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by perrygeo 1y ago
I'm not sure I see your point. You rewrote that sentence to prove some point about its absurdity, but I find it a perfectly valid statement. First, it's not a great analogy. Fluoride isn't a psychoactive drug. It doesn't
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by perrygeo 1y ago
Astounding. I understand the desire to take Fluoride out of drinking water - involuntarily medicating citizens should be a hard sell for anyone concerned with their legal rights. Fluoride isn't "bad" or "good", it&#
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by perrygeo 1y ago
It's not that they suck at statistics. It's that their statistics and experimental designs are artificially stuck in the dark ages. This is forced on the world by the academic publishing industry - you publish this way, or you per
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by perrygeo 1y ago
Opinion: the end of ZIRP has a much greater influence on the job market than AI. No more free money means an entirely different incentive structure. There's a fair bit of "oops we overbuilt in the past assuming we'd have free
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by perrygeo 1y ago
There are three main hurdles here First, actually getting fusion to positive energy ROI. That's step zero and we're not even close. Second, scaling the production of fusion in an safe and economical way. Given the utter economic f
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by perrygeo 1y ago
I'm very sensitive to sugar and starch when "at rest". If I wake up first thing in the morning and drink an orange juice or have a bowl of white rice before bed, my blood sugar and mood are out of control. But the same foods
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by perrygeo 1y ago
> the philosophy in Rust is to pull many small package I'm not sure it's a philosophy, more a pragmatic consideration for compilation speeds. Anyone who's done a non-trivial amount of Rust knows that moment when the projec
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by perrygeo 1y ago
If you could package this up in a motivational poster, it belongs in every company meeting room. Speed and quality are not two opposing forces to tradeoff. We can have both. But we need to get rid of this silly, infantile, unwavering attach
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by perrygeo 1y ago
As good as LSP and other tooling has gotten recently, there are some C++ projects that just need a proprietary IDE for proper code navigation and completion. A lot of times my choice is a) spend 3 hours debugging why neovim's LSP is pu
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by perrygeo 1y ago
> no one wants to live next to a reactor that isn't regulated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Even if given a choice (is that even guaranteed at this point?) some people would chose to fight it, sure. But then you have Starba
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by perrygeo 1y ago
> rewarding them for their lack of skill I'm not sure it has to do with skill. That would imply the average worker has agency to apply their skills. The dynamic is more: leadership doesn't understand any of technical details an
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by perrygeo 1y ago
It's especially damning since cognitive research is not at all ambiguous on the topic. Learning is the result of deliberate practice, intentionally placing yourself in situations where you need to solve problems. The output is irreleva
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by perrygeo 1y ago
Obviously, code is constantly changing. That's not really the point. The point is that as soon as no one understands the code (thus no one on staff to effectively debug or change it) it's "legacy" code. Let's say yo
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by perrygeo 1y ago
Mainly a point of clarification - I don't think DuckDB represents anything new in geospatial. It represents a new paradigm for data management and data architecture. Understanding the difference isn't optional. DuckDB handles floa
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by perrygeo 1y ago
Why? The article is light on details. Yes, having spatial analysis combined with SQL is awesome and very natural. There's nothing special about 2D geometries that makes them significantly different from floats and strings in an RDBMS p
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by perrygeo 1y ago
Has about as much value as "X rewritten in Rust". Which is to say, Rust and AI are both impressive technologies (though very different obviously) and marketing people hope to elevate X by mere word association. Unfortunately, this
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by perrygeo 1y ago
I don't think anyone's disputing that classical neural activity is primary. But the question quickly becomes: what decides and coordinates that neural activity? It is it just an emergent effect of each neuron firing on instinct, p
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by perrygeo 1y ago
It turns out Clojure is just a really good programming language, not a panacea. If you have to build soul-sucking software, it still sucks even in a great language. Technical cleverness isn't enough to distract you from a bullshit job
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by perrygeo 1y ago
What about Wernicke's area and Broca's area? If damaged they produce causal changes to our use and processing of language. I agree it's not as simple "language brain" but there are physical structures in the brain
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by perrygeo 1y ago
I agree. I've met Bob in person and he's a very nice guy and obviously very passionate about his field. But these rants feel like he's talking down to the audience, as though explaining something for the 17th time to someone
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by perrygeo 1y ago
Title is misleading. Bob doesn't say anything anti-SQL in this rant. But he's advocating for a clear separation between "business objects" and "data gunk" as he calls it. It's clear he see the business obj
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by perrygeo 1y ago
Same thought, as I sit here reading the article on my Dasung Paperlike 27 eink monitor. I guess I've been living in the future all these years.
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by perrygeo 1y ago
Clojure code ends up using a lot of reflection if you're doing generic Java interop. Most code destined for the GraalVM will add `(set! warn-on-reflection true)` and get repl warnings and you can set type hints accordingly.
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by perrygeo 1y ago
> somewhat eccentric 2-line license agreement That's an understatement. Restricting content based on political activism I can sympathize, if not agree with. Restriction based on war and geopolitics, ok. But based on promoting vegani
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by perrygeo 1y ago
That is an impressive demo - code that seamlessly jumps back and forth between server and client concepts in a single function! Compiling the backend and frontend from the same codebase feels like it could eliminate all the serialization lo
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by perrygeo 1y ago
We're increasing CO2 in the atmosphere with our emissions, everyone knows that. The real problem is the second derivative. Forget reducing carbon in absolute terms, we're increasing the rate of increase!
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by perrygeo 1y ago
I suspect it does. When I was evaluating Wasabi years ago, the sales engineers were very interested in knowing what specific kind of data we had and how compressible it was. So my guess (pure speculation) at the time was they use ZFS compre
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by perrygeo 1y ago
I agree, but it's not just AI. There's long been a push to standardize anything that requires critical thinking and human intelligence. To risk-averse rent seekers, requiring human skill is a liability. Treating human resources as
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by perrygeo 1y ago
The poor man's version of this - write your runbooks as text files in your source code. And set your editor to "Send to Terminal". I use vim-slime in nvim, vscode has similar functionality. Document it, version control it, sh
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by perrygeo 1y ago
The whole model of RDBMS is based on mutable tuples; soft deletes don't make much sense as an intrinsic part of that model. If you want soft deletes, you create an application layer or use a different data model. Most of the time if yo

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