such as the IP (code, trademarks, website, customer lists), as well as being the thing to which revenue is paid.
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by pbiggar 3y ago
If you're planning to build a business together, forming the company ASAP is a good plan. Recently talked to some founders who split up before they incorporated, and it was a mess.
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by pbiggar 3y ago
The main problems as I perceive it: - unreadable generated code (aka, hard to debug in the browser) - not very accessible (complex docs, unclear what it is or how to use it)
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by pbiggar 3y ago
When we (darklang.com) were working with Rescript, I was not optimistic about Melange's approach, but in retrospect I think it has legs. The challenge with ReScript is that the authors really were focusing on the JS ecosystem, and didn
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by pbiggar 3y ago
You're making the mistake that everyone does, which is confusing progressive policies with being lax on crime. The former "progressive" DA actually pushed pretty hard on organized crime like this - and you won't find any
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by pbiggar 3y ago
So long as SF continues to criminalize homelessness instead of actual crime, the city will never get out of this. The problem San Francisco faces is that the various parties cannot agree what crime is. In particular, the folks in charge (Ma
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by pbiggar 3y ago
Tasks are native and I've never had the use async. Performance is great. Agree that exceptions are frustrating that they exist, sadly there's little option due to C# exception model. Same thing in OCaml though less excuse over the
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by pbiggar 3y ago
I've had terrible posture for years and have tried lots of ways to fix it. After finally going to a good Physical Therapist, I'm finally making great progress that people have commented on. The problem is that you can't just
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https://dooce.com/2017/11/06/on-the-power-of-a-congregation-...
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by pbiggar 3y ago
I worked with one of these. I did an internship at SCEE in 2003 to port the Eyetoy camera driver to Linux to work with ps2linux. Sadly, it was nerfed by legal right after we released it as GPL. I fixed it up to keep the proprietary stuff in
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by pbiggar 4y ago
lol, that's funny. Looks like we're going to have to make it good for some of those things! In particular, AI uses a bunch of memory and specialized machines/GPUs if we're going to be training models or running our own,

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